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everton’s January/February 2009<br />
Genealogical<br />
Uniting a Tradition of Excellence with 21st Century Research Technology<br />
Subscribers...<br />
The Genealogical<br />
Helper Magazine,<br />
with links, is now<br />
available online...<br />
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Turn to Page 58<br />
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HELPER<br />
Stories in Stone page 16<br />
How to interpret old gravestone art<br />
City Directories—a Treasure<br />
Chest of Information page 20<br />
These directories have all kinds of<br />
information for genealogists!<br />
The Past in Motion page 24<br />
How to preserve those valuable old<br />
memories found on film<br />
Controlling Bias in Genealogy<br />
Research page 30<br />
Don’t let your past affect your future negatively!<br />
Using German Parish<br />
Registers page 42<br />
How to get the most from German<br />
church records<br />
Genealogical Research in<br />
Alsace page 36<br />
Do you have genealogy research in France<br />
Net <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> page 87<br />
The Best Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian Sites on the Internet<br />
Display until 3/1/09<br />
$6.95 USA/$8.95 CAN<br />
CD-ROM Reviews,<br />
Genealogical News,<br />
Plus:<br />
Book Announcements,<br />
the Genealogical Event Calendar,<br />
Your Queries, <strong>and</strong> much more…
Contents Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009<br />
<strong>History</strong><br />
Stories<br />
Directories<br />
Movies<br />
Research<br />
vo l u m e 63 Issue I<br />
10 Musings <strong>and</strong> Gleanings<br />
from the World of <strong>History</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> Genealogy<br />
by Richard Hooverson<br />
Mr. Hooverson writes about Martin<br />
Luther King Day; Military Decorations<br />
<strong>and</strong> Insignia; an Ode to Oxen <strong>and</strong><br />
Deere; Push-Button Telephones; Who<br />
Was Who When, <strong>and</strong> P.T. Barnum.<br />
16 Stories in Stone—Cemetery<br />
Iconology <strong>and</strong> Gravestone<br />
Interpretation; A Genealogy<br />
Research Tool<br />
by Gaylord Cooper<br />
Mr. Cooper writes about the<br />
interpretation of gravestone art.<br />
20 City Directories: A Treasure<br />
Chest of Information<br />
by Patricia Dingwall Thompson<br />
City Directories are loaded with<br />
genealogy. Patricia tells us where to<br />
find the data <strong>and</strong> how to use it.<br />
24 The Past in Motion<br />
by Gregory Peduto<br />
Gregory points out how to save your<br />
old movies <strong>and</strong> electronic data.<br />
30 Controlling Bias in Genealogy<br />
by Robert Hennon<br />
Our own biases have a distinct<br />
relationship to our ability to do<br />
successful genealogical research. The<br />
late Robert Hennon points out how to<br />
get around our natural inclinations.<br />
On the Cover<br />
The cemetery of<br />
Pronsfeld, Rheinl<strong>and</strong>-<br />
Pfalz, Germany.<br />
Photo courtesy of<br />
James Derheim,<br />
europeanfocus.com.<br />
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Regular Features<br />
7 Editorial<br />
Notes from the editor.<br />
8 Our Readers Write<br />
Letters from our readers.<br />
36 French Research<br />
France <strong>and</strong> Alsace—A Beginner's Guide<br />
— Glenn Lazarus<br />
42 Germanic Research<br />
Using German Parish Records<br />
— Gail Blankenau<br />
46 Relatively Speaking<br />
The Duffields<br />
— Craig Schulz<br />
Honey's Mishap<br />
— Kagan Hoffman<br />
A Visit to Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
— Ruth Knudson<br />
52 Ancestor Stories for the Soul<br />
The Quest for John Summers<br />
— Peter Summers<br />
56 Breaking Through<br />
The Man Who Would be Found<br />
— Nancy Ronning<br />
60 Society Highlight<br />
Saving Elmwood Cemetery<br />
— Curtis Wolbert<br />
62 Beginner’s Corner<br />
Military Records: Follow-Up & Trivia<br />
— Donna Potter Phillips<br />
64 The Next Generation<br />
The Museum We Call A Cemetery<br />
— Starr Hailey Campbell<br />
70 News to Peruse<br />
News briefs for genealogists.<br />
76 Computer Helper<br />
CD-ROM Reviews<br />
— Lel<strong>and</strong> K. Meitzler<br />
87 Net <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
The Best Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian Sites on the Net<br />
— Jeffrey A. Bockman<br />
Build it <strong>and</strong> They Shall Come<br />
— William Norin<br />
Online Genealogy for Beginners <strong>and</strong> Pros on<br />
Dynastree<br />
— Christian Richtscheid<br />
118 On the Bookshelf<br />
Description of new books for genealogists.<br />
146 Bureau of Missing Ancestors<br />
152 On the Horizon<br />
Calendar of upcoming events.<br />
162 Marketplace<br />
Classified advertisements.<br />
170 Surname Index<br />
Entries indicate the first instance within an<br />
article, entry, story, etc.<br />
174 Advertiser Index<br />
In the Next Issue<br />
Musings <strong>and</strong> Gleanings from the World<br />
of <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Genealogy,<br />
by Richard Hooverson<br />
Mr. Hooverson writes about Norwegian-<br />
American research; advice for old farmers; lines<br />
across the l<strong>and</strong>; <strong>and</strong> drinking on the road.<br />
Urban Genealogy—Exploring New York<br />
Architectural Research, by Gregory Peduto<br />
How to go about researching your ancestor’s<br />
New York City place of residence or work.<br />
The Internet Solves Another <strong>History</strong> Mystery,<br />
by Thomas Fiske<br />
Tom tells an intriguing tale another mystery<br />
solved.<br />
Kentucky Genealogy, by Gaylord Cooper<br />
Mr. Cooper tells how to go about your<br />
Kentucky research.<br />
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lel<strong>and</strong>@everton.com with the CD-ROM title,<br />
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the CD-ROM can be purchased. Include your<br />
website as well as physical address if applicable.<br />
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publication of the review.<br />
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From the Editor<br />
Fo u n d e r s<br />
Walter M. Everton (1876–1950)<br />
George B. Everton, Sr. (1904–1996)<br />
George B. Everton, Jr. (1930–1999)<br />
Ev e r t o n Pu bl i sh e r s<br />
President <strong>and</strong> Publisher<br />
Walter Fuller<br />
Executive Vice President/<br />
Chief Technology Officer<br />
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Ed i t o r i a l<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Lel<strong>and</strong> K. Meitzler<br />
lel<strong>and</strong>@everton.com<br />
Contributing Editors<br />
Richard L. Hooverson<br />
George G. Morgan<br />
Horst Reschke<br />
William Dollarhide<br />
Donna Potter Phillips<br />
Janet Elaine Smith<br />
Jeffrey Bockman<br />
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Genealogy in a Recession—<br />
The Helper Goes Quarterly<br />
It’s official—we’re now in a worldwide recession <strong>and</strong> it<br />
looks like we’ve been in one for the last year. Seems some<br />
key folks just didn’t realize it. We’ve worked very hard<br />
to make the Helper the most comprehensive, invaluable<br />
periodical in the genealogy industry, <strong>and</strong> we now need<br />
your underst<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>and</strong> support with an adjustment we<br />
must make to enable us to ride out the downturn <strong>and</strong> wait<br />
for the cycle to turn up.<br />
The publisher of the Helper, Walt Fuller, informed me this<br />
morning that the Helper will now be a quarterly publication. It seems that income<br />
is down dramatically <strong>and</strong> if Everton Publishers is to thrive in the future, changes<br />
have to take place immediately. So—starting with this issue, the magazine will be<br />
published as a Winter, Spring, Summer, <strong>and</strong> Fall Periodical. To make up for the<br />
change from bimonthly to quarterly, the magazine will be exp<strong>and</strong>ed—making an<br />
already hefty periodical even bigger. This issue does not reflect that change, but<br />
you’ll see it with the Spring issue. In fact, this entire issue is just as before, complete<br />
with footers all saying Jan/Feb 2009. It’s not—it’s actually Winter 2009. The printer<br />
has this issue ready to go—<strong>and</strong> we’re not going to hold things up by making<br />
several hundred changes to plates that have already been burned. This editorial<br />
page <strong>and</strong> maybe a few others will be the only pages reflecting the change.<br />
Going to a quarterly periodical will allow substantial savings. Also, those of<br />
us who work for Everton have agreed to substantial salary cuts. We’re committed<br />
to see this through, recession or not. Again, we ask for your underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
<strong>and</strong> support.<br />
On a brighter note, when I filled my gas tank a couple days ago, I noted<br />
that I paid precisely half the price per gallon that I paid just a few months ago.<br />
In fact, as of this moment, gasoline is downright reasonable. No, it’s not the<br />
29 cents per gallon of my youth, but still, a buck <strong>and</strong> a half per gallon seems<br />
downright cheap. With the cost of gas down, it’s a good time to be thinking<br />
about that genealogy road trip you’ve been putting off. Hotel rooms have not<br />
dropped in price like gasoline, but with their traffic down, you can get some<br />
pretty good deals on those too.<br />
If you’re looking for back issues of the Helper, I now have copies available<br />
for purchase at www.familyrootspublishing.com. I’ve only posted the issues<br />
published since I joined the company in mid-2006, but that’s quite a collection<br />
in itself. They sell for $7.50, postage paid, within the United States. Some issues<br />
are in short supply, so if you’re looking to complete your collection, purchasing<br />
sooner is better than later. As you know, the Net <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> section of the<br />
magazine is worth the price all by itself. <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing has a new<br />
website, with all kinds of genealogy-related items available.<br />
Also, please note that www.genealogyblog.com is back. After a 5-month<br />
nightmare, in which the former administrator of the site seems to have lost<br />
the data, I’ve started over—with an even better site than the old one. For all<br />
the latest genealogy news, check out GenealogyBlog every day. You may have<br />
to replace the old address in your bookmarks <strong>and</strong> feeds, as any old extensions<br />
to the primary address will give you an error message.<br />
Speaking of new websites, the new Everton’s site (www.everton.com) is just<br />
about ready to launch. There’s a good chance that by the time you read this<br />
issue, it may be up <strong>and</strong> running. Everton is already hosting our Online Edition<br />
of the Genealogical Helper on the site. Additional services <strong>and</strong> products will<br />
be available soon, including the return of the Everton Library Online <strong>and</strong> an<br />
online edition of the H<strong>and</strong>ybook for Genealogists, 11th Edition. Check it out.<br />
Until next time,<br />
Lel<strong>and</strong> K. Meitzler<br />
Managing Editor <br />
Lel<strong>and</strong>@everton.com<br />
Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009 Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r © 7
Our Reade s Write<br />
I want to thank you for you generous<br />
donation of magazines for my<br />
LH/GENE DAY. They arrived on<br />
Thursday last week. It was a great<br />
success <strong>and</strong> attendees were also<br />
grateful for the magazine. Hopefully<br />
it will generate subscriptions<br />
for you. We take it here at the library<br />
<strong>and</strong> want to compliment you on the<br />
quality of the magazine. It is one of<br />
the best genealogy magazines we<br />
take here in the library <strong>and</strong> I look<br />
forward to every issue. I especially<br />
look for Jeff Bockman’s articles since<br />
I do know him. He was our keynote<br />
speaker for our program a couple of<br />
years ago <strong>and</strong> was keynote speaker<br />
at my genealogy group’s workshop<br />
last year.<br />
Ann Flora,<br />
Local <strong>History</strong>/Genealogy Librarian<br />
Niles District Library, 620<br />
East Main Street, Niles, MI<br />
Ans: We’re happy to donate back issues<br />
for society functions. Contact<br />
Miste at miste@everton.com to request<br />
issues for your society.<br />
I am nearly 89 years old, Last Saturday<br />
while at the small Atlanta<br />
Center Cemetery in Saline County,<br />
Nebraska, near the town of Milligan,<br />
the caretakers asked about two<br />
graves marked by cement markers<br />
which my elderly uncle, Albert<br />
Herndon, had placed to mark the<br />
graves of a woman <strong>and</strong> a child who<br />
died ca 1882 or 1883. This was done<br />
in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The<br />
caretakers would like to learn more<br />
about the family to add to the history<br />
of the cemetery. The graves are<br />
in the lot owned by my great uncle,<br />
Austin Sinclair Herndon.<br />
The following story about the<br />
family is as told to me when I was<br />
a child:<br />
In 1882 or 1883, a Mr. <strong>and</strong> Mrs.<br />
McMahan were traveling west when<br />
Mrs. McMahan became ill. I think<br />
she had pneumonia <strong>and</strong> then died<br />
in childbirth. The daughter lived for<br />
a time. I do not know for how long,<br />
but they were buried in separate<br />
graves. My gr<strong>and</strong>mother took care<br />
of them. The husb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> father<br />
continued on the journey after his<br />
wife’s death. I do not remember if<br />
there were other children, <strong>and</strong> think<br />
there were not.<br />
My gr<strong>and</strong>mother, Jane Herndon<br />
(Mrs. Charles M. Herndon) kept in<br />
touch with Mr. McMahan for a time,<br />
I think. It is not known today if they<br />
were friends before or just travelers<br />
on the way west. There is no record<br />
of a family connection. It is not<br />
known how far west the family was<br />
planning to go or why.<br />
Any help would be appreciated,<br />
Jane Taylor, 202 S. Alex<strong>and</strong>er,<br />
Clay Center, NE 68933<br />
What happened to genealogyblog.<br />
com The feeds have stopped, <strong>and</strong><br />
the website gives me an error... Are<br />
you blogging elsewhere now<br />
TG<br />
Ans: This may sound crazy—but<br />
I don’t know what happened to it.<br />
Joe Edmon (who now lives in Honolulu)<br />
had 100 percent administrative<br />
control of both of my blogs.<br />
Since he <strong>and</strong> I started them together,<br />
I didn’t imagine that it would ever<br />
be a problem. Anyway—something<br />
went wrong. They went down <strong>and</strong><br />
after I flew to Honolulu <strong>and</strong> talked<br />
with Joe, they were up again for<br />
about three days... then down again.<br />
A few days ago, he gave me my admin<br />
rights <strong>and</strong> full ownership of the<br />
name Genealogyblog.com—with no<br />
communication whatsoever. So, I’m<br />
still badgering him for the data, but I<br />
think he must have done something<br />
that caused him to lose it entirely—<br />
<strong>and</strong> he doesn’t want to tell me, as it’s<br />
about five years of my life.<br />
The long <strong>and</strong> the sort of it is that<br />
I think I will be forced to start over.<br />
The blogs will be the same titles—<br />
genealogyblog.com <strong>and</strong> germangenealogyblog.com.<br />
I really don’t<br />
want to start over, but I may have no<br />
choice. I will have the blogs up <strong>and</strong><br />
running soon, one way or another.<br />
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&<br />
Musings Gleanings<br />
FROM THE WORLD OF HISTORY AND GENEALOGY<br />
By Ri c h a r d L. Ho o v e r s o n<br />
President Lyndon Baines Johnson <strong>and</strong> Martin Luther<br />
King, March 18, 1966; photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto;<br />
Courtesy of Creative Commons, Wikipedia.<br />
Martin Luther King Day<br />
This day, marking the birth of Reverend Martin<br />
Luther King, Jr., is observed on the third Monday<br />
of January. Despite opposition by some prominent<br />
politicians it became a federal holiday in 1983 <strong>and</strong><br />
in 2000 it was officially observed for the first time in<br />
all 50 states.<br />
Military Decorations <strong>and</strong> Insignia<br />
If you have a photograph of an ancestor in uniform,<br />
or have his or her old uniform, investigate any attached<br />
medals, skill badges, branch <strong>and</strong> rank insignia,<br />
shoulder patches, <strong>and</strong> unit crests. The colors<br />
<strong>and</strong> pattern of the ribbons indicate what the medal<br />
represents.<br />
For medals awarded for merit, exceptional service<br />
or valor, a citation was prepared describing the<br />
reason for the award, including the date <strong>and</strong> place<br />
of the action. These may be in the ancestor’s personal<br />
papers. Tiny bronze-colored stars were placed<br />
on the ribbons for each subsequent award (a tiny<br />
silver-colored one replaces five bronze ones). Skill<br />
badges (parachute, marksmanship, diver, expert<br />
medic, driver-mechanic, expert<br />
infantryman) <strong>and</strong> shoulder tabs<br />
(Ranger, <strong>Special</strong> Forces) apply<br />
to individuals, while campaign<br />
<strong>and</strong> expeditionary medals<br />
(Civil War, Mexican Punitive,<br />
World War I Victory, Korean<br />
Service, Army of Occupation<br />
of Germany, Panama) <strong>and</strong> unit<br />
awards (Meritorious Unit <strong>and</strong><br />
Presidential Unit Citation) apply<br />
to a place <strong>and</strong> time of service.<br />
None were authorized<br />
for the Mexican War or earlier<br />
wars. During World War I, the<br />
81st Infantry Division was the<br />
first to be authorized a shoulder<br />
insignia, an olive drab patch<br />
with the silhouette of a wildcat. In 1919, heraldry<br />
was established as a separate function within the<br />
Army staff.<br />
Civil War regiments inscribed the names of their<br />
battles on their national colors, <strong>and</strong> the Adjutant<br />
General published a list of battles in the 1866 Army<br />
Register (it contained lesser known actions <strong>and</strong> was<br />
revised in later years). During World War II many<br />
new insignia <strong>and</strong> medals were created for the quickly<br />
exp<strong>and</strong>ing Army <strong>and</strong> 46 campaigns were added. Ten<br />
more were added for Korea. Today’s Army flag carries<br />
streamers for 178 named campaigns.<br />
Search the Internet for “Military medals,” “Army<br />
shoulder patches,” “Insignia collectors,” or “Army<br />
campaigns.” Some websites specialize in foreign<br />
militaria, particularly British, German, French, <strong>and</strong><br />
Russian. The Army Institute of Heraldry maintains a<br />
website with images <strong>and</strong> information on campaigns,<br />
<strong>and</strong> on insignia <strong>and</strong> awards in their order of precedence.<br />
This is also available in the CD-ROM Essential<br />
Guide to Heraldry, Image Files from the Army Institute of<br />
Heraldry (2008). The Institute’s staff has a very limited<br />
capability to respond to requests. The National<br />
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Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis can<br />
research a specific award for veterans <strong>and</strong> retirees.<br />
A written request should be submitted, including<br />
a copy of the discharge document, however a large<br />
number of requests are received <strong>and</strong> a reply may<br />
take time.<br />
Ode to Oxen <strong>and</strong> Deere<br />
The Bible admonishes “thou shall not covet thy<br />
neighbor’s wife, house, field, servant, donkey or ox.”<br />
Indeed, the ox was particularly esteemed, even worshiped,<br />
because our Bronze Age ancestors depended<br />
upon them to sustain life.<br />
In Medieval Engl<strong>and</strong> the length of a furrow that<br />
a single ox could pull a plow before needing a rest,<br />
about 220 feet, was defined as a “furlong” (Old English<br />
furh <strong>and</strong> lang). A medieval acre was one furlong<br />
in length by one chain (22 yards) in width. Today the<br />
furlong is st<strong>and</strong>ardized as 660 feet, <strong>and</strong> the English<br />
<strong>and</strong> U.S. mile are eight furlongs long.<br />
In a “dead pull,” an ox is more than a match for<br />
any horse, except for heavy draft horses such as<br />
Clydesdales <strong>and</strong> Percherons. Defined today as an<br />
adult castrated bovine, oxen were everywhere in<br />
frontier America. They usually worked as a team in<br />
a yoke <strong>and</strong> were trained to respond to the crack of<br />
a whip, to their names, or to six simple voice comm<strong>and</strong>s<br />
such as “Haw” (turn left) <strong>and</strong> “Gee” (turn<br />
right). The “nigh ox” was yoked on the left-h<strong>and</strong> side<br />
of the team, where the bullwhacker walked with his<br />
goad, <strong>and</strong> the “off ox” was on the right-h<strong>and</strong> side,<br />
away from the drover. Individual animals usually<br />
were not shifted from their<br />
trained position during their<br />
15-year working life.<br />
Mules, whose hooves are<br />
harder that those of oxen,<br />
were the other animal used<br />
by teamsters in the Old West,<br />
but because oxen were more<br />
durable <strong>and</strong> steady in uneven<br />
terrain, did not require complicated<br />
leather harnesses,<br />
could live off grass or sage,<br />
<strong>and</strong> cost one-third as much,<br />
they were ideal for pulling<br />
Conestoga wagons along the<br />
Oregon-California Trail. Two<br />
yoke—that is four oxen—was<br />
the minimum needed to pull a wagon, but three<br />
yoke was the average. When an ox failed because<br />
of thirst or overwork, it was butchered for meat,<br />
sold for the prevailing price of beef <strong>and</strong> leather, or<br />
ab<strong>and</strong>oned to wolves. Peter H. Burnett, the first governor<br />
of California, said, “The ox is the most noble<br />
animal, patient, thrifty, durable, gentle, <strong>and</strong> easily<br />
driven, <strong>and</strong> does not run off. Those who come to this<br />
country will be in love with their oxen by the time<br />
they reach here.” Only after 1850, when the trail was<br />
more established, did horse teams become common.<br />
Because oxen could move heavy wagons for half the<br />
cost of horses or mules they were extensively used<br />
on the Santa Fe Trail. The freighting company of<br />
Russell, Majors <strong>and</strong> Waddell, which hauled supplies<br />
from Fort Leavenworth <strong>and</strong> Fort Riley in Kansas<br />
Territory to Fort Union in New Mexico Territory,<br />
owned 75,000 oxen during the 1850s-60s.<br />
Oxen were prized on the Midwest frontier for<br />
hauling huge sleds of logs <strong>and</strong> quarried stone <strong>and</strong><br />
for breaking prairie sod. They outnumbered horses<br />
by a ratio of three to two until frontier farmers transitioned<br />
to mechanized implements. George Easterly<br />
invented an early reaper in 1844, <strong>and</strong> Cyrus McCormick<br />
began producing a horse-drawn version in Chicago<br />
in 1846. In 1847, a blacksmith named John Deere<br />
set up a factory in Moline, Illinois, <strong>and</strong> sold h<strong>and</strong>wrought<br />
steel plows that combined the share <strong>and</strong><br />
moldboard in one piece. The self-scouring blades<br />
enabled pioneers to cut clean furrows. By 1852,<br />
Deere was producing 4,000 plows per year. By 1850,<br />
Jerome Case was manufacturing threshers that<br />
Four Yoke Oxen; Courtesy of foxearth.org.uk<br />
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The Western Electric Model<br />
2500MMG—produced in 1963, replaced<br />
the Model 500 rotary phone.<br />
could harvest a bushel in a minute. Early models<br />
carried a man on a platform who raked the grain<br />
into piles, while other men walked behind, binding<br />
the cut grain with twine. Such mechanized equipment<br />
depended on the faster gait of horses to turn<br />
the working parts, <strong>and</strong> by 1870 horses outnumbered<br />
oxen by a ratio of five to one. The Deere Company<br />
went into the tractor business in 1918 when it took<br />
over the popular Waterloo Boy Tractor. Their most<br />
popular tractor, the two-cylinder Model A, began<br />
production in 1934.<br />
For additional reading see Drew Conroy, The Oxen<br />
H<strong>and</strong>book (1986) <strong>and</strong> also Oxen: A Teamsters Guide<br />
(2008); <strong>and</strong> Terry James, In Praise of Oxen (1992).<br />
Press 1 for English<br />
When Western Electric introduced 10-key pushbutton<br />
telephones for commercial use in 1963, replacing<br />
rotary dial instruments, the Los Angeles Times<br />
predicted that they would become common in five<br />
years.<br />
Who Was Who When<br />
Sources that are collectively referred to as “biographical<br />
compilations” are often under-utilized by genealogists.<br />
Although they usually do not give in-depth<br />
ancestries, emphasizing instead the subject’s family<br />
<strong>and</strong> parents, they are valuable because: 1) they provide<br />
glimpses into the day-to-day life in an ancestor’s<br />
time <strong>and</strong> place; 2) point to exp<strong>and</strong>ed research on<br />
other subjects, <strong>and</strong> 3) lead to other sources that are<br />
cited in the footnotes.<br />
Because research on a family line must begin<br />
with a survey of what is already been done, these<br />
sources should be checked early in the research process.<br />
Many are available on CD-ROM <strong>and</strong> online to<br />
paid subscribers. About seven million Americans<br />
appear in some type of collective biography <strong>and</strong> an<br />
ancestor who was less-than-famous <strong>and</strong> did not play<br />
a role in big events may be one of them. If you cannot<br />
uncover your specific ancestor, then see if there<br />
is information about the ancestor’s relatives or associates,<br />
or about another person who shared similar<br />
experiences, such as in a fellow soldier in the same<br />
regiment. Biographies are generally reliable, however<br />
they are secondary sources in which the information<br />
has been selected <strong>and</strong> edited. Autobiographies<br />
present the author’s interpretation of his or her role<br />
in events, with the advantage of hindsight. The main<br />
biographic sources are:<br />
• Bibliographies <strong>and</strong> indexes. A researcher must<br />
first identify specific references that may contain<br />
information on an ancestor. These include the<br />
Biography <strong>and</strong> Genealogy Master Index (BGMI), a<br />
multi-volume publication of Gale Research, the<br />
most inclusive index, which is available on CD-<br />
ROM, on microfiche <strong>and</strong> online; the American<br />
Biographical Index <strong>and</strong> Archive, a complement to<br />
the BGMI published by K. G. Saur, is available<br />
on 1,842 microfiche; the Biography Index, published<br />
by H. W. Wilson, is patterned after the<br />
Reader’s Guide to Periodic Literature <strong>and</strong> is available<br />
online as the Biography Index: Past <strong>and</strong> Present;<br />
<strong>and</strong> The American Genealogical Biographical<br />
Index (ABGI), an older index to family histories<br />
<strong>and</strong> genealogical works; <strong>and</strong> the ARBA Guide to<br />
Biographical Dictionaries, which includes reprints<br />
of reviews that appeared in American Reference<br />
Books Annual.<br />
• Biographical encyclopedia. These large compilations,<br />
which attempt to cover major personalities,<br />
often contain scholarly essays: The Encyclopedia of<br />
American Biography, also known as American Biography:<br />
A New Cyclopedia, published in an Old<br />
series (1916-33) with a separate index, <strong>and</strong> a New<br />
series (1934-70) that is indexed in the BGMI; the<br />
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, known<br />
as “White’s Brief Lives,” published in 67 volumes;<br />
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the Dictionary of American Biography (DAB), published<br />
in 20 volumes (1928-85); <strong>and</strong> the American<br />
National Biography (1999, 2002) in 24 volumes, the<br />
successor to the DAB, which is available by subscription<br />
online. Some compilations should be<br />
used with caution, such as Virkus’ Compendium<br />
of American Genealogy (1925), <strong>and</strong> Appleton’s Cyclopædia<br />
of American Biography, an early work in<br />
seven volumes (1887-1901) that contains some fictitious<br />
people.<br />
• <strong>Special</strong>ized directories. These are publications<br />
about a specific ethnic group (the African American<br />
National Biography Project, or Slovakia <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Slovaks—A concise encyclopedia), a particular group<br />
(Who’s Who of American Women, or the Biographical<br />
Directory of the United States Congress), a university<br />
(Sibley’s Harvard Graduates), or an ethnic group<br />
(Rosholt, Ole Goes To War, Men from Norway Who<br />
Fought in America’s Civil War).<br />
• Occupational directories. These may be just a vita<br />
giving an educational outline <strong>and</strong> a few biographical<br />
facts, or they may contain details of an individual’s<br />
schooling, apprenticeship, honors, <strong>and</strong><br />
career. Examples are: Heitman, Historical Register<br />
<strong>and</strong> Dictionary of the United States Army, which<br />
lists 60,000 commissioned officers from 1789 to<br />
1903: or Norlie, Who’s Who Among Pastors in all the<br />
Norwegian Lutheran Synods of America, 1843-1927; or<br />
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians; or the<br />
Dictionary of Literary Biography; or the Biographical<br />
Dictionary of American Science; or A Biographical<br />
Dictionary of Railway Engineers. These can lead to<br />
further research on a subject or a company, such<br />
as the <strong>History</strong> of the Illinois Central Railroad Company<br />
<strong>and</strong> Representative Employees.<br />
• Local histories. If your ancestor was an early settler<br />
in a town or county, or a politician, doctor,<br />
dentist, lawyer, mortician, minister, banker, merchant,<br />
lawman, or newspaper editor, he will be<br />
included in these histories. Some, which are commonly<br />
known as “mug books,” were speculative<br />
publications that contain profiles supplied by the<br />
subjects themselves.<br />
• Biographical dictionaries. These one or two-volume<br />
compilations contain short summaries that<br />
are usually arranged alphabetically. Who Was Who<br />
in America from Marquis, which is indexed in the<br />
BGMI, has 122,000 entries of deceased individuals<br />
who originally appeared in the current volumes<br />
A typical local history, <strong>History</strong> of Buffalo<br />
<strong>and</strong> Erie Co. [NY] with illustrations 1620-<br />
1884, from the editor’s collection.<br />
of Who’s Who in America. Some “vanity publications”<br />
that expected individuals to order a copy<br />
in order to be listed have titles such as “Roll of<br />
Honor of…”, or “Outst<strong>and</strong>ing Young Men of…”,<br />
or “Personalities of…” They are not included in<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ard indexes.<br />
• Individual <strong>and</strong> group biographies. About 30,000<br />
book-length biographies or autobiographies have<br />
been published, many of which are of regional interest.<br />
Group biographies, such as Strachey’s Eminent<br />
Victorians (1918), interweave individual lives<br />
<strong>and</strong> show how they interacted with each other<br />
<strong>and</strong> with society. Biographical Books, 1876-1949 <strong>and</strong><br />
1950-1980 by the R. R. Bowker Company list U.S.-<br />
published biographies.<br />
• State <strong>and</strong> regional indexes. Many state libraries<br />
<strong>and</strong> archives have created name indexes to<br />
biographical sketches in their collections, such as<br />
the card file “Wisconsin Biography Index” maintained<br />
at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the<br />
four-volume Genealogical Index of the Newberry Library,<br />
or the 26-volume Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania<br />
Biography.<br />
Lesser-known types of biographical material are:<br />
confessions written by persons sentenced to death;<br />
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1878 advertisement for “P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show<br />
on Earth” Digital ID: cph 3a46039, Source: b&w film<br />
copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-45853.<br />
testimonials acknowledging a personal religious<br />
view; funeral orations <strong>and</strong> eulogies; <strong>and</strong> diaries<br />
<strong>and</strong> journals.<br />
Strong biography collections are in<br />
the Library of Congress <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Library. They are also in local<br />
libraries in the General Reference <strong>and</strong><br />
Local <strong>History</strong> sections. Check www.<br />
worldcat.org to identify libraries that<br />
hold a specific book, <strong>and</strong> search the<br />
Internet for “biography (-ic),” “compilation,”<br />
“encyclopedia,” directory,”<br />
“dictionary,” <strong>and</strong> the name of a state<br />
or county, an occupation, a denomination,<br />
or an ethnic group.<br />
There’s a Sucker Born<br />
Every Minute<br />
This phrase, often incorrectly attributed<br />
to P. T. Barnum (the “Prince of Humbugs”),<br />
was probably first used during<br />
a lawsuit over the Cardiff Giant that<br />
arose after Barnum fabricated a replica<br />
of the supposed petrified man <strong>and</strong> put<br />
it on display his New York museum.<br />
In days gone by, before radio, movies,<br />
television <strong>and</strong> the Internet, our ancestors<br />
were entertained <strong>and</strong> enlightened<br />
by chautauquas, lyceums, minstrel<br />
shows, vaudeville acts, traveling tent<br />
shows, <strong>and</strong> dime museums.<br />
Phineas Taylor Barnum began his<br />
career in 1835 with Joice Heth, whom<br />
he passed off as a 161-year-old former<br />
slave of George Washington’s father<br />
<strong>and</strong> “the first person who put clothes<br />
on the infant George.” She told her fabricated<br />
story in a room at Niblo’s Garden,<br />
an outdoor garden-theater-saloon.<br />
After her death (she was actually 80<br />
years old) Barnum sold 1,500 tickets to<br />
view her autopsy Barnum’s five-story<br />
American Museum at the corner of<br />
Broadway <strong>and</strong> Ann Street, opposite<br />
St. Paul’s Chapel, was one of several<br />
similar museums that had roots in the<br />
city. In 1841, Barnum bought Scudder’s<br />
American Museum, which he enlarged<br />
<strong>and</strong> ballyhooed into a must-see spectacle.<br />
A balcony b<strong>and</strong> played free music during<br />
the day <strong>and</strong> evening. The 25-cent admission drew<br />
400,000 visitors a year from all classes of society. In<br />
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1865, it burned to the ground <strong>and</strong> Barnum opened<br />
his New American Museum between Spring <strong>and</strong><br />
Prince Streets.<br />
Barnum expertly manipulated the penny press<br />
to create controversy about his array of curiosities,<br />
which included two-headed animals, a three-legged<br />
man, dancing Indians, an aquarium with Beluga<br />
whales, animals in cages, dioramas, wax figures,<br />
busts of famous persons, new scientific instruments,<br />
sleight-of-h<strong>and</strong> tricks, a flea circus, the fake mummified<br />
Fejee Mermaid, Chang <strong>and</strong> Eng the Siamese<br />
twins, two microcephalic Mexican boys, a mentally<br />
impaired Negro man presented as a missing link<br />
between man <strong>and</strong> beast, the seven-foot-tall Nova<br />
Scotia giantess, the world famous two-foot-five-inch<br />
General Tom Thumb, the tree under which Jesus’<br />
disciples supposedly sat, an oyster bar, a rifle range,<br />
<strong>and</strong> hot air balloon rides that were launched from<br />
the rooftop.<br />
Barnum also presented “respectable” entertainments<br />
aimed at middle class sensibilities, including<br />
popular National Baby Show competitions, <strong>and</strong> a<br />
Moral Lecture Hall that offered a variety of speakers<br />
<strong>and</strong> magic lantern shows, <strong>and</strong> an adaptation of<br />
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He organized the 90-concert tour<br />
of Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale.” in 1850-51<br />
(the top-priced ticket at her New York opening sold<br />
for $225—almost $6,000 today). In 1870, Barnum organized<br />
a traveling show that featured a menagerie,<br />
caravan, <strong>and</strong> circus, <strong>and</strong> in 1874 opened a 10,000-<br />
seat Hippodrome. He introduced his last superstar,<br />
Jumbo the Elephant, in 1882.<br />
Barnum built a pseudo-Oriental mansion called<br />
Iranistan, <strong>and</strong> a Queen Ann-style mansion called<br />
Waldemere, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the winter<br />
quarters for his circus. When he died in 1891,<br />
his estate was valued at $4 million. Barnum wrote<br />
in his autobiography that he wanted his patrons to<br />
“think, talk <strong>and</strong> wonder.” Indeed, some 38 million<br />
customers came to his museums. Many spent the<br />
entire day there.<br />
The main Barnum archive is at the Public Library<br />
in Bridgeport, also home to a Barnum Museum. For<br />
additional reading see: P. T. Barnum, The Life of P. T.<br />
Barnum, Written By Himself (1855, reprinted 2000), Bluford<br />
Adams, E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Making of U.S. Popular Culture (1997); James W.<br />
Cook, The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the<br />
Age of Barnum (2001); Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of<br />
P.T. Barnum (1973); Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation<br />
<strong>and</strong> Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940<br />
(1989); Benjamin Reiss, The Showman <strong>and</strong> the Slave:<br />
Race, Death <strong>and</strong> Memory in Barnum’s America (2001);<br />
<strong>and</strong> Irving Wallace, The Fabulous Showman; The Life<br />
<strong>and</strong> Times of P. T. Barnum (1959).<br />
Richard L. Hooverson, the owner<br />
of Out of the Past , offers seminars<br />
to societies <strong>and</strong> assistance to<br />
authors of family histories. He is<br />
a graduate of the University of<br />
Wisconsin, a Fellow of the Texas<br />
State Genealogical Society, <strong>and</strong><br />
a member of the Association<br />
of Professional Genealogists.<br />
His great-gr<strong>and</strong>father emigrated from Norway to<br />
Wisconsin Territory in 1847. His special interests<br />
are ethnic settlement patterns <strong>and</strong> social history.<br />
He has presented over 300 lectures nationwide,<br />
including conferences of the National Genealogical<br />
Society <strong>and</strong> Federation of Genealogical Societies.<br />
Address: 701 Lake Road, Belton, TX 76513; email:<br />
haaver@vVm.com; Web: www.outofthepast.com.<br />
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AAnyone looking into family history <strong>and</strong> wishing to find their roots quickly will find that long hours are<br />
spent searching in graveyards <strong>and</strong> cemeteries for the graves of ancestors. However, finding the grave <strong>and</strong><br />
gravestone of the ancestor may often provide more questions than answers.<br />
By Gay l o r d Co o p e r<br />
The research involved in genealogy <strong>and</strong> family<br />
history eventually leads to these cemetery visits <strong>and</strong><br />
gravestone reading. What was once considered a morbid<br />
pastime has become a normal <strong>and</strong> important part<br />
of the investigative process for genealogy research.<br />
Cemeteries can tell us a great deal about our ancestors<br />
<strong>and</strong> a wide range of information can be gleaned<br />
from the words <strong>and</strong> icons carved on the headstones.<br />
At the cemetery or graveyard the researchers find<br />
themselves surrounded by a bewildering array of<br />
monuments, statues, <strong>and</strong> gravestones of every size<br />
<strong>and</strong> shape <strong>and</strong> often carved with all manner of flora,<br />
fauna, <strong>and</strong> object. The beginner, <strong>and</strong> sometimes even<br />
the experienced researcher, might wonder if any of<br />
this has meaning other than just decoration.<br />
While there is much ornamentation in cemeteries<br />
<strong>and</strong> graveyards, the majority of what is seen, especially<br />
on older stones, does have meaning <strong>and</strong> can<br />
be used quite effectively to gather information about<br />
our ancestors.<br />
The many pictures <strong>and</strong> representations of birds,<br />
beasts, <strong>and</strong> objects depicted on gravestones are collectively<br />
known as icons. The word icon, for much<br />
of western history, meant the painted depiction of a<br />
religious object or the object itself, but over time it<br />
has changed to mean any drawing or picture that<br />
is widely <strong>and</strong> culturally recognized as representing<br />
some larger idea. We all recognize the western cross<br />
as a symbol of Christianity. Does anyone need to tell<br />
us what the Golden Arches represent And everyone<br />
knows what to do when they see an eight-sided red<br />
sign at the end of a road or street. These symbols, or<br />
icons, need no words. They are widely recognized<br />
<strong>and</strong> come from our culture.<br />
Icons were used for a reason. H<strong>and</strong> carving a<br />
gravestone was labor intensive <strong>and</strong> quite expensive<br />
Flowers. This is the most common item that one<br />
will find in a cemetery or graveyard. Fresh, live<br />
growing, artificial, or as a carved icon. This appears<br />
to be a Spring Beauty flower, meaning toward the<br />
resurrection <strong>and</strong> renewal.<br />
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Left: Thistle Flower—Emblem of Scotl<strong>and</strong>. This<br />
shows ethnic identity. This person was born in<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Above: This stone shows the use of the word Consort.<br />
It also is an example of a gravestone listing the<br />
disease from which she died.<br />
for those that commissioned the stone. The stone<br />
carver used icons as a type of shorth<strong>and</strong>. Most carvers<br />
charged by the letter <strong>and</strong> anything that helped<br />
lessen the labor or expense of the project was welcomed.<br />
Millions of words have been written about<br />
the Christian religion. Not even a fraction of them<br />
could be carved on the average gravestone. The Western<br />
Cross, a widely recognized cultural symbol for<br />
Christianity, was placed on the stone representing<br />
the idea behind all those words.<br />
The person whose grave the stone was to adorn<br />
sometimes selected these icons in advance of death.<br />
Usually, however, the surviving family chose them.<br />
These carved icons or statuary, taken with epitaphs,<br />
scripture, <strong>and</strong> other carvings, can often provide insight<br />
into the nature of the person <strong>and</strong> his or her<br />
family. The use of all this information is a genealogy<br />
field <strong>and</strong> research tool called Cemetery Iconology.<br />
Your ancestor’s gravestone, its size, shape, <strong>and</strong><br />
even composition can often give you an insight into<br />
the culture in which your ancestor lived. Gravestones<br />
can yield information about ethnic identity, religious<br />
beliefs, <strong>and</strong> social organizations to which they may<br />
have belonged. You can find information about relationships.<br />
If you are searching for a female ancestor<br />
before the mid-1700s, a gravestone may be the only<br />
place you will ever find her name recorded. Gravestones<br />
often provide information about more than<br />
one ancestor, saving invaluable time on the part of<br />
the researcher. Gravestones often list information<br />
about your ancestor’s occupation, military service<br />
<strong>and</strong> even diseases <strong>and</strong> epidemics from which they<br />
may have died.<br />
Gravestone symbols or icons can give much information,<br />
but it is not as easy as looking at a picture<br />
<strong>and</strong> comparing it to your ancestor’s gravestone. Cemetery<br />
Iconology encompasses portions of the fields<br />
of Botany, Geology, <strong>History</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Sociology. We must<br />
consider the history, language <strong>and</strong> geography in the<br />
study of gravestone symbols. A symbol used <strong>and</strong><br />
recognized in one place may mean something different<br />
in another locality. We cannot attempt to read,<br />
analyze, <strong>and</strong> define gravestone icons through 21st<br />
century thinking <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing. Medical terms<br />
have changed. Language <strong>and</strong> references to occupations<br />
may be quite different than what is understood<br />
The terms cemeteries <strong>and</strong> graveyards are used interchangeably, but there<br />
is a difference. Graveyards are burial places that have a connection to a<br />
church. Cemeteries are burial places that have no such connection.<br />
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Common Gravestone Icons & Symbols<br />
Found in Cemeteries <strong>and</strong> Graveyards<br />
Anchor—hope (“Hope is the anchor of the soul.”)<br />
Angel—messenger between God <strong>and</strong> man; guide<br />
Angel (flying)—rebirth<br />
Angel (trumpeting)—a call to the resurrection<br />
Angel (weeping)—grief<br />
Arrows or darts—mortality, the dart of death<br />
Birds—the soul<br />
Coffins—mortality<br />
Column (broken)—sorrow, life cut short<br />
Cross—salvation<br />
Dove—Holy Ghost<br />
Father Time—mortality<br />
Flame (burning)—life<br />
Flower—the frailty of life<br />
Flower (broken) —death<br />
Garl<strong>and</strong>—victory in death<br />
Gourds—the coming to be <strong>and</strong> the passing away<br />
of earthy matters; the mortal body<br />
H<strong>and</strong> (pointing upward)—ascension to heaven<br />
H<strong>and</strong>shake—farewell to earthly existence<br />
Heart—the abode of the soul; love of Christ;<br />
the soul in bliss<br />
Ivy—memory <strong>and</strong> fidelity<br />
Lamb—Christ; the Redeemer; meekness; sacrifice;<br />
innocence.<br />
Laurel—victory<br />
Lily—resurrection; purity<br />
Palls/drapery—mortality<br />
Pomegranate—immortality<br />
Portals—passageways to the eternal journey<br />
Rose—sorrow<br />
Scallop shell—the resurrection; a pilgrim’s<br />
journey; the baptism of Christ<br />
Scythe—time or time cut short<br />
Skull (winged)—the flight of the soul from the<br />
mortal body<br />
Skulls <strong>and</strong> crossbones—death<br />
Sun (rising)—renewed life<br />
Sun (setting)—eternal death<br />
Sword—martyrdom; courage<br />
Torch (burning)—immortality; truth; wisdom<br />
Urn—mortality (a receptacle for the bodily remains)<br />
Wheat—time; the divine harvest (often used to<br />
denote old age)<br />
Willow—grief<br />
A government-issued military gravestone showing<br />
military service <strong>and</strong> also illustrating the use of an<br />
icon (the cross) to designate religious beliefs without<br />
using words.<br />
today. Even relationships, as defined one hundred<br />
years ago, may be very different than what we are<br />
familiar with today.<br />
I teach seminars <strong>and</strong> give college classes in Cemetery<br />
Iconology <strong>and</strong> the most frequently asked question<br />
is about the word consort. The word has taken<br />
on a not-so-flattering connotation today <strong>and</strong> more<br />
than one researcher has been dismayed to find a<br />
“consort” buried next to his or her ancestor. This<br />
is an example of how language <strong>and</strong> words change<br />
over time. When the word was routinely used, it<br />
was understood to be an honorable title. A consort<br />
is much more than simply a spouse. A consort was<br />
a companion, lover, wife or husb<strong>and</strong>, confidant, a<br />
trusted advisor, <strong>and</strong> friend. It was <strong>and</strong> still is a royal<br />
title. An important title of Prince Philip, the husb<strong>and</strong><br />
of Elizabeth, queen of Engl<strong>and</strong>, is Consort to<br />
the Queen.<br />
Cemetery Iconology teaches the skills of gravestone<br />
cleaning, preservation, <strong>and</strong> repair. To be able<br />
to read a gravestone we must sometimes clean it.<br />
Cemetery Iconology also helps to give us an underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
of the proper uses <strong>and</strong> ways of gravestone<br />
rubbing, of photographing cemeteries, <strong>and</strong><br />
even the best lighting techniques <strong>and</strong> times of day<br />
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Shaking H<strong>and</strong>s, Farewell. This is common in<br />
older cemeteries <strong>and</strong> graveyards. It can mean simply<br />
farewell to this earthly life or it can also show<br />
a relationship that is suppose to transcend death.<br />
Look closely at the cuffs. They will show gender<br />
<strong>and</strong> the dominant one in the relationship—be<br />
it husb<strong>and</strong> to wife or wife to children—will be<br />
clasping the other h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
to photograph. Putting all this together gives the<br />
researcher tools to identify, analyze, <strong>and</strong> use the information<br />
that is found.<br />
As with any tool, caution needs to be taken with<br />
Cemetery Iconology. You will find mistakes occurring<br />
on gravestones as they do in written records.<br />
Carving a gravestone was labor intensive, so a carver<br />
was not likely to throw a way a piece of work, especially<br />
if it was near the end of the process, <strong>and</strong> start<br />
over. Those that commissioned the stone usually did<br />
not want to repeat the expense of a new stone, so<br />
mistakes often stood uncorrected. An old adage in<br />
genealogy research applies to gravestone iconology<br />
as well. Just because it is written, on a page or on a<br />
stone, don’t assume it is totally correct. Always check<br />
<strong>and</strong> recheck your sources.<br />
Cemetery Iconology <strong>and</strong> gravestone interpretation<br />
may sound complicated, but most things sound complicated<br />
until they are taken in smaller segments.<br />
Cemetery Iconology is a research tool. As one<br />
would not try to use a single tool to build a house,<br />
one cannot expect to locate <strong>and</strong> study our ancestors<br />
with just a single genealogy tool either. Cemetery<br />
Iconology gives us an opportunity to learn more<br />
about our ancestors. These were real people with<br />
lives, loves, triumphs, <strong>and</strong> failures. It often allows<br />
us to put a human face on the many names, dates,<br />
<strong>and</strong> records we have collected.<br />
Fraternal Order Marker. Fraternal orders sometimes<br />
provide stones for their members. This one is Woodmen<br />
of the World. The significance of this stone is<br />
that these orders or associations usually keep excellent<br />
records <strong>and</strong> can help you trace your ancestor.<br />
Not all historical <strong>and</strong> genealogy records are written<br />
upon paper or housed in museums. Cemeteries<br />
<strong>and</strong> graveyards are open-air museums <strong>and</strong> repositories<br />
of history. The 100 or even 200 year old gravestones<br />
provide a lesson in history that is hard to find<br />
anywhere else.<br />
There is a tendency of those just starting on the<br />
great ancestral trail to collect as many names, <strong>and</strong><br />
dates as possible <strong>and</strong> dutifully record them on the<br />
proper genealogy form or computer program. The<br />
names <strong>and</strong> dates relating to an ancestor are very important,<br />
but getting to know our ancestors as real<br />
people is also very rewarding. We should strive to get<br />
to know our ancestors as the real people they were.<br />
After all, they are family.<br />
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City Directories:<br />
A Treasure Chest of Information<br />
IBy Pa t r i c i a Di ng w a l l Th o m p s o n<br />
If your ancestor lived in a large city, perhaps you feel plagued by the “little fish in a big<br />
pond” syndrome. You may look on with envy at others whose families settled in small towns<br />
<strong>and</strong> rural communities, in counties that published biographical volumes of many “ordinary<br />
folk” <strong>and</strong> with newspapers that feature wonderfully detailed obituaries <strong>and</strong> columns of quiet<br />
social events, such as out-of-town visitors. In populous counties, it’s only the “big fish”<br />
that get included in the books of biographies; an out-of-town visitor or a luncheon given to<br />
honor a friend would never see the light of print, <strong>and</strong> obituaries are more often the domain<br />
of the few “important” people. At most, we hope for a two-to-three-line death notice for our<br />
ancestors who died in large metropolitan areas. But big cities do offer genealogists a rich<br />
resource often not found in small towns <strong>and</strong> rural settings—the city directory.<br />
The ancestor of our modern telephone<br />
books, city directories were begun as early<br />
as the 18th century in some locations <strong>and</strong><br />
typically contain names, addresses, <strong>and</strong> professions<br />
of people who lived in those larger<br />
metropolitan areas. Many researchers use<br />
this tool to place a family in a given locale at a<br />
particular time, especially as a substitute for<br />
the 1890 census or to locate a street address<br />
which can then help find an old family home.<br />
But directories can also provide many additional<br />
genealogical treasures, such as wives’<br />
<strong>and</strong> children’s names, death dates, club memberships,<br />
<strong>and</strong> even forwarding addresses for<br />
our ancestors who moved.<br />
When I find I have an ancestor who lived<br />
in a particular location, my first question is:<br />
Are there city directories available If so, I begin<br />
five years before I expect to find the given<br />
individual <strong>and</strong> search every year, generally<br />
including five years after they are no longer<br />
listed. I either make a photocopy of the relevant<br />
pages containing all entries for the surname I<br />
am researching, or transcribe the entries, being<br />
careful to include everything listed. If I<br />
am working with a relatively common surname,<br />
obtaining all the information can help<br />
determine members of the family who lived<br />
together. In researching my Watson family<br />
branch in St. Catharines, Ontario, I learned<br />
that Alex<strong>and</strong>er Watson, one of seven Watson<br />
brothers, had been killed in the Northwest<br />
Territories Riel Uprising in 1885. After locating<br />
the name of his regiment, the 90th Winnipeg<br />
Battalion, I contacted the Winnipeg Public Library<br />
<strong>and</strong> asked if city directories were available<br />
for the 1880–1885 time frame. I included<br />
a check for a brief search <strong>and</strong> photocopying<br />
<strong>and</strong> was delighted to receive pages from the<br />
relevant years. Those city directory entries<br />
helped me surmise that Alex<strong>and</strong>er’s purpose<br />
in going west was apparently not as a military<br />
man to help suppress the rebellion (as I had<br />
originally supposed), but rather as a young<br />
man striking out on his own, because he first<br />
showed up in Winnipeg in 1882, working as<br />
a carpenter, following his father’s profession. 1<br />
The city directories indicated (<strong>and</strong> I was later<br />
able to confirm the fact with military records)<br />
that he continued to pursue carpentry until<br />
he volunteered for the local regiment in 1885<br />
after the uprising broke out.<br />
But the city directory gave me much more<br />
information about this family. Among the<br />
eighteen listings for WATSON in Winnipeg<br />
in 1882 was a David Watson, also a carpenter.<br />
I realized this must be Alex<strong>and</strong>er’s younger<br />
brother David because they both shared the<br />
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Watson carpenter entries, from the<br />
Winnipeg Alphabetical Directory, 1882<br />
Watson family entries, from the<br />
Winnipeg Alphabetical Directory, 1884<br />
Watson family entries, from the Winnipeg<br />
Alphabetical Directory, 1883<br />
same address as well as profession. Both of these<br />
young men had left their large family in St. Catharines<br />
to make their fortune in the west, even though<br />
David was only 14 years old at the time. By 1883,<br />
another of the Watson brothers shows up in the Winnipeg<br />
directory—J R Watson (John R<strong>and</strong>olph Watson),<br />
also making his living as a carpenter <strong>and</strong> living at the<br />
same address with Alex<strong>and</strong>er <strong>and</strong> David. 2 Several<br />
other John <strong>and</strong> J Watsons appear, but being able to<br />
establish the common address <strong>and</strong> profession of these<br />
young men is the factor which convinced me that they<br />
are indeed my family.<br />
By 1884, J R Watson is not listed, <strong>and</strong> I feel confident<br />
that the eight other John <strong>and</strong> J Watsons in the<br />
directory belong in a different family, because none<br />
of them works as a carpenter or lives with Alex<strong>and</strong>er<br />
<strong>and</strong> David. 3 Those two brothers are listed in the directory<br />
for the final time in 1885, <strong>and</strong> I presume that<br />
following the death of Alex<strong>and</strong>er on the battlefield,<br />
David went home to his family in St. Catharines, for<br />
he is enumerated with them there in the 1891 census.<br />
Without the city directory entries, I would never have<br />
known that David <strong>and</strong> John R<strong>and</strong>olph Watson also<br />
had ventured west.<br />
Other gems pop up in the directories as well. Researching<br />
another of the eleven Watson children, I<br />
located Angus Watson in the 1900 census in Rochester,<br />
New York. Going straight for the city directories, I was<br />
Watson family entries, from the<br />
Rochester (New York) City Directory, 1916<br />
able to confirm the name of his wife, Katherine, for in<br />
1916, the Rochester directories began listing wives’<br />
names. 4 And, to my delight, all of Angus’s children<br />
began showing up in the directories, once they became<br />
old enough to work themselves, but still lived at<br />
home. Thus I learned that his son Angus A. worked as<br />
a draftsman; his daughter Isabel E. did bookkeeping;<br />
another son, Kenneth, worked variously as a clerk,<br />
a wireman, <strong>and</strong> a radio repairman; <strong>and</strong> a third son,<br />
Frederick, began working as a wireman <strong>and</strong> then became<br />
a chauffeur. When Isabel stopped appearing at<br />
the family address of 10 Anson Place in 1930, I had a<br />
hunch she had married about that time, so I was able<br />
to contact the county courthouse to request a marriage<br />
search in a limited time frame (a search which produced<br />
the marriage record I sought). Certainly some<br />
of this information can be gleaned from censuses, but<br />
not all of it, <strong>and</strong> this data isn’t cut off at 1930.<br />
Although I had been able to locate Angus Watson<br />
in Rochester via the 1900 U. S. census, he had other<br />
brothers <strong>and</strong> sisters who had left St. Catharines by the<br />
time the 1901 Canadian census was taken, <strong>and</strong> I had<br />
no idea where they had gone. So when I began my<br />
work with the Rochester city directories, I searched<br />
for the rest of the missing siblings. I was rewarded in<br />
the 1891–92 volume by finding Thomas Duncan Buchanan,<br />
the husb<strong>and</strong> of Angus’s sister Mary Ann Watson.<br />
The Buchanans actually had moved to Rochester<br />
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Dingwall piper entry, from the 1861<br />
Toronto City Directory, by W. R. Brown<br />
Buchanan family entries, from the<br />
Rochester (New York) City Directory, 1894,<br />
showing removal to Newport, RI<br />
A second Dingwall piper entry, on the<br />
following page, from the 1861 Toronto<br />
City Directory, by W. R. Brown<br />
Anne L. Dingwall entry, from the<br />
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) City Directories, 1882,<br />
showing her death date<br />
before Angus, living at the address identified as “ft<br />
Granger.” And in fact when Angus first appears in<br />
the directory in 1894–95, he is listed as boarding at “ft<br />
Granger pl.” In that same volume, I was surprised to<br />
learn that the Buchanans had actually left Rochester,<br />
for their listing read: “Buchanan, Thomas D removed<br />
to Newport, R.I.” 5 Instead of dismay over my family’s<br />
sudden disappearance, the city directory had actually<br />
provided me with a forwarding address!<br />
Note that the Rochester, New York city directories<br />
1827-1899 are now online (free of charge) at the Monroe<br />
County (NY) Library System website. Eventually<br />
all directories through 1930 will be online at the site.<br />
See: www.libraryweb.org/rochcitydir/citydirectoriestable.html.<br />
Besides names of spouses <strong>and</strong> children who still<br />
live at home, city directories can actually provide<br />
specific dates of death, which may then help the researcher<br />
to obtain genealogically rich documents<br />
produced as a result of that death, such as probate<br />
papers, the death certificate, an obituary, or cemetery<br />
records. The Watsons’ aunt, Anne Lambert Dingwall,<br />
was included in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1917 directory,<br />
giving the important information: “Dingwall<br />
Anne L (82) died Oct. 16 ‘16.” 6<br />
Other genealogical treasures also await the researcher<br />
in the older directories that sometimes<br />
included much more than names, professions, <strong>and</strong><br />
addresses. My Dingwall ancestors immigrated to Toronto<br />
from Scotl<strong>and</strong> in the 1840s, so I, of course, looked<br />
for Toronto directories. Some volumes are available at<br />
the <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library in Salt Lake City, <strong>and</strong> I had<br />
gathered all the listings from those. But then I made<br />
the happy discovery of the Toronto Public Library<br />
Digital <strong>Collections</strong>, found online at http://digit.tpl.<br />
toronto.on.ca:8000/. York County <strong>and</strong> Toronto City<br />
Directories from 1833–1881 have been digitized <strong>and</strong><br />
put on the Internet with a search engine. Many more<br />
city directory volumes are available here than I had<br />
been able to access in Salt Lake, but best of all is the<br />
search engine. It searches everything included in the<br />
directory, not just the alphabetical listings with home<br />
addresses. Thus, by doing a search for DINGWALL in<br />
the 1859–61 directories, I was led to scanned images<br />
of the pages that contained National Societies, where I<br />
found my immigrant third-great-gr<strong>and</strong>father Ronald<br />
Dingwall included as a piper for both the Canadian<br />
Highl<strong>and</strong> Society <strong>and</strong> the St. Andrew’s Society. 7 He<br />
hadn’t shown up in the alphabetical listing because<br />
he was living in nearby Hamilton with his widowed<br />
daughter-in-law. By this time, I had already accumulated<br />
census enumerations, tax lists, <strong>and</strong> probate papers<br />
for Ronald, but learning that he had played the<br />
bagpipes for societies commemorating his homel<strong>and</strong><br />
was a very poignant discovery for me.<br />
To find city directories in your own research, check<br />
the online card catalogue for the Salt Lake <strong>Family</strong><br />
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<strong>History</strong> Library catalogue at www.familysearch.org/<br />
Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset fhlc.asp to determine<br />
what microfilms you can order to view at your local<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Center. But don’t stop there. Take<br />
advantage of Ancestry.com’s online city directories,<br />
available by subscription, that help fill the void of the<br />
missing 1890 census. Write to local libraries <strong>and</strong> ask<br />
what volumes they have in their collections. And don’t<br />
be dismayed if your ancestors didn’t live in large cities.<br />
Some medium <strong>and</strong> small sized towns have directories<br />
as well. Check every year that is appropriate, <strong>and</strong><br />
be flexible about the dates you think would produce<br />
results. Look for married daughters’ names, <strong>and</strong> of<br />
course remember to check for spelling variations.<br />
Finally, the lack of an entry doesn’t mean your ancestor<br />
wasn’t in that location at that time. Another of<br />
the Watson siblings, an unmarried daughter who followed<br />
nursing, moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts,<br />
<strong>and</strong> lived there for over 30 years. Yet she appears only<br />
sporadically, nine different times, in the city directories.<br />
Sometimes, people had to pay a small fee to be<br />
included. So keep checking for every available volume<br />
that could reasonably turn up the individual or family.<br />
I hope you uncover a gem!<br />
End Notes<br />
1 Winnipeg Alphabetical Directory, 1882, p. 198, courtesy of Centennial<br />
Library, 251 Donald St., Winnipeg, Manitoba.<br />
2 Ibid., 1883, p. 366.<br />
3 Ibid., 1884, p. 299.<br />
4 Rochester (New York) City Directories, 1916, microfilm (Woodbridge,<br />
Conn.: Research Publications, 1980–1984), p. 1319, FHL 1,612,075.<br />
5 Ibid., 1894, p. 117, FHL 1,377,397.<br />
6 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) City Directories, 1917, microfilm (Woodbridge,<br />
Conn.: Research Publications, 1980–1984), p. 438, FHL 1,611,776.<br />
7 York <strong>and</strong> Toronto City Directories Pages, Toronto Public Library<br />
Digital <strong>Collections</strong>, 8 February 2006.<br />
Patricia Dingwall Thompson<br />
has taught English for 37 years,<br />
currently at Bozeman High<br />
School in Bozeman, Montana.<br />
She holds a Bachelor’s Degree<br />
from Arizona State University<br />
<strong>and</strong> a Master’s Degree from<br />
Phillips University. She <strong>and</strong> her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong> Jim (who also teaches<br />
English at the same school) became involved with<br />
genealogy after a trip to Tricia’s ancestral village of<br />
Dingwall in the Scottish Highl<strong>and</strong>s in 1996. Tricia<br />
is a board certified genealogist <strong>and</strong> has published<br />
articles in The New Hampshire Genealogical<br />
Record <strong>and</strong> Everton’s Genealogical Helper.<br />
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By Gr e g o r y Pe d u t o<br />
A<br />
As a viewable format, 8mm home movies are dead, deader than disco, the Dodo bird, <strong>and</strong> Latin combined.<br />
The projectors of high school health classes <strong>and</strong> wood paneled basements of yore are now expensive,<br />
cantankerous beasts with an unquenchable appetite for extinct light bulbs. Most folks simply have no<br />
use for the dusty old reels cluttering up their attics <strong>and</strong> basements. Yet, to the family historian, these<br />
antiquated films offer a portal to a bygone world inhabited by moving, <strong>and</strong> sometimes speaking images of<br />
our parents, gr<strong>and</strong>parents, <strong>and</strong> great gr<strong>and</strong>parents. For these reasons, the preservation <strong>and</strong> conversion<br />
of home movies to a viewable format is an important <strong>and</strong> delicate matter that can have serious repercussions<br />
if not done correctly.<br />
The history of the home movie began in the early<br />
1920s with the development of non-flammable diacetate<br />
Pathe 9.5mm <strong>and</strong> 28mm safety films. Professional<br />
film at the time was a fickle <strong>and</strong> dangerous<br />
beast. The flammable nitrate-based film stocks of<br />
early motion pictures required an expert projectionist<br />
to ensure fire free evening matinees.<br />
Early safety films launched the first baby steps of<br />
recreational film <strong>and</strong> enabled laypersons the chance<br />
to screen their own home movies without literally<br />
burning down the house. The early success of amateur<br />
cinema inspired the expansion of other more<br />
advanced film types <strong>and</strong> in 1923, Eastman Kodak<br />
introduced the crown prince of home cinema, the<br />
16mm tri-acetate safety film.<br />
Because the 16mm quickly assumed the lead in<br />
home picture formats, many people possess old<br />
reels of 16mm, a type now considered a professional<br />
choice. Unlike 8mm, 16mm has endured until this day<br />
<strong>and</strong> is the primary preference of many independent<br />
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filmmakers <strong>and</strong> television shows, such as Sex in the<br />
City <strong>and</strong> Malcolm in the Middle, but the film type had<br />
many detractions for the non-professional user.<br />
16mm cameras were bulky, heavy, expensive,<br />
<strong>and</strong> frequently required a tripod for usable footage.<br />
Kodak realized that a simple film <strong>and</strong> camera<br />
would alleviate many of the technical aspects of<br />
16mm production. As a result, the company developed<br />
the 8mm by splitting a st<strong>and</strong>ard 16mm film in<br />
half. They then introduced the boxy art deco Kodak<br />
Cine clockwork camera.<br />
8mm, now known as straight 8 or regular 8, debuted<br />
in 1935 <strong>and</strong> ushered in the epoch of the home motion<br />
picture by drastically reducing the size of the camera<br />
into a truly h<strong>and</strong> held object. Kodak slashed user costs<br />
because the new smaller format required 75% percent<br />
less film than 16mm. The company continued its innovations<br />
<strong>and</strong> in 1936 introduced Kodachrome stock,<br />
which allowed color motion photography. For nearty<br />
30 years regular 8 dominated the scene, until its reign<br />
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was shattered in 1965 by the introduction of Super 8,<br />
a beefed up derivative of the straight 8.<br />
Super 8 reduced the size of the 8mm sprocket holes<br />
cutting user film costs by maximizing the usable size<br />
of the film. The new format was incredibly popular.<br />
Over 100,000 cameras were sold to U.S. servicemen<br />
in Vietnam alone. These, new, spiffy high-tech cameras<br />
incorporated many features like light meters <strong>and</strong><br />
magnetic sound printing. To facilitate easy loading,<br />
a new quick-load plastic magazine was also introduced,<br />
but film’s days were numbered.<br />
Despite the great developmental strides made by<br />
Super 8, film remained a complicated medium. Exposures,<br />
apertures, <strong>and</strong> editing were difficult matters<br />
that befuddled the average user. The introduction<br />
of video camcorders in the 1980s addressed these<br />
problems by greatly simplifying photography, but<br />
there were many unforeseen pitfalls.<br />
The great advantage film has over videotapes,<br />
whether it is 16mm, 8mm, or Super 8, is archival<br />
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durability. Stored under proper conditions, film can<br />
last hundreds of years, whereas videotape shelf life<br />
can be as short as a few decades.<br />
The first step in conserving <strong>and</strong> untimely converting<br />
film to a viewable format is identification. In addition<br />
to preservation, identification of film can answer<br />
many genealogical questions in regards to dating<br />
movies. If the film is not labeled, unroll it until an<br />
image on the stock is seen. Exposed film will always<br />
have a visible image.<br />
The width of a frame is a primary way to determine<br />
film type. 16mm film should roughly be 5/8”<br />
wide. Regular 8mm should be 5/16” wide, <strong>and</strong> Super<br />
8 would also be 5/16” wide. The way to differentiate<br />
between regular <strong>and</strong> Super 8 is by the size of<br />
the sprocket holes. St<strong>and</strong>ard 8mm sprocket holes are<br />
quite large. In contrast, Super 8 sprocket holes are<br />
smaller than the circumference of a toothpick.<br />
9.5mm film is quite unusual in the United States,<br />
but extremely popular in Europe. The presence of this<br />
type may suggest that the footage was shot in Europe,<br />
or at least the camera <strong>and</strong> photography equipment<br />
was purchased there. This type of stock will have a<br />
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square sprocket hole in the center between frames<br />
rather than on its edge.<br />
Original prints of movies should be protected at<br />
all costs. Consider them master copies that are irreplaceable<br />
heirlooms from which all other copies are<br />
derived. Heat, light, <strong>and</strong> moisture are the principal<br />
enemies of preservation. Heat causes decomposition<br />
though desiccation, while light can fade <strong>and</strong> obliterate<br />
the actual print. Moisture is one of the most<br />
damaging contaminants, for it fosters celluloid devouring<br />
mold.<br />
Furthermore, reels should be stored in dark archival<br />
enclosures or envelopes in moderate humidity<br />
<strong>and</strong> at room temperature, the colder the storage the<br />
better. A frost-free refrigerator kept slightly above<br />
freezing makes an excellent storage place but steer<br />
clear of the vegetable crisper. Environmental stability<br />
is more important than temperature. Basements<br />
<strong>and</strong> attics are horrible storage locations because these<br />
areas can swing from freezing to sweltering depending<br />
on the season. The extremes in temperatures <strong>and</strong><br />
humidity can literally stress materials to the point of<br />
destruction.<br />
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Never store film in a non-archival container, such<br />
as, manila envelopes or common plastic bags. Nonarchival<br />
containers are constructed of acidic materials<br />
that can destroy precious heirlooms by trapping<br />
them in a polluted environment. Also avoid plastic<br />
bags because they contribute to high humidity.<br />
Archival boxes <strong>and</strong> envelopes are inexpensive <strong>and</strong><br />
provide an alkaline reserve buffer that prevents contamination<br />
by nearby items.<br />
One of the primary signs of film decomposition<br />
is the so-called “vinegar syndrome.” The syndrome<br />
occurs when the acetate in the film breaks down<br />
into acetic acid <strong>and</strong> releases a vinegary smell <strong>and</strong><br />
white powder. Afflicted home movies should be<br />
segregated from other films in their own containers<br />
because acetic acid fumes can actually accelerate the<br />
destruction of nearby items. The vinegar syndrome<br />
is an irreversible condition that will eventually destroy<br />
precious memories. Infected materials need<br />
to be refrigerated to slow the process of decomposition<br />
<strong>and</strong> transferred to a digital medium as soon as<br />
possible. Fortunately, videotapes do not suffer from<br />
the vinegar syndrome, but they do have their own<br />
unique storage rules.<br />
VHS <strong>and</strong> BETTA tapes consist of magnetically<br />
charged particles bound to a polyester backer with<br />
a polyurethane binder. The tape’s magnetic encoding<br />
necessitates that they be stored far away from<br />
any magnetic fields, including the magnetic fields<br />
produced by your television set.<br />
All tapes should be housed in archival containers<br />
at room temperature <strong>and</strong> in moderate humidity.<br />
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Never store tapes rewound, for rewinding imparts<br />
inconsistent tight <strong>and</strong> loose spots throughout the<br />
reels. Over time these inconsistencies contribute to<br />
breakage. Furthermore, treasured tapes should never<br />
be paused.<br />
Like rewinding, pausing stresses the polyester<br />
backer, <strong>and</strong> over time it can snap. All video recordings<br />
are ephemeral products that will not last more<br />
than a couple of decades <strong>and</strong> need to be converted to<br />
digital format, but the conversion of both video tapes<br />
<strong>and</strong> film to a modern viewable system should begin<br />
only after properly archiving the original materials.<br />
The Conversion Process<br />
The various film-to-DVD conversion houses on the<br />
Internet range from decent bargains to expensive ripoffs.<br />
Even Hollywood grade film transfer companies,<br />
like DuArt Film <strong>and</strong> Video, provide digital conversion<br />
services from Super 8 <strong>and</strong> 16mm because these<br />
film types are still used by avant-garde artists <strong>and</strong><br />
professionals. It is best to send talkies (sound films)<br />
to a professional company like DuArt because most<br />
Internet transfer houses are incapable of properly<br />
synching speech to the motion of the footage. Film<br />
owners can avoid much heartbreak <strong>and</strong> financial distress<br />
can by arming themselves with information on<br />
the process of updating to a digital format.<br />
Film owners should always apply Stanford University’s<br />
LOCKSS archiving maxim when transferring<br />
precious memories to digital. In short, LOCKSS<br />
st<strong>and</strong>s for Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. Applying<br />
the LOCKSS system, it is best to have all motion pictures<br />
digitized <strong>and</strong> placed on both an external hard<br />
drive <strong>and</strong> a mini DV tape rather than just on a DVD<br />
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optical disc. Optical discs are designed for viewing<br />
rather than for archiving.<br />
DVDs are extremely delicate objects that are only<br />
capable of lasting about fifteen years. Moreover, DVD<br />
movie files must be highly compressed in order fit<br />
on the disc. The compression makes it impossible<br />
to copy footage from the original DVD without an<br />
enormous loss of resolution.<br />
Better transfer options exist. Homemoviedepot.<br />
com suggests that all movies should be copied to an<br />
external hard drive. With a hard drive copy of movies,<br />
family historians can burn an unlimited number<br />
of high quality DVDs. These computerized films can<br />
also be edited, scored, <strong>and</strong> manipulated with several<br />
low cost home movie-editing programs.<br />
Unfortunately, hard drives are delicate instruments.<br />
A short drop or a computer virus can wipe<br />
out an entire drive; therefore, mini DV tapes serve as<br />
the perfect backup to computer hardware. A single<br />
DV tape holds over 1,000 feet of filmed footage <strong>and</strong><br />
most transfer houses offer this option.<br />
The conversion of film to St<strong>and</strong>ard Definition (SD)<br />
digital format should never exceed .10 to .15 cents per<br />
foot of footage. High Definition (HD) conversions<br />
are slightly more expensive <strong>and</strong> average around .20<br />
cents per foot. Price is often dictated by reel size. The<br />
transfers of several small reels will be more expensive<br />
than one or two larger reels of equal length. Most<br />
8mm <strong>and</strong> Super 8 reels come in three-inch four-inch,<br />
five-inch, six-inch, <strong>and</strong> seven-inch spools.<br />
Homemoviedepot.com <strong>and</strong> DigitalTransferSystems.<br />
net are two of the most reputable <strong>and</strong> inexpensive<br />
services available for use. These companies can easily<br />
<strong>and</strong> inexpensively convert 8mm, Super 8, 16mm,<br />
<strong>and</strong> VHS to DVD, a hard drive or a mini DV tape.<br />
Furthermore, these businesses will clean the film <strong>and</strong><br />
repair any breaks for free. To order, simply fill out a<br />
form on their website, bag up your film according to<br />
the instructions <strong>and</strong> in 7-10 days you will receive a<br />
digital conversion of your long lost movies.<br />
Digitizing treasured home movies makes sense for<br />
a variety of reasons. Copies serve as excellent backups<br />
to original reels. In addition to genealogical research,<br />
DVDs make excellent Christmas gifts that can be<br />
burned <strong>and</strong> edited from the hard drive master copies<br />
<strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>ed out to relatives. So why not take the<br />
plunge <strong>and</strong> breathe life back into deceased loved ones<br />
The process is inexpensive <strong>and</strong> can provide a spark of<br />
inspiration to an otherwise dull genealogical project.<br />
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Controlling<br />
Bias in Genealogy Research<br />
By Ro b e r t D. He n n o n<br />
Are you becoming frustrated with your genealogical research because you are not finding what you think<br />
you should Feel like giving up If you answer “yes,” you are probably not alone.<br />
AVolunteering as an attendant at my local <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Center for the past seven years, I became<br />
interested in the kinds of remarks beginners to genealogical<br />
research made when responding to help.<br />
These statements range from strictly personal ones to<br />
those gleaned from family members, teachers, books,<br />
magazines, <strong>and</strong> various <strong>and</strong> sundry sources telling<br />
them how to do genealogical research. Some of the<br />
typical remarks are: “Why can’t I find my gggr<strong>and</strong>father<br />
His name has always been spelled that way,”<br />
“I’m only interested in the census<br />
to find where my great gr<strong>and</strong>father<br />
lived,” “Deeds only show<br />
where people live,” “I found it on<br />
the Internet <strong>and</strong> it is not true,“ “I<br />
found it on the Internet <strong>and</strong> it is<br />
my family. I don’t need anything<br />
else.” “I can’t read this stuff because<br />
it’s foreign,” “I don’t really<br />
need a birth certificate because I<br />
know when they were born,” <strong>and</strong><br />
on <strong>and</strong> on. Some persons persevere<br />
<strong>and</strong> eventually succeed, but<br />
many never return to the <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Center. Why The answer can be found hidden<br />
in the statements made.<br />
Somewhere along the way to encouraging family<br />
research, the beginner has been told to look for<br />
certain information in this or that document, in this<br />
or that way, <strong>and</strong> when their ancestor was not found<br />
or they did not find the information they think they<br />
should have, they tend to give up. What they have<br />
been told began a process of setting biases that, unfortunately,<br />
often leads to negative results, hence,<br />
a turn-off to further work in genealogy. Making<br />
the beginning researcher aware of these negative<br />
biases <strong>and</strong> the influence on genealogical research,<br />
Once you begin<br />
to change the way<br />
in which you view<br />
your world, your<br />
biases will begin<br />
to drop away <strong>and</strong><br />
your research<br />
skills will improve.<br />
<strong>and</strong> some ways to minimize its effects will be the<br />
thrust of this article.<br />
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. defines the<br />
word “bias” in a number of ways, but the two listings<br />
that pertain to genealogy research are: 1) “an inclination,<br />
or propensity; predisposition towards; predilection;<br />
prejudice,” <strong>and</strong> 2) “a swaying influence, impulse,<br />
or weight, ‘any thing which turns a man to a particular<br />
course, or gives the direction to his measures.’”<br />
Now, I am not a psychologist or sociologist, but it<br />
seems to me biases are acquired in<br />
two major stages during our maturation<br />
process, the pre-adult <strong>and</strong><br />
the adult stage. At what point we<br />
leave the pre-adult <strong>and</strong> enter the<br />
adult stage varies from person to<br />
person. Generally, the transition<br />
can be identified at the point when<br />
we assume responsibility for our<br />
own welfare. Even though most<br />
of us assume this responsibility,<br />
the biases imprinted upon us in<br />
the pre-adult stage become major<br />
factors determining the directions<br />
our lives will take in the adult stage.<br />
The pre-adult stage can be divided in at least two<br />
sub-stages: the pre-school period <strong>and</strong> the post-school<br />
period. Regardless of when the post-school period<br />
begins, it is in the pre-school period that our principal<br />
caregivers have the most impact on our perceptions<br />
<strong>and</strong> expectations of the world. Our caregivers<br />
teach us the rules <strong>and</strong> regulations on how to survive<br />
in the world <strong>and</strong> these rules <strong>and</strong> regulations become<br />
biases we cling to throughout our lives. As we begin<br />
to break away from the immediate control of the<br />
caregiver <strong>and</strong> enter some kind of formal educational<br />
system we acquire additional rules <strong>and</strong> regulations<br />
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from our teachers <strong>and</strong> peer group that become additional<br />
biases in our lives. By the time we are ready to<br />
enter the post-school stage we have already amassed<br />
many predispositions that control how we interact<br />
with <strong>and</strong> interpret our reality.<br />
As the maturation process continues it too can be<br />
divided into two stages: the employment stage <strong>and</strong><br />
the post-employment stage. In the employment stage<br />
additional sets of rules on how to live come from<br />
persons in our employment <strong>and</strong> all those outside<br />
that we consider to be ‘experts’ such as doctors, attorneys,<br />
service personnel, anyone that we seek out<br />
for advice. This process continues throughout the<br />
employment stage of our lives. Thus, by the time we<br />
reach the post-employment stage, we have acquired<br />
many prejudices, inclinations, <strong>and</strong> predispositions—<br />
in a word, ‘biases’ that control much of our behavior<br />
<strong>and</strong> that give shape, direction, order, <strong>and</strong> meaning<br />
to our lives. In the post-employment stage, the age<br />
of retirement, the cycle begins again with gr<strong>and</strong>pa<br />
or gr<strong>and</strong>ma passing their biases on to their gr<strong>and</strong>children.<br />
So it goes.<br />
Taken collectively these biases control all our<br />
behavior. There are good biases <strong>and</strong> there are bad<br />
ones. The good ones permit us to live positively in<br />
our world; the bad ones are detrimental to our wellbeing.<br />
It is some of these bad biases that often get in<br />
the way of successful genealogical research because,<br />
taken collectively, they affect our ability to go beyond<br />
the obvious purpose of any genealogical document<br />
by restricting how we view the document. For example,<br />
thinking that all U.S. censuses before 1850<br />
only show heads of household, <strong>and</strong> rough ages <strong>and</strong><br />
number of persons in the household <strong>and</strong> nothing<br />
more, or that l<strong>and</strong> records show nothing more than<br />
location of property <strong>and</strong> when it was purchased, or<br />
that the tax records only show the amount paid for<br />
a piece of property, or that letters are not very valuable,<br />
<strong>and</strong> so on. These biases impose a predisposition,<br />
inclination, or prejudice that limits our horizons. Putting<br />
it another way, negative biases greatly stifle our<br />
imagination for examining the complete data that<br />
any given document contains. It seems to me that<br />
we need as much imagination as we are capable of<br />
bringing to bear on genealogical documents so that<br />
we might reap maximum harvest of the information.<br />
The negative biases we all have restrict this important<br />
function of imagination by giving us a most narrow<br />
vision of a particular document under study.<br />
Negative biases affect our perceptions of reality<br />
<strong>and</strong>, consequently, cause the beginner to approach<br />
an item for research with a predisposition as to what<br />
kinds of information can be expected from that<br />
document. Identifying <strong>and</strong> controlling these biases<br />
becomes an important prerequisite for achieving<br />
greater satisfaction from genealogical research.<br />
The question now becomes: how do we free ourselves<br />
of these negative biases Not without some hard<br />
work, but the work can be enjoyable <strong>and</strong> if performed<br />
consistently over a period of time will exp<strong>and</strong> our<br />
world view <strong>and</strong> suggest new ways of doing research.<br />
My solution involves a two step process: one, admit<br />
you have biases <strong>and</strong> try to identify what they are <strong>and</strong><br />
where they came from, <strong>and</strong>, two, discover ways to<br />
overcome these biases. Unless you can recognize biases<br />
exist <strong>and</strong> are getting in the way of your research<br />
you will not take steps to deal with them. The second<br />
step involves playing of games. Yes, you read correctly.<br />
Play games, but not just any game. Play games<br />
that stretch your way of viewing the world in which<br />
you live. Once you begin to change the way in which<br />
you view your world, your biases will begin to drop<br />
away <strong>and</strong> your research skills will improve. However,<br />
there is a caveat <strong>and</strong> that is you still must underst<strong>and</strong><br />
as thoroughly as you can the data contained in all<br />
the document sources used in genealogical research,<br />
what they are, where to access them, <strong>and</strong> what each<br />
contains. So, what are these games<br />
One game I like to play involves emptying the<br />
junk box where I keep small items. Items I think I<br />
might need some day, old keys, foreign coins, small<br />
batteries, wood screws, <strong>and</strong> so on. We all have these<br />
caches of small junk, maybe not in a box, but they<br />
could be in kitchen drawer, a teacup, or bowl, just<br />
about anywhere you store these kinds of treasures.<br />
When you have located your small junk caches (it<br />
should contain at least 20 dissimilar items) dump<br />
them onto a flat surface. Now organize those objects<br />
into some kind of meaningful arrangement. When<br />
you have finished try to define the manner you used<br />
in making your arrangement; was it based on “form,”<br />
“function,” “color,” “aesthetic,” “value,” “chronological,”<br />
“spatial,” “topically,” etc Whatever the manner<br />
used, it reveals one of your predispositions toward<br />
this group of objects. If you stop here <strong>and</strong> go no<br />
further, the particular pattern of organization you<br />
used becomes a negative bias because you probably<br />
will perform all of your organizational tasks with<br />
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other items or events in your life in the same manner;<br />
therefore, you go through life never experiencing the<br />
benefits of seeing the alternatives.<br />
Now take the same group of objects <strong>and</strong> reorganize<br />
them using another principle of organization, perhaps<br />
from the list suggested in the above paragraph. When<br />
you have finished your second organization, compare<br />
it to the first. What did you find You should have<br />
found that these same objects have taken on a new<br />
meaning. In other words, you have exp<strong>and</strong>ed your<br />
imagination by perceiving things about the objects<br />
you had not noticed before. Repeat this organizational<br />
process at least five more times using a different organizing<br />
principle <strong>and</strong> then compare the results with<br />
all others. This game played on a regular basis with<br />
new objects will gradually increase<br />
your potential for seeing possibilities<br />
where you saw none before, in<br />
a word; your imagination has been<br />
stimulated <strong>and</strong> some of your biases<br />
have been minimized.<br />
Another game I like to play involves<br />
the use of a sturdy chair.<br />
Select one from your collection,<br />
set it in an open space, <strong>and</strong> see if<br />
you can discover at least ten different<br />
ways that you can sit in that<br />
chair. Again, the challenge here is<br />
to stretch the use of your imagination<br />
<strong>and</strong> thereby ridding yourself<br />
of the negative biases that told you<br />
the “proper” way to sit in a chair.<br />
How many different ways to sit<br />
did you discover If you could find at least five, you<br />
have gone a long way in opening yourself to new<br />
possibilities. If you found ten, super!<br />
There are many games of this type. Some that I<br />
still play are crossword puzzles. These puzzles force<br />
you to look at words in completely different ways if<br />
you want to be successful in the puzzle’s solution.<br />
Crossword puzzles are found in most newspapers,<br />
or in books found in bookstores. My local newspaper<br />
also carries other games I play to keep my imagination<br />
sharp. One is called “Jumble: The Scrambled<br />
Word Game,” <strong>and</strong> the other “Celebrity Cipher.” Both,<br />
if played on a consistent basis, cause one to see that<br />
what is present is not all that meets the eye.<br />
For those who have computers, some of the card<br />
games (Free Cell <strong>and</strong> Spider) may be helpful. Also,<br />
…open yourself to<br />
all the possibilities<br />
that a document<br />
contains rather<br />
than focusing on<br />
only one aspect that<br />
might have been<br />
recommended by<br />
some expert, book,<br />
magazine article,<br />
or family member.<br />
playing bridge provides an excellent opportunity<br />
to exp<strong>and</strong> your vision. The card games mentioned<br />
become very good entries to a process that requires<br />
examination of a great many options in order to win.<br />
Card games of pure chance will not work because<br />
they do not force you to stretch in the same way that<br />
the games mentioned do. The game of chess accomplishes<br />
the same thing as card games.<br />
I firmly believe playing all of these games will go<br />
a long way in opening your mind to new possibilities<br />
where perhaps none were perceived before. They will<br />
help free you of some controlling biases that may be<br />
impeding your genealogical research. The question<br />
remains; How do we free ourselves from these negative<br />
biases I can only provide you with how I freed<br />
myself. Ridding me of the negative<br />
biases that I suspected were<br />
getting in the way began with<br />
the recognition that I was dealing<br />
with both mental <strong>and</strong> emotional<br />
issues. The games suggested earlier<br />
helped with the mental aspect<br />
by providing me with the tools to<br />
see that there was more than one<br />
way to skin a cat, they exp<strong>and</strong>ed<br />
my abilities for seeing things in<br />
a different way than I originally<br />
thought possible. The emotional<br />
side was a little more difficult, but<br />
eventually I was able to move away<br />
from this issue by believing that<br />
those who helped form some of my<br />
biases did the best they could at<br />
that time with the information they had. They really<br />
meant no harm, but now times had changed. Having<br />
worked through these two notions, I was now ready<br />
to see how my genealogical research would change.<br />
The first application I made of my new-found freedom<br />
lay in the perhaps the most fundamental search<br />
done in genealogy, the surname search. I came to<br />
realize that perhaps my genealogy instructor was<br />
correct when she told me that my last name was<br />
not necessarily spelled in many records the way it<br />
is spelled today. I dismissed her observation at that<br />
time, but after going through the games, seeing that<br />
other possibilities were possible, I at least thought I<br />
could test her out. She suggested going to www.familysearch.org<br />
<strong>and</strong> searching for my surname. I did,<br />
<strong>and</strong> found quite a number of variant spellings that<br />
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I had earlier told myself…”those<br />
could not be my ancestors,” but<br />
with further study, I found out<br />
some of them were. Armed with<br />
this information, I was then able<br />
to find so much more than I had<br />
in the past. This simple act of recognizing<br />
that my last name could<br />
be spelled in a number of ways<br />
caused me to examine other documents<br />
I had been looking for, but<br />
was unable to find.<br />
One of those records was a tax<br />
record that would tell me when my<br />
great-great-gr<strong>and</strong>father migrated<br />
to Ohio from Pennsylvania. I had<br />
found his named spelled the way<br />
we do in later tax records but could<br />
not find the name in earlier ones. I<br />
remember seeing the name “Haning”<br />
in an earlier tax record, but<br />
had dismissed it as not being my<br />
ancestor. However, the tax record<br />
showed this person paying taxes on<br />
the same property listed as in the<br />
later records. I concluded that my<br />
genealogy instructor knew what<br />
she was talking about. “Haning”<br />
was my ancestor after all. With<br />
this new acceptance that surnames<br />
were not always what they ‘should’<br />
be led me to find a number of other<br />
records that depended on recognizing<br />
variant spellings.<br />
I also started reading documents<br />
more thoroughly than previously.<br />
Census records have a wealth of information other<br />
than head of household, wife, children, <strong>and</strong> reported<br />
ages, but there is a need to read all the columns for the<br />
other information they contain. In fact, all genealogical<br />
documents should be read in their entirety <strong>and</strong> not<br />
just skimmed. I recall a deed of my great-gr<strong>and</strong>father<br />
dated 1838. It showed him purchasing l<strong>and</strong> in Greene<br />
County, Indiana. Had I not read it more carefully, I<br />
would not have learned that he came first to Martin<br />
County that is stated in the deed. Perhaps these few<br />
examples will suffice to indicate the benefits of ridding<br />
yourself of biases that might get in the way of<br />
doing good, successful research.<br />
Deed excerpt from the Clerk of Court, Bloomfield, Greene County,<br />
Indiana, Book Vol. 1, 17 Nov 1868 - 17 Sept 1869, Page 5.<br />
So, I hope you are beginning to see the thrust. I<br />
want you to have a successful genealogical research<br />
experience <strong>and</strong> you can if you open yourself to all<br />
the possibilities that a document contains rather than<br />
focusing on only one aspect that might have been recommended<br />
by some expert, book, magazine article,<br />
or family member.<br />
In conclusion, I have tried to show how our negative<br />
biases can prevent the beginning genealogist<br />
from getting the most out of document research <strong>and</strong><br />
how minimizing some of these biases might permit<br />
maximum gain from our research. Some methods<br />
are suggested that may help eliminate some negative<br />
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iases that you are carrying around. And I have tried<br />
to indicate a possible way for these biases to be dealt<br />
with. However, the method does require some selfdiscipline<br />
if you are to experience success. The name<br />
of the game is to get as much out of research as is<br />
humanly possible. This also means getting the most<br />
out of any one genealogical document.<br />
Born in Bedford, IN <strong>and</strong> raised<br />
in Bloomington, Robert Hennon<br />
matriculated at Oberlin College,<br />
Oberlin, OH in 1948, transferred to<br />
Indiana University, Bloomington in<br />
1950, earning a B.A. <strong>and</strong> M.A.T. in<br />
1953 <strong>and</strong> 1954 respectively. Robert<br />
taught speech <strong>and</strong> theater from 1955<br />
to 1983. He retired as Associate<br />
Professor of Speech <strong>and</strong> Theater from Indiana University<br />
in 1983. Mr. Hennon became interested in genealogy<br />
in 1995. He served as president of the Craven County<br />
Genealogical Society, New Bern, NC from 2000 to 2005.<br />
The Indiana Historical Society has also published his<br />
articles in their genealogical publication, Connections.<br />
Robert passed away July 28, 2008 in Bern, North Carolina.<br />
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French Resea ch QUESTIONS ANSWERED<br />
France <strong>and</strong> Alsace—<br />
A Beginners Guide<br />
By Gl e n n La z a r u s<br />
Mary E. Leiper, 1905<br />
She made me do it! The sweet young girl pictured<br />
dancing with glee on the back of an electric horse-<br />
SPart I: Find That Ancestor<br />
less carriage 1 , vintage 1905, is my<br />
first cousin once removed, Mary<br />
E. Leiper, b. 28 May 1903 <strong>and</strong> d. 1<br />
Feb 1990.<br />
She may appear to be an innocent<br />
angel, but in 1966 she sent me<br />
a devilish letter 1 that contained in<br />
part:<br />
• Francois Joseph Latzerus (my<br />
2nd great gr<strong>and</strong>father) “had at<br />
least two brothers—one 6’ 7”<br />
tall <strong>and</strong> the other 7’ 2”, who<br />
were sentenced to the guillotine<br />
for wrecking convent property<br />
so it couldn’t be taken over during<br />
some religious conflict, but<br />
they escaped into Germany.<br />
That is all I remember hearing<br />
of them.” 2<br />
• She related two uncles “…telling<br />
about climbing the trees in the<br />
orchard adjacent to their home<br />
Uhlan Cavalry<br />
to watch the Uhlans 3 riding into their village—<br />
Runtzenheim—in 1870 to take over.”<br />
• In 1880, due to dire economic conditions, one great<br />
uncle <strong>and</strong> his friend, “flipped a coin to see whether<br />
they would go to Africa or come to America …<br />
America won.”<br />
• My great gr<strong>and</strong>father, Andrew Lazarus, b. 17 Nov<br />
1822 <strong>and</strong> d. 22 May 1912, “…used to tell how he<br />
wondered what kind of a country he was being led<br />
to (America in April 1881). Their spring planting<br />
had been done before they left home. The nearer<br />
they got to Buffalo (New York), the more snow<br />
there was!” (The good news was that) “…the older<br />
sons were hired the next day to help shovel snow<br />
on the streets.”<br />
Mary finished the letter with the Lazarus’ genealogy<br />
as she knew it then. Several years later she followed<br />
it up with a letter indicating that since I was<br />
“…the only one interested in family history,” she<br />
was entrusting me to continue it. 4 Although I was<br />
in the U.S. Army at the time, <strong>and</strong> couldn’t devote<br />
much time to family history—I was hooked! Also,<br />
I didn’t realize it at the time, but the facts that the<br />
good Jesuit fathers at Canisius High School in Buffalo,<br />
New York (Tim Russert’s alma mater) crammed<br />
Latin <strong>and</strong> German into my thick<br />
cranium, <strong>and</strong> the U.S. Army did<br />
the same with French, would give<br />
me a good starting point for my<br />
research in France <strong>and</strong> the Alsace.<br />
Fortunately, today you don’t need<br />
to be multilingual to do French<br />
<strong>and</strong> Alsatian family history.<br />
Let’s begin. As a starting point,<br />
I am accepting as a given that<br />
you have done your family history<br />
homework on this side of the<br />
“pond” before leaping to France<br />
(records researched <strong>and</strong> documented,<br />
family stories <strong>and</strong> interviews<br />
collected, repositories <strong>and</strong><br />
cemeteries visited, etc.) What I<br />
am about to propose is a little unorthodox<br />
<strong>and</strong> will probably make<br />
certified genealogists cringe, but<br />
it worked for me <strong>and</strong> it may for<br />
you too.<br />
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F ench Research<br />
I have noticed over the past several years messages<br />
appearing on message boards to the effect:<br />
“My great gr<strong>and</strong>father was _____(fill in the blank),<br />
born in France about 1822. Can anyone help me find<br />
my French roots” Although I find genealogists as a<br />
group to be very helpful—<strong>and</strong> French genealogists in<br />
particular to be wonderfully patient <strong>and</strong> friendly—<br />
the secret to successful French genealogy follows<br />
the realtor’s mantra: location, location, location. You<br />
really need to know the city or village where your<br />
ancestors resided.<br />
If you believe that your ancestor came from<br />
France, but you are unsure of the Region 5 (mainl<strong>and</strong><br />
France has 22 regions—think of each as being<br />
roughly equivalent to a separate state in the U.S.), <strong>and</strong><br />
96 departments—(think in terms of U.S. counties or<br />
parishes).<br />
the family in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA,<br />
<strong>and</strong> stated his place of birth as being Germany. Germany!<br />
What happened to France<br />
OK, time out for a brief refresher on French <strong>and</strong><br />
Alsatian history. Metropolitan France is only slightly<br />
smaller than the State of Texas. Tucked away in the<br />
northeastern corner is the Alsace Region. It borders<br />
present-day Germany <strong>and</strong> Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> runs<br />
through the fertile Rhine River valley east of the<br />
Vosges Mountains. Alsace is composed of two departments:<br />
Bas-Rhin (literally Low Rhine) <strong>and</strong> Haut-Rhin<br />
(literally high Rhine). Since the Rhine River flows<br />
from south to north, Bas-Rhin appears on the map<br />
above Haut-Rhin—logical, but confusing to some.<br />
Haut-Rhin is bordered by Germany to the east <strong>and</strong><br />
Switzerl<strong>and</strong> to the south. The connection with the<br />
Swiss was particularly strong with the former free<br />
city of Mulhouse not being absorbed until 1798. As<br />
a result, those of you with Swiss ancestors may also<br />
find you have an Alsatian connection.<br />
Ever since the 1st Century BC, when Julius Caesar<br />
conquered the area, Alsace has been trampled<br />
by various military forces through the centuries.<br />
From the Holy Roman Empire, through the Thirty<br />
Years War (1618-1648), the French Revolution (1789) 5 ,<br />
the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) <strong>and</strong> the two<br />
Geographical Comparisons: French to U.S.<br />
I suggest a visit to the following French website:<br />
www.geopatronyme.com. Please don’t be intimidated<br />
by the French language. In the center of the screen<br />
is a box entitled “votre nom” (your name). Insert the<br />
family surname that you are searching <strong>and</strong> click the<br />
“valider” (validate) button. A screen appears that<br />
shows the distribution of your surname by birth date<br />
for a given time frame. To the upper left of the map<br />
is a phrase “choissez la periode” (choose the time<br />
frame) for anyone of four time periods ranging from<br />
1891 to 1990. The map will then show the distribution<br />
of that surname by department—the next smaller<br />
jurisdictional area after the region. In the case of the<br />
Lazarus surname, the chart for the time period 1891-<br />
1915 shows 84 births in the Bas-Rhin Department,<br />
followed by 21 in Haut-Rhin. These two departments<br />
make up the Alsace Region. For illustrative purposes<br />
I will focus on Bas-Rhin. It has only 527 cities <strong>and</strong><br />
villages (communes) to search through!<br />
In my case, I was quite fortunate that good old<br />
Mary Leiper had mentioned a village by name<br />
“Runtzenheim,” <strong>and</strong> that my great gr<strong>and</strong>father emigrated<br />
to the U.S. in April 1881. I found Andre in<br />
the 1892 New York State Census <strong>and</strong> the 1900 <strong>and</strong><br />
1910 U.S. Federal Censuses. The combined census<br />
data confirmed the 1881 immigration date, showed<br />
Map of Alsace<br />
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French Resea ch<br />
World Wars, Alsace has been the center of much carnage,<br />
foreign occupation, shifting populations, <strong>and</strong><br />
annexation.<br />
Prior to the Franco-Prussian War, most vital records<br />
were kept in either French (civil) or Latin<br />
(church). The annexation of Alsace by the new German<br />
state following the Franco-Prussian War resulted<br />
in all vital records being kept in German. After World<br />
War I the process reversed when Alsace once again<br />
became part of France <strong>and</strong> civil records were kept<br />
in French. The process flip-flopped again in World<br />
War II when Germany took over Alsace in 1940, <strong>and</strong><br />
finally reverted back to French when France <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Allies recaptured Alsace in 1944.<br />
French military records can be helpful in tracing<br />
one’s ancestry. One little-known source that proved<br />
helpful to me was a list of the recipients of the St.<br />
Helena Medal. The medal was struck by Napoleon<br />
III <strong>and</strong> awarded to the approximate 405,000 soldiers<br />
of the Gr<strong>and</strong> Army (French, Belgians, Dutch, Danish,<br />
Irish, etc ) who served in the French military between<br />
1792 <strong>and</strong> 1815 under Napoleon I. The key requirement,<br />
other than service rendered, was that the recipient<br />
needed to be alive in 1857. Due to a fire (isn’t<br />
there always one!) there are no exact records. If you<br />
believe that your ancestor meets the above criteria,<br />
you can go to the website (www.stehelene.org/php/<br />
accueil.phppage=9&lang=en) <strong>and</strong> enter a surname<br />
in the blank on the left side of the page.<br />
Screen Capture of the St. Helena Medal Web Page<br />
By placing “Lazarus” in the search box, I found<br />
three men by that name.<br />
One was Francois Joseph Lazarus who was a brigadier<br />
(corporal), in the 4th Battalion of the 1st horse<br />
regiment. He was my 2nd great gr<strong>and</strong>father <strong>and</strong> resided<br />
in Rountzenheim (note the different spelling—<br />
French vs. German). Under “FAQ” (frequently asked<br />
Screen Capture of the St. Helena Medal Web Page<br />
questions), this site also suggests other French sources<br />
to research. If you are fortunate enough to locate your<br />
ancestor, a Google search will reveal opportunities<br />
to purchase copies of the actual medal should you<br />
be so inclined. Now, one problem was resolved for<br />
me. Rountzenheim was definitely in France (except<br />
during German occupation—chuckle). Honestly <strong>and</strong><br />
logically, my great gr<strong>and</strong>father Andre told the U.S.<br />
Census enumerators that he came from Germany.<br />
In the case of Alsace there are other resources<br />
available to help the family historian:<br />
• The Alsace Emigration Book, compiled by Cornelia<br />
Schrader-Muggenthaler, 2 vols., Appolo, Pennsylvania,<br />
Closson Press, c. 1989-1991. If you go<br />
to www.worldcat.org <strong>and</strong> enter the identifying<br />
data you can find a library near you to borrow<br />
the book—possibly through interlibrary loan. The<br />
subject class is: 944.38W2.<br />
• The Baden Emigration Book: Including Emigration<br />
From Alsace, 1992, by the same author, Cornelia<br />
Schrader-Muggenthaler.<br />
• Census of 1836. There are five CDs available for<br />
parts of Alsace. King Louis-Phillipe I directed mayors<br />
to carry out the first official registration lists.<br />
You can obtain information on the CDs at www.<br />
Census1836.com/descGeneralUK.htm. Residents<br />
are grouped into families, names, first names, age,<br />
religion, profession, civil status, <strong>and</strong> addresses.<br />
These CDs are costly, <strong>and</strong> you may want to go online<br />
to a message board to see if someone will do<br />
a “look-up” for you if you think your relative lived<br />
in one of the areas covered.<br />
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• Message boards <strong>and</strong> Internet sites. Among some<br />
that are in English <strong>and</strong> that are free are:<br />
1. www.ancestry.com Click on Community <strong>and</strong><br />
key-in “Alsace” or the village name.<br />
2. www.genealogylinks.net/europe/france/french<br />
regions.htm#alsace Other French regions are<br />
also mentioned.<br />
3. http://ddebus.fr/alsareche.ht m<br />
4. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com<br />
5. www.cyndislist.com/france.ht m<br />
6. www.geneanet.org—one of the best. This is<br />
both a free <strong>and</strong> “Privilege Club” ($) site. You do<br />
have to register via the “free subscription” block<br />
on the right of the screen. Once registered, you<br />
can enter a surname or location. You may find<br />
other researchers tracing your surname. Many<br />
are native French speakers but many are multilingual.<br />
This site addresses surnames outside<br />
of France too.<br />
Part II: Tools to Help with Language<br />
This part of the article hopefully will provide those<br />
readers who do not read or write French, German,<br />
Latin or Alsatian (yes, approximately 25 percent of the<br />
population still speak <strong>and</strong> write in their own dialect)<br />
some tools to assist in your genealogical pursuits. Before<br />
even considering contemplating a trip to Alsace<br />
for family history purposes (although the food, wine,<br />
<strong>and</strong> beer make such a trip worthwhile of their own<br />
accord), one should acquire some basic resources:<br />
• A good French/English dictionary. I recommend<br />
Cassel’s French Dictionary by Denis Girard (compiler),<br />
Macmillan Publishing, Co., Inc., New York.<br />
Approximate cost $20.40.<br />
• A good Atlas of France. Michelin’s Atlas Routier<br />
France <strong>and</strong> Blay-Foldex France Belgique-Luxembourg<br />
Atlas Routier are both good. The latter has brought<br />
out a 2008 version for 17.95 Euros. For more information,<br />
Google “Blay Foldex.” Detailed maps of<br />
Alsace are also available from both companies.<br />
• <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library aides. The <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Library in Salt Lake City remains one of the best<br />
resources available when it comes to beginning<br />
French genealogical research. If you go to the <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Library Catalog (www.familysearch.<br />
org/Eng/Library/FHL/frameset fhlc.asp) <strong>and</strong><br />
click on “Research Helps” a drop-down window<br />
allows you to choose either “Articles” or “Guidance.”<br />
Choose “Articles” <strong>and</strong> on the left side of<br />
the screen choose “Sorted by Place.” Select “F”<br />
for France <strong>and</strong> you will see 14 very good reference<br />
documents. Some are available as pdf images<br />
that you can read <strong>and</strong> print from your home<br />
computer; <strong>and</strong> others are available for purchase. If<br />
your ancestors came from Alsace or another area<br />
bordering present-day Germany, you can go under<br />
the “G” list <strong>and</strong> see what is available for Germany<br />
too. Under both, you will note a “Latin Genealogical<br />
Word List.” I highly recommend this to help<br />
with researching the multitude of church records<br />
that you will likely encounter going back as early<br />
as the 17th century. Another <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> resource<br />
that can prove quite helpful is their “Portal:<br />
France” (http://wiki.familysearch.org/en/France).<br />
This is a great site, <strong>and</strong> one can easily spend hours<br />
using the links <strong>and</strong> references listed on the Portal.<br />
One example: under “Research Tools” in the center<br />
of the page, click on “French Archives Online.”<br />
Then, click on the “this website” link at the bottom<br />
<strong>and</strong> you will see all of the departmental archives.<br />
As might be expected, <strong>and</strong> not unlike the variances<br />
experienced in going to different websites<br />
for individual states in the U.S., the quality of the<br />
various departmental archives varies. At the time<br />
this article was drafted, the Bas-Rhin Archives in<br />
Strasbourg was not available; however, some of my<br />
French colleagues inform me that by the time you<br />
read this, Bas-Rhin will be accessible online.<br />
Now you are ready to jump into the “actes,” best<br />
translated as “certificates” for births, baptisms, marriages,<br />
<strong>and</strong> deaths. Ms. Clause in her July/August 2008<br />
Everton’s Genealogical Helper gave some good starting<br />
places. Earlier I mentioned the www.geopatronyme.<br />
com website. Through links, there are transcriptions<br />
of actes available for viewing—some for a fee. 6 Also,<br />
don’t forget to use the <strong>Family</strong> Search Catalog. If you<br />
place your ancestor’s village in the keyword search<br />
box, it is quite likely you will find microfilms worth<br />
renting for use at your local <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Center.<br />
Finally, good luck in your French <strong>and</strong> Alsatian research;<br />
or as the French say, “bonne chance!”<br />
Glenn Lazarus is both a retired U.S.<br />
Army Lieutenant Colonel <strong>and</strong> a<br />
Department of Defense Civilian who<br />
was assigned to the Office of the U.S.<br />
Secretary of Defense for International<br />
Security Affairs. “Seduced” in 1966<br />
by his first cousin once removed<br />
into tracing his family history, he<br />
has been enjoying genealogy <strong>and</strong><br />
Glenn Lazarus international travel. He <strong>and</strong> his wife,<br />
at age 4 Monica, reside in North Carolina.<br />
He may be contacted by email at lazgen33@gmail.com.<br />
Endnotes<br />
1. The Antique Automobile Association indicates that the vehicle<br />
was electric, but without seeing the front of the vehicle exact<br />
identification was impossible.<br />
2. Talk about a brick wall! I can find no information about these<br />
two “criminals” except that more information from Mary Leiper<br />
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stated that they burned the convent’s furniture to keep it from<br />
falling into the h<strong>and</strong>s of an expected enemy attack from across<br />
the Rhine. When the enemy attack didn’t take place, the French<br />
authorities found them guilty of a “crime.” Oh, my son is almost<br />
6’4” tall. Maybe there is something in the genes!<br />
3. “Uhlan”—the name possibly comes from the Mongolian or<br />
Tartar (Tatar) words “oglan” or “uhuan” meaning brave warrior.<br />
The original Uhlan soldiers were Polish light cavalry that<br />
served as reconnaissance forces <strong>and</strong> skirmishers. They fought<br />
alongside French forces in the early 19th century. Bavarian<br />
Uhlan regiments played a significant role in the Franco-Prussian<br />
War of 1870-1871. Although I can find no documentary<br />
proof, it is probable that the Uhlan cavalry that attacked into<br />
Alsace was most likely a part of the 3rd Royal Bavarian Division<br />
that went on to fight at Sedan where Napoleon III was<br />
captured along with 104,000 of his soldiers. ((Wikipedia contributors,<br />
“Uhlan,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, ht t p://<br />
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan (accessed August 11, 2008)). As<br />
they approached Rountzenheim they may have been wearing<br />
the traditional mortar board helmet, the “Chapka” <strong>and</strong><br />
carrying the long lances (almost 10 ft long) with pennants<br />
attached—a sight that the small Lazarus boys would most<br />
certainly remember for their entire lives.<br />
4. This lady was really sharp! It wasn’t until many years later that<br />
I found other relatives had received a similar letter. Looking<br />
closely at my copy I found that it was a very good mimeographed<br />
letter. She was determined that one of us would continue the<br />
Lazarus family history!<br />
5.<br />
6.<br />
The comparisons in the illustration are merely representative of<br />
the situation on the ground in the late 19th century <strong>and</strong> do not<br />
reflect present-day events. As of January 1, 2008, metropolitan<br />
France is divided into 22 regions, 96 departments, 330 arrondissements,<br />
3,883 cantons <strong>and</strong> 36,569 communes. In addition, there<br />
are 2,568 intercommunal structures grouping 33,549 communes.<br />
To make matters more confusing to the non-Francophile, these<br />
intercommunal structures can be sub-divided into 14 urban<br />
communities, 165 agglomeration communities, 2,384 commune<br />
communities <strong>and</strong> 5 syndicates of new agglomeration. (Wikipedia<br />
contributors, “Administrative Divisions of France,” Wikipedia,<br />
The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative<br />
divisions of France (accessed August 11, 2008), <strong>and</strong> the<br />
official Embassy of France website at www.ambafrance-us.org/<br />
spip.phparticle502.)<br />
Using the previous example searching the “Lazarus” surname,<br />
you note that looking under Bas-Rhin (Department 67), there<br />
are 204 actes available between 1611 <strong>and</strong> 1884. To the right of that<br />
information is a “plus d’infos” link. Clicking on that link shows<br />
a sign-in page <strong>and</strong> also shows below exactly how many actes are<br />
available in total for each department. You are then linked to a<br />
French site www genealogie.com where you can register for free.<br />
Unfortunately for some, the site is in French only. You will not<br />
see actual actes but rather transcriptions. You can also learn about<br />
other genealogists (primarily French) who are researching your<br />
surname. There is a charge for certain access. Like many pay-forservice<br />
genealogy sites, the more specific you can be with your<br />
request, the greater likelihood you will get a match.<br />
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Germanic Research QUESTIONS ANSWERED<br />
Using German<br />
Parish Records<br />
By Ga i l Bl a n k e n a u<br />
A large number of Americans who engage in family<br />
history research have at least one German ancestor.<br />
For those with Pennsylvania German ancestry,<br />
American records start mainly in the 1700s. Yet, the<br />
largest group of Germans immigrated to the United<br />
States from 1840 to 1900, so it doesn’t take long for<br />
researchers to jump back to the “mother country.” For<br />
these relatively recent groups, German parish records<br />
can be a veritable gold mine for family historians.<br />
Many of them are available on microfilm through<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Centers across the country.<br />
As always in genealogy, the real-estate mantra “location,<br />
location, location,” applies here. In the case<br />
of my husb<strong>and</strong>’s family, my mother-in-law supplied<br />
the names of the ancestral villages using old funeral<br />
cards that were in her possession.<br />
I first used the familysearch.org database to find<br />
out which churches might have been the home parish<br />
for these people. For example, I knew that one<br />
ancestor was Anton Lienen, <strong>and</strong> that he was from<br />
Westphalia. The International Genealogical Index<br />
(IGI) showed Anton Lienen, son of Friedr. Lienen <strong>and</strong><br />
Christina Siweke was christened 19 May 1871, as a<br />
Roman Catholic, Roemisch-Katholisch, Stuken Brock,<br />
Westfalen, Preussen. This matched the birthdate <strong>and</strong><br />
place that my mother-in-law had given me. I then<br />
ordered the parish records for Stukenbrock parish<br />
<strong>and</strong> the fun began.<br />
Working in German<br />
There is a limited vocabulary needed for research—<br />
obviously words like “birth,” “marriage,” <strong>and</strong> “death.”<br />
The further back you go, the more likely you are to encounter<br />
Latin as well. With a dictionary, it is relatively<br />
easy to figure out what the records say. A good list of<br />
German genealogy-related words is on the familysearch.<br />
org website under the tab “Research Guidance.”<br />
The most difficult part of German research is reading<br />
the h<strong>and</strong>writing <strong>and</strong>/or the quality of the microfilm.<br />
Some recorders had a fine clear h<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong><br />
others did not. The more recent records are in modern<br />
script, but the further back you progress, you will<br />
encounter the dreaded German script. A good chart<br />
for interpreting German script can be found on the<br />
Yale website: http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/fraktur.htm.<br />
As with English records, you need to learn the idiosyncrasies<br />
of the writer. Notice how the clerk wrote<br />
the “E” or the “F” somewhere else on the page <strong>and</strong><br />
make yourself a note.<br />
Always copy the siblings’ records as well—a<br />
good practice for any genealogical problem. There<br />
are sometimes little differences <strong>and</strong> usages that will<br />
give you the clue to break through to the next generation.<br />
Parents die, the widow remarries, all this<br />
needs to be noted. For example, in one ancestral record,<br />
the mother was Marg. Weimans, for the brother,<br />
the mother was called Marg. Weggemans.<br />
Instead of original parish records, many researchers<br />
choose to order the “Kirchenbuch Duplikat.”<br />
These are transcriptions of the records for a parish.<br />
Obviously, this is easier to use, as someone else has<br />
already done the hard work of reading the h<strong>and</strong>writing.<br />
However, this is not considered as reliable.<br />
Transcription errors happen. In addition, most of<br />
these books stop around 1800 to 1815. To go back<br />
further, you’ll need those original records after all.<br />
You may want to use them in t<strong>and</strong>em, starting with<br />
the easy-to-read Duplikat, then confirming the information<br />
<strong>and</strong> working beyond them in the original<br />
records.<br />
The Research—A Case Study<br />
Consider the birth <strong>and</strong> christening record for Anton<br />
Lienen of Stukenbroeck parish in Westphalia, Germany.<br />
At the top is the title, “Geborne und Getaufte<br />
im Jahre 1871.” This means “Born <strong>and</strong> Baptized in the<br />
year 1871”(See Figure 1). The facing page continues<br />
the title, “im Monat,” meaning “in the month of,”<br />
followed by the page number (See Figure 2).<br />
On p. 151 of the births <strong>and</strong> baptisms, the record is<br />
in columns. Column one is the Taufname—Christening<br />
name. Next is the Tag (Day) <strong>and</strong> Stunde (hour)<br />
of the (Geburt) Birth. Vor und Zunammen und St<strong>and</strong><br />
des Vaters (first <strong>and</strong> last name <strong>and</strong> occupation of the<br />
father).<br />
On the facing page is the same information for the<br />
mother (See Figure 2). “Wohnort” is the residence of<br />
the parents, followed by the day of the christening<br />
(which is usually one or two days after the birth).<br />
Next, is the name of the Pastor <strong>and</strong> last is the name<br />
of the godparents.<br />
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Figure 1—From FHL Film 1185778, Stukenbrok Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,”<br />
Tote “Deaths” 1817-1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874, p. 151-a.<br />
Figure 2—Facing Page—From FHL Film 1185778, Stukenbrok<br />
Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,” Tote “Deaths” 1817-<br />
1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874, p. 151-b.<br />
For record number 19, Anton Lienen, was born the<br />
18th, father was Friedrich Lienen, the mother was<br />
Christina Siweke <strong>and</strong> they lived in Stukenbrock.<br />
Anton was christened the 19th, <strong>and</strong> the godparent<br />
was Anton Stallbories. In the hundreds of records I<br />
have copied, the name of one of the godparents was<br />
almost invariably the name of the child. In addition,<br />
the baptismal sponsors were uncles, aunts, or sometimes<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>parents. Thus, every piece of information<br />
in these records is important.<br />
I then looked in the marriage index <strong>and</strong> found<br />
Anton’s father Friedrich Lienen right away. These<br />
Germanic Research<br />
marriage records are invaluable.<br />
Not only does the register entry<br />
provide the names of the bride<br />
<strong>and</strong> groom, but also their ages<br />
<strong>and</strong> their parents’ names. If your<br />
ancestor married someone from<br />
another parish, that parish will be<br />
named. Because the parents’ names<br />
for both the bridegroom <strong>and</strong> bride<br />
are given, it’s tempting to skip their<br />
christening record <strong>and</strong> go on. Don’t.<br />
Residences do change slightly, <strong>and</strong><br />
even the first name they go by.<br />
For the marriage record (Figures<br />
3 & 4), the facing pages are split up<br />
for easier reading. The left page of<br />
the register starts with the first<br />
<strong>and</strong> last name of the bridegroom,<br />
or “Brautigam.” Next, you see the<br />
name <strong>and</strong> residence of the father<br />
“des Vaters.”<br />
In this marriage record, (See<br />
Figure 3) it shows that Friedrich<br />
Lienen’s parents were Ferd. (short<br />
for Ferdin<strong>and</strong>) Lienen <strong>and</strong> Angela<br />
Brockschmid. We then see the<br />
bridegroom’s age, which is helpful<br />
in pinpointing the birth record<br />
in the next round, especially when<br />
you have multiple men or women<br />
with the same name. Friedrich’s<br />
age was 44. He was quite a bit<br />
older than his bride, <strong>and</strong> I immediately<br />
suspected a prior marriage<br />
for Friedrich, which turned out to be correct.<br />
Sometimes, as in this record, a clerk went back<br />
<strong>and</strong> put in a death date. In the column for “Vor und<br />
Zurnahmen der Braut,” first <strong>and</strong> last name of bride,<br />
notice that Christina Siweke has a black cross underneath<br />
followed by a date. Crosses indicate deaths in<br />
these records.<br />
The facing page starts with information about the<br />
bride’s parents (See Figure 4). Christina’s father was a<br />
Heuerling (lives with a farmer as a hired h<strong>and</strong>, possibly<br />
has a garden plot), named Conrad Siweke <strong>and</strong> the<br />
mother was Theres Stallbories. Christina’s age was 22,<br />
Figure 3—From FHL Film 1185778, Stukenbrok Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,” Tote<br />
“Deaths” 1817-1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874 , Stukenbrok Parish, p. 80a.<br />
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Figure 4—Facing Page—From FHL Film, 1185778, Stukenbrok Parish, Heiraten “Marriages,”<br />
Tote “Deaths” 1817-1874; Taufen “Baptisms” 1847-1874 , Stukenbrok Parish, p. 80b.<br />
<strong>and</strong> a note under that has 11/12/1840. This was<br />
Christina Siweke’s birth date. This is not normally<br />
included in the marriage record. From the h<strong>and</strong>writing,<br />
it looks like this date was added later. The next<br />
columns that start with “Ob” simply show whether<br />
the parents were “einwillig” consenting, to the marriage.<br />
Witnesses in the last column were Ferdin<strong>and</strong><br />
Lienen <strong>and</strong> Christian Ernst. At first, I wondered what<br />
relative Christian Ernst was, <strong>and</strong> then noted that his<br />
name was in all the columns, so he was either the<br />
priest or the clerk for the church.<br />
Because Friedrich was so much older than Christina,<br />
I checked an earlier marriage record for a Joh.<br />
Fried. Lienen I saw in the index, <strong>and</strong> confirmed that he<br />
had a prior marriage to an Elizabeth Reineke. How do<br />
I know it was the same man Remember the column<br />
for the parents’ names. Again, the parents were Ferd.<br />
Lienen <strong>and</strong> Ang. Brockschmid of Stukenbrock.<br />
Notice that in one record he was Friedrich, <strong>and</strong> in<br />
the other, Johann Friedrich. It is extremely common<br />
for Germans to go by their middle names. This is<br />
an important point to remember when combing the<br />
indexes for possible records.<br />
I used these parish records in the same way to<br />
trace this family back to a Johann Cord Lienen born<br />
about 1700, who married Elizabeth or Ilsabein Brechman<br />
7 Sept 1721 in Stuckenbrock. You will find that<br />
the earlier records are more difficult to read <strong>and</strong> don’t<br />
always include the breadth of information given in<br />
the above example.<br />
A Cautionary Tale or What’s in a Name<br />
I used the Lienen example because that family was<br />
relatively easy <strong>and</strong> straightforward. The Lienen name<br />
carried back unchanged, although with the variant<br />
spelling of Linen.<br />
On another line, I did the same thing, happily hopscotching<br />
back generation to generation until I hit a<br />
huge wall. It was as if the Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong> family<br />
had dropped off the face of the earth in that area. I<br />
had successfully documented the family back to a<br />
Heinrich Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong>. By researching further<br />
about genealogy in Westphalia, I found my answer.<br />
Sometimes, the last names of the children followed<br />
the mother’s birth name, if she brought a farm to the<br />
marriage. Thus, it’s the name that goes with the farm<br />
is more important. I’m told that in German there’s an<br />
expression he “married the farm.”<br />
I found the right christening record in the Verl parish<br />
by looking at the females of that surname. The<br />
record I found said that Heinrich Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong><br />
was Joannes Henrikus, son of Christophorus Blankenau<br />
full<strong>and</strong> also known as Christoph Joann Vor der<br />
Bruggen <strong>and</strong> Anna Catharina Blankenau full<strong>and</strong>.<br />
The Godparent was Joannes Henrikus Joann Vor der<br />
Bruggen. Thus, the paternal line’s last name changed to<br />
Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong> from Joan Vor Der Brueggen in that<br />
generation. My husb<strong>and</strong>’s surname is that of a female<br />
ancestor. 1<br />
To ensure I had the right person, I then checked<br />
Heinrich Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong>’s marriage record to<br />
Catharina Pollmeier, <strong>and</strong> his parents were listed as<br />
Christoph Joann Vor Bruggen, Colon (Farmer) Blankenau<br />
full<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Catharina Blankenau full<strong>and</strong>. 2<br />
I then located the marriage record for Christopher<br />
Joann Vor Der Brueggen <strong>and</strong> Anna Catharina Blankenauffull<strong>and</strong>,<br />
which took place in 1809. It showed<br />
that he was a widower of Elizabeth Sonneborn, <strong>and</strong><br />
that Anna Catherina Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong> was a widow<br />
of Heinrich Hansmeyer. She was a Kolona (a person<br />
with a hereditary right to the leasehold from the<br />
Count). 3<br />
Christopher must not have had a lot of property<br />
of his own, because when his wife Catharina Blankenauffull<strong>and</strong><br />
died, he married again to an Oelgeschlager<br />
<strong>and</strong> became Colon (Farmer) Oelgeschlager.<br />
I found Christopher’s death record under Christoph<br />
Joan vor der Bruggen, Kolon Oelgeschlager. 4<br />
This has repercussions for those interested in Y-<br />
DNA studies using German surnames, as male descendants<br />
of the surname Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong> would<br />
match some Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong>s, but not all of them,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Joann vor der Brueggens, but not all of them.<br />
If Christoph had children with his last wife, males<br />
might also match some Oelgeschlagers. A further<br />
complication is we don’t know if the Joan Vor Der<br />
Brueggen surname was that of Christoph’s father or<br />
if it was his mother’s birth name. It depends who<br />
brought the farm to the marriage.<br />
Protestant Records<br />
So far, the records I’ve discussed have been Catholic<br />
(Katholisch) records. The Protestant or Evangelisch<br />
or Lutheran records are also good. However, at least<br />
in the Westphalian parishes I investigated, they were<br />
not as complete as the Catholic ones.<br />
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When Friedricke Beckord married Johann Heinrich<br />
Ruschkamp in the Wiedenbrueck Catholic parish, it<br />
shows that the parents of Friederike Beckord, were<br />
Fritz Beckord <strong>and</strong> his wife Catharina. 5 Fritz Beckord<br />
was employed as a Court Messenger “Kreisbote” in<br />
Wiedenbrueck. I could not find her parents further<br />
back in these records, nor could I find a christening<br />
record for Friedricke. However, I found the christening<br />
record for Friedricke’s brother Johann Reinhard<br />
Beckord. His christening record stated the same parents,<br />
<strong>and</strong> that indeed, the Fritz Beckord was a Kreisbote<br />
or court runner. It also stated that the “Vater ist<br />
Evangelisch!” So, I turned to the Evangelisch church<br />
records for the town of Wiedenbrueck <strong>and</strong> found the<br />
christening record for Friedricke, another sister, <strong>and</strong><br />
the records for her parents.<br />
Kresibote Fritz Beckord’s 1797 christening record<br />
in the Protestant records showed his father was<br />
Niklaus Beckord. 6 I found Nicolaus Beckord marrying<br />
a Marg. Els. Weimans on the 15th November<br />
1794. 7 This record simply gave their names <strong>and</strong> the<br />
date, without all the information on parents, residence,<br />
occupation, etc. This makes it more difficult to<br />
sort out who is who, <strong>and</strong> it’s again very important to<br />
note to ensure your dates make sense, <strong>and</strong> keep track<br />
of the sponsors. Because the Weimans <strong>and</strong> Weggemans<br />
name appears on several other records for the<br />
Beckord family, this marriage looks likely.<br />
I then found a 1766 christening record for Nikolaus<br />
Beckord—the right period to be married in the<br />
1790s—<strong>and</strong> Nikolaus’s father was listed as Eberd<br />
(which is short for Eberhard). This was in 1766. 8<br />
Because these records don’t have as much information,<br />
it’s a bit harder to follow. I found several christening<br />
records that looked like siblings. I found a<br />
marriage record for a Johann Eberd Beckord who<br />
married Anna Margr. Elsabe Kleikamp in September<br />
1764. These are probably Nikolas’s parents, but<br />
without the mother’s name on the christening record,<br />
I can’t be sure yet. Because Nicholas named his first<br />
son Johann Evert Beckord, I do think this will turn<br />
out to be the right couple (Evart is yet another variant<br />
of Eberd or Eberhard).<br />
What does all this mean for the researcher Eventually,<br />
you will need to branch out to probate records,<br />
civil registrations <strong>and</strong> other documents, including<br />
farm histories (a record that shows a chain of l<strong>and</strong><br />
ownership), to ensure that your parish research is<br />
sound.<br />
Still, you will do well in the German parish records,<br />
which are relatively easy to use, although<br />
hard to read. With the aid of a German <strong>and</strong> Latin<br />
dictionary, you will go back to around 1800 with<br />
relative ease. In many cases, you will reach the 1700s<br />
with persistence <strong>and</strong> an open mind. In the parishes<br />
I’ve researched, the earliest records (around 1800<br />
<strong>and</strong> before) are not indexed <strong>and</strong> are extremely hard<br />
to read. The absence of an index for these early records<br />
makes it difficult to progress—although<br />
you can make<br />
educated guesses as to which<br />
years to check. In sum, if you<br />
know where your German ancestor<br />
was from <strong>and</strong> if the parish<br />
records have been filmed by the<br />
LDS church, you will add many<br />
generations to your family tree.<br />
Endnotes<br />
1 FHL 1185458, Katholische Kirche Verl, Taufen 1663-1765, 1783-<br />
1788, 1801-1821.<br />
2 FHL 1185459, Katholische Kirche Verl, Taufen 1820-1848 Heiraten<br />
1826-1859 Tote 1822-1836.<br />
3 FHL 1185458, Katholische Kirche Verl, Heiraten 1663-1726, 1801-<br />
1826.<br />
4 FHL 1185224, Katholische Kirche Neukaunitz, Heiraten 1820-1859<br />
Tote 1820-1855 Taufen 1832-1844.<br />
5 FHL 1185222, Katholische Kirche Sankt Aegidius, Wiedenbrueck,<br />
Taufen 1830-1866 Heiraten 1843-1874 Tote.<br />
6 FHL 582300, Evangelische Kirche, Guetersloh, Taufen 1791-1810<br />
Tote, Trauungen 1802-1811, p. 100, record 90.<br />
7 FHL 582299, Evangelische Kirche, Guetersloh, Taufen 1754-1791<br />
Tote 1741-1801 Trauungen 1754-1801.<br />
8 Ibid.<br />
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Relatively Speaking INTRIGUING, FUNNY, AND EVENTFUL INCIDENTS<br />
The<br />
Duffields<br />
I became interested in genealogy in 2001, when my<br />
great-uncle William Walker died at the age of 92. He<br />
did not have any children <strong>and</strong> my mother went to<br />
his home <strong>and</strong> grabbed the old photo albums. There<br />
were three old albums. I knew who the people in one<br />
of the albums were, but there were many people I<br />
couldn’t identify.<br />
I had always been interested in genealogy even<br />
as a kid. I remember asking my gr<strong>and</strong>mother about<br />
genealogy in the 1970s <strong>and</strong> she told me about her<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>father. I had always remembered his name as<br />
Newton Duffield (1852-1921). She had told me he was<br />
very loving <strong>and</strong> was always there for her. I knew that<br />
my great-gr<strong>and</strong>parents were William Walker (1871-<br />
1944) <strong>and</strong> Gertrude Duffield (1883-1972). I could pick<br />
out their photos <strong>and</strong> such. I began to look through<br />
the photos <strong>and</strong> found that some of the photos were<br />
identified, including some of Newton. I also had an<br />
identified photo of his wife Elizabeth Ellen Curry<br />
(1858-1898). I began to look online for information<br />
<strong>and</strong> soon found the parents, gr<strong>and</strong>parents <strong>and</strong> greatgr<strong>and</strong>parents<br />
of both Newton<br />
<strong>and</strong> Elizabeth. I would have to<br />
verify the information, but I<br />
definitely had a start <strong>and</strong> was<br />
getting hooked. I didn’t think it<br />
would become a passion.<br />
I posted some photos on the<br />
USGENWEB website of the<br />
Duffield <strong>Family</strong> on the Pocahontas<br />
County website. There<br />
were a couple photographs<br />
that I decided were key photographs.<br />
There was a photo<br />
taken of Newton <strong>and</strong> his children<br />
between 1899 <strong>and</strong> 1904 in<br />
front of their home. There was<br />
also a photo of a large group<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ing in front of a “sugar<br />
camp.” My great-gr<strong>and</strong>mother<br />
<strong>and</strong> some of her siblings were<br />
identified. I wanted to know<br />
who all the adults were. I knew<br />
that John R. Duffield could not<br />
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The Newton Duffield family in front of their home<br />
in Pocahontas County—taken about 1900. This<br />
was also the home of Newton’s gr<strong>and</strong>father<br />
Abram who fought in the Revolutionary War.<br />
be in the photo since my great-gr<strong>and</strong>mother looked<br />
about age 10-12 dating the photo 1893-1896. I could<br />
pick out Newton <strong>and</strong> Elizabeth <strong>and</strong> some of their<br />
children. The next day I received an e-mail from a<br />
woman in Pocahontas County stating that he had<br />
a letter written by Newton’s mother Rebecca Sharp<br />
Duffield. She asked whether I would like a copy. I, of<br />
course, answered yes <strong>and</strong> received a copy a couple<br />
days later. This gave me more insight into the family.<br />
The letter let me know that Hamilton, Sarah Jane,<br />
<strong>and</strong> McKendrey had gone to the West. The letter also<br />
made it clear that Hamilton Duffield was fighting in<br />
the Civil War.<br />
The Duffield sugar camp in Pocahontas County, WV about 1893. The adults, left<br />
to right starting with the old woman in the hat are: Rebecca Sharp Duffield (1814-<br />
1894), Nancy Duffield Ratliff (1857-1940), Newton Duffield (1852-1921), Elizabeth<br />
Curry Duffield (1858-1898) <strong>and</strong> John Marcellus Ratliff (1845-1893). The man<br />
kneeling in front is thought to be Civil War veteran Henry Duffield (1841-1903).<br />
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Early on, I posted some queries<br />
about the Duffield family. I<br />
found out that there was a book<br />
written in 1901 about the history<br />
of Pocahontas County. In this<br />
book, Abram Duffield (Newton’s<br />
Revolutionary War veteran gr<strong>and</strong>father)<br />
<strong>and</strong> John R. Duffield were<br />
discussed. The book stated that<br />
Newton’s parents were John R.<br />
Duffield (1801-1885) <strong>and</strong> Rebecca<br />
Sharp (1814-1894), who lived in<br />
Pocahontas County, West Virginia.<br />
The children of John R. <strong>and</strong><br />
Rebecca were: Hamilton (1837-<br />
after 1860), Sarah Jane Duffield<br />
Moore (1839-1879), Henry Wesley<br />
(1842-1903), Andrew (1844-1846), Robert McKendrey<br />
(1847-1922), John Emory (1849-1916), Newton (1852-<br />
1921) <strong>and</strong> Nancy Ellen Duffield Ratliff (1857-1943).<br />
I also learned from this book that Newton lived in<br />
the home that Abram had lived in. Wow, my Newton<br />
Duffield family photo had picked up historical significance.<br />
Not only had my 2nd-great gr<strong>and</strong>fathers<br />
lived there, my 4th-great gr<strong>and</strong>father, who was a<br />
Revolutionary War veteran, had lived there.<br />
I was soon contacted by a man in Colorado who<br />
saw one of my postings (I live in Ohio). He was a<br />
great-gr<strong>and</strong>son of McKendrey Duffield. He knew<br />
about the life <strong>and</strong> times of their great-gr<strong>and</strong>father<br />
Robert McKendrey Duffield <strong>and</strong> his brother John<br />
Emory Duffield <strong>and</strong> sent me some information. I<br />
sent them information about Newton <strong>and</strong> his family.<br />
They told me that they were going to make a trip<br />
to Pocahontas County. I decided<br />
to meet them there. Over the past<br />
couple years we have met there<br />
three times. We have found many<br />
historical findings. We have found<br />
where the home in the photograph<br />
stood <strong>and</strong> we know where the<br />
sugar camp stood. We also have<br />
found the trace in the creek where<br />
John R. Duffield’s grist mill stood.<br />
Parts of the mill were moved to<br />
Babcock State Park in West Virginia<br />
<strong>and</strong> still st<strong>and</strong>. The church<br />
(built 1835) <strong>and</strong> school (built in the<br />
1860s) these people used are still<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ing today. They contacted<br />
some of their relatives <strong>and</strong> found<br />
a young photo of Robert McKendrey.<br />
It turns out that he died a<br />
terrible death getting run over by<br />
his stagecoach, crushing his skull.<br />
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I also found out that Robert used<br />
his brother John as his banker.<br />
When John died, Robert took all<br />
his money out of the bank <strong>and</strong><br />
buried it on his l<strong>and</strong>. This money<br />
was wiped away in a flood.<br />
I found a website for John Leslie<br />
Moore a couple of years ago. He<br />
was a great-gr<strong>and</strong>son of Sarah Jane<br />
Duffield Moore <strong>and</strong> had a photo of<br />
her. He told me that he also had a<br />
photo of John Emory Duffield. It<br />
took me some time to get a copy<br />
of this photo. John died a couple<br />
of years ago <strong>and</strong> his son sent me<br />
McKendrey Duffield a copy of the photo. John Leslie<br />
Moore told me that his family had<br />
passed down information that Hamilton Duffield<br />
had died of fever in Kansas in the 1860s.<br />
Next, I was contacted by a great-great-gr<strong>and</strong>daughter<br />
of Nancy Ellen Duffield Ratliff. This person<br />
had a good deal of family information <strong>and</strong> had two<br />
photos of her (young <strong>and</strong> old). I knew that Nancy<br />
had come to Ohio with Newton in 1918. They were<br />
two of the three that stayed in West Virginia into the<br />
20th century, the other being Henry Wesley Duffield.<br />
The young photo of Nancy helped to identify one of<br />
the adults in the “sugar camp” photo. I knew that her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>, John Marcellus Ratliff, died in late 1893.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> information stated he was very tall. Perhaps<br />
he was the tall man in the “sugar camp” photo. This<br />
person had a crucial piece of paper in their belongings<br />
stating birth <strong>and</strong> death dates of many members<br />
of the John R. Duffield family. It gave me several<br />
Sarah Jane Duffield (1839-1879)<br />
John Emory Duffield<br />
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Andrew, son of Abram Duffield<br />
(Revolutionary War Veteran). I’m<br />
not sure if it is a post-mortem.<br />
pieces of data that I didn’t have including Rebecca’s<br />
birth <strong>and</strong> death date, birth <strong>and</strong> death dates for Andrew<br />
Duffield, the middle name of Newton, <strong>and</strong><br />
the birth date of Hamilton Duffield. Andrew Duffield<br />
was written about in the history of Pocahontas<br />
County. His death is chronicled by his strangling<br />
in a crupper, as his mother sat nearby. I was sure<br />
that Nancy Ellen had to write this piece of paper, as<br />
only she would have known the information stated<br />
in it.<br />
Next, I sent away for the Civil War records of<br />
Henry Wesley Duffield. This information gave me<br />
information about Henry, including the fact that he<br />
had been hurt by a boulder while building a well.<br />
The bone was never set correctly <strong>and</strong> it led to problems<br />
throughout his life. I did learn that he died<br />
in 1903 in Pocahontas County. This led me to the<br />
fact that Henry, Newton, <strong>and</strong> Nancy were the only<br />
children of John R. Duffield that could have been<br />
in the “sugar camp” photo. Hamilton, Andrew, <strong>and</strong><br />
Sarah Jane were dead by the 1890s. John Emory was<br />
living in Iowa <strong>and</strong> Robert McKendrey was living in<br />
Colorado.<br />
I knew the “sugar camp” photo had Newton,<br />
Elizabeth, <strong>and</strong> Nancy Ellen. I was going to have to<br />
make assumptions that I will never be able to prove.<br />
I knew that Nancy’s husb<strong>and</strong> died in 1893 <strong>and</strong> knew<br />
he was tall. I assumed that the tall man was John<br />
Marcellus Ratliff. I figured that the old lady in the<br />
hat could indeed be Rebecca Sharp Duffield. I knew<br />
she lived until November, 1894. This person was<br />
definitely an older woman (at least one generation<br />
Nancy Ellen Duffield<br />
Ratliff (1857-1940)<br />
older than everyone else in the<br />
photo). The only other adult was<br />
the man in the front. I knew that in<br />
the 1890s Henry Wesley Duffield<br />
was mostly crippled. Maybe that<br />
is why this man is not st<strong>and</strong>ing. If<br />
this was a family photo (most of<br />
Newton’s <strong>and</strong> Nancy Ellen’s children<br />
are in the photo), then Henry<br />
Wesley would have been in the<br />
photo. This is another point that<br />
cannot be proven, but I think the<br />
odds are greater than 50 percent<br />
that it is him.<br />
At this point, I didn’t think<br />
that any other photos could be located.<br />
I received an e-mail from a<br />
man stating he was a descendant<br />
of Andrew Duffield (1803-1883),<br />
a brother of John R. Duffield. A<br />
photo of Andrew was attached.<br />
I cannot tell if it was taken while<br />
Andrew was alive or if the photo<br />
was a post-mortem. I did know that Andrew was one<br />
of three children. His brother, William, had died in<br />
1842 when a tree fell on him.<br />
The family story does not end there. I had always<br />
wondered about the death of Abram Duffield. I<br />
knew from his Revolutionary War pension that he<br />
was born in 1763. The Internet stated that he died<br />
in 1835 when his federal pension ended. I never believed<br />
this. In 1835, Abram moved from Nicholas<br />
County, Virginia to Pocahontas County. I think that<br />
the government could not find him <strong>and</strong> assumed<br />
he had died <strong>and</strong> ended his pension. There is more<br />
evidence to support this. Abram was listed on the<br />
tax records in Pocahontas County from 1835 to 1840.<br />
He is also listed in the 1840 census in Pocahontas<br />
County. There is no way that he could have died<br />
in 1835. As I said earlier, the history of Pocahontas<br />
County talks about a sermon given at Abram’s home<br />
when the author was a child. The author of the book<br />
was born in 1830 <strong>and</strong> would have only had been<br />
five when Abram died, if he had died in 1835. I did<br />
not think anyone could remember an entire sermon<br />
from when they were five years old.<br />
The home in the Newton Duffield family photo<br />
was burned down in the 1930s. However, the location<br />
is known. This home was only about 100 yards<br />
from the Duffield family cemetery. When the WPA<br />
did an inventory of the cemetery during the FDR<br />
administration, there was a stone st<strong>and</strong>ing that read<br />
A. D. 11/13/1842.<br />
This is the earliest stone in the inventory of the<br />
cemetery at that time. The stone is not st<strong>and</strong>ing now.<br />
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John R. (1801-1885) <strong>and</strong> Rebecca<br />
Sharp Duffield (1815-1894)<br />
It has been surmised that since Abram’s home stood<br />
so close to the cemetery <strong>and</strong> the rest of his family is<br />
buried there, that this stone st<strong>and</strong>s for Abram Duffield<br />
11/13/1842. We know he was alive in 1840. This<br />
was brought to the attention of the Sons of the American<br />
Revolution. In June of 2008, there was a Revolutionary<br />
War ceremony for Abraham Duffield (father<br />
of John R. <strong>and</strong> gr<strong>and</strong>father of the rest of the people in<br />
the story) in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Since<br />
I knew many people from around the country were<br />
coming in from around the country, I wrote a letter<br />
to a family member I always believed had possible<br />
family photos of John R. Duffield (1801-1885) <strong>and</strong> his<br />
wife Rebecca Sharp Duffield (1815-1894). I had been<br />
trying to meet with her for about four years to no<br />
avail. Her great-gr<strong>and</strong>mother (Nancy Ellen Duffield<br />
Ratliff) was living with Rebecca when she died in<br />
1894, so I figured anything that Rebecca had would<br />
have gone to her when she died. Nancy Ellen died<br />
in Warren County, Ohio in 1940 <strong>and</strong> only had three<br />
living children at that time, a son in Pennsylvania<br />
<strong>and</strong> two sons living in the county where Nancy Ellen<br />
lived. One of those sons, Clinton, did not have<br />
any children so I ruled him out. The other son, Celvin,<br />
had two children (one who died with no children)<br />
<strong>and</strong> the other was the mother of the person I<br />
A photo of a young Rebecca<br />
(possibly her wedding photo from 1835).<br />
contacted. This woman’s mother died after a couple<br />
of years living with her, so I figured she might have<br />
some family items.<br />
A week after writing the letter <strong>and</strong> a week before<br />
the ceremony in West Virginia, I again called the<br />
woman <strong>and</strong> she agreed to meet if I showed up at her<br />
work. I agreed <strong>and</strong> went to meet her. She hugged<br />
me <strong>and</strong> took me out to her car. She told me I could<br />
have the photos since I was family <strong>and</strong> would care<br />
about them more than she did <strong>and</strong> I was more than<br />
happy to oblige. Many of the photos were turn of<br />
the century photos. There were three prominent<br />
h<strong>and</strong>-drawn 16” x 20” photos. One I quickly recognized<br />
as a young Nancy Ellen in the 1870s. The<br />
second <strong>and</strong> third I believe are her parents, John<br />
R. (1801-1885) <strong>and</strong> Rebecca Sharp Duffield (1815-<br />
1894), who I had always dreamed of their photos. I<br />
took copies of the photos to the ceremony in West<br />
Virginia the very next week for all the relatives. It<br />
was a wonderful ceremony. After all these years, we<br />
finally obtained photos of John <strong>and</strong> Rebecca <strong>and</strong> it<br />
was the same week as the ceremony. Coincidence,<br />
I think not!<br />
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Honey’s Mishap<br />
Esther Luek with Honey<br />
By Ka g a n Ho f f m a n<br />
T<br />
There on Greensprings Avenue,<br />
In a house not quite new,<br />
Lived a girl of five,<br />
Whose poor rag doll took a dive.<br />
It was a day<br />
That bullies came to play.<br />
They took her doll<br />
And ran away.<br />
To the outhouse<br />
Is where they ran.<br />
The little rag doll<br />
Tight in their h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Into the waste they threw her so fast.<br />
The little girl cried<br />
While they stood <strong>and</strong> laughed.<br />
Into the house she ran for her mom<br />
Who tried to keep the little girl calm.<br />
Out she came with a great big stick<br />
And she fished the rag doll out of the pit.<br />
Kagan Hoffman is 13 years old <strong>and</strong> completed this poem<br />
as an English assignment in 8th grade at New Windsor<br />
Middle School, New Windsor, Maryl<strong>and</strong>. He enjoys<br />
lacrosse <strong>and</strong> video games. His mother, a family historian,<br />
has gotten him interested in his family roots as well.<br />
Into the wash water<br />
The little doll went<br />
And so far away the bullies were sent.<br />
My great gr<strong>and</strong>ma didn’t think it was funny<br />
What those bullies did to Honey.<br />
She told this story until she was eighty-nine.<br />
Now with this poem, I’ve made it rhyme.<br />
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A Visit to Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
By Ru t h Kn u d s o n<br />
Stumbling up the depot steps of my first British town,<br />
<strong>and</strong> bewildered at being hustled out of there because<br />
the letter “r” pronounced me a foreigner (probably<br />
Irish!), possibly concealing in all that untidy luggage a<br />
hostile bomb, I first visited this l<strong>and</strong> of my forefathers<br />
in May of 1976. Sixty-one years old, five foot two, with<br />
gray eyes <strong>and</strong> hair, I was ready to rent a small car,<br />
then explore obscure spots from which ancestors had<br />
sent Lesans, Thompsons, <strong>and</strong> Winslows—as well as<br />
those named Allen, Andrews, Chilton, Dunlop, Grey,<br />
Houghton, Mason, Morse, Packard, Potter, Taylor,<br />
Van Swearingen, <strong>and</strong> Webster, to America.<br />
Night was falling. Taxis waited. One young man<br />
smiled a welcome at me <strong>and</strong> began carefully packing<br />
the bags into his vehicle. His mother helped me register<br />
at the hotel where she clerked. His father had written<br />
a genealogical history of their town. Tomorrow<br />
this young man would drive me up to Samlesbury,<br />
home of the Southworths <strong>and</strong> a Houghton bride.<br />
In 1623, Edward Southworth’s widow was about<br />
to sail to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to wed her old<br />
sweetheart, William Bradford. Fifteen years before,<br />
her father, Alex<strong>and</strong>er Carpenter of Wrington, Somerset,<br />
had refused to let her marry the awkward young<br />
Bradford; after all, Alice’s ancestors had been members<br />
of Parliament for three centuries, back when<br />
taxes were levied to hold off Robert Bruce! And there<br />
was a great-uncle who was still called the most famous<br />
town clerk of London…<br />
Alice left her little boys with her spinster sister<br />
in Somerset <strong>and</strong> met William,<br />
now governor of Plymouth,<br />
with delight.<br />
I had flown from Chicago<br />
over Ontario, enjoying follow<br />
passengers whose speech had<br />
the same Yorkshire ring as I hear<br />
in the greetings of many Iowa<br />
neighbors with British gr<strong>and</strong>fathers.<br />
We flew south. Someone<br />
pointed out, beyond Lamish<br />
Bay, the crumbling walls where<br />
my Hamilton ancestors once<br />
lived. Around here, my teenage<br />
“pirate” ancestor, Allan<br />
Dunlop, had gathered up the<br />
wild pals that helped him kidnap<br />
the crew of the Perundiall,<br />
dump them along the coast, <strong>and</strong><br />
go skylarking around the Isle of Arran, gulping down<br />
the contents of the ship’s wine bunkers. Then they<br />
gave the ship back to its chilled crew. Allan married<br />
a Montgomery <strong>and</strong> moved on to more excitement in<br />
the furious Irish uprisings; his son died in Sligo <strong>and</strong><br />
now we are tracing our Irish ancestors.<br />
From Banbury Cross, where all the Sunday bells<br />
were pealing, which in my day had to suffer bombing<br />
so that Winston Churchill’s breaking of the German<br />
Codes could be kept secret, where in ancient times<br />
some VIP’s wife rode naked through the streets as<br />
told in nursery rhymes, I asked the way to Sulgrave<br />
<strong>and</strong> went hunting Leeson l<strong>and</strong>.<br />
I found the parchment, a deed drawn up in 1610,<br />
generations after the manor foundation had disappeared,<br />
but before the l<strong>and</strong>lords razed their English<br />
village of 30 houses to enter the booming market<br />
with a sheep pasture. There the Thames <strong>and</strong> Tims<br />
families still mourned for old neighbors turned penniless<br />
onto the road. They asked me back to tea <strong>and</strong><br />
listened to what happened to a few refugees who<br />
made their way to America.<br />
Elington Manor, long owned by the Stoteburys,<br />
was by 1610 the home of the last Stotesbury <strong>and</strong> her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>, Robert Leeson. The long-forgotten castle<br />
of the Elingtons must have disintegrated in Norman<br />
times. The parchment deed I found surrendered l<strong>and</strong><br />
to Lawrence Makepeace. His gr<strong>and</strong>mother was Mrs.<br />
Lawrence Washington. Sulgrave Manor is now maintained<br />
by the Colonial Dames of America.<br />
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Ancesto Sto ies for the Soul STORIES FROM FAMILY HISTORY WORK<br />
The Quest<br />
For John<br />
Summers<br />
By Pet e r Su m m e r s<br />
There he was, staring out of the photograph at me…<br />
so formal, stiff, posed, <strong>and</strong> proud in his blue uniform<br />
of the Union Army. I was looking at John Summers,<br />
my great-gr<strong>and</strong>uncle, born in 1844 <strong>and</strong> killed on 22<br />
May 1863 at the battle of Vicksburg.<br />
Many of us have ancestors who fought in the Civil<br />
War, so I am certainly not unique in that. But like all<br />
events in genealogy, it seems, when you find one of<br />
YOUR ancestors who was involved in that event, it<br />
is special regardless of how many others have, over<br />
time, made similar discoveries.<br />
The Civil War was a textbook event for me: a<br />
“head” event rather than a “gut” event, an intellectual<br />
event rather than an emotional one. I had read<br />
about it, studied it even, in school, but never really<br />
felt personally connected to it. That is, until I discovered<br />
John, my very first ancestor who fought <strong>and</strong> died<br />
in it. That discovery started me on a years-long quest<br />
to gather information about him <strong>and</strong> fill in missing<br />
facts. I certainly am mindful that the “discoveries” I<br />
made during my search were monumental as far as<br />
I was concerned, but no more significant or validating<br />
than those many of you have experienced if you<br />
have undertaken similar <strong>and</strong> ultimately successful<br />
searches. Written here are parts of my adventure I<br />
would like to share with you, parts of which may<br />
even be helpful if you are on a similar quest. This is<br />
how mine went.<br />
How It Started<br />
In the mid-1970s I inherited a box of “stuff” that<br />
my aunt had collected, which included photos <strong>and</strong><br />
family notes. Nestled in those was some sketchy information<br />
about John Summers, who, according to<br />
family lore, was killed during the Civil War. I was<br />
not especially interested in genealogy then; in fact<br />
the subject had not even seriously crossed my mind.<br />
I kept the box, but paid little attention to it. I was in<br />
the military at the time <strong>and</strong> moved frequently. I saw<br />
that box only when I moved <strong>and</strong> had to account for<br />
it in my household goods.<br />
But regardless of my inattention to family history<br />
then, I like to believe that the few scraps of information<br />
I had about John <strong>and</strong> his death during that<br />
defining period in our history was what ultimately<br />
brought about my interest in genealogy in general<br />
<strong>and</strong> in my ancestors in particular.<br />
How It Continued (the Early Years)<br />
It was several years before I dove into the box of<br />
“stuff” to explore John. I was able to discern that he<br />
lived in Wisconsin just before the War (thanks to Census<br />
documents), <strong>and</strong> that he did not show up again<br />
in the Census after the War. This led credence to the<br />
belief that he was, indeed, killed during the War.<br />
My sister about this time, now early 2001, discovered<br />
she had a picture of John. She sent it to me, <strong>and</strong><br />
there he was, looking out at me <strong>and</strong> appearing as I<br />
have described above. The existence of a photograph<br />
raised my interest <strong>and</strong> curiosity considerably. My<br />
sister also sent me some information a genealogist<br />
friend of hers found that identified his unit, <strong>and</strong> on<br />
a parallel track, I got the same information independently<br />
from a publication titled Roster of Wisconsin<br />
Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. That source<br />
also said “killed in action, May 22, ’63, Vicksburg,<br />
Miss.” And another source told me he enlisted as a<br />
private on 20 January 1862 in Company A of the 14th<br />
Infantry Regiment. I also saw where he had been in<br />
seven engagements counting the one in which he<br />
was killed.<br />
The more information I got, the more interested<br />
I became. And, although a tenuous link, I had seen<br />
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combat as an infantryman, as had John. I felt a bond<br />
forming between us as so often occurs between soldiers.<br />
Corny as it may sound, it was very real to me.<br />
And this is the point at which I thought the information<br />
stopped. I assumed that he became one of the<br />
approximately 300,000 Civil War dead whose bodies<br />
were placed in various national cemeteries after the<br />
War, 54 percent of which are listed as “Unknown.” I<br />
assumed that John was one of these Unknowns.<br />
How It Continued (the Later Years)<br />
Time passed <strong>and</strong> then it was late in 2003. I was attending<br />
a computer special interest group (called a<br />
“SIG” by those in the computer world). This particular<br />
group focused on using the Internet for genealogy.<br />
The leader proved himself as helpful as he was<br />
knowledgeable. When I mentioned my ancestor John<br />
<strong>and</strong> Vicksburg, he set off to find if he was buried<br />
there. We discovered that some cemeteries are administered<br />
by Veteran’s Affairs, <strong>and</strong> some fall under the<br />
National Park Service. The latter has responsibility<br />
for the National Cemetery at Vicksburg because the<br />
site is classified as a National Military Park.<br />
After some searching around on the Internet, we<br />
found the information we were looking for: a grave<br />
number for John. I was flabbergasted! There was yet<br />
more to the quest than I had imagined! And little did<br />
I know at that time how exceptional it was for the<br />
specific location of John’s grave to be known. That<br />
was truly the exception rather than the rule at Vicksburg.<br />
I vowed to go there.<br />
How it Ended (Vicksburg)<br />
It was now the summer of the next year, 2004. My<br />
wife <strong>and</strong> I were taking a trip<br />
through the Midwest <strong>and</strong> on the<br />
way back home to Florida made<br />
good on my vow: we stopped at<br />
Vicksburg with the intent of finding<br />
John’s grave.<br />
A short history of the battle of<br />
Vicksburg may be of value here.<br />
It was a siege, actually, that lasted<br />
47 days (from late May to early<br />
July of 1863), <strong>and</strong> was punctuated<br />
with nearly constant fights <strong>and</strong><br />
skirmishes between the Union<br />
<strong>and</strong> Rebel forces. Based on John’s<br />
date of death, it was one of these<br />
Union assaults during which he<br />
was killed.<br />
The Military Park itself surrounds<br />
the city of Vicksburg,<br />
much as the Union forces did in<br />
the summer of 1863. One end of<br />
the park is anchored on the Mississippi River south<br />
of the city. It runs east <strong>and</strong> north in almost a perfect<br />
semicircle to terminate at the river north of the city.<br />
A one-way road follows the outside of that semicircle<br />
from south to north past the location of the Union<br />
forces, <strong>and</strong> then doubles back concentrically on the<br />
inside of the semicircle to trace the locations of the<br />
Confederate forces.<br />
The terrain is rough, following high bluffs above<br />
the city, <strong>and</strong> is cut by severe gorges caused by drainage<br />
to the river below. That terrain is cut again by the<br />
remnants of trenches <strong>and</strong> barriers erected for protection,<br />
assault, <strong>and</strong> defense. To the casual observer<br />
the ground today is simply rough <strong>and</strong> wooded <strong>and</strong><br />
beautiful; to the person with some military experience,<br />
the importance of terrain to tactics <strong>and</strong> strategy<br />
is undeniable. One can see why the siege lasted as<br />
long as it did; how the ground favors defense; how<br />
the Union troops had to fight the rugged terrain as<br />
well as the Confederate defenders.<br />
A tape is available to guide the visitor along the<br />
park road <strong>and</strong> explain the events that occurred there.<br />
Should you visit the battlefield, I highly recommend<br />
the tape. It takes you beyond the simple but undeniable<br />
beauty of the park to the human struggle that<br />
took place. It makes the ground “come alive” as it<br />
describes various clashes <strong>and</strong> feats of heroism <strong>and</strong><br />
futility alike.<br />
Each state with sons who fought there has erected<br />
a monument to them. There are large state monuments,<br />
some actually entire buildings, as well as<br />
smaller markers to show where individual units<br />
were located in the line. All told, there are over 1300<br />
historic monuments <strong>and</strong> markers.<br />
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Of course I was on the lookout for the Wisconsin<br />
monument <strong>and</strong> the marker for John’s unit. And<br />
there they were! The Wisconsin monument was huge,<br />
towering hundreds of feet high, <strong>and</strong> it listed all of<br />
the soldiers in all of the units from that state who<br />
fought there. John’s name was among them, listed<br />
with Company A of the 14th Infantry Regiment.<br />
I can recall, even now, the eerie feeling I had<br />
as I looked at his name there among those of his<br />
comrades. The quest that began at some low level<br />
of interest nearly 30 years prior was now building<br />
to a crescendo that caused me to feel excited, nervous,<br />
<strong>and</strong> also filled with awe <strong>and</strong> respect. Seeing<br />
his name there caused me to feel connected to that<br />
historic place <strong>and</strong> time in a way I never thought<br />
possible.<br />
One half mile further on I found the marker that<br />
represented his unit’s place in the Union line. It was<br />
approximately here, in an assault on 22 May 1863,<br />
that my great-gr<strong>and</strong>uncle was killed.<br />
How it Ended (The Cemetery)<br />
The National Cemetery is at the northern end of the<br />
park on a high bluff overlooking the river, <strong>and</strong> at the<br />
place where the park road leaves the Union lines <strong>and</strong><br />
doubles back to follow the Confederate positions. It is<br />
a large, tiered plot of ground that covers 116 acres.<br />
To appreciate the cemetery, one has to know some<br />
of its history. It is the final resting place of some<br />
17,000 Union soldiers. This is the largest number of<br />
Union burials among all of the national cemeteries.<br />
(The Confederate dead are buried in cemeteries in the<br />
city itself, or removed to other locations closer to the<br />
soldier’s homes.) The Cemetery was not established<br />
<strong>and</strong> made available for burials until 1866, three years<br />
after the action at Vicksburg. All during the Civil War,<br />
hasty burials were made near the places where battles<br />
were fought. At the end of the War, those soldiers<br />
were re-interred at national cemeteries.<br />
Most of the soldiers buried at Vicksburg came<br />
from temporary burial sites in Arkansas, Louisiana,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Mississippi. Record keeping was not at its best<br />
during wartime <strong>and</strong> grave locations were often lost,<br />
<strong>and</strong> compounding that, the identities of those whose<br />
bodies were fortunate enough to be recovered were<br />
also often lost. In the south during the campaign<br />
for control of the Mississippi River there was even<br />
a further compounding problem: the River would<br />
periodically overflow its banks <strong>and</strong> wash the hastily<br />
dug graves away. It was often simply unidentified<br />
piles of bones that were collected <strong>and</strong> buried at the<br />
national cemetery.<br />
At Vicksburg, 75 percent of the dead are unidentified:<br />
almost 13,000 graves. I was suddenly very<br />
thankful for the twists of fate that caused John’s<br />
grave to be among the known. Those that are unknown<br />
are marked with small rectangular blocks<br />
of stone while the graves of those whose name is<br />
known have traditional tablet-like headstones. It is<br />
tremendously sobering to look over the cemetery<br />
<strong>and</strong> see so few headstones. I could only imagine the<br />
anguish of the families of those fallen soldiers, families<br />
who never had the closure brought by burying<br />
their loved ones, or of even knowing for sure where<br />
their graves were located.<br />
But John was among the known dead. This was<br />
probably due to the fact that he was killed at Vicksburg<br />
itself, ground controlled by a Union victory,<br />
<strong>and</strong> ground high above the river <strong>and</strong> thus protected<br />
from it.<br />
The rangers at the visitor’s center were helpful<br />
in locating his grave. I had the number on the<br />
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headstone from the Internet searches, <strong>and</strong> they had<br />
its general location on a map. It took only about 15<br />
minutes of w<strong>and</strong>ering the appropriate portion of the<br />
cemetery to find the marker. His grave was one of<br />
the few in that part of the cemetery that actually had<br />
a tablet headstone; most of those around him were<br />
the small, square blocks of the unknowns.<br />
The marker was a simple one: it stated just his<br />
name <strong>and</strong> his state. But I was satisfied. I was so<br />
happy to have found his grave that I was not concerned<br />
about what the headstone did or did not say.<br />
As far as I know, I was the only member of his family,<br />
extended or otherwise, to have visited his grave. I<br />
felt tremendous satisfaction st<strong>and</strong>ing there, satisfaction<br />
in ending a quest that was, for me, 30 years in<br />
the making, <strong>and</strong> for John a full 140 years. I felt the<br />
satisfaction of connecting with my family in general<br />
<strong>and</strong> John in particular; I felt the satisfaction of<br />
a soldier connecting with another soldier who had<br />
made the ultimate sacrifice. And I also felt satisfaction<br />
at making a personal connection to one of the<br />
defining periods <strong>and</strong> events in our nation’s history.<br />
The Civil War was now more real to me than ever<br />
before: it had moved from my head to my gut, from<br />
my mind to my heart.<br />
Afterthought<br />
My interest in the genealogical world has grown over<br />
the years that this search for John was conducted.<br />
My database of ancestors <strong>and</strong> offspring has grown to<br />
just short of 8000 names. My list of research contacts,<br />
many of whom I now count as family, <strong>and</strong> even more<br />
I now number as friends, has also grown, to my great<br />
joy. And at the heart of it all, at its center, is this one<br />
quest…is my great-gr<strong>and</strong>uncle… John Summers.<br />
Peter Summers is a graduate<br />
of West Point (Class of 1967)<br />
<strong>and</strong> after more than 20 years<br />
in the Service, is currently<br />
teaching at the University of<br />
South Florida in Tampa. He also<br />
teaches many genealogy- <strong>and</strong><br />
computer-related classes, <strong>and</strong><br />
was recently honored by being<br />
elected the president of the Pinellas<br />
Genealogy Society of Pinellas County, Florida. He<br />
has been working on his genealogy since 1972.<br />
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Breaking Through SUCCESS STORIES WITH "BRICK WALL" SOLUTIONS<br />
The Man Who<br />
Would be Found<br />
By Na n c y Ro n n i ng<br />
It was about a week after he died in 1969, that I went<br />
to my father’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York to<br />
clear out his things. Because of a family situation I<br />
really didn’t know him very well, <strong>and</strong> I knew little<br />
about his family, except that his mother’s family had<br />
come from Kildare in Irel<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> that her maiden<br />
name was Kelly. But there, in that top, right h<strong>and</strong><br />
drawer of his chest on chest dresser, I found two<br />
things. I found a ladies’ pocket watch, <strong>and</strong> the Civil<br />
War discharge of Anson Kelly, private in the 17th<br />
New York Regiment, born in Dublin, Irel<strong>and</strong>. Anson<br />
Kelly was my father’s mother’s father—my greatgr<strong>and</strong>father.<br />
Life intervened. I married, had children, they grew<br />
up <strong>and</strong> I grew older. Anson Kelly remained in the<br />
background until a high school assignment brought<br />
a question from my elder daughter. “I have to write<br />
about an ancestor for <strong>History</strong> class,” she said. The<br />
paper was due at the end of the semester. I quickly<br />
wrote to the National Archives for Anson Kelly’s<br />
military records <strong>and</strong> found that he had enlisted in<br />
New York as a drummer boy after being rejected<br />
in New Jersey “on account of my youth.” He fought<br />
in the stalled Peninsular Campaign, <strong>and</strong> was shipped<br />
to David’s Isl<strong>and</strong> to recuperate from illness due to<br />
exposure during the long rain filled days <strong>and</strong> nights<br />
on the muddy ground of tidal Virginia. The paper<br />
got an A-, <strong>and</strong> more years passed. Anson Kelly was<br />
shelved, if not forgotten.<br />
When my daughter <strong>and</strong> her sister were both in<br />
college <strong>and</strong> I was left with only the family dog, Anson<br />
Kelly surfaced in my consciousness. Perhaps he<br />
wanted to be found!<br />
I began to look into genealogy, took a beginner’s<br />
course, <strong>and</strong> joined the NYG&B. I found Anson Kelly<br />
in the census at the New York Public Library (no Ancestry<br />
at that time) <strong>and</strong> at NARA in New York City.<br />
I am ashamed to admit it, but it was at that time that<br />
I really read <strong>and</strong> reread every word of the pension<br />
file, <strong>and</strong> finally, in 1998, sent to Trenton, New Jersey<br />
for Anson’s death certificate. His cause of death was<br />
blocked out (as per New Jersey regulations), but his<br />
place of burial in Camden, New Jersey, was clearly<br />
listed as Saint Patrick’s Cemetery.<br />
By now, it was the age of the Internet, <strong>and</strong> I looked<br />
for Saint Patrick’s Cemetery on the net. Nothing! How<br />
Anson Kelly’s Civil War Service Discharge<br />
could a cemetery in a major city be missing I joined<br />
a New Jersey listserve <strong>and</strong> repeatedly asked for the<br />
location of Saint Patrick’s. Nothing. Until one day I<br />
received a response that explained that Saint Patrick’s<br />
originally had been located behind the Cathedral in<br />
Camden, but in order to make room for a new building,<br />
all the bodies were moved to Calvary Cemetery<br />
in Cherry Hill.<br />
In the best tradition of the “Genealogy Road Trip,”<br />
I packed the camera <strong>and</strong> headed for Cherry Hill. The<br />
woman in the cemetery office was very kind, but<br />
“No, there is no record of an Anson Kelly.” Unwilling<br />
to get right back in the car, I roamed around for<br />
a while <strong>and</strong> was about to leave when two cemetery<br />
workers passed by <strong>and</strong> asked what I was looking for.<br />
When I replied that I was looking for Anson Kelly,<br />
but he was not buried there, one of them replied,<br />
“Sure he is. I put a flag on his grave every Memorial<br />
Day. The VFW people won’t do it because the Civil<br />
War wasn’t a foreign war. But I don’t think that’s<br />
right, so I do it.” I was amazed. How did he know<br />
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Anson Kelly’s headstone<br />
so much about Anson Kelly He led me to a beautiful<br />
headstone, engraved with shamrocks <strong>and</strong> bearing<br />
the regiment number <strong>and</strong> the names of children<br />
buried with him.<br />
How could this not have been in the records<br />
The worker said that he had some old books from<br />
the transported graves, <strong>and</strong> we checked, but Anson<br />
Kelly’s name was not in that book either. There is<br />
absolutely no record of Anson in any cemetery. And<br />
I found him. Perhaps he wanted to be found.<br />
From his pension record <strong>and</strong> census I really knew<br />
a great deal about Anson Kelly—his children’s<br />
names, his many ailments, his widow’s petitions.<br />
The New Jersey Historical Society provided sparse<br />
obituaries from the Camden Telegraph <strong>and</strong> the Review.<br />
Both gave the date, his address, <strong>and</strong> said “suddenly.”<br />
It was time to move on, <strong>and</strong> I moved my investigations<br />
to his ancestors from Kildare. I was pretty<br />
much finished with Anson—or so I thought. That<br />
changed one day in 2007 when the Reference Librarian<br />
from the Ridgewood Public Library announced<br />
at the monthly meeting of the GSBC that she had a<br />
trial subscription to NewsBank, a database that has<br />
backfiles of many newspapers.<br />
I sat down <strong>and</strong> typed in “Anson Kelly,” a great<br />
name for searches because it is so unusual. Up<br />
popped two hits, both from February 2, 1898, with<br />
headlines which began “Smothered in Mud “(The<br />
Philadelphia Inquirer), <strong>and</strong> “Found Suffocated in<br />
Anson Kelly’s death—from The Philadelphia Inquirer<br />
newspaper. From Early American Newspapers,<br />
an Archive of Americana Collection,<br />
published by Readex (Readex.com) a division of<br />
Newsbank, <strong>and</strong> in cooperation with the American<br />
Antiquarian Society. Used by Permission.<br />
Mud” (Daily State Gazette). The long headlines of The<br />
Inquirer continued “Sick Man Met Death in a Camden<br />
Swamp” followed by “Anson H. Kelly W<strong>and</strong>ered<br />
From Home While Suffering From Grip. Dog Found<br />
the Body.” A man walking his dog reported that the<br />
dog had run off <strong>and</strong> returned with a man’s hat in<br />
his mouth. Upon investigation the man found the<br />
body of Anson Kelly, face down in the mud. “Suddenly!”<br />
The article described Kelly as a night shift<br />
employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad whose job<br />
was to supervise the floats used in transporting<br />
freight cars between Camden <strong>and</strong> Philadelphia. Poor<br />
soul! Amazing that the dog found him! Amazing<br />
that I found this when I had thought my newspaper<br />
research finished with his obituary. Perhaps he just<br />
wanted to be found.<br />
Once again, I was finished with my Anson Kelly<br />
research, <strong>and</strong> headed off on a TIARA trip to Dublin<br />
to research his ancestors. I was in the National<br />
1969 Discharge Found<br />
1991 Military Records Requested<br />
1998 Death Certificate Requested<br />
2000 Gravestone Located<br />
2007 Cause of Death Discovered<br />
2008 Baptismal Certificate Discovered<br />
2008 Twin’s Existence Revealed<br />
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Archives of Irel<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> having no luck finding<br />
any of the wills that appeared so tantalizingly in<br />
indexes, so I waited my turn <strong>and</strong> had a consultation<br />
with one of the wonderful Irish Genealogy experts<br />
who are there for all the patrons. She was so<br />
kind. She did a quick family tree, <strong>and</strong> I mentioned<br />
Anson’s name as my direct link with the Kellys of<br />
Kildare. She assured me that there were no wills<br />
left, <strong>and</strong> I thanked her, <strong>and</strong> returned to the main<br />
room. Not five minutes later she appeared behind<br />
me, exclaiming that she had found Anson’s Baptismal<br />
certificate. We rushed back to her office, <strong>and</strong> she<br />
showed me the entry in Irish Origins. She couldn’t<br />
pull up the entire entry, but if I went online <strong>and</strong> paid<br />
five Euro, I could get it. I just about ran across town,<br />
headed to the hotel basement, put my two Euros into<br />
the slot for my minutes of computer use, my credit<br />
card number into Irish Origins, <strong>and</strong> there it was<br />
“Baptized on September 20, 1844… twin brother of<br />
Thomas Gifford.” Twin Twin! Thirty-nine years after<br />
I found his discharge, I found his Baptismal certificate<br />
<strong>and</strong> his twin brother. Anson really wanted<br />
to be found.<br />
There is one last odd thing about the revealing<br />
of Anson Kelly. Recalling the blank in the “cause of<br />
Death” space on the New Jersey death certificate,<br />
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in Trenton, I got the index for Camden, for<br />
1898, <strong>and</strong> confidently scrolled to where Anson’s certificate<br />
number must be. Nothing! “Can’t be. It must<br />
be here!” Nothing! I checked the year before <strong>and</strong><br />
the year after. Nothing! I approached the research<br />
assistant, told her that I must be ‘microfilm mad,’<br />
<strong>and</strong> asked her to find the certificate in the index. She<br />
could not. This made no sense. I had a copy of the<br />
certificate at home. I had gotten it by mail from Trenton<br />
seven years before. This was getting surreal.<br />
Determined, I ab<strong>and</strong>oned the index, went to the<br />
drawer, <strong>and</strong> pulled the reel of certificates where I<br />
hoped Anson’s might be, <strong>and</strong> started going through<br />
them, one by one. It didn’t take long. There it was.<br />
Cause of death, exposure. I again called my helpful<br />
assistant to show her what I had found. She was<br />
amazed, rechecked the index, <strong>and</strong> found nothing.<br />
How the original researcher ever found it remains a<br />
mystery. He or she must have gone beyond the index<br />
<strong>and</strong> searched the same way that I did. How wonderful<br />
<strong>and</strong> diligent a public servant! Without that certificate<br />
I would never have known the name of the first,<br />
long gone cemetery, <strong>and</strong> so the second, etc. Perhaps<br />
the lesson in all of this is that indexes are imperfect;<br />
perhaps it is that the books should never be closed;<br />
perhaps that vital records don’t tell the whole story.<br />
Or perhaps it says that Anson Kelly was just a man<br />
who would be found. I wonder if twin Thomas Gifford<br />
Kelly is also such a man.<br />
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Society High ight SOCIETIES IN THE NEWS<br />
O<br />
Saving<br />
Elmwood<br />
Cemetery<br />
By Cu r t i s Wo l b e r t<br />
On 4 October 2008, six members of the Otoe County<br />
Genealogical Society met at the Elmwood Cemetery<br />
in Nebraska City, Nebraska to try <strong>and</strong> save what remained<br />
of the 152 year-old cemetery. The cemetery,<br />
once a burial ground for some of Nebraska City’s<br />
founding settlers, is now all but forgotten, except for<br />
the one lone gravestone that remains st<strong>and</strong>ing on the<br />
remote hill in the northwest part of town.<br />
The cemetery, started in 1856 with the burial<br />
of William J. Anderson, a child who died some 18<br />
months before the founding of Nebraska City, fell<br />
victim to Nebraska’s growth <strong>and</strong> prosperity in the<br />
late 1880s. In 1886, the southern half of the cemetery<br />
lay in the path of the Missouri Pacific railroad’s rightof-way,<br />
<strong>and</strong> those bodies that lay in the path were<br />
exhumed <strong>and</strong> relocated to Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska<br />
City. The bodies buried to the north of the<br />
tracks were left in place, soon to be forgotten by the<br />
town they helped establish.<br />
Discovered back in June by Otoe County Genealogical<br />
Society president, Curtis Wolbert, <strong>and</strong> vice<br />
president, Linda Worrall, they found that the only<br />
stone left st<strong>and</strong>ing in this ab<strong>and</strong>oned cemetery was<br />
that of Joseph M. Tolle, buried there in 1883. All of<br />
the other stones had either fallen over, were buried<br />
below the fertile soil, or were shattered by years of<br />
neglect. Given the fact that the cemetery holds some<br />
of Otoe County’s <strong>and</strong> Nebraska City’s founding settlers,<br />
made it imperative that the society restore <strong>and</strong><br />
preserve what remained of this historical cemetery.<br />
Society members Curtis Wolbert, Linda Worrall,<br />
Linda Sedlacek, Kay Busekist, Duane Arends, <strong>and</strong><br />
Cyndi Wolbert, began work on the cemetery in the<br />
early morning hours, clearing out the tall grass that<br />
had literally swallowed up the fallen gravestones<br />
there. Armed with pitchforks <strong>and</strong> shovels, the members<br />
then began searching for fallen stones, <strong>and</strong> any<br />
clue that might assist them in locating where these<br />
‘forgotten settlers’ might have been laid to rest.<br />
Society members were ultimately able to locate<br />
<strong>and</strong> re-erect the gravestone of Elizabeth Snowden,<br />
33 year-old mother, buried beside her two infant<br />
Cleaning Up Elmwood Cemetery, Nebraska City, Nebraska<br />
children, Maggie Belle; age one year, <strong>and</strong> her tenday<br />
old son, Ensign. The fallen stone of 8-month old<br />
Samuel F. Tolle, son of J.W. Tolle, was also located <strong>and</strong><br />
re-erected in its rightful place, beside his father, J.W.<br />
Tolle. In addition, the gravestone of Union Civil War<br />
veteran, William T. Hughs, killed in action on 25 January<br />
1863, was found buried some two inches below<br />
the fertile farm soil. Hughs’ stone, though cracked in<br />
several places, was preserved by the members <strong>and</strong><br />
will be erected at a later date. The area around the<br />
cemetery was roped off to try <strong>and</strong> preserve the ab<strong>and</strong>oned<br />
cemetery.<br />
Future efforts by the society will include a fund<br />
drive to try <strong>and</strong> erect a chain-link fence <strong>and</strong> gate<br />
around the cemetery, <strong>and</strong> also repair the gravestones<br />
that have broken throughout the years. The society<br />
will also be contacting the Sons of the Union Veterans<br />
of the Civil War (SUVCW) <strong>and</strong> Department of Veteran<br />
Affairs to try <strong>and</strong> obtain a GAR marker for Hughs.<br />
Curt Wolbert, Duane Arends, Linda Sedlacek,<br />
Linda Worrall, <strong>and</strong> Kay Busekist<br />
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Beginner’s Corne BASIC HELP TO GET YOU OFF TO A QUICK START<br />
Military Records:<br />
Follow-Up & Trivia<br />
ABy Do n n a Po t t e r Ph i l l i p s<br />
As a follow-up to my article in the Sep-Oct 2008 issue<br />
(“Women’s Roles in U.S. Military <strong>History</strong>”) I heard<br />
from two very enthusiastic researchers.<br />
Mary Louise Jesek Daley emailed that “my husb<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> I belong to an organization called Society for<br />
Women <strong>and</strong> the Civil War. The mission of this group is<br />
to promote the research <strong>and</strong> education about women’s<br />
roles during the Civil War. Our membership includes<br />
authors, independent <strong>and</strong> affiliated researchers,<br />
scholars of all disciplines, genealogists, archivists,<br />
museum professionals, librarians, students, historians,<br />
teachers, re-enactors, <strong>and</strong> living historians. We<br />
discuss <strong>and</strong> research <strong>and</strong> present information on topics<br />
relative to the study of women <strong>and</strong> the Civil War.<br />
For more information, go to our website, www.swcw.<br />
org. Here you will find resources <strong>and</strong> books available<br />
to continue any personal research <strong>and</strong> discover some<br />
really neat roles that women took on themselves to<br />
the credit of their gender.”<br />
Mary Louise went on to explain, “Before 10-12<br />
years ago, women’s history <strong>and</strong> especially the role<br />
of women during the American Civil War, was very<br />
seldom discussed. Yet, contemporary accounts tout<br />
the energy, help, <strong>and</strong> guidance of women during the<br />
Civil War period in a variety of roles that they chose<br />
to undertake. Today there is so much scholarship<br />
coming out of many sources, many of them unlikely<br />
<strong>and</strong> nontraditional sources. Men <strong>and</strong> women are<br />
finding their own ancestor’s involvement, writing<br />
about this <strong>and</strong> sharing that information.”<br />
Thanks, Mary Louise, for the follow-up <strong>and</strong> for the<br />
website where we can learn more.<br />
Another follow-up was shared with me by Nancy<br />
Leathers, a long-time friend in Pullman, Washington<br />
(75 miles south of Spokane). Nancy told me of a<br />
favorite book, All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of<br />
the Civil War, by Elizabeth D. Leonard. The jacket of<br />
this book states: “These are the fascinating stories of<br />
the women who worked as spies, as daughter of the<br />
regiments, or, disguised as male soldiers to play their<br />
heroic part in the Civil War. Historian Elizabeth D.<br />
Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, <strong>and</strong> histories<br />
to unearth the stories of the hidden <strong>and</strong> forgotten<br />
women who risked their lives for the blue or gray.”<br />
This book was published in 1999, is 368 pages in<br />
length, <strong>and</strong> has 65 pages of footnotes <strong>and</strong> 17 pages of<br />
bibliography. I did a search for it at www.abebooks.<br />
com <strong>and</strong> found that I could order a copy for under<br />
$5.00. Just might do that!<br />
Now for some “military trivia.”<br />
Did you realize that there is military information contained<br />
in the U.S. Federal Census records Pulling the<br />
following from a h<strong>and</strong>out by Miriam Robbins Midkiff<br />
here in Spokane, I share a list of possibilities with you:<br />
• 1840 census—lists Revolutionary War pensioners<br />
<strong>and</strong> their widows.<br />
• 1890 census (remnants) —asked whether was a<br />
Union or Confederate soldier, sailor or marine, or<br />
widow of such a person.<br />
• 1890 Union Veterans Schedule—lists Union veter-<br />
ans <strong>and</strong> their widows.<br />
• 1900—first census to list active-duty personnel.<br />
• 1910—lists military <strong>and</strong> naval personnel in the Philippines,<br />
in hospitals, aboard ships <strong>and</strong> at stations.<br />
• 1920—lists overseas military <strong>and</strong> naval population.<br />
• 1930—lists whether a person was a veteran <strong>and</strong><br />
from which war or expedition.<br />
Miriam’s h<strong>and</strong>out mentions other, lesser-known<br />
State Censuses that contain military information:<br />
• 1777 Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong> Military Census—all males<br />
over age 16 able to bear arms.<br />
• 1863 Georgia Military Census—all males, including<br />
children; included name <strong>and</strong> age, indicated whether<br />
they owned a rifle, shotgun, horse <strong>and</strong> tack.<br />
• 1885 Dakota Territory Veterans Census—name of<br />
veteran, whether Union or Confederate service<br />
<strong>and</strong> Civil War state.<br />
• 1907 Alabama Confederate Veterans Census—all<br />
persons in Alabama receiving a pension for Confederate<br />
service.<br />
• 1911 Arkansas Confederate Veterans Census—lists<br />
several points of identification for veterans.<br />
• 1917 Connecticut State Military Preparedness<br />
Census—lists all males <strong>and</strong> all nurses; lists several<br />
points of identification.<br />
• 1921 Alabama Confederate Veterans Census—<br />
taken by mail; original forms available at the Alabama<br />
Department of Archives <strong>and</strong> <strong>History</strong>.<br />
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Civil War were read in the House of Representatives<br />
by Joseph G. Cannon <strong>and</strong> are as follows:<br />
• Those 10 years <strong>and</strong> under—25<br />
• Those 11 years <strong>and</strong> under—38<br />
• Those 12 years <strong>and</strong> under—225<br />
• Those 13 years <strong>and</strong> under—300<br />
• Those 14 years <strong>and</strong> under—1523<br />
• Those 15 years <strong>and</strong> under—104,987<br />
• Those 16 years <strong>and</strong> under—231,051<br />
• Those 17 years <strong>and</strong> under—844,891<br />
• Those 18 years <strong>and</strong> under—1,151,438<br />
The article continued:<br />
• Those 21 years <strong>and</strong> under—2,159,789<br />
• Those 22 years <strong>and</strong> over—618,511<br />
• Those 25 years <strong>and</strong> over—46,626<br />
Boy Soldier of the Civil War<br />
• 1935 <strong>and</strong> 1945 South Dakota State Censuses—<br />
information collected on index cards <strong>and</strong> houses<br />
at the State Historical Society in Pierre, SD; being<br />
indexed by <strong>Family</strong>Search.<br />
You might have to do a bit of research to access<br />
these various censuses, but if you are facing a brick<br />
wall with your military-serving ancestor, the task<br />
might be worthwhile. For more information, check<br />
out Dollarhide’s Census Substitutes <strong>and</strong> State Census<br />
Records, Volumes 1 & 2 for even more censuses with<br />
military information, as well as data detailing where<br />
to locate <strong>and</strong> access them. See: www.familyrootspublishing.com.<br />
Here is even more interesting trivia:<br />
According to an article in the Colville Examiner, Colville,<br />
Stevens County, Washington, for October 19, 1918, the<br />
Civil War fighters were mostly boys. “Surprise is often<br />
expressed that there are so many veterans of the Civil<br />
War still living. The fact is that the war was fought,<br />
at least on the northern side, by boys. Of the 2,159,798<br />
enlisted there wee only 46,626 who were over 25 years<br />
old. The official figures of the age at enlistment in the<br />
“It will be noticed from this statement that<br />
the greatest number of enlistments were of boys<br />
18 <strong>and</strong> under. In a great number of cases these<br />
boys became officers before they were 20, some<br />
of them even reaching the rank of captain. The<br />
methods of war have so changed that in future<br />
armies there must be a far greater portion of<br />
mature men. There must be a large number who<br />
can h<strong>and</strong>le the intricate, complex, <strong>and</strong> deathdealing<br />
machinery <strong>and</strong> engines of destruction.<br />
But as far as the Civil War was concerned, the<br />
fighting was done by boys. And there are still<br />
400,000 of them alive.” (Remember, this newspaper<br />
article was dated October 1918, so 400,000<br />
veterans were alive in 1918.)<br />
Keeping the statistics chronicled in this newspaper<br />
article, to know that so many different census<br />
records have information on these veterans takes on<br />
a newer <strong>and</strong> bigger importance.<br />
Good luck finding information on your patriotic<br />
ancestor of any gender <strong>and</strong> of any age.<br />
Donna Potter Phillips writes from<br />
Spokane where she is an avid reader,<br />
gardener, birdwatcher, traveler, <strong>and</strong><br />
gr<strong>and</strong>mother of eight. She is active<br />
in her state <strong>and</strong> local societies,<br />
<strong>and</strong> is a Past President of Eastern<br />
Washington Genealogical Society<br />
(EWGS) <strong>and</strong> Past Vice-President<br />
of WSGS. Since 1985 she has<br />
written for newspaper genealogy<br />
columns, family newsletters, <strong>and</strong> magazines—the<br />
Genealogical Helper, Heritage Quest Magazine,<br />
Ancestry, <strong>Family</strong> Chronicle, Internet Genealogy <strong>and</strong><br />
Genealogy Bulletin; as well as assisting with he Salt<br />
Lake Christmas Tour to the <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library.<br />
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The Next Generation A COLUMN FOR KIDS<br />
By Sta r r Ha i l e y Ca m pbe ll<br />
One of the most interesting <strong>and</strong> addicting parts of<br />
genealogy or family history is visiting the cemetery.<br />
Some people wonder about our seemingly weird obsession<br />
with cemeteries. It is the final resting place<br />
of your ancestor. If you think about the funerals <strong>and</strong><br />
burials you have attended, think about the people<br />
that would have attended your ancestor’s burial.<br />
When I look at my gr<strong>and</strong>father’s grave, I know that<br />
my gr<strong>and</strong>mother stood there with her children. I<br />
never saw my gr<strong>and</strong>mother st<strong>and</strong>. She was crippled<br />
with arthritis by the time I was born.<br />
My nephew is one of the very few family members<br />
that still live in the little town in Kansas where my<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>parents lived. When he goes to the cemetery, he<br />
can feel closer to his great gr<strong>and</strong>parents <strong>and</strong> it gives<br />
him <strong>and</strong> opportunity to tell his children about their<br />
2nd great gr<strong>and</strong>parents.<br />
There may be other family buried next to, or in<br />
the same cemetery as your ancestor. My gr<strong>and</strong>father,<br />
gr<strong>and</strong>mother, aunt, <strong>and</strong> father are all buried in the<br />
same cemetery, but for various reasons are not next to<br />
one another. Sometimes there is a family relationship<br />
listed on a headstone. Sometimes you will find a married<br />
or maiden name on a headstone. Sometimes there<br />
are entire sections in a cemetery devoted to a family.<br />
Sometimes there are markers on or by a headstone<br />
that can lead us other places for more genealogical<br />
information. When I saw my 2nd great gr<strong>and</strong>father’s<br />
headstone, there was a marker next to it with the letters<br />
“GAR.” It didn’t take me long to find out that<br />
stood for Gr<strong>and</strong> Army of the Republic, an organization<br />
that was for Union veterans of the Civil War.<br />
Knowing that, I was able to find his Civil War pension<br />
records <strong>and</strong> therefore find out a lot more information<br />
on him <strong>and</strong> his children, <strong>and</strong> siblings. Most<br />
wars have some information on the men <strong>and</strong> women<br />
who served in those wars.<br />
Other symbols on or near a headstone also tell of<br />
membership in different organizations, such as the<br />
Elks, Freemasons, Modern Woodman of America,<br />
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Odd Fellows, Knights of Columbus, <strong>and</strong> Veterans<br />
of Foreign Wars. Some of these organizations might<br />
have information on your ancestor.<br />
Modern Woodmen of America was founded in<br />
1883 by Joseph Cullen Root in Lyons, Illinois. It is a<br />
fraternal organization that offers life insurance, <strong>and</strong><br />
other services. Up until the mid 1970s they offered<br />
a small grave marker. The grave markers were 7.5<br />
by 20 inches, made of solid aluminum <strong>and</strong> designed<br />
so that a small American flag could be inserted <strong>and</strong><br />
held by two loops on the back of the marker. While<br />
the tree stump monument or headstone was popular,<br />
the society itself did not provide them or any monetary<br />
assistance for them. For more information go<br />
to: www.modern-woodmen.org.<br />
Joseph Cullen Root also founded Woodmen of the<br />
World in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1890. It provided life<br />
insurance <strong>and</strong> other services.<br />
One of the most enduring physical legacies of<br />
the organization may be the number of distinctive<br />
headstones erected in the shape of a tree stump.<br />
This was an early benefit of Woodmen of the World<br />
membership, <strong>and</strong> the headstones can be found in<br />
cemeteries across the nation. This program was<br />
ab<strong>and</strong>oned in the 1920s as being too expensive. See:<br />
www.woodmen.org.<br />
Founded in about 1868, the Benevolent <strong>and</strong> Protective<br />
Order of Elks or more commonly just the<br />
ELKS lodge, is a fraternal organization. The ELKS<br />
organization strives to serve the<br />
communities in which there are<br />
lodges. See: www.elks.org.<br />
Freemasonry is the oldest <strong>and</strong><br />
largest worldwide fraternity. Freemasonry<br />
has developed into a<br />
worldwide fraternity emphasizing<br />
personal study, self-improvement,<br />
<strong>and</strong> social betterment via individual<br />
involvement <strong>and</strong> philanthropy.<br />
See: www.msana.com <strong>and</strong> www.<br />
freemasonry.org.<br />
The Order of Knights of Pythias<br />
is an international, non-sectarian<br />
fraternal order, established in<br />
1864 in Washington, D.C., by Justus<br />
H. Rathbone <strong>and</strong> was the first<br />
fraternal order to be chartered by<br />
an Act of Congress. See: www.<br />
pythias.org.<br />
The Veterans of Foreign Wars<br />
(VFW) traces its roots back to 1899<br />
when veterans of the Spanish-<br />
American War (1898) <strong>and</strong> the Philippine<br />
Insurrection (1899-1902)<br />
founded local organizations to<br />
secure rights <strong>and</strong> benefits for their service. Many arrived<br />
home wounded or sick. There was no medical<br />
care or veterans’ pension for them, <strong>and</strong> they were left<br />
to care for themselves. In their misery, some of these<br />
veterans b<strong>and</strong>ed together <strong>and</strong> formed organizations<br />
with what would become known as the Veterans of<br />
Foreign Wars of the United States. After chapters<br />
were formed in Ohio, Colorado <strong>and</strong> Pennsylvania,<br />
the movement quickly gained momentum. By 1915,<br />
membership grew to 5,000; by 1936, membership was<br />
almost 200,000.<br />
You can also find grave markers that say Ladies<br />
Auxiliary VFW. Its members are<br />
• Wives<br />
• Widows<br />
• Mothers<br />
• Foster <strong>and</strong> stepmothers (who have performed<br />
the duties of parent)<br />
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• Gr<strong>and</strong>mothers<br />
• Daughters<br />
• Gr<strong>and</strong>daughters<br />
• Foster <strong>and</strong> stepdaughters (who attained that<br />
status prior to the age of 16 <strong>and</strong> for whom the<br />
duties of parent were performed)<br />
• Sisters, half sisters, foster, <strong>and</strong> stepsisters (who<br />
attained that status prior to age 16)<br />
...of persons who were or are eligible for membership<br />
in the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United<br />
States. Members must be citizens of the United States<br />
<strong>and</strong> at least 16 years old. See: www.vfw.org <strong>and</strong><br />
www.ladiesauxvfw.org.<br />
There are several different types of cemeteries.<br />
They are:<br />
Church Burial Yard—These were the first cemeteries<br />
in our country. In Europe, the elite were buried<br />
under the church’s stone floor. Since these cemeteries<br />
are affiliated with a church, the church will often<br />
have burial records.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Burial Plots—These are on private property<br />
<strong>and</strong> may be difficult to locate. Many genealogical<br />
societies have knowledge of these cemeteries. Also,<br />
check on USGenWeb.org for possible locations. One<br />
of my family’s cemeteries is in the middle of a pasture.<br />
Before you make a run to the gate, you need to<br />
check to be sure where the bull is! There very often<br />
are no records of burials in these cemeteries in anything<br />
other than an obituary or family Bible.<br />
Country Cemetery—These are the cemeteries you<br />
see on the highways of America. They often contain<br />
mail order <strong>and</strong> homemade stones. A lot of my family<br />
is buried in country cemeteries.<br />
Elite Garden—The garden type cemetery began in<br />
the early 1800s. Mt Auburn in Massachusetts was the<br />
first. These cemeteries have a park-like atmosphere.<br />
They have paths <strong>and</strong> benches, ponds <strong>and</strong> foliage. They<br />
were the place where people picnicked, <strong>and</strong> took their<br />
Sunday strolls before Public Parks were made.<br />
Ordinary Urban Cemetery—These might look<br />
like “stone yards.” They have rows <strong>and</strong> rows of<br />
tombstones with straight paths <strong>and</strong> very little foliage.<br />
They are usually found in the middle of cities.<br />
These usually will have a sexton’s office that holds<br />
the records.<br />
Veterans’ Cemetery—These are for the honorably<br />
discharged <strong>and</strong> their families. Arlington is the most<br />
well-known. Not all military cemeteries are National<br />
Veterans Cemeteries. There are also State Veteran<br />
Cemeteries.<br />
For more information, check out the Department<br />
of Veterans Affairs National Cemeteries at ht t p://<br />
www.cem.va.gov. The VA’s National Cemetery Administration<br />
maintains 125 national cemeteries in<br />
39 states (<strong>and</strong> Puerto Rico) as well as 33 soldiers’ lots<br />
<strong>and</strong> monument sites.<br />
For burial locations of veterans <strong>and</strong> their family<br />
members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans’<br />
cemeteries, various other military <strong>and</strong> Department<br />
of Interior cemeteries, <strong>and</strong> for veterans buried in<br />
private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a<br />
government grave marker, go to http://gravelocator.<br />
cem.va.gov.<br />
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Memorial Park—These are flat<br />
grassy lawns with barely visible<br />
evidence that people are buried<br />
there. The tombstones are flat <strong>and</strong><br />
flush with the ground. These too,<br />
will often have an office where records<br />
of burials are kept.<br />
Potter’s Field—Where the unknown<br />
or the unwanted are buried.<br />
The probable origin of the<br />
term “Potter’s Field” as meaning<br />
a public burial place for poor<br />
<strong>and</strong> unknown persons is a passage<br />
from the Gospel of St. Matthew<br />
(27:3-8): “Then Judas, which<br />
had betrayed Him, saw that he was<br />
condemned, repented himself, <strong>and</strong><br />
brought again the thirty pieces of silver<br />
to the chief priests ... <strong>and</strong> they took<br />
counsel, <strong>and</strong> bought with them the potter’s field to bury<br />
strangers in.”<br />
Take the time to check out the composition of the<br />
stone. A marble or granite stone with a very early<br />
date on it probably was not the original headstone.<br />
Know the history of the cemetery you are searching.<br />
If the first burial was in 1880 <strong>and</strong> your ancestor<br />
died in 1870 they probably aren’t going to be buried<br />
there.<br />
Be sure as you are researching in cemeteries that<br />
you are very careful. Old stones will break easily<br />
<strong>and</strong> need to be cared for. Rubbing headstones<br />
is against the law in some states. You will need to<br />
check this out. While it is true that shaving cream<br />
will make a headstone easier to read, it is also true<br />
that the emollients in the shaving cream will get<br />
into the pores of a headstone, no matter how well<br />
you wash it, <strong>and</strong> may accelerate the deterioration of<br />
the headstone. A good source of information is The<br />
Association of Gravestone Studies at http://www.<br />
gravestonestudies.org.<br />
The symbolism on the headstones can be very interesting<br />
<strong>and</strong> very beautiful. Following are several<br />
recommended websites:<br />
• Symbols Found On Gravestones: www.michiganparanormalencounters.com/gravestone<br />
symbols.htm<br />
• Meaning of Gravestone Symbols: http://www.<br />
browncountytexasgenealogy.com<br />
• The Cemetery Club: http://www.thecemeteryclub.com<br />
• Gravestone Art: http://www.gravestoneart.com<br />
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Today’s symbolism is very different from the<br />
past. While lamb, baby shoes, <strong>and</strong> other things were<br />
used to represent a child’s death in the past, today<br />
you will find four wheelers <strong>and</strong> Scooby Doo on children’s<br />
headstones. Today it is more common to use<br />
symbols on headstones to represent a person’s life<br />
or their hobbies.<br />
Also remember that the ground in a cemetery can<br />
be very uneven, even if it well cared for <strong>and</strong> covered<br />
with beautiful grass. Be very careful of old graves as<br />
they can collapse <strong>and</strong> leave you somewhere you are<br />
not ready to be!<br />
Last but not least, be sure to always have your cemetery<br />
kit with you. Happy hunting!<br />
The Sharon DeBartolo<br />
Carmack Cemetery Kit<br />
Taken from Cryptic Clues in the Bone Yard, by permission<br />
of the author (to be used with parental supervision<br />
if necessary)<br />
1. Brightly colored tote bag—easy to spot when you<br />
go off <strong>and</strong> leave it at a grave.<br />
2. Carpenter’s apron—you can put all your cemetery<br />
tools in it so you don’t have to carry the tote bag<br />
around the cemetery<br />
3. Bug Spray—Off Yardguard is good “The true cologne<br />
of a genealogist”<br />
Connie Casilear Mitchell<br />
Genealogical Records Researcher<br />
Lower Shen<strong>and</strong>oah Valley/VA./WV<br />
163 Stuart Drive, Winchester, VA 22602<br />
dmitchellkids@aol.com • 540-667-4444<br />
Published Hampshire <strong>and</strong> Hardy County, WV records<br />
4. Sun Screen—Always remember to practice “safe<br />
sun”<br />
5. Wet Wipes—You will be getting down <strong>and</strong> dirty<br />
6. Knee pads—Gardener’s knee pads or just a patio<br />
chair pad will work fine<br />
7. Garden Shears—You may need to clip away some<br />
grass or weeds<br />
8. Whisk Broom—For cleaning off the grass<br />
clippings<br />
9. Paper Towels<br />
10. Spray Bottle—filled with “ WATER ONLY”<br />
11. Soft nylon bristle brush or nylon pot scrubber—<br />
For cleaning off the headstone if needed<br />
12. Rags<br />
13. Camera<br />
14. Film<br />
15. Sidewalk Chalk WHITE ONLY—To chalk the<br />
Headstone for a better photo<br />
16. Non Fusible Interfacing—For making a rubbing<br />
17. Crayons or Rubbing wax—For making a<br />
rubbing<br />
18. Masking Tape—For holding the fabric on to the<br />
Headstone to make a rubbing<br />
19. Scissors—For cutting the fabric<br />
20. Sun Reflector—the silver kind for your car<br />
windshield<br />
21. Garbage Bags<br />
Starr Hailey Campbell is a<br />
past director for the Federation<br />
of Genealogical Societies,<br />
Administrative Assistant for the<br />
Utah Genealogical Association<br />
2001-2005, Program Chair for the<br />
UGA 2003 Conference, Chair of<br />
UGA 2004 Conference, Assistant<br />
Director of Salt Lake Institute of<br />
Genealogy 2003 & 2004, National Publication Chair<br />
for FGS 2004 & 2005 conferences, Program Chair<br />
FGS 2005, <strong>and</strong> a speaker at national, regional, <strong>and</strong><br />
local conferences <strong>and</strong> family history fairs. Chair of<br />
FGS’s youth committee, founder of FGS’s Youth award,<br />
Recipient of FGS’s George E Williams award 2004<br />
<strong>and</strong> the FGS President’s Citation 2005. She has been<br />
instrumental in the creation of 2001-2005 Resolution<br />
from the Salt Lake County Council in support of<br />
October has <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> month, Director of the<br />
Magna, Utah East Stake <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Center,<br />
member of the Magna Town Council, President<br />
of the Magna Arts Council <strong>and</strong> Board Member of<br />
the Oquirrh Hills Performing Arts Alliance. She is<br />
the author of Youth in <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong>, <strong>and</strong> the<br />
children’s genealogy series “The Adventures of<br />
James.” A two-time breast cancer survivor, she is<br />
also the mother of three <strong>and</strong> gr<strong>and</strong>mother of four.<br />
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News to Peruse NEWS BRIEFS FOR GENEALOGISTS<br />
This section of the Genealogical Helper is meant to keep<br />
our readers up to date on the latest news affecting the genealogical<br />
community. It is drawn from numerous resources,<br />
not the least of which is Everton’s own Genealogy Blog<br />
(www.genealogyblog.com). We scan papers, newsletters<br />
<strong>and</strong> websites looking for information. We also invite our<br />
readers to submit news releases, announcements, calls for<br />
papers, awards, records releases, records closures, exhibits,<br />
discoveries, <strong>and</strong> so forth. Submit items for this section to:<br />
lel<strong>and</strong>@everton.com, putting “News to Peruse” in the Subject<br />
Heading. All submissions are subject to editing.<br />
Co m p il e d by Le l a n d K. Mei tz ler<br />
Gulf Coast State Histories Slated<br />
for Online Access—Houston<br />
Public Library Joins <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
in Digitization Effort<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah, June 24, 2008—Thous<strong>and</strong>s of<br />
publications that capture the diverse histories of<br />
Gulf Coast states will be accessible for free online.<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search <strong>and</strong> the Houston Public Library announced<br />
a joint project today to digitally preserve<br />
<strong>and</strong> publish the library’s vast collection of county<br />
<strong>and</strong> local histories, registers of individuals, directories<br />
of Texas Rangers, church histories, <strong>and</strong> biographical<br />
dictionaries. The digital records will be<br />
available for free online at <strong>Family</strong>Search.org <strong>and</strong><br />
HoustonLibrary.org.<br />
“Houston Public Library has one of the top 10<br />
genealogy libraries in the nation <strong>and</strong> a very strong<br />
Gulf Coast <strong>and</strong> international collection,” said Susan<br />
D. Kaufman, manager of Houston Public Library’s<br />
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research.<br />
“Visitors come from all over the country to visit the<br />
library. Researchers will benefit from the convenience<br />
of online access to the collection targeted under the<br />
joint venture with <strong>Family</strong>Search,” added Kaufman.<br />
In 2007, <strong>Family</strong>Search announced its plans to create<br />
the largest <strong>and</strong> most comprehensive collection<br />
of free city <strong>and</strong> county histories online. Over 23,000<br />
digital publications have been made available online<br />
since then. The addition of Houston Public Library<br />
<strong>and</strong> its collection furthers that goal.<br />
Under the agreement, <strong>Family</strong>Search will digitally<br />
preserve thous<strong>and</strong>s of Houston Public Library’s historic<br />
publications collection <strong>and</strong> provide free access<br />
to the images online. The targeted publications range<br />
in date from 1795 to 1923.<br />
Submitting a News Brief<br />
See News to Peruse guidelines on page 4.<br />
The new digital collections published online will<br />
have “every word” search capability, which allows<br />
users to search by name, location, date, or other<br />
fields across the collection. The search results are<br />
then linked to high quality digital images of the<br />
original publication. Users will also be able to just<br />
browse or read the publications as digital books online<br />
if they prefer.<br />
The digitization efforts have already begun, <strong>and</strong><br />
publications are now viewable online. Texas records<br />
are the first publications targeted by the initiative,<br />
followed by other Gulf Coast states. The project will<br />
take up to five years to complete.<br />
Digital publications will be noted <strong>and</strong> hyperlinked<br />
in the <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library Catalog at <strong>Family</strong>-<br />
Search.org as they are digitized. The growing collection<br />
can be accessed currently at <strong>Family</strong>Search.org<br />
(go to Search Records, <strong>and</strong> then Historical Books).<br />
“We are honored to be part of such an important<br />
<strong>and</strong> beneficial initiative with a world leader like<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search,” said Kaufman. “The digitization<br />
<strong>and</strong> online publication of Houston Public Library’s<br />
historic collections will help increase the inquisitiveness<br />
of library patrons <strong>and</strong> create a heightened<br />
sense of awareness of the library’s resources—which<br />
then brings customers back more often with more<br />
research questions. It’s a win-win for everyone,”<br />
Kaufman added.<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search is providing the computers, scanners,<br />
<strong>and</strong> camera operators required to complete the<br />
project. <strong>Family</strong>Search previously announced projects<br />
with Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne,<br />
Indiana, Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee<br />
Library, <strong>and</strong> <strong>Family</strong>Search’s own <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library<br />
in Salt Lake City.<br />
The Houston Public Library’s Clayton Library Center<br />
for Genealogical Research is also a <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Affiliate Library. That means local patrons have access<br />
to millions of microfilms from <strong>Family</strong>Search’s vast<br />
genealogical collection in Salt Lake City, Utah. Patrons<br />
can order research material from <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
through the library <strong>and</strong> use the library’s film readers<br />
<strong>and</strong> copiers to further their genealogical efforts.<br />
—Courtesy of Paul Nauta, <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Incline Software Releases<br />
Ancestral Quest 12.1<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah, November 12, 2008—Today,<br />
Incline Software, LC announced the full release of<br />
Ancestral Quest 12.1. AQ 12.1 has been released in<br />
phases since July 2008, when AQ 12.1 entered the first<br />
phase of a roll-out, wherein it was made available to<br />
a limited number of users of both AQ <strong>and</strong> PAF. As of<br />
today, AQ 12.1 is available to all users.<br />
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All of the new features introduced in Ancestral<br />
Quest version 12.1 are designed to aid a user in comparing<br />
<strong>and</strong> synchronizing local databases with the<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Tree database of new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org, a system<br />
being developed by The Church of Jesus Christ<br />
of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The <strong>Family</strong> Tree database<br />
claims to have roughly 500 million lineage-linked<br />
records, <strong>and</strong> these records become directly accessible<br />
to users of AQ 12.1 through these new features.<br />
An adjustment has also been made to the way a new<br />
user can try Ancestral Quest. AQ 12.1 now provides<br />
a 60-day free trial of the program with all features<br />
fully unlocked.<br />
Because new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org is still being developed<br />
<strong>and</strong> tested by members of the LDS church, its<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Tree is currently only available to a relatively<br />
small number of people. The new features of AQ 12.1<br />
require access to the <strong>Family</strong>Search system through<br />
their secure system, <strong>and</strong> therefore can only be used<br />
by those who have access to new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org. In<br />
the coming weeks <strong>and</strong> months, as new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.<br />
org is made available to a growing number of individuals,<br />
those users will also be able to use the new<br />
features of AQ 12.1. Incline Software underst<strong>and</strong>s<br />
that the <strong>Family</strong> Tree feature of new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.<br />
org will eventually be available to the general public,<br />
<strong>and</strong> therefore that the new features of AQ 12.1 will<br />
eventually be functional for all users.<br />
These new features benefit not only users of Ancestral<br />
Quest, but also users of Personal Ancestral File<br />
(PAF), because the PAF program of the LDS church<br />
is based on an older version of AQ. AQ 12.1 is a <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
certified PAF add-in. It will allow a PAF<br />
user to synchronize his/her local PAF data with the<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Tree of new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org. Once installed<br />
Ancestral Quest will appear on the Tools menu of<br />
PAF 5.2, <strong>and</strong> the PAF user merely needs to click on<br />
that menu item to start AQ 12.1 to synchronize their<br />
PAF data with <strong>Family</strong>Search.<br />
The new features to access new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org<br />
require an ID <strong>and</strong> password that must be obtained<br />
from new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org. If a user can obtain an<br />
ID <strong>and</strong> password for new.<strong>Family</strong>Search.org, the user<br />
can take advantage of these new features in AQ 12.1.<br />
Otherwise the user will still enjoy all the features of<br />
AQ 12.0.<br />
Users of AQ 12.0 can download AQ 12.1 for free.<br />
Users of older versions of AQ will be able to download<br />
an upgrade for $19.95, or upgrade on a CD for $22.95<br />
plus s/h. New users can download the 60-day trial<br />
for free, then purchase an activation code for $29.95<br />
or order the software on CD for $34.95 plus s/h.<br />
To find out more about Ancestral Quest or Incline<br />
Software, visit the website at www.ancquest.com.<br />
—Courtesy of Gaylon Findlay, Incline Software<br />
The Palatine to America<br />
Library Relocating<br />
The Palatine to America Library has been closed. Our<br />
collection is being relocated to the Columbus Metropolitan<br />
Library in Columbus, Ohio. It is anticipated<br />
the Palatine Collection will be available for use again<br />
sometime in the first quarter of 2009.<br />
—Courtesy of Odell Miller,<br />
President, Palatines to America<br />
APG Announces Election Results<br />
Westminster, Colo., November 21, 2008—The Association<br />
of Professional Genealogists (APG), the<br />
world’s leading professional organization of family<br />
history <strong>and</strong> related professionals, announced<br />
the results of its 2008 election. Ten board members<br />
were elected to two-year terms for 2009-2010. Two<br />
nominating committee members were elected to<br />
one-year terms.<br />
Region 1: West: Trish Hackett Nicola, CG (Washington)<br />
is currently a Region 1 director on the APG<br />
Board <strong>and</strong> chapter representative for the Puget<br />
Sound Chapter. Trish is on APG’s Chapter Activities<br />
Committee. Mary Penner (New Mexico) chairs<br />
the APG Publications Advisory Committee. She has<br />
been awarded research grants from the Kansas State<br />
Historical Society <strong>and</strong> the State Historical Society<br />
of Missouri. Her articles appear frequently in the<br />
Ancestry Weekly Journal <strong>and</strong> in many genealogical<br />
magazines.<br />
Region 2: Midwest: Billie Stone Fogarty (Oklahoma)<br />
is president of the Oklahoma Genealogical<br />
Society <strong>and</strong> vice-president <strong>and</strong> program chair of<br />
the Oklahoma Home & Community Continuing<br />
Education Genealogy Group. She belongs to the Genealogical<br />
Speakers Guild <strong>and</strong> teaches continuing<br />
education classes. Paul Milner (Illinois) is co-author<br />
of A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering your English<br />
Ancestors <strong>and</strong> A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering<br />
your Scottish Ancestors, <strong>and</strong> is a well-known speaker<br />
<strong>and</strong> author.<br />
Region 3: Southeast: Donald Moore, CG (Virginia)<br />
is a Board-certified genealogist with an interest in<br />
colonial Virginia research. He is past president of<br />
the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society, vice president<br />
of the Virginia Genealogical Society, <strong>and</strong> editor<br />
of its newsletter. C. Ann Staley, CG (Florida) is<br />
a professional genealogist, consultant, instructor,<br />
<strong>and</strong> lecturer at local, state, <strong>and</strong> national levels. She<br />
is a board member of the Federation of Genealogical<br />
Societies.<br />
Region 4: Northeast: Amy E.K. Arner (Pennsylvania)<br />
is a researcher specializing in Western<br />
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Pennsylvania, the president of the Great Lakes Chapter,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a proofreader for the APG Quarterly. Karen<br />
Mauer Green (New York) holds an M.A. in Museum<br />
Studies <strong>and</strong> specializes in Huguenots, New York, <strong>and</strong><br />
the Mid-Atlantic area. The owner of Frontier Press<br />
Bookstore, she has served APG as a trustee <strong>and</strong> regional<br />
vice-president.<br />
International Region: Eileen M. O’Duill, CG (Irel<strong>and</strong>)<br />
specializes in international probate research<br />
<strong>and</strong> has lectured at national conferences in the United<br />
States <strong>and</strong> in Irel<strong>and</strong>. Jan Gow (New Zeal<strong>and</strong>) is a tutor,<br />
lecturer, <strong>and</strong> presenter at the local, national, <strong>and</strong><br />
international level since 1985, <strong>and</strong> served on the APG<br />
<strong>and</strong> New Zeal<strong>and</strong> Society of Genealogists boards.<br />
Nominations Committee: Donna Moughty<br />
(Florida) has chaired the Professional Management<br />
Conference from 2005–2008, is treasurer of the Genealogical<br />
Speakers Guild, <strong>and</strong> a delegate to the Federation<br />
of Genealogical Societies. David E. Rencher, AG,<br />
CG, FIGRS, FUGA (Utah) is employed by the <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of<br />
Latter-day Saints as the Director of the Planning <strong>and</strong><br />
Coordination Division. A noted authority on Irish<br />
research, he is a past-president of the Federation of<br />
Genealogical Societies <strong>and</strong> of the Utah Genealogical<br />
Association <strong>and</strong> a Fellow of the latter.<br />
The Association of Professional Genealogists<br />
(http://www.apgen.org), established in 1979, represents<br />
over 1,800 genealogists, librarians, writers,<br />
editors, historians, instructors, booksellers, publishers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> others involved in genealogy-related businesses.<br />
APG encourages genealogical excellence,<br />
ethical practice, mentoring, <strong>and</strong> education. The organization<br />
also supports the preservation <strong>and</strong> accessibility<br />
of records useful to the fields of genealogy,<br />
local, <strong>and</strong> social history. Its members represent all 50<br />
states, Canada, <strong>and</strong> 26 other countries.<br />
—Courtesy of Kathleen W. Hinckley,<br />
CG, Executive Director, APG<br />
Volunteers Discover Fun Facts<br />
Transcribing Historic Canadian<br />
Censuses—Completed<br />
Indexes Will Be Free Online<br />
Ontario, Canada, November 19, 2008—<strong>Family</strong>-<br />
Search International announced its plans to make<br />
the indexes to available Canadian censuses accessible<br />
online for free with the help of online volunteer indexers<br />
<strong>and</strong> an agreement with Ancestry.ca. The first<br />
censuses completed will be those from 1861, 1871,<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1916. Online volunteers are needed to help transcribe<br />
select information from digital images of the<br />
historical documents into easily searchable indexes.<br />
The completed indexes will be available for free at<br />
www.familysearch.org.<br />
Famous Canadians in the 1916 Census<br />
What do Art Linkletter, Sir William Samuel Stephenson,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Elvina Fay Wray have in common They all<br />
have ties to one of the three provinces that make up<br />
the 1916 Canada Census, <strong>and</strong> some lucky volunteer<br />
may experience the thrill of transcribing their information<br />
for the free online index.<br />
1. Arthur Gordon Kelly (Art Linkletter) will be<br />
found as a four-year-old child at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.<br />
He was ab<strong>and</strong>oned as an infant <strong>and</strong><br />
then adopted <strong>and</strong> raised by a preacher. He hosted<br />
House Party <strong>and</strong> People Are Funny both on radio<br />
<strong>and</strong> later on newfangled television, <strong>and</strong> he is best<br />
remembered for his interviews with children on the<br />
television show Kids Say the Darndest Things. His<br />
adoptive parents were Fulton John Linkletter <strong>and</strong><br />
Mary Metzler.<br />
2. Sir William Samuel Stephenson was a Canadian<br />
soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a British intelligence specialist during World<br />
War II. Stephenson is best known by his wartime<br />
intelligence codename of Intrepid <strong>and</strong> is considered<br />
by some to be one of the real-life inspirations for<br />
James Bond. He was born William Samuel Clouston<br />
Stanger, January 23, 1897, in the Point Douglas area<br />
of Winnipeg, Manitoba.<br />
3. Elvina Fay Wray was born September 15, 1907, on<br />
a ranch near Alberta to Elvina Marguerite Jones <strong>and</strong><br />
Joseph Heber Wray <strong>and</strong> will most likely show up as a<br />
nine-year old-child in the 1916 census. She made her<br />
film debut in Gasoline Love (1923), but it was her lead<br />
role in The Wedding March (1928) that made her a star.<br />
She became a cult figure after her role in King Kong<br />
(1933), as the beauty captured by a giant gorilla.<br />
Getting Involved<br />
Interested volunteers can begin helping immediately<br />
by registering online at familysearchindexing.<br />
org, downloading the free indexing software, <strong>and</strong><br />
selecting the 1916 Canada Census project. A digital<br />
image of a census page will appear. Volunteers simply<br />
type in the data highlighted on the computer<br />
screen <strong>and</strong> save it online. It takes about 30 minutes<br />
to complete one census page, <strong>and</strong> volunteers have a<br />
week to complete it if need be. Volunteers only need<br />
to be able to read, type, <strong>and</strong> have Internet access to<br />
participate.<br />
“The 1916 census was selected first because it is<br />
the most recent <strong>and</strong> smallest of the three censuses<br />
targeted in the first phase. It included three of the<br />
western provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, <strong>and</strong><br />
Alberta) <strong>and</strong> has about 1.7 million names—so it will<br />
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not take long to complete,” said Stephen Young, <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
project manager.<br />
There are other hidden benefits to volunteering.<br />
Volunteers become familiar with historical documents,<br />
the valuable stories they can conceal, <strong>and</strong><br />
their usefulness <strong>and</strong> application to genealogical<br />
research.<br />
Indexers do not need to worry about their skill<br />
level at reading censuses. Each census page is transcribed<br />
by two different indexers. Any discrepancies<br />
between the two entries will be arbitrated by a third<br />
indexer. The result is a highly accurate, free index<br />
of tremendous value to family history enthusiasts.<br />
Young says the more online volunteers that help, the<br />
quicker the free census indexes will be available online<br />
for all to enjoy <strong>and</strong> benefit from.<br />
One indexer recently commented, “I am intrigued<br />
with how the people come alive for me as I index. I indexed<br />
a household… containing a family with young<br />
children, gr<strong>and</strong>mother, maiden aunt, <strong>and</strong> a couple of<br />
unmarried siblings. They had five servants, <strong>and</strong> I visualized<br />
a well-to-do household; the married son working<br />
maybe as a lawyer or doctor, taking care of his<br />
extended family. I see both sad <strong>and</strong> happy stories.”<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search manages the largest collection of genealogical<br />
records worldwide. In 2007 it announced<br />
plans to begin digitizing <strong>and</strong> indexing its collection<br />
for broader, online access—starting with popular collections<br />
like Canadian censuses. <strong>Family</strong>Search has<br />
digitized the 1916 Canada Census <strong>and</strong> is seeking online<br />
volunteers to help create a searchable index for<br />
it <strong>and</strong> other census <strong>and</strong> non-census Canada projects.<br />
The 1861 <strong>and</strong> 1871 censuses will be next.<br />
Libraries <strong>and</strong> Archives Canada (LAC) owns <strong>and</strong> is<br />
providing the digital images for the Canada census<br />
projects.<br />
—Courtesy of Paul Nauta, <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
The No. 1 Rated Genealogy<br />
Software In The UK Is Now<br />
Available At 1500 Target Stores<br />
West Hartford, Connecticut, November 12,<br />
2008—<strong>Family</strong> Historian 3, the highest rated family<br />
tree software in the U.K. is now available in the<br />
United States <strong>and</strong> Canada. This top rated software is<br />
initially being distributed in the nearly 1,500 Target<br />
stores nationwide.<br />
“Enteractive is thrilled to be bringing what is simply<br />
the best genealogy software product in the world<br />
to the U.S. <strong>and</strong> Canadian consumer,” Howard Luxenberg,<br />
president of Enteractive, stated.<br />
Due to its easy to use features <strong>and</strong> product quality,<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Historian 3 has won major awards <strong>and</strong><br />
recognition from the top reviewers including Windows<br />
XP Magazine, <strong>Family</strong> Tree Magazine, Which<br />
Computing, Univadis <strong>and</strong> others.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Historian 3 was named “Winner” <strong>and</strong><br />
“Editor’s Choice” by Windows XP Magazine in its<br />
August 2007 review of <strong>Family</strong> Historian, <strong>Family</strong> Tree<br />
Maker, Roots Magic, <strong>and</strong> Legacy genealogy software.<br />
The editors said that <strong>Family</strong> Historian 3 was “packed<br />
with features, but the charts alone put this package<br />
in a class of its own.” In this comparison of the top<br />
products, <strong>Family</strong> Historian was declared the “Allround<br />
winner.”<br />
Personal Computer World gave <strong>Family</strong> Historian<br />
3 an overall rating of 5 Stars (out of a possible 5)<br />
<strong>and</strong> said “The range of features <strong>and</strong> sheer ease of<br />
use makes <strong>Family</strong> Historian an excellent tool for any<br />
genealogist” in its May 2006 review.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Tree Magazine (www.familytreemagazine.com)<br />
said “The best genealogy package just got<br />
better” in its review in July 2006.<br />
Which Computing (www.which.co.uk) rated<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Historian as the “Best Buy” <strong>and</strong> gave it the<br />
highest overall rating in its July 2008 comparison of<br />
the top 10 genealogy applications.<br />
Univadis (www.univadis.co.uk) rated <strong>Family</strong> Historian<br />
3 a “Strongly recommended” product <strong>and</strong> said<br />
“The programme is brilliant <strong>and</strong> dead easy to use<br />
<strong>and</strong> is ideal for beginners <strong>and</strong> experts alike.”<br />
Australian <strong>Family</strong> Tree Connections said “With<br />
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Southeastern Indiana<br />
Genealogy Society Launches<br />
First Families Program<br />
The Jefferson County (Indiana) Genealogical Society<br />
introduces a First Families Program to honor the<br />
founding families of the county.<br />
Madison, November 1, 2008—The Jefferson County<br />
Genealogical Society is sponsoring a lineage program<br />
specifically aimed at discovering <strong>and</strong> honoring the<br />
founding families of Jefferson County.<br />
The program recognizes three categories of early<br />
settlers. Frontier Families are those who blazed the<br />
trail into the wilderness, settling in the county on or<br />
before 7 August 1820. Founding Families, those who<br />
settled here before 1 June 1860, drove the county’s<br />
major growth period <strong>and</strong> brought it prosperity <strong>and</strong><br />
national prominence. First Century Families, those<br />
who settled here before 11 February 1911, helped<br />
move the county into the modern era.<br />
Applicants to the program must prove their direct<br />
descent from an early settler as well as that settler’s<br />
residence in the county before one of the category<br />
dates. Applicants need not be current residents of<br />
the county. Those who apply before 15 April 2009,<br />
<strong>and</strong> are approved by the evaluation committee, will<br />
be eligible to participate in the Madison Bicentennial<br />
Founder’s Day Parade. All approved applicants will<br />
receive a certificate <strong>and</strong> lapel pin to commemorate<br />
their achievement.<br />
The Jefferson County Genealogical Society encourages<br />
those with an interest in family history to<br />
make the effort required to document their personal<br />
connection to the pioneers of this county. Compiled<br />
applications will be archived by the society for the<br />
benefit of other researchers, <strong>and</strong><br />
the preservation of this link to our<br />
past. A book honoring the founding<br />
families is planned.<br />
For more information about<br />
the First Families program, visit<br />
http://www.jeffersoncountygenealogicalsociety.org.<br />
For more information about the<br />
Madison Bicentennial, visit: htt p://<br />
madisonbicentennial.com.<br />
About the Jefferson County<br />
Genealogical Society<br />
Founded in 1998, the primary purpose<br />
of this organization is to preserve<br />
information of genealogical<br />
value <strong>and</strong> to encourage <strong>and</strong> assist<br />
others in gathering genealogical<br />
information. Membership is open<br />
to everyone with payment of annual<br />
dues. The meeting schedule<br />
<strong>and</strong> topics are posted at ht t p://<br />
www.jeffersoncountygenealogicalsociety.org.<br />
—Courtesy of Annette Harper<br />
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Pennsylvania Vital Records<br />
1700s-1800s—From The<br />
Pennsylvania Magazine<br />
of <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Biography<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Pennsylvania<br />
Genealogical Magazine<br />
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7172; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical Publishing<br />
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-<br />
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$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397214. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7172.html.<br />
This set of 10 CD-ROMs makes up a massive genealogy<br />
library of 705 books. Altogether, there are over<br />
60,000 images, making up 230,643 pages. According<br />
to the compiler, the value of the book collection is<br />
over $7000.00. The following listings are a Contents<br />
by Subject listing, followed by a CD-ROM by CD-<br />
ROM listing of the titles found on each disk. Note<br />
that the title is followed by the year of publication<br />
of the original volume. To speed your search, check<br />
out the Contents by Subject listing first. Note that<br />
since these are made up of PDF files, they will run<br />
on most any computer, PC or Mac.<br />
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Originally published in three volumes by the Genealogical<br />
Publishing Company, this is a collection<br />
of every article about births, baptisms, marriages,<br />
<strong>and</strong> deaths that ever appeared in The Pennsylvania<br />
Magazine of <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Biography <strong>and</strong> the Pennsylvania<br />
Genealogical Magazine. Referring to more than<br />
87,000 individuals, Pennsylvania Vital Records is<br />
one of the largest bodies of Pennsylvania source<br />
materials ever published. The records date from<br />
1701 to 1882 <strong>and</strong> cover all regions of Pennsylvania.<br />
For the period prior to 1820, they offer researchers<br />
one of the best opportunities for making ancestral<br />
connections in Pennsylvania. The records in this<br />
collection were extracted from church registers,<br />
court records, records of local officials, ministers’<br />
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For your convenience, a name index spans all three<br />
volumes.<br />
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or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
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(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
www.<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
Loyalists in the<br />
American Revolution<br />
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7144; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical Publishing<br />
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-<br />
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with<br />
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397115. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7144.html.<br />
The term “Loyalist” is generally applied to those<br />
colonists who sided with the British during the<br />
Revolutionary War. Also called “Tories,” Loyalists<br />
came from all social classes <strong>and</strong> occupations <strong>and</strong><br />
by some estimates made up as much as one-third<br />
of the colonial population. The Loyalist cause was<br />
strongest in the southern colonies, in Georgia <strong>and</strong><br />
the Carolinas, especially, <strong>and</strong> in the mid-Atlantic<br />
colonies, particularly New York <strong>and</strong> Pennsylvania.<br />
Sentiment against the Loyalists led to various<br />
proscriptions <strong>and</strong> restrictions, but it was the confiscation<br />
of their l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> property that led to the<br />
creation—unintentionally, of course—of some of<br />
the most useful Revolutionary War-era genealogical<br />
records available today.<br />
The 13 volumes of records produced in this <strong>Family</strong><br />
Archive CD contain some of the most useful<br />
works ever published on Revolutionary War Loyalists.<br />
Originally published or reprinted by the<br />
Genealogical Publishing Company, they cover a<br />
broad spectrum of information pertaining to the<br />
identification of individual Loyalists. From l<strong>and</strong><br />
records to pension records, from orderly books to<br />
diaries, from recruitment lists, muster rolls, <strong>and</strong><br />
pay lists to biographies <strong>and</strong> lists of United Empire<br />
Loyalists, these volumes variously provide the<br />
following information: name, country or place of<br />
origin, occupation, names of family members <strong>and</strong><br />
friends, location <strong>and</strong> value of confiscated property,<br />
civilian service rendered during the war, military<br />
service (rank, company, regiment, place of service,<br />
dates of enlistment <strong>and</strong> discharge, etc.), date of migration,<br />
place of settlement, certificates, petitions,<br />
<strong>and</strong> claims for compensation, evidence of character,<br />
statements of witnesses, <strong>and</strong> a host of other details<br />
that could lead the researcher to his Loyalist<br />
ancestor.<br />
In both narratives <strong>and</strong> records, there is a profusion<br />
of genealogical detail, which is here presented<br />
in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an<br />
electronic name index. Listed below are the books<br />
included on this CD:<br />
1. Loyalists <strong>and</strong> L<strong>and</strong> Settlement in Nova Scotia, by<br />
Marion Gilroy<br />
2. The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution,<br />
by Robert DeMond<br />
3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American<br />
Revolution (2 vols.), by Lorenzo Sabine<br />
4. Orderly Book of the “Maryl<strong>and</strong> Loyalists Regiment,”<br />
by Caleb Jones<br />
5. Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of Loyalists Comm<strong>and</strong>ed<br />
by Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey<br />
6. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary<br />
War (3 vols.), by Murtie June Clark<br />
7. United Empire Loyalists. Enquiry into the Losses <strong>and</strong><br />
Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty (2 vols.),<br />
by Alex<strong>and</strong>er Fraser<br />
8. The Old United Empire Loyalists List<br />
9. The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials,<br />
Petitions, <strong>and</strong> Claims, by Edward Jones<br />
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ROM drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must<br />
use either the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0<br />
or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher<br />
(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
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Virginia Military Records:<br />
Colonial Wars, Revolutionary<br />
War, War of 1812<br />
By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7121; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical Publishing<br />
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-<br />
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with<br />
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397085. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7121.html.<br />
Virginia was the stage for some of the most momentous<br />
events in American military history. In fact,<br />
American military history began with the establishment<br />
of the Virginia militia in the 17th century, <strong>and</strong><br />
Virginia’s achievements in the various theaters of war<br />
can be traced in a straight line to the decisive Battle<br />
of Yorktown more than a century later. Immediately<br />
after the Revolution, <strong>and</strong> both during <strong>and</strong> after the<br />
War of 1812, Virginia continued its historic contributions<br />
in men <strong>and</strong> material, culminating, of course, in<br />
the great battles of the Civil War. So enormous was<br />
Virginia’s contribution in manpower, in fact, that a<br />
record of early Virginia soldiers is nothing less than<br />
a directory of Virginia’s early residents!<br />
This <strong>Family</strong> Archive CD contains a definitive collection<br />
of books dealing with the military records<br />
of Virginia in the colonial wars, the Revolutionary<br />
War, <strong>and</strong> the War of 1812, all published originally by<br />
the Genealogical Publishing Company. For persons<br />
interested in tracing the descendants of Virginia soldiers<br />
<strong>and</strong> who wish to underst<strong>and</strong> the magnitude of<br />
Virginia’s contribution to the American cause, this<br />
CD is invaluable. Naming 275,000 members of the<br />
militia <strong>and</strong> the established army, all of whom can<br />
be instantly traced by means of a single electronic<br />
index, this CD is one of the most powerful <strong>and</strong> versatile<br />
tools in the entire arsenal of early American<br />
genealogical research.<br />
The books included on this CD are the undisputed<br />
favorites in their respective fields, <strong>and</strong> collectively they<br />
provide an unparalleled body of genealogical research<br />
materials. From Lloyd Bockstruck’s Virginia Colonial<br />
Soldiers to John Gwathmey’s Historical Register of Virginians<br />
in the Revolution to the monumental Muster Rolls<br />
<strong>and</strong> Payrolls of Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, they<br />
cover the entire spectrum of Virginia’s early military<br />
history. Based primarily on original record sources<br />
such as muster rolls, payrolls, bounty l<strong>and</strong> warrants,<br />
<strong>and</strong> pension applications, it is possible to follow a soldier’s<br />
entire military career from the date <strong>and</strong> place<br />
of his enlistment, to the battles <strong>and</strong> skirmishes he was<br />
engaged in, to his mustering out, while also gleaning<br />
details regarding his age, place of birth, place of residence,<br />
occupation, marital status, rank, bounty l<strong>and</strong><br />
awards, <strong>and</strong> names of spouse <strong>and</strong> children. The following<br />
is a list of the books included on this CD:<br />
• Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers<br />
• Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651-1776<br />
• List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia<br />
• Revolutionary War Records. Virginia Army <strong>and</strong><br />
Navy Forces with Bounty L<strong>and</strong> Warrants for the<br />
Military District of Ohio, etc.<br />
• Virginia Soldiers of 1776. 3 vols.<br />
• Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution<br />
• Records of the Revolutionary War<br />
• <strong>History</strong> of Virginia’s Navy of the Revolution<br />
• Catalogue of Revolutionary Soldiers <strong>and</strong> Sailors of<br />
the Commonwealth of Virginia<br />
• Muster Rolls <strong>and</strong> Payrolls of Virginia Militia in the<br />
War of 1812. 2 vols.<br />
• Virginia Military Records from The Virginia<br />
Magazine of <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Biography, The William <strong>and</strong><br />
Mary College Quarterly, <strong>and</strong> Tyler’s Quarterly<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-<br />
ROM drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must<br />
use either the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0<br />
or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher<br />
(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
www.<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
The Encyclopedia of Quaker<br />
Genealogy 1750-1930<br />
By William Wade Hinshaw, 2008; Item #GPC7192;<br />
Published by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical<br />
Publishing Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD<br />
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21211-1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $59.99 each with<br />
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397382. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7192.html.<br />
This <strong>Family</strong> Archive CD contains all six volumes<br />
of William Wade Hinshaw’s renowned Encyclopedia<br />
of American Quaker Genealogy, originally published<br />
between 1936 <strong>and</strong> 1950. Containing approximately<br />
500,000 entries, the Encyclopedia—for all its massive<br />
<strong>and</strong> carefully compiled data—had a flaw: it did not<br />
contain an every-name index. Instead, each volume<br />
had a separate surname index, making searching for<br />
individuals somewhat tedious. With this CD, however,<br />
that problem is finally laid to rest, for in this CD<br />
we have images of the pages from all six volumes of<br />
the Encyclopedia, along with a complete electronic<br />
name index that allows you to search all six volumes<br />
quickly <strong>and</strong> effortlessly! Not only that, but the original<br />
published volumes had a retail value of $440.00.<br />
This CD version, therefore, is both a greatly improved<br />
research tool <strong>and</strong> a blockbuster of a bargain!<br />
Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has<br />
been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting<br />
records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).<br />
The oldest such records span three centuries of<br />
American history <strong>and</strong> testify to a general movement<br />
of population that extended from New Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the<br />
Carolinas, <strong>and</strong> Georgia; then west to Ohio, Indiana,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Illinois. The importance of these records cannot<br />
be overstated. Not until recently have the vital<br />
statistics of Quakers been recorded in civil record offices.<br />
Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital<br />
records identifying these people are to be met with<br />
in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the<br />
monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of<br />
births, marriages, <strong>and</strong> deaths, as well as details of the<br />
removal of members from one meeting to another.<br />
(The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics<br />
are recorded, is in fact, a business meeting.)<br />
Painstakingly developed from these monthly<br />
meeting records, Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of American<br />
Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker<br />
genealogy. In its production, thous<strong>and</strong>s of records<br />
were located <strong>and</strong> abstracted into a uniform <strong>and</strong> intelligible<br />
system of notation. The data gathered in these<br />
volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting,<br />
then alphabetically by family name, <strong>and</strong> chronologically<br />
thereunder.<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-<br />
ROM drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must<br />
use either the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0<br />
or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher<br />
(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
www.<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong> Settlers<br />
<strong>and</strong> Soldiers<br />
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7521; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical Publishing<br />
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-<br />
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with<br />
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397788. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7521.html.<br />
Consisting of the most authoritative books ever<br />
published on Maryl<strong>and</strong> in the colonial wars, the<br />
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Revolutionary War, <strong>and</strong> the War of 1812, as well as<br />
books containing newspaper abstracts, church records,<br />
records of marriages <strong>and</strong> deaths, tombstone<br />
inscriptions, <strong>and</strong> census records, this <strong>Family</strong> Archive<br />
CD contains a true cross-section of the records of<br />
some 325,000 early Maryl<strong>and</strong> settlers <strong>and</strong> soldiers,<br />
all accessed through a single electronic index.<br />
From Gaius Brumbaugh’s celebrated Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County <strong>and</strong> Church<br />
(2 vols.), which includes the famous 1776 census of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong> as well as records of naturalization <strong>and</strong><br />
oaths of loyalty, to abstracts of marriages <strong>and</strong> deaths<br />
from early Maryl<strong>and</strong> newspapers by Robert Barnes<br />
<strong>and</strong> Thomas Hollowak, to the exhaustive lists of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong> soldiers in the Revolution found in such<br />
books as Muster Rolls <strong>and</strong> Other Records of Service of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong> Troops in the American Revolution, 1775-1783,<br />
this CD has something of interest for virtually every<br />
family researcher.<br />
Like other CDs, it is designed to simplify genealogical<br />
research by combining the images of pages<br />
of selected volumes published by GPC with a single<br />
name index that allows you to search all the volumes<br />
quickly <strong>and</strong> effortlessly. A search on a single name<br />
will turn up all references to that name found in any<br />
of the following volumes:<br />
• Maryl<strong>and</strong> Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County<br />
<strong>and</strong> Church (2 vols.)<br />
• Muster Rolls <strong>and</strong> Other Records of Service of Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
Troops in the American Revolution<br />
• Maryl<strong>and</strong> Revolutionary Records<br />
• Revolutionary Records of Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
• Orderly Book of the Maryl<strong>and</strong> Loyalists Regiment<br />
• Marriages <strong>and</strong> Deaths from the Maryl<strong>and</strong> Gazette,<br />
1727-1839<br />
• Marriages <strong>and</strong> Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers,<br />
1796-1816<br />
• Index to Marriages <strong>and</strong> Deaths in the “Baltimore<br />
Sun,” 1837-1850<br />
• Index to Marriages <strong>and</strong> Deaths in the “Baltimore<br />
Sun,” 1851-1860<br />
• A Record of Interments at the Friends Burial Ground,<br />
Baltimore, Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
• Marriage Licenses of Caroline County, Maryl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
1774-1815<br />
• Index of Marriage Licenses, Prince George’s County,<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>, 1777-1886<br />
• The British Invasion of Maryl<strong>and</strong>, 1812-1815<br />
• Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington<br />
County, Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
• Civil War Burials in Baltimore’s Loudon Park<br />
Cemetery<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-<br />
ROM drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must<br />
use either the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0<br />
or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher<br />
(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
www.<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
Pilgrim Genealogies <strong>and</strong><br />
Histories 1600s-1900s<br />
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7023; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical Publishing<br />
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-<br />
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with<br />
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397078. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7023.html.<br />
The Pilgrims, those redoubtable figures of early<br />
American history <strong>and</strong> legend, arrived in New Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
between 1620 <strong>and</strong> 1650 <strong>and</strong> are believed to be the<br />
ancestors of about one-third of all Americans living<br />
today! This is a big statement, but perhaps it explains<br />
why there is so much interest in the Pilgrim Fathers<br />
<strong>and</strong> why so many books have been written about<br />
them. From William Bradford <strong>and</strong> Edward Winslow<br />
to John Winthrop <strong>and</strong> Increase Mather, an entire library<br />
has grown up around them, <strong>and</strong> no small part<br />
of this literary contribution has a genealogical component.<br />
Already several CDs have appeared which<br />
place particular emphasis on Mayflower genealogy,<br />
among them Mayflower Vital Records, Deeds, <strong>and</strong> Wills,<br />
by Susan Roser, <strong>and</strong> Genealogies of Mayflower Families<br />
from The New Engl<strong>and</strong> Historical <strong>and</strong> Genealogical<br />
Register. In addition, at least one other CD covers a<br />
wider spectrum of early New Engl<strong>and</strong> genealogy,<br />
namely, the Genealogical Dictionary of New Engl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
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by notable authors such as James Savage <strong>and</strong> Walter<br />
G. Davis.<br />
This present <strong>Family</strong> Archive CD, Pilgrim Source<br />
Records <strong>and</strong> Genealogy, complements the CDs mentioned<br />
above <strong>and</strong> contains many of the most important<br />
books ever compiled on Pilgrims <strong>and</strong> their<br />
descendants, rendering it a formidable library in itself.<br />
Linked by a single electronic name index, the<br />
following books are now instantly accessible on this<br />
one outst<strong>and</strong>ing CD:<br />
• The English Ancestry <strong>and</strong> Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers,<br />
by Charles Banks<br />
• The Planters of the Commonwealth… 1620-1640 , by<br />
Charles Banks<br />
• The Winthrop Fleet of 1630, by Charles Banks<br />
• Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Immigrants<br />
to New Engl<strong>and</strong>, 1620-1650, by Charles<br />
Banks<br />
• The Mayflower Reader, by George Ernest<br />
Bowman<br />
• Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families , by William<br />
T. Davis<br />
• Signers of the Mayflower Compact, by Annie<br />
Haxtun<br />
• <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters,<br />
by Leon C. Hills<br />
• A Catalog of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers<br />
of… Connecticut, by Royal Hinman<br />
• Mayflower Pilgrim Descendants in Cape May<br />
County, New Jersey, by Paul Howe<br />
• Mayflower Descendants <strong>and</strong> Their Marriages<br />
for Two Generations After the L<strong>and</strong>ing, by John<br />
L<strong>and</strong>is<br />
• Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons<br />
<strong>and</strong> Daughters of the Pilgrims<br />
• Sixteen Hundred Lines to Pilgrims of the National<br />
Society of the Sons <strong>and</strong> Daughters of the Pilgrims<br />
• Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors, by Elizabeth<br />
Rixford<br />
• Families Directly Descended from All the Royal<br />
Families in Europe <strong>and</strong> Mayflower Descendants,<br />
by Elizabeth Rixford<br />
• Records of Plymouth Colony: Births, Marriages,<br />
Deaths… 1633-1689, by Nathaniel Shurtleff<br />
• The Truth About the Pilgrims , by Francis Stoddard<br />
• Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth Colony,<br />
by Alex<strong>and</strong>er Young<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-<br />
ROM drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must<br />
use either the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0<br />
or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher<br />
(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
www.<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
Lineages of Hereditary Society<br />
Members, 1600s-1900s<br />
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7506; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Genealogical Publishing<br />
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-<br />
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with<br />
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
residents. ISBN: 9780806397573. See: http://www.<br />
genealogical.com/products/7506.html.<br />
Patriotic <strong>and</strong> hereditary societies require that all<br />
persons applying for membership to their organizations<br />
provide proof of descent from a particular<br />
person living at a particular time during a particular<br />
event. By virtue of their own stringent requirements,<br />
hereditary societies such as the Daughters of<br />
the American Revolution, the Sons <strong>and</strong> Daughters<br />
of the Pilgrims, the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne,<br />
the General Society of the War of 1812,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Colonial Dames of America have become<br />
repositories of a class of records that document the<br />
pedigrees, or lineages, of their members. Over the<br />
years these lineage records have grown into a formidable<br />
body of genealogical data, much of which<br />
has been published in the form of lineage books,<br />
pedigree charts, membership rosters, <strong>and</strong> indexes.<br />
In the process of linking society members to a colonial<br />
forebear, a Revolutionary War patriot, or a<br />
descendant of the Emperor Charlemagne, or some<br />
similar personage, these published lineage records<br />
provide a wealth of detail few other records can<br />
rival: name of ancestor, dates of birth <strong>and</strong> death,<br />
name of wife, colony or state of residence, <strong>and</strong><br />
names of descendants, to mention only a few of<br />
the most significant details.<br />
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The best of these lineage books have been published<br />
by the Genealogical Publishing Company, <strong>and</strong><br />
they are all now available on this CD, which also<br />
contains an electronic index to all 440,000 persons<br />
named! Like other CDs, it is designed to simplify<br />
genealogical research by combining the images of<br />
pages of selected volumes published by GPC with<br />
a single name index, which allows you to search all<br />
the volumes quickly <strong>and</strong> effortlessly. A search on a<br />
single name will turn up all references to that name<br />
found in any of the following volumes:<br />
• Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne’s<br />
Descendants. 3 vols.<br />
• Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons<br />
<strong>and</strong> Daughters of the Pilgrims. 3 vols.<br />
• Index of the Rolls of Honor (Ancestor’s Index) in the<br />
Lineage Books of the National Society of the Daughters<br />
of the American Revolution. 4 vols.<br />
• Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members<br />
of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII<br />
Century. 3 vols.<br />
• The Roster <strong>and</strong> Register of the General Society of the<br />
War of 1812. 3 vols.<br />
• Ancestral Records <strong>and</strong> Portraits: Colonial Dames of<br />
America. 2 vols.<br />
• Founders <strong>and</strong> Patriots of America Index<br />
• Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent<br />
• The Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry, Lineage<br />
of Members<br />
• Ancestor Lineages of Members Texas Society/National<br />
Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century<br />
• Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors <strong>and</strong> War Service<br />
• Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial<br />
Governors<br />
• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Delaware,<br />
Register of Members<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-<br />
ROM drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must<br />
use either the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0<br />
or higher), which is available as a free download at<br />
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher<br />
(<strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker software can be ordered from<br />
www.<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
Egle’s Notes <strong>and</strong> Queries of<br />
Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s<br />
#GPC7019; Published by <strong>and</strong> available from<br />
Genealogical Publishing Co., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-1953. Phone: 800-<br />
296-6687. $39.99 each with $4.00 for shipping<br />
plus 6% sales tax for Maryl<strong>and</strong> residents. ISBN:<br />
9780806397054. See: http://www.genealogical.<br />
com/products/7019.html.<br />
This CD offers unprecedented advantages <strong>and</strong><br />
savings to anyone undertaking research in central<br />
Pennsylvania. Comprising a total of twelve<br />
volumes, Egle’s celebrated Notes <strong>and</strong> Queries is the<br />
most important multi-volume work on the genealogy,<br />
biography, <strong>and</strong> history of central Pennsylvania<br />
ever published. Included in its nearly 5,000 pages<br />
are a vast number of genealogies, family sketches,<br />
<strong>and</strong> biographies, as well as extensive lists of early<br />
settlers <strong>and</strong> soldiers of the various wars, including<br />
the French <strong>and</strong> Indian War, the Revolutionary War,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the War of 1812. In addition, the work encompasses<br />
an impressive array of genealogical source<br />
records—early wills, church records, marriage <strong>and</strong><br />
death records, tax lists, <strong>and</strong> lists of early immigrants<br />
<strong>and</strong> frontiersmen.<br />
For fast <strong>and</strong> easy access, all names mentioned in<br />
the twelve volumes of Egle’s Notes <strong>and</strong> Queries are<br />
available on this CD via a single, electronic index,<br />
which is based on the renowned two-volume index<br />
prepared by the Decatur [Illinois] Genealogical Society<br />
in 1982 <strong>and</strong> 1986. As a point of interest Notes<br />
<strong>and</strong> Queries was originally published between 1879<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1895 as a series of newspaper columns in the<br />
Harrisburg Daily Telegraph, then carried forward <strong>and</strong><br />
published in five annual volumes between 1896 <strong>and</strong><br />
1900. The columns (<strong>and</strong> offprints of the columns<br />
which appeared in pamphlet form) were reprinted<br />
in seven volumes between the years 1894 <strong>and</strong> 1896;<br />
thus, with the five annual volumes for 1896-1900, the<br />
complete set of Notes <strong>and</strong> Queries that appears on this<br />
CD totals 12 volumes.<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM<br />
drive, <strong>and</strong> in order to read the CD you must use either<br />
the <strong>Family</strong> Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher),<br />
which is available as a free download at www.<br />
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genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or <strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (<strong>Family</strong><br />
Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.<br />
<strong>Family</strong>TreeMaker.com).<br />
Index of Wills & Marriage<br />
Licenses for Dublin<br />
Diocese Up to 1800<br />
Compiled by Dr. J.J. Digges, 2008; Published by<br />
<strong>and</strong> available from Flyleaf Press, 4 Spencer Villas,<br />
Glenageary, County Dublin, Irel<strong>and</strong>. $28.00<br />
U.S. includes shipping ($28.75 Canadian). ISBN:<br />
978-0-9539974-8-0. See: http://www.flyleaf.ie/<br />
Wills%20CD.htm.<br />
A Minimum IBM Compatible Pentium 90 Mhz with<br />
16MB RAM. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher is<br />
needed, available to be downloaded free at www.<br />
adobe.com.<br />
Gone From Texas<br />
Compiled by Patricia Pate Havlice, 2008;<br />
Published by <strong>and</strong> available from Berrish Books,<br />
9427 Amberjack Dr., Texas City, TX 77591. $29.95<br />
plus shipping. ISBN: 978-0-615-25894-2. email:<br />
kareneb1@verizon.net.<br />
This CD-ROM is an index of wills, marriage licenses,<br />
<strong>and</strong> other applications to the Consistorial Court of<br />
Dublin Diocese, serving the counties of Dublin,<br />
Wicklow, <strong>and</strong> part of Kildare, from 1200 to 1800. It<br />
covers about 40,000 people, <strong>and</strong> was compiled by Dr.<br />
J.J. Digges. It was originally published as an appendix<br />
to the 26th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public<br />
Records of Irel<strong>and</strong> (1895).<br />
At this period many of the legal functions which<br />
are now the duty of a civil Probate court were performed<br />
by the Church of Irel<strong>and</strong>. This included proving<br />
wills <strong>and</strong> regulation of marriages for all religious<br />
denominations. The index names almost 40,000 people<br />
<strong>and</strong> the year of the court judgment of each. An<br />
address is given for some 8,000 of the people listed,<br />
<strong>and</strong> trade, status or other personal information is<br />
provided for approximately 4,000.<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM<br />
drive, <strong>and</strong> Windows 98; 2000; NT 4.0, XP or higher.<br />
This CD-ROM contains the entire 2,479-page book of<br />
Gone From Texas—all in PDF. The CD is fully word<br />
searchable, <strong>and</strong> is also in Alphabetical Order. The volume<br />
is a necrology listing more than 130,000 deaths<br />
that occurred from January 1, 1880 to December 31,<br />
1900 of people who died in Texas, Texans who died<br />
outside the state, <strong>and</strong> people who lived in Texas for<br />
a time, but died somewhere else.<br />
The index was created from information extracted<br />
from news articles, funeral notices, cards of<br />
thanks, <strong>and</strong> mortuary reports from the following<br />
newspapers:<br />
• Dallas (Daily) Times Herald<br />
• Houston (Daily) Post<br />
• Galveston Daily News<br />
• San Antonio Express<br />
Entries are coded by newspaper followed by date,<br />
page, <strong>and</strong> column, enabling the researcher to request<br />
the article on interlibrary loan from your local library.<br />
The entries include:<br />
• Name<br />
• Age or birth year<br />
• Nicknames <strong>and</strong> stage names where available<br />
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• Maiden names of married women<br />
• Names of former husb<strong>and</strong>s<br />
Many entries have references to more than one<br />
day’s paper. The PDF file format enables one to search<br />
alternate spellings, maiden names, possible misspelling,<br />
<strong>and</strong> aliases.<br />
Searching for Dollarhides in the index, I found<br />
the Francis Dollahite family entries. Dollahite<br />
is often a variant spelling of Dollarhide.<br />
System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM<br />
drive. Runs on both IBM compatible <strong>and</strong> Mac operating<br />
systems. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher is<br />
needed, available for free download at www.adobe.<br />
com.<br />
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This issue of the Helper continues a comprehensive review of websites on the Internet, those with the greatest value to<br />
family historians. The Net <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> (NFH) magazine within a magazine allows in-depth coverage relating to<br />
genealogical research on the Internet. (Note the black bleed at the edge of each page so you can thumb directly to the NFH<br />
pages). Each issue includes a new edition of Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites, featuring reviews written by the NFH<br />
editors. We are presenting annotated lists of genealogy websites, overviews of specific categories of websites, new resources,<br />
<strong>and</strong> major updates to existing websites. Websites featured in Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites, in our opinion are of<br />
great value to genealogists. There is no rating system, but the fact that a website is mentioned places that website among<br />
the top websites online. Any website selected for review in Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites, is granted an award<br />
<strong>and</strong> a logo that can be included at the site to recognize it as one of the “Everton’s Best Rated Genealogy Sites.”<br />
The Best Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian Sites on the Net<br />
By Jeffr ey A. Bo c k m a n<br />
We continue our look at foreign countries by moving<br />
up to the Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian countries of Denmark,<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong>, Norway, Sweden, <strong>and</strong> Icel<strong>and</strong>. While it is<br />
impossible to cover everything about researching<br />
within a single county in an article, let alone several,<br />
I have attempted to provide some basic information<br />
about the various records that are available or in<br />
some cases the lack thereof.<br />
The intent of this series is to look at websites that<br />
provide access to images of real records. There are,<br />
however a few “non-image” sites that have also been<br />
included, such as indexes to or transcribed data from<br />
civil, parish or other official records where the documents<br />
are not available online or are only available<br />
for a fee.<br />
Getting Started<br />
One of the best places to learn about the various<br />
records <strong>and</strong> their availability when starting to do<br />
research in a new county is to review the Research<br />
Outlines at:<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Search<br />
www.familysearch.org—Free Site: www.family<br />
search.org/Eng/Search/RG/frameset rg.asp<br />
They provide information about the history <strong>and</strong><br />
availability of Church records, Civil Registration,<br />
Court Records, Census Records, Probate Records, Immigration,<br />
<strong>and</strong> many others.<br />
Pick the first letter of the country or location of interest<br />
<strong>and</strong> look for the “Country Research Outline.”<br />
Also check to see if they have produced a version<br />
of their new publication titled “Finding Records of<br />
Your Ancestors, Country” for the country of interest.<br />
These are downloadable <strong>and</strong> printable files that<br />
include sample images of the various record types.<br />
World GenWebProject<br />
www.worldgenweb.org—Free site<br />
Another good place to learn about a new location<br />
is the local GenWebProject site. These are volunteer<br />
projects <strong>and</strong> the content can vary greatly but they<br />
can provide information about local records <strong>and</strong><br />
resources along with links to online or transcribed<br />
records. Start at the World GenWebProject <strong>and</strong> then<br />
select the region, the country, <strong>and</strong> then finally the local<br />
sites. They should also have links to helpful local<br />
organizations <strong>and</strong> any online records.<br />
Major Issues<br />
On the good side, there are wonderful church/parish<br />
records in these countries. The <strong>Family</strong>Search “Finding<br />
Records” guides show samples of the various parish<br />
records with translations of the column headings. Unfortunately<br />
you will need to know which parish your<br />
ancestors lived in to be able to find <strong>and</strong> use them.<br />
Some of the challenges to researching within Sc<strong>and</strong>inavia<br />
are the lack of fully indexed countrywide censuses<br />
to help you find exactly where your ancestors<br />
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Country Ended Language male female Son Daughter<br />
Denmark 1860 Danish sen datter Anders Hansen Anna Hansdatter<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong> 1880-1921 Finish npoika ntytar Anders Hansnpoika Anna Hansntytar<br />
lived, the fact that a few of the boundaries with neighboring<br />
countries have changed over the years, that<br />
their languages are not very familiar, <strong>and</strong> that the<br />
Patronymic naming system was used extensively.<br />
Location<br />
You need to find your ancestor’s town of origin. Work<br />
from Known to Unknown. Check every U.S. record to<br />
see if there are clues to their place of birth. You really<br />
need to know the name of the county, village, parish,<br />
or even farm. Check the U.S. Census records for the<br />
year of arrival <strong>and</strong> see if they were naturalized. Later<br />
passenger lists, immigration, <strong>and</strong> naturalization records<br />
often contain the village name. The U.S. Federal<br />
naturalization records of a spouse may contain the<br />
arrival year <strong>and</strong> village of birth of their spouse. A<br />
foreign census index or an emigration record may<br />
also provide their birthplace.<br />
If your ancestors arrived before their birthplace<br />
was required, then check the records of any younger<br />
siblings or later family arrivals to see if they may<br />
have provided a clue.<br />
Swedish sson dotter Anders Hansson Anna Hansdotter<br />
Norway 1875-1900 Norwegian sen datter Anders Hansen Anna Hansdatter<br />
Sweden 1875-1901 Swedish sson dotter Anders Hansson Anna Hansdotter<br />
Icel<strong>and</strong> Still in use Icel<strong>and</strong>ic son/sson sdottir Anders Hanson Anna Hansdottir<br />
Table 1<br />
machine language translation later in this article. You<br />
may want to consider having two browser panels running<br />
at the same time, one with the actual website <strong>and</strong><br />
one with the translator. Text can be cut <strong>and</strong> pasted or<br />
images transcribed into the translate window.<br />
Patronymics<br />
Rather than using a family surname, a child’s surname<br />
shows that they are the son or daughter of their<br />
father. In Table 1 above the father is Hans <strong>and</strong> his<br />
children are Anders <strong>and</strong> Anna.<br />
Boundaries<br />
Historical maps help to determine the geo-political<br />
boundaries at a particular point in time. Regional<br />
maps are good because they show the position of a<br />
Language<br />
Some of the websites have English versions, look for a<br />
British flag. Even then, all of the pages are not translated<br />
<strong>and</strong> the images of any records or newspapers<br />
will be in the native language.<br />
As the boundaries changed, the language of the<br />
official records may also have changed.<br />
Two websites that can help to translate Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian<br />
words or even an entire webpage are:<br />
• Google Language Tools: www.google.com/language<br />
tools<br />
• Majstro Multi-language translator: www.majstro.<br />
com/Web/Majstro/sdict.php<br />
These translations will not be perfect, but they<br />
can give you an idea of the content. If you are trying<br />
to communicate with someone using machine<br />
translated text, I strongly recommend that you copy<br />
the suggested translated version <strong>and</strong> then translate it<br />
back to the original language to see if the meaning is<br />
anything close to the original. Out of necessity, <strong>and</strong><br />
for a little humor, I have included a few examples of<br />
1523 Map<br />
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country or a territory in relationship to the surrounding<br />
areas.<br />
University of Texas<br />
Perry-Castaneda Library—map collection<br />
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical<br />
A map of Sc<strong>and</strong>inavia in the time of Gustavus Vasa<br />
(790K) Map 17 is contained in the Cambridge Modern<br />
<strong>History</strong> Atlas, 1912. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/<br />
historical/ward 1912/sc<strong>and</strong>inavia 1523.jpg<br />
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection<br />
www.DavidRumsey.com<br />
This collection has over 18,460 online maps.<br />
“The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection<br />
has over 18,460 maps online. The collection<br />
focuses on rare 18th <strong>and</strong> 19th century<br />
North American <strong>and</strong> South American maps <strong>and</strong><br />
other cartographic materials. Historic maps of<br />
the World, Europe, Asia, <strong>and</strong> Africa are also<br />
represented.”<br />
To find maps, choose Directory, Browse by Lists,<br />
Select “Where.” Choose Sc<strong>and</strong>inavia or go to ht t p://<br />
www.davidrumsey.com/directory/where/Sc<strong>and</strong>inavia/<br />
to view links of the 46 maps.<br />
A Google Image search for ”sc<strong>and</strong>inavia site:www.<br />
davidrumsey.com” returns 138 images.<br />
Denmark<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Search Research Outline for Denmark<br />
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frame<br />
set rg.aspDest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=<br />
&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&<br />
Entry=&Guide=Denmark.ASP<br />
Finding Records of Your Ancestors<br />
in Denmark 1834 to 1900<br />
B&W: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/<br />
images/36577 Denmark Finding Ancestors.pdf<br />
Color: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/<br />
RG/images/36577 Denmark Finding Ancestors<br />
color.pdf<br />
Record info: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/<br />
search/RG/frameset rg.aspDest=E&Juris1=137<br />
Denmark GenWebProject<br />
http://www.dis-danmark.dk/dis-english.asp<br />
http://dis-danmark.dk—in Danish<br />
For links to reference works concerning the individual<br />
parishes select: Amt-herred-sogn portalen<br />
(county-district-parish)<br />
http://www.e-bachmann.dk/genealogy/dis-danmark.dk<br />
http://www.e-bachmann.dk/genealogy/dis-danmark.dk/index<br />
en.php—in English<br />
ArkivalierOnline<br />
www.arkivalieronline.dk—Free site<br />
The Danish State Archives<br />
http://www.arkivalieronline.dk/English/default<br />
.aspx—English<br />
“Parish registers <strong>and</strong> population censuses are<br />
being digitized by The Danish State Archives<br />
Filming Centre in order to make them accessible<br />
via the Internet. The digitization project is<br />
primarily scanning microfiches <strong>and</strong> microfilms.<br />
There is no fixed timetable for the launch of each<br />
parish register <strong>and</strong> population census on the<br />
Internet, as this is a continuous process.<br />
The parish registers <strong>and</strong> population censuses<br />
will be displayed as pictures of the original records.<br />
The pictures show that many records are<br />
marked by poor storage conditions, poor ink<br />
quality <strong>and</strong> general wear <strong>and</strong> tear—a state of<br />
affairs that is irremediable. No registers have<br />
been compiled in which to search for personal<br />
names, occupations, addresses, etc.“<br />
Church books (kirkebøger)—Images<br />
“All Danish parish registers older than 1892<br />
are included in the digitization project. The<br />
end year may, however, differ for South Jutl<strong>and</strong><br />
(North Schleswig) because the local parish registers<br />
were kept according to different rules in<br />
the period 1864-1920, when South Jutl<strong>and</strong> was<br />
under German administration.“<br />
Census (folketællinger)—Images<br />
The following population censuses are accessible via<br />
the Internet: 1787, 1801, 1834, 1840, 1850, 1855, <strong>and</strong><br />
1860. The following population censuses will become<br />
accessible in the future: 1845, 1880, 1890, <strong>and</strong> 1916.<br />
Any other population censuses are not included in<br />
this project. It should be noted that only population<br />
censuses taken within the Kingdom of Denmark will<br />
be made available at this site.<br />
System Access<br />
In order to be able to view the Church <strong>and</strong> Census<br />
images your PC needs to be running at least Windows<br />
XP with Service Pack 2 <strong>and</strong> Java version 6, update<br />
10.<br />
ArkivalierOnline requires a free registration<br />
(brugerregistrering). On front page of www.<br />
arkivalieronline.dk select ny burger, then on next<br />
page select Opret ny burger.<br />
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Fill in your Given Name, Surname, Address, Zip<br />
code, Town (<strong>and</strong> state) to the right, Country (L<strong>and</strong>),<br />
<strong>and</strong> finally email. Then Check “Oprette” <strong>and</strong> Click<br />
Send.<br />
Your password will arrive in your email within<br />
minutes. Use your email address <strong>and</strong> the password to<br />
log in. You can change your personal info, password<br />
included, after logging in by selecting “brugerprofil”<br />
(User profile).<br />
(Confirmations), V-Viede (Marriage), <strong>and</strong> D-Døde<br />
(Death).<br />
After selecting the desired book, it is a bit of trial<br />
<strong>and</strong> error to locate the correct record type <strong>and</strong> date.<br />
There is a color code next to the Opslag (poster) number<br />
to show which pages have been viewed.<br />
Finding the Parish<br />
The good news is that all of the older parish records<br />
are available online for free; however, you do need<br />
to know the parish in order to find the desired records.<br />
It also helps to know the exact date of an<br />
event. Review U.S. vital records, military, immigration<br />
<strong>and</strong> naturalization records for clues. I have<br />
been able to locate the images of several records<br />
after finding the dates <strong>and</strong> places from IGI entries<br />
at <strong>Family</strong>Search.com.<br />
The Danish Demographic Database, listed next,<br />
can possibly locate individuals in census records that<br />
often provide the birth parish <strong>and</strong> timeframe as well<br />
as the necessary details to narrow down the search<br />
for a census record image. One record can often provide<br />
the necessary information such as birthplace,<br />
age, or home to help locate other records.<br />
Parish Registers—Images<br />
Click on Søg i kirkebøger (Search in parish registers)<br />
Select the desired Amt (County), Herred (Alle is<br />
for All), <strong>and</strong> Sogn (Parish). A list of the available records<br />
will then appear.<br />
1858 Births in Trinitatis, Kobenhavn<br />
Birth entries show the Entry number, the Date,<br />
Child’s full name, Christening Date (in church or at<br />
Home), Parent’s Names, Mother’s Age, <strong>and</strong> the names<br />
of the Godparents. The Patronymic naming system<br />
was in use until 1860. There was a transition period<br />
as people began to use family surnames.<br />
1858 Marriage Record for Lorenz Christian<br />
Neuhaus <strong>and</strong> Regina Oelund<br />
List of Records for Kongens Lyngby<br />
The Keys for the codes that appear at the top of<br />
each column are: F-Fodte (Birth), K-Konfirmered<br />
Marriage entries contain the Bride <strong>and</strong> Groom’s<br />
name, age, occupation, <strong>and</strong> residence along with the<br />
two Bondsmen, <strong>and</strong> the marriage date. The last entry<br />
is if the marriage was performed in the church<br />
or at home, <strong>and</strong> if it was done at home, the date that<br />
permission was given.<br />
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Census Records—Images<br />
Click on Søg i folketælling (Search in population census).<br />
Browsing the census records is actually a more<br />
accurate description. First, select the årgang (Year),<br />
then the Stedbetegnelse (Place Name), <strong>and</strong> finally<br />
the Gade (Street) <strong>and</strong> then Click “Hent oplysninger”<br />
(Download information). The viewer window will<br />
open with a list of pages. It becomes a bit of trial <strong>and</strong><br />
error at this point to find the desired page.<br />
1880 Census record<br />
In the 1880 Census there are three pages for each<br />
place. There is a summary page, then the Hovediste<br />
with the list of people <strong>and</strong> a Tillaegsliste (Supplementary<br />
list). The Hovediste page contains the place<br />
name (parish, town or farm), the <strong>Family</strong> enumeration<br />
number, the Person’s enumeration number, their<br />
full name, sex, age, marital status, creed, birth place,<br />
<strong>and</strong> status in the family. At the beginning of one of<br />
the 1845 census there is a place name index telling<br />
the range of pages for each town. Some useful terms<br />
are: Kvarter—Town quarter, Købstad—Town, Amt—<br />
County, Herred—District (formerly a judicial district),<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sogn/L<strong>and</strong>sogn—Parish/rural parish.<br />
Danish Demographic Database<br />
www.ddd.dda.dk—Free Site<br />
www.ddd.dda.dk/ddd en.htm—<br />
in English (but not all databases!)<br />
The Danish Demographic Database (DDD) allows you<br />
to search for people in the indexes of various Census,<br />
Emigrant, Probate, <strong>and</strong> Immigrant databases.<br />
CENSUS/Folketaellinger—Index<br />
1769-1921 Census Search<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/d4/dddweb/asp/dddform uk.asp<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/dddform uk.aspsit=2<br />
Only the 1787, 1801, 1834, 1840, 1845, 1850, 1855, 1860,<br />
1880, 1890, 1906, <strong>and</strong> the 1916 censuses are available<br />
at the site. It does not include the 1870, 1901, 1921,<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1925 censuses. This is a work in progress <strong>and</strong><br />
all entries for the available years have not yet been<br />
entered.<br />
A search can be done for all years or for any single<br />
year but it can only be done for a single county at a<br />
time. The screen must be reset in order to choose<br />
another county. The advanced search says that you<br />
can select multiple counties, but it caused an error<br />
whenever I tried it.<br />
Click “Søgning efter personer” to search for a<br />
person.<br />
Enter Navn = Name (minimum 3 letters, blank<br />
separator, “_” replaces 1 char, “%” is wildcard), Amt<br />
(County) must be selected, “Alle aldre” = All ages.<br />
Køn: = Sex. Then Click “Søg” to search.<br />
Searching by name is a little different with this<br />
system. It gives the choice of “contains”, “=” (equals),<br />
<strong>and</strong> “starts with.” The default is “contains.” After<br />
entering a search for Neuhaus, it returned entries<br />
with Neuhaus as a middle name along with a number<br />
of entries for Neuhausen. I changed the search<br />
to equals Neuhaus <strong>and</strong> nothing was returned. I then<br />
noticed that this is not a surname search, but a full<br />
name search.<br />
Search results of contains Bockman in Kobenhavn<br />
Emigrants<br />
Emigrant database (1868 - 1908)—Index<br />
http://www.emiarch.dk/home.php3l=en in English<br />
While there are no images at this site, the information<br />
provided can be used to possibly locate the images of<br />
passenger lists or immigration records at other sites<br />
such as the Hamburg records at www.Ancestry.com,<br />
Castle Garden (www.castlegarden.org), <strong>and</strong> Ellis Isl<strong>and</strong><br />
(www.ellisisl<strong>and</strong>records.com).<br />
Details about the database were found on the Information<br />
page: “Emigration lists compiled by the<br />
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Copenhagen Police from 1869 to 1940. These lists give<br />
the name, last residence, age, year of emigration, <strong>and</strong><br />
first destination of the emigrant from Denmark. The<br />
records are made available for the years 1869 to 1908<br />
(394,000 emigrants). The Danish Emigration Data<br />
Base compiled by the Danish Emigration Archives<br />
<strong>and</strong> The City Archives of Aalborg.<br />
The Danish emigration material <strong>and</strong> the database<br />
Following a number of sc<strong>and</strong>als in which unsuspecting<br />
emigrants were conned by Danish emigration<br />
agents, The Danish parliament passed more stringent<br />
regulations on May 1, 1868. According to the new<br />
law, The Copenhagen Chief of Police was to approve<br />
<strong>and</strong> monitor all emigration agents in Denmark <strong>and</strong><br />
authorize all overseas tickets made out in Denmark.<br />
This was to be done whether an emigrant would be<br />
traveling directly from Copenhagen to the United<br />
States or indirectly via another European harbor for<br />
destinations overseas. As an extra measure of control,<br />
all the information from each ticket was copied down<br />
in ledgers, <strong>and</strong> thus became the Copenhagen Police<br />
Records of Emigrants. A total of 90 thick volumes<br />
were compiled, containing the same type of information<br />
for every emigrant. In spite of the care taken,<br />
the records are time-consuming to use <strong>and</strong>, in fact,<br />
there are two series of ledgers—one for emigrants<br />
who had direct passage from Copenhagen <strong>and</strong> one<br />
for those who had indirect passage. In each series,<br />
the emigrants are listed year by year in roughly alphabetical<br />
order according to the first letter of his or<br />
her surname.<br />
The Danish emigrant database<br />
Although difficult to use in their original form, the<br />
uniform nature of the police records made this material<br />
a natural choice for electronic data processing.<br />
Initial efforts to code the material were made<br />
by Kristian Hvidt when data processing was still in<br />
its infancy. Unfortunately, these first efforts did not<br />
include personal or place names. Personal names are,<br />
however, a prerequisite for dealing with genealogical<br />
queries <strong>and</strong> for making a person to person comparison<br />
with the American passenger lists. In 1990,<br />
therefore, the Danish Emigration Archives began<br />
compiling a database including all the information<br />
provided in the police records for all Danish emigrants.<br />
To date we have stored data for 394,000 persons<br />
who emigrated from May 24, 1868, to December<br />
1908. For each emigrant, 13 items of basic information<br />
have been taken from the records: surname, first<br />
name, occupation, family status, age, place of birth<br />
(from 1899), last known residence (Danish emigrants,<br />
aliens only country-name), name of the emigration<br />
agent, ticket number, ticket registration date, name<br />
of the ship (only for direct passage from Copenhagen),<br />
destination <strong>and</strong> possible cancellation of the<br />
ticket. Added to this are 11 sets of codes to assist in<br />
making searches.<br />
Source: The Provincial Archives of Seal<strong>and</strong>, Copenhagen<br />
Police Records of Emigrants 1868-1940: no.<br />
21-58 Direct emigrants; 198-248 Indirect emigrants;<br />
59-196 Ships sailings with passenger lists.”<br />
To Search the Database, first Click on Databases.<br />
On the search screen at www.emiarch.dk/search.<br />
php3l=en there are a variety of options including<br />
parts of a name or occupation, the person’s age, or<br />
their destination.<br />
Immigrants<br />
Search Results for Bockman<br />
Indv<strong>and</strong>rerhistoriske databaser—Index<br />
Immigrant Historical databases<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/htm/immibaslink.htm<br />
The following databases can be searched <strong>and</strong> may<br />
provide a person’s birth date <strong>and</strong> birthplace.<br />
Arbejdsophold 1812–1924—Index<br />
Working holidays 1812–1924<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/immibas1.asp<br />
The following are Google translated text.<br />
“The Native people who have been working<br />
visit in Brunswick County, Copenhagen County<br />
(not Copenhagen <strong>and</strong> Frederiksberg), <strong>and</strong> most<br />
of Los Angeles. The database comprises some<br />
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107,000 items <strong>and</strong> is based mainly on Chief protocols<br />
of issued residence papers <strong>and</strong> parish bailiff<br />
the servant protocols for the years 1875-1924.<br />
In Brunswick County is also the church books to<br />
<strong>and</strong> departure lists 1812-1875 (urban 1812-1854)<br />
included, but not the other areas. How servant<br />
protocols exceptionally goes further back than<br />
1875, these included.”<br />
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Rasmussen<br />
The following is the translated <strong>and</strong> transcribed<br />
entry for:<br />
Surname: Rasmussen, First name: August, Birth<br />
Date: 00.00.1819, Arrival: 00.00.1835,<br />
Arrival: Tjenestekarl, Arrived from (country):<br />
Sweden, Arr. from the (local): Vixjöl,<br />
Birth: Sweden, Tj. / Oph.sted (region): Frederiksborg<br />
County Tj. / oph.sted (parish): Sct. Marie<br />
Source number: 1100902<br />
Indfødsretstildeling 1776 - 1960—Index<br />
Naturalization Award 1776 - 1960<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/immibas2.asp<br />
“Persons who have been granted citizenship.<br />
The database is nationwide <strong>and</strong> includes 50,317<br />
entries. The database built from 1776-1849 to a<br />
record of naturalization Patents <strong>and</strong> from 1850-<br />
1940 at the comments on the draft laws naturalization.<br />
Please note that from 1898 achieves<br />
incapacitated wife <strong>and</strong> children automatic citizenship<br />
when the man gets the allocated. This<br />
means that married women <strong>and</strong> children do not<br />
appear in the database, although they have obtained<br />
citizenship. Widows who have applied independently<br />
<strong>and</strong> received naturalization should<br />
normally be sought during their married name.<br />
Furthermore, it must be pointed out that after<br />
1914 persons acting in the base, which have not<br />
obtained citizenship, because they have not met<br />
the condition—within a year—to show that they<br />
are released from their former citizenship.<br />
When as a result of a search for a final st<strong>and</strong>:<br />
The Law of xx xx xxxx Item number / pag. xxx<br />
Supplement x, it means that he has been granted<br />
citizenship with the law in question under the<br />
serial number (before 1850 listed on the page).<br />
Appendix (A, B) means that information must<br />
be found in the Official Journal of Parliament in<br />
Appendix A <strong>and</strong> Appendix B.<br />
Serial numbers may differ slightly from the<br />
final bill—especially up in 1930-40s, because<br />
the serial numbers that—after 1915—is used in<br />
the database are those persons have entered in<br />
appendices <strong>and</strong> not them, they are Having entered<br />
into the final bill.<br />
Immigrant Museum—Bodenstown Museums—is<br />
usually not in possession of additional<br />
information beyond what is in surcharges to<br />
parliament Journal of the minutes of naturalization<br />
Patents. If you wish further information,<br />
those sought in individual applications for<br />
naturalization in the Public Record Office.”<br />
Deportees 1875-1919—Index<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/immibas/immibas3.asp<br />
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“Persons who were deported from Denmark<br />
1875-1919. The table includes 31,000 items, but<br />
some people are shown several times. The database<br />
is based on police internal journal of Police<br />
Intelligence. Most expulsions occurred after<br />
foreign law either without injunction (in Copenhagen<br />
quoted as Home Delivered) or with tumbler,<br />
i.e., with <strong>and</strong> without an obligation not to<br />
return to the country. Some are deported after<br />
a criminal offense.”<br />
Kirkebilleder<br />
http://dis-danmark.dk/kirkeimg/list kirker.asp<br />
Navn=A—Free Site<br />
Once you have found the family’s parish then you<br />
will want find a photograph of the church. This<br />
site contains a collection of photographs of all the<br />
churches in Denmark.<br />
Select the first letter of the church’s name <strong>and</strong> select<br />
from the list. The sort order of the selection list<br />
can be changed to list them by Parish (Sogne) or by<br />
location (Herreder).<br />
Esbjerg Arkive<br />
http://www.eba.esbjergkommune.dk—Free site<br />
This archive on the west coast of Jutl<strong>and</strong> has three<br />
collections of photographs that can be found under<br />
Links <strong>and</strong> then Billeddatabaser.<br />
Search results for Rasmussen<br />
Odense billeder<br />
http://museum.odense.dk/odensebilleder/billed<br />
start.asp<br />
Herreder=Haderslev<br />
Danish Probate Index<br />
http://ddd.dda.dk/dprob/soeg skifte.html—Index<br />
The index to probate records from Thisted, Viborg,<br />
Aalborg, <strong>and</strong> R<strong>and</strong>ers counties of Denmark was<br />
made by volunteers at the <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library in<br />
Salt Lake City over the period of over 20 years. This<br />
index can provide the name of the farm or parish<br />
where they lived at the time of their death along with<br />
the name of their spouse or a parent, <strong>and</strong> possibly<br />
their occupation.<br />
“Odense City Museum has a large collection<br />
of old photographs, drawings <strong>and</strong> more from<br />
New Jersey. Picture located physically on Bymuseet<br />
Coins Farm, Overgade 48, New Jersey.<br />
We are in the process of digital image collection<br />
<strong>and</strong> will eventually make the images available<br />
here on the Internet site. The images may be<br />
used freely for non-commercial use in newspapers,<br />
magazines <strong>and</strong> printed matter, stating:<br />
Source: Odense City Museums.”<br />
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There are currently 9,885 images in the database.<br />
The other two collections are the Danske billeder <strong>and</strong><br />
Fotograf Tønnies samling (Aalborg).<br />
Ancestry.com<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.<br />
aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5071—Subscription site<br />
At present there is nothing for Denmark except for<br />
a reference to “Sous le masque de “William Shakespeare”:<br />
William Stanley, VIe comte de Derby”<br />
which is a book in French that contains references to<br />
Danemark.<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Family</strong> Search Research Outline for Finl<strong>and</strong>:<br />
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/<br />
Search/RG/guide/Finl<strong>and</strong>.ASP<br />
Finding Records of Your Ancestors<br />
in Finl<strong>and</strong> Before 1900<br />
Color http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/<br />
RG/images/Finding Records Finl<strong>and</strong> 36687.pdf<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong> GenWebProject<br />
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~finwgw/<br />
This site only has some basic information <strong>and</strong> a number<br />
of links.<br />
A little history<br />
In 1808-1809 Sweden lost Finl<strong>and</strong> to Russia. In 1917,<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong> became independent from Russia.<br />
In Eastern Finl<strong>and</strong>, fixed family surnames that<br />
often ended in “nen” were used.<br />
The Genealogical Society of Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
HisKi project<br />
http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiskien<br />
This site has transcribed <strong>and</strong> indexed church records.<br />
From their Instruction link:<br />
“The data included in the history books<br />
has been put into a database <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ardized<br />
so that searches are possible. The data<br />
is intended only for searches <strong>and</strong> not to replace<br />
the original history books or their h<strong>and</strong>written<br />
copies (“black books”). The data may<br />
include mistakes <strong>and</strong> all information should<br />
be checked from the original source. Note that<br />
the database does not include events from the<br />
20th century. Read also the more detailed instructions<br />
for using the books of christened,<br />
married <strong>and</strong> buried as well as of those who<br />
have moved in or out.”<br />
Selecting Alajärvi showed that the following records<br />
were available:<br />
• Christened (1754-1756, 1758-1762, 1764-1855, 1857)<br />
• Married (1754-1863)<br />
• Buried (1754-1864)<br />
• All (1754-1864)<br />
• Statistics (1754-1864)<br />
HisKi Project homepage<br />
Alajärvi Christened: Search results for Anna<br />
Institute of Migration<br />
Siirtolaisuusinstituutti<br />
http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/rekisteri e<br />
.php—Subscription site<br />
The “List of Databases” at http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/sr<br />
faq2 e.php includes:<br />
Passenger lists (318,000 records)<br />
“The passenger lists from the Finl<strong>and</strong> Steamship<br />
Company give information on emigrants<br />
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from Finl<strong>and</strong>, mostly through the port of Hanko.<br />
Most of these are Finnish emigrants, but the<br />
database also contains information on Russian<br />
passengers who went through Finl<strong>and</strong>. The passenger<br />
lists covers the following periods: 1892-<br />
1896, 1899-1914, 1920-1939, <strong>and</strong> 1949-1960 (original<br />
sources of information cover only rather small<br />
part of all the emigrants after 1949).”<br />
Passport records (197,000 records)—Index<br />
“The passport records are based on the lists<br />
kept by the provinces <strong>and</strong> magistrates from the<br />
beginning of the 1800s to 1920. At the beginning<br />
of 2005 the following areas <strong>and</strong> time periods<br />
were available in the database:<br />
• Hanko / Hangö town magistrate, 1900-1903<br />
• Häme province, 1903-1904<br />
• Kristiinankaupunki / Kristinestad town magistrate,<br />
1890-1891 <strong>and</strong> 1900-1901<br />
• Kokkola / Gamla Karleby town magistrate,<br />
1899-1902<br />
• Kuopio province, to Russia: 1890-1899, <strong>and</strong> to<br />
overseas countries (incl. America): 1900-1915<br />
• Mikkeli province, 1914-1915<br />
• Oulu province, 1897-1922<br />
• Turku <strong>and</strong> Pori province, 1899-1905<br />
• Vaasa province, 1896-1904<br />
• Viipuri province, to America: 1906-1909<br />
More than 100,000 records are still to be entered<br />
in the database.”<br />
There are also other records:<br />
• References to books <strong>and</strong> newspapers<br />
• Register of Australian Finns<br />
• Register of New Zeal<strong>and</strong> Finns<br />
• Finnish Russians 1930-1950<br />
• Other online databases<br />
• Records from the Archives of the Ministry of<br />
Foreign Affairs<br />
• Other databases of the emigrant register<br />
There is a limited free search at http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emregfree/nimihaku<br />
e.php.<br />
The results from the free passenger list search for<br />
Bockman were:<br />
Last name First names Date<br />
Bockman Frank 08.06.1910<br />
Bockman Isak . .9999<br />
Bockman Johan 08.04.1902<br />
Muisti<br />
http://www-db2.helsinki.fi/muisti/muisti.muisti<br />
haku.haku sivup kieli=e<br />
Details on a portrait of Robert E. A. Bjorkenheim<br />
This is a joint database of digitized national material<br />
of libraries, archives, <strong>and</strong> museums.<br />
You can search by keywords or select items from<br />
an extensive “Title list” that included portraits, photographs,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a variety of items.<br />
National Library of Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
Digital <strong>Collections</strong><br />
http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/index.html—Free site<br />
“Vast numbers of newspapers, periodicals,<br />
small printed items, <strong>and</strong> books contained in the<br />
rich collections of the National Library of Finl<strong>and</strong><br />
have now been digitized to form a fascinating<br />
material that throws light on the past <strong>and</strong><br />
present as parts of our national identity. The<br />
opportunity to browse through <strong>and</strong> search this<br />
material is now within the reach of scholars,<br />
students <strong>and</strong> all users of the Web.”<br />
Newspapers—Images<br />
The National Library digitizes all newspapers published<br />
in Finl<strong>and</strong> 1771-1890. The Newspaper Library<br />
will contain 165 titles <strong>and</strong> approximately 900,000<br />
pages.<br />
The Search page is at: http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/<br />
sanomalehti/secure/query.html.<br />
There are links to several newspapers from 150<br />
years ago today.<br />
Ephemera—Some Images<br />
The Ephemera Collection contains approximately<br />
three million printings. The materials, publications<br />
associated with the activities of various communities<br />
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<strong>and</strong> organizations, consist primarily of guidebooks,<br />
instructions, membership lists, invitations, menus,<br />
<strong>and</strong> telephone directories. Printed products related<br />
to communications, such as programs, exhibition<br />
catalogues, brochures, time schedules <strong>and</strong> calendars,<br />
have been placed in the Ephemera Collection.“ One of<br />
the major collections is the images of the Industrial<br />
price lists 1810-1944.<br />
Ancestry.com<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.<br />
aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5086<br />
Finl<strong>and</strong> Country Study<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspxdbid=3356<br />
“Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,<br />
Inc., 1998. Original data: Solsten, Eric, ed.. Finl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: Library<br />
of Congress, 1988.<br />
Lying largely within the Arctic Circle, the<br />
hardy people of Finl<strong>and</strong> share much in common<br />
with both their Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian <strong>and</strong> Russian<br />
neighbors. This country study unfolds to<br />
the researcher these <strong>and</strong> other facts about this<br />
frigid l<strong>and</strong>. Prepared by the Library of Congress<br />
<strong>and</strong> completed in 1988, this database provides<br />
the researcher information on Finnish culture,<br />
economics, politics, <strong>and</strong> history. Regardless of<br />
research experience, this database is designed<br />
to illuminate significant aspects of the nation.<br />
Although not a searchable list of names which patrons<br />
of Ancestry.com have come to expect, this study is for<br />
those attempting to underst<strong>and</strong> the larger context in<br />
which their ancestors lived.”<br />
As they stated above (my italics) research is more<br />
than just looking for information by a name. Learning<br />
about the history of an area, the political events,<br />
<strong>and</strong> stories about other people living in the same<br />
time <strong>and</strong> place gives one a better underst<strong>and</strong>ing of<br />
their ancestor’s lives. These are often the tools that<br />
can help get past brick walls.<br />
Norway<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Search Research Outline for Norway:<br />
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/<br />
frameset rg.aspDest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=<br />
&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=<br />
&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=Norway.ASP<br />
Finding Records of Your Ancestors<br />
in Norway 1827 to 1900<br />
B&W: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/<br />
RG/images/36578 norway finding ancestor.pdf<br />
Color: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/<br />
images/36578 norway finding ancestor color.pdf<br />
Norway GenWebProject<br />
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/<br />
I would like to thank Jerry at the Norwegian American<br />
Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library www.<br />
nagcnl.org in Madison, WI for his recommendations<br />
for the three main Norwegian research sites: Digital<br />
Archives, University of Tromso, <strong>and</strong> Norway Heritage<br />
H<strong>and</strong>s Across the Seas.<br />
Digital Archive of Norway<br />
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/index-eng.htm<br />
“Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives) is the Norwegian<br />
National Archives’ channel for publication of<br />
digitized archive material in the form of images,<br />
transcribed texts, <strong>and</strong> databases. The publication<br />
includes archive material both from electronic<br />
sources <strong>and</strong> traditional paper sources, that are<br />
either digitized from an original or a microfilm.<br />
The digitized material is processed in the National<br />
Archives (Riksarkivet), the regional state archives<br />
(statsarkivene) or in our digitizing units. Some of<br />
the material is also produced through external cooperation.<br />
The Regional State Archives of Bergen<br />
is responsible for the daily management of Digitalarkivet,<br />
as well as being chief editor of the internet<br />
site.” Their “How to” page is at http://digitalarkivet.<br />
uib.no/sab/howto.html.<br />
The language is Norwegian, but there are some<br />
pages with English versions. Many of the search result<br />
pages do not have English versions <strong>and</strong> any text in the<br />
returned data fields <strong>and</strong> images is in Norwegian.<br />
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Parish Registers (Kirkebøker)—Images<br />
http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb read<br />
Information about the parish records can be found at<br />
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/sab/howto.html#Parish<br />
registers Kirkebøker .<br />
“The Digital Archives is proud to present a<br />
new Internet service for browsing digitized parish<br />
registers, launched on 8th November 2005.<br />
The registers are digitized from microfilm <strong>and</strong><br />
then indexed. The registers are not published<br />
before they have been indexed. The images are<br />
indexed at page level. This means that you can<br />
easily find the first page of a register, as well as<br />
the start of a list of records, or the start of each<br />
year in this list. From this point you can browse<br />
through the pages in the register or through a list<br />
of records, even though the records are scattered<br />
around in the original parish register. Please notice<br />
that you cannot, however, search on single<br />
records <strong>and</strong> names in the digitized material.<br />
The microfilm department of The National<br />
Archives holds close to all parish registers<br />
Results from selecting Oslo <strong>and</strong> Aker<br />
delivered from the priests´ office to The Regional<br />
State Archives, i.e., nearly 11,000 registers<br />
with a total of 1.85 million microfilmed pages.<br />
According to our plan, all the material will be<br />
published within 2007. The digitized material<br />
will interact with the databases in The Digital<br />
Archives eventually, but in the mean time you<br />
find the digitized parish registers here.“<br />
Census Returns (Folketellinger)—Index<br />
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/sab/howto.html#Census<br />
returns Folketellinger<br />
“National censuses were taken in 1769, 1801,<br />
<strong>and</strong> every tenth year from 1815, up to <strong>and</strong> including<br />
1875. From 1890 (1891) a population census<br />
has been taken every tenth year. All census<br />
returns from 1900 <strong>and</strong> earlier are available for<br />
inspection. They are all located in the National<br />
Archives, except for the 1875 <strong>and</strong> 1900 returns,<br />
which are kept in the regional archives.<br />
From a genealogical point of view, the best<br />
census is from 1801, because it lists the individual’s<br />
name, age, occupation, <strong>and</strong> family status.<br />
The census returns from 1865 onward are also<br />
useful because they provide information about<br />
each person’s place of birth, etc. Some of the<br />
figures given (in particular those regarding age<br />
or year of birth) can be rather inaccurate. The<br />
other records provide mostly statistical data.<br />
The 1769 census, however, includes some name<br />
lists, mostly from northern Norway, <strong>and</strong> the<br />
1815-45 returns give lists of persons in a few<br />
scattered parishes. For 1870 <strong>and</strong> 1885 there are<br />
census returns only for towns. These records<br />
are kept partly in the National Archives <strong>and</strong><br />
partly in the regional archives.”<br />
1801—http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/Web-<br />
Meta.exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=2<br />
1865—http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/Web-<br />
Meta.exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=3<br />
1853 Banns for Aker Search Result for Bockman<br />
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together with the local sheriffs <strong>and</strong> mayors. In<br />
each counting ward it was the schoolmasters or<br />
especially selected persons who went from door<br />
to door, <strong>and</strong> penned the actual census lists.”<br />
An example of the registration form used can<br />
be found at http://digitalarkivet.no/dok/1900/<br />
skj1900-3.htm.<br />
Detailed List for the Household<br />
1875—http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/Web-<br />
Meta.exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=4<br />
“On this page you can search in the entire<br />
1875 census for Norway, notice however that<br />
the census is not yet complete. Nearly all of the<br />
material has been registered by The Norwegian<br />
Historical Data Centre (NHDC) <strong>and</strong> they have<br />
concentrated most of the registration work on<br />
the census lists from the north of Norway. If you<br />
look in the menu to the left you will see a list of<br />
all the counties represented in the census. You<br />
can open up a county by clicking on the name<br />
<strong>and</strong> then get a list of municipalities available<br />
in the census.“<br />
1900 Household result<br />
Photo album of farms in the 1900 census<br />
“December 2005, a new feature was introduced<br />
in the Digital Archives. One can now submit<br />
digitized photographs of farms in the 1900<br />
census. In connection with this feature, a photo<br />
album was established so that you can browse<br />
the different photos without having to search in<br />
the 1900 census. But there is a link in the album<br />
between the farm photo <strong>and</strong> the respective farm<br />
in the census list, so that one can find information<br />
on the farm <strong>and</strong> household. When browsing<br />
the census lists in a municipality in the 1900<br />
census, all the lists with submitted photos, will<br />
be marked with an icon of a house.”<br />
List Databases with submitted photos<br />
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.exe<br />
slag=visrss<br />
There are 1490 items listed.<br />
1875 Result for Neuhaus<br />
1900 Census<br />
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.<br />
exeslag=vismeny&katnr=1&emnenr=5<br />
The census of 3 December 1900<br />
“The royal resolution of 8 August 1900 proclaimed<br />
that a general census was to be held<br />
for the night before 3 December 1900. The aim<br />
was to acquire a detailed survey of the whole<br />
of the Norwegian population. People were to<br />
be registered with the place of residence at the<br />
time of registration. In the rural areas it was<br />
the vicars who were responsible for the census<br />
1900-telling for 1115 Hellel<strong>and</strong><br />
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Property/Real estate<br />
Digitized Real Estate Registers<br />
“This material consists of mortgage books,<br />
which contains written copies of official stated<br />
public documents sorted chronological after<br />
their stated date. It also consists of registers,<br />
which are short descriptions <strong>and</strong> locators to<br />
the mortgage books, sorted by property. The<br />
registers <strong>and</strong> mortgage books are located at the<br />
Archives by local officials.<br />
This service provides three different entries to the<br />
material.<br />
Property: “Use this entry if you know whole or<br />
parts of names <strong>and</strong>/or real estate reverence numbers.<br />
This entry has at this stage a limited coverage <strong>and</strong><br />
only works for registers younger than 1880.”<br />
Register: “Use this when you don’t find your information<br />
by using the property entry. By eyeball<br />
reading the registers (you need to underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
read h<strong>and</strong>written Norwegian text) you may find your<br />
references <strong>and</strong> then use this to look into the mortgage<br />
book. The coverage does at this stage not include the<br />
whole country.”<br />
Navigate in the material by selecting county,<br />
district court area (or bailiff area), perhaps administrative<br />
district <strong>and</strong> mortgage register. To find the<br />
desired property, one needs to browse the mortgage<br />
registers, but sometimes the alphabetical property<br />
indexes in front of the registers are useful. Follow<br />
the reference in the mortgage registers to the mortgage<br />
protocols. Currently, only Hedmark, Oppl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, Hordal<strong>and</strong>, Bergen,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sogn og Fjordane counties are represented in<br />
this entrance.<br />
Mortgage book: If one knows which office (sorenskriver,<br />
etc.), mortgage protocol <strong>and</strong> page number<br />
to find a desired property (for instance from Infol<strong>and</strong>),<br />
one can navigate to the specific protocol by<br />
selecting county <strong>and</strong> office, <strong>and</strong> the lookup the exact<br />
page by writing the page number. Currently, only<br />
Hedmark, Oppl<strong>and</strong>, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark,<br />
Hordal<strong>and</strong>, Bergen <strong>and</strong> Sogn og Fjordane counties<br />
are represented in this entrance. Search or navigate to<br />
the desired property in the mortgage registers by selecting<br />
county, municipality (anno 1960), farm name,<br />
farm unit name, or farm number/farm unit number.<br />
Follow the reference in the mortgage register to the<br />
actual document in the mortgage protocol. Project<br />
status: Indexed: 6,708 books <strong>and</strong> registers, Indexed:<br />
2,617,533 pages, Digitized: 4,300,542 pages.”<br />
The Digital Inn<br />
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.exe<br />
slag=vispensjonat—Free site<br />
In the Digital Inn you will find databases that are<br />
made by either organizations or persons outside the<br />
National Archives. The contributor is responsible<br />
for the content in the databases, <strong>and</strong> (s)he holds the<br />
copyright to the data. The Digital Archive offers only<br />
an Internet-based publishing tool, <strong>and</strong> shall not distribute<br />
the material in any other way than through<br />
the Digital Inn. Nevertheless, the Digital Archive is<br />
the editor of the Digital Inn, making sure the material<br />
is of an appropriate quality for the users. The<br />
contributor may withdraw his/her databases at any<br />
time. Likewise, the Digital Archive may reserve itself<br />
from publishing the databases.<br />
In the Digital Inn you will find a list of all the contributors,<br />
<strong>and</strong> you must visit the rooms to see with<br />
databases they have made. However, the databases<br />
are also available through the access “Source categories”<br />
<strong>and</strong> the geographical accesses. The databases<br />
from the Digital Inn will be distinguishable by a DP<br />
in front of the link.<br />
Digital Books<br />
http://da2.uib.no/cgi-win/webbok.exe<br />
There is a link to 255 digitized books. A few examples<br />
are:<br />
• 15. Norske folkelivsbilleder—Norwegian life photos<br />
• 26. Bergens Adressebok 1924-1925<br />
• 32. J.C.L. Lengnick: Personalhistoriske bidrag—<br />
J.C.L. Lengnick: Personal <strong>History</strong> contribution<br />
Numbers 77 through 84 for are Heimstavnsforklaringar<br />
i Bergen 1854-1883<br />
These are books for requesting poor support in Bergen<br />
from 1854-1883.<br />
Google’s translation:<br />
”Home spell Right is a concepts that have been<br />
central in fattigpleia far in the eighteenth time.<br />
Very easily defined as the impoverished district<br />
where one in naud case was entitled to poor supported,<br />
but the rules for how long one had to be<br />
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Faculty of Social Science at the University of<br />
Tromsø (UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize<br />
the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together<br />
with the parish registers <strong>and</strong> other sources from<br />
the 18th <strong>and</strong> 19th centuries.”<br />
Census—Index only<br />
http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/folketellinger<br />
e.aspx<br />
Basic search <strong>and</strong> then clicking on the house image<br />
shows the domicile information.<br />
Cover of Heimstavnsforklaringar i Bergen 1854-1856<br />
An 1854 entry<br />
Advanced Search lets you choose what fields you<br />
would like displayed.<br />
http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/folketellinger<br />
avansert e.aspx<br />
at a location before students were home right<br />
spelling has varied from two to three years. In<br />
those cases there was doubt about where a person<br />
had Stavn home, it should put forhøyr of<br />
vedkom<strong>and</strong>e to decide this question. Normally<br />
contains heimstavnsforhøyra information on<br />
each <strong>and</strong> when vedkom<strong>and</strong>e was born, parents<br />
who were, of any spouse <strong>and</strong> children, each vedkom<strong>and</strong>e<br />
had Budd <strong>and</strong> about all the places<br />
he or she had worked. Because of rules that one<br />
could acquire a new home Stavn, it was very<br />
important to all of the tidfesta hendingene it was<br />
requested. Heimstavnsforhøyra appear in this<br />
way that life stories, with a number of information<br />
that is not possible to find elsewhere.”<br />
The Norwegian Historical Data Centre<br />
University of Tromso<br />
http://www.rhd.uit.no/indexeng.html<br />
“The Norwegian Historical Data Centre<br />
(NHDC) is a national institution under the<br />
Purchasing Census Images<br />
http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/ftlst e.html<br />
“The list below shows the price in Norwegian<br />
kroner (NOK) for the paperback editions of the<br />
censuses. The books contain records of all the<br />
persons in each household <strong>and</strong> indexes of first<br />
name, surname, birth place, <strong>and</strong> farm name.<br />
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The censuses can also be ordered in electronic<br />
format. The digital products are 50 percent of<br />
the price of the printed products.”<br />
Parish registers<br />
http://www.rhd.uit.no/kirkebok/kirkebok sok<br />
e.aspx—Transcribed records<br />
You will need to search the Funeral, Baptism,<br />
Marriage, Confirmation, <strong>and</strong> Migration records<br />
separately.<br />
The records include:<br />
• Asker (1814-1878)<br />
• Malvik (1823-1893)<br />
• Bardu (1851-1877)<br />
• Balsfjord (1856-1883)<br />
• Ringebu (1821-1859)<br />
• Skjerstad (1849-1894)<br />
• Målselv (1863-1884)<br />
• Skjervøy (1899-1909)<br />
• Strinda (1818-1823)<br />
• Sørfold (1791..1900)<br />
• Malangen (1858-1886)<br />
For a detailed list of the records <strong>and</strong> time periods<br />
that are included see: http://www.rhd.uit.no/kirkebok/rkbok<br />
e.html.<br />
Norway Heritage<br />
http://www.norwayheritage.com—Free site<br />
information contained varies by the time period <strong>and</strong><br />
the data source but they may contain clues as to where<br />
the passenger lived <strong>and</strong> if married. Viewing the list of<br />
passengers will show who they traveled with.<br />
Passengers on the s/s Oder in 1968<br />
Ancestry.com<br />
www.ancestry.com—Subscription site<br />
Access to Ancestry.com’s foreign databases is available<br />
to World Deluxe Members <strong>and</strong> Ancestry Library<br />
Edition users. The following databases can be<br />
accessed from the list of all databases for Norway<br />
at http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.<br />
aspxi=d&tp=1652381&p=5173.<br />
Stavanger domkapitels protokol, 1571-1630<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/<br />
db.aspxdbid=29710—in Norwegian<br />
Norway-Heritage H<strong>and</strong>s Across the Sea contains<br />
transcribed Passenger Lists, Information about<br />
ships, shipping lines, <strong>and</strong> ship schedules. Their ship<br />
images <strong>and</strong> schedules were covered in my article<br />
They Came On This Ship in the May/June 2007 issue<br />
of the Helper.<br />
Passenger Lists<br />
The pre-1875 passenger lists can be searched by<br />
name <strong>and</strong> once selected the transcribed ship list<br />
can be viewed. Actual images of the ship lists may<br />
be available at the destination or transfer port. The<br />
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Source: Original data: Stavanger domkapitels protokol,<br />
1571-1630. Christiania: Aktieselskabet Thronsen<br />
& Co.s Bogtrykkeri, 1901.<br />
This publication is searchable <strong>and</strong> there is an index<br />
(register) starting on page 1a.<br />
• Church <strong>History</strong>: records <strong>and</strong> registers for Norway,<br />
Rogal<strong>and</strong>, Stavanger<br />
• Table of Contents<br />
• Title page<br />
• Front matter<br />
• Stavanger Domkapitels Protokol 1571-1630<br />
• Register<br />
Norwegian Connections<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx<br />
dbid=49274<br />
“Source: Original data: Jacobson, Judy. Norwegian<br />
Connections. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical<br />
Publishing Co., 2005.<br />
As she has done in a number of her other<br />
publications (e.g., Southold (Long Isl<strong>and</strong>) Connections,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Detroit River Connections),<br />
genealogist <strong>and</strong> librarian Judy Jacobson has<br />
universalized an individual family history by<br />
giving it broader significance as an example of<br />
settlement patterns. In this case, her focus is<br />
upon her husb<strong>and</strong>’s Norwegian ancestors, the<br />
Jacobsons, <strong>and</strong> others who left the Arctic circle<br />
fishing communities like Arberg, Harstad,<br />
Moen, <strong>and</strong> Fredriksberg, commencing with the<br />
outbreak of the American Civil War, for homesteading<br />
<strong>and</strong> other opportunities in Minnesota,<br />
North Dakota, <strong>and</strong> other states of the Great<br />
Plains. Although many Norwegians emigrated<br />
for religious <strong>and</strong> political reasons, the author<br />
reminds us economic dislocation in Norway—<br />
owing to the uncertainties of the fishing <strong>and</strong><br />
mercantile industries—reached such proportions<br />
that approximately 200,000 Norwegians<br />
emigrated in the 1880s. By the turn of the century,<br />
Norwegians represented the largest ethnic<br />
group among the 183,000 persons living in<br />
North Dakota.<br />
After providing the reader with ample background<br />
on the history of Norwegian immigration,<br />
Mrs. Jacobson turns to her principal<br />
objective: to record the genealogies of families<br />
from the Arctic fjords. In this context, she sheds<br />
light upon the unusual naming practices that<br />
make identifying Norwegian ancestors difficult.<br />
For example, Norwegian children typically did<br />
not take their father’s surname, <strong>and</strong> surnames<br />
were in fact derived from the father’s given<br />
name. This phenomenon helps to explain why<br />
the book ends with a given-name index <strong>and</strong> a<br />
surname index (as well as with indexes of subjects<br />
<strong>and</strong> place names). This important lesson<br />
in Norwegian onomastics is followed by detailed<br />
genealogical <strong>and</strong> biographical accounts,<br />
drawn from primary <strong>and</strong> secondary sources, of<br />
the following families: Eide, Eidissen, Erichsen,<br />
Frostad, Gjertsen, Hemmingsen, Ingebrigtsen,<br />
Jacobson, Johansen, Pedersen, Rasmussen, Sagan,<br />
Seversen, <strong>and</strong> Simonsen. Rounding out this<br />
fascinating volume are illustrations of various<br />
Norwegian communities of origin, several genealogical<br />
appendices, <strong>and</strong> an extensive list of<br />
sources.”<br />
Sweden<br />
page 161 - Rasmussen <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>Family</strong> Search Research Outline for Sweden:<br />
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/<br />
guide/Sweden.ASP<br />
Finding Records of Your Ancestors<br />
in Sweden 1860 to 1920<br />
B&W http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/<br />
images/36579 Sweden Finding Ancestors.pdf<br />
Color http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/<br />
RG/images/36579 Sweden Finding Ancestors<br />
color.pdf<br />
The following sites are also helpful to learn about<br />
Swedish research:<br />
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Tracing Your Swedish Ancestry<br />
This 47 page book by James E. Erickson <strong>and</strong> Nils<br />
William Olson contains images of sample records.<br />
It can be downloaded in pdf format at: http://www.<br />
swedenabroad.se/SelectImage/15063/tracingyourswedishancestry.pdf.<br />
Rötter<br />
www.genealogi.se/roots/<br />
This genealogy portal for the Federation of Swedish<br />
Genealogical Societies is also a rich source of Swedish<br />
genealogical information.<br />
Sweden GenWebProject<br />
http://www.rootsweb.com/~swewgw/<br />
There are numerous links, guides, <strong>and</strong> discussion<br />
boards.<br />
Counties<br />
Sweden is divided into 21 counties (län). Counties<br />
<strong>and</strong> their borders were established by law in 1634.<br />
An interactive map of the counties where you put<br />
the mouse on the county name <strong>and</strong> it highlights the<br />
county can be found at http://www.genline.com/databasen/swedens<br />
lan.php.<br />
Genline’s – Sweden’s Counties Geographically<br />
Language<br />
The following list of Swedish terms was found at<br />
ProGenealogists http://www.progenealogists.com/<br />
sweden/language.htm.<br />
• Birth—född(e)<br />
• Illegitimate—oäkta<br />
• Christening—döpt(e)<br />
• Engagement/Banns—lysnings<br />
• Marriage—vigd(e), gift(e)<br />
• Death—dödde<br />
• Burial—begravd(e)<br />
• County—län<br />
• Parish—socken, församling<br />
• Year—år<br />
• Month—månad<br />
• Day—dag<br />
• Clerical Survey—husförhörslängd<br />
• Moving in—inflyttning<br />
• Moving out—utflyttning<br />
• Probate/Inventory—bouppteckning<br />
‘’y’’ is always used as a vowel <strong>and</strong> pronounced<br />
“I”.<br />
‘’AA’’ <strong>and</strong> ‘’aa’’ are pronounced as in ‘’awe.’’ (Å <strong>and</strong><br />
å are the letters in Sweden.)<br />
‘’Æ’’ <strong>and</strong> ‘’æ’’ are pronounced like in “air.” (Ä <strong>and</strong><br />
ä are the letters in Sweden; but they can be AE or ae<br />
in plain text on the web.)<br />
‘’Ø’’ <strong>and</strong> ‘’ø’’ are pronounced like in ‘’earl.’’ (Ö <strong>and</strong><br />
ö in Sweden; but OE or oe in plain text.)<br />
‘’j’’ is pronounced just like the consonant ‘’y’’ is<br />
said in English.<br />
Records<br />
Fortunately between the Church <strong>and</strong> Civil records<br />
there should be a record of every birth, marriage, <strong>and</strong><br />
death. Unfortunately you need to know the county<br />
<strong>and</strong> parish or town where an event took place <strong>and</strong><br />
the approximate time period in order to be able to<br />
find it.<br />
Civil Records<br />
Civil Registration began in 1860. The records for<br />
birth, marriage, <strong>and</strong> death are similar to the Church<br />
Records.<br />
Church Records<br />
In 1527 the Evangelical Lutheran Church became<br />
the official state church of Sweden. Parishes of the<br />
church were organized throughout the country. In<br />
most places, parish record keeping started in 1686<br />
following an official decree issued by the King of<br />
Sweden to do so.<br />
Parish records are the primary research source<br />
for the years from 1686 to 1860. They usually include<br />
the traditional sources such as Births (Fodde) actually<br />
Christenings, Communion (Conformation), Marriages<br />
(Vigda), <strong>and</strong> Deaths () actually burials. They<br />
can also include other records such as: Household<br />
Examination, Moving In, <strong>and</strong> Moving Out records<br />
as well as Church Accountings.<br />
Genline has the largest collection of digitized<br />
church records. Ancestry also has some available.<br />
The church record descriptions listed below the Genline<br />
samples comes from Ancestry <strong>and</strong> give a good<br />
overview of what the various records contain. In addition<br />
to those described below there may also be:<br />
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Communions (Kommunionslängd)<br />
A person’s first communion, or confirmation, usually<br />
took place in their adolescent years (between 14 <strong>and</strong><br />
18 years of age). These records may list:<br />
• Individual’s name<br />
• Residence<br />
• Birth date or age<br />
Other Parish Records:<br />
• Accounting (Kyrkoräkenskaper)<br />
• Releases (Avlösningslängd)<br />
• Wives assisted by the church (Kyrkotagna hustrur)<br />
• Miscellaneous (Miscellanea)<br />
Genline<br />
http://www.genline.se—Subscription site<br />
http://www.genline.com—in English<br />
There is a computer program “Genline <strong>Family</strong><br />
Finder” that needs to be downloaded. There are versions<br />
for both Windows <strong>and</strong> Mac users. Users can<br />
then access the Swedish Church Records archive as<br />
a test user <strong>and</strong> demo their service. As a test user you<br />
have access to a few selected counties of the Swedish<br />
Church records archive.<br />
The “Work from known to unknown” rule really<br />
applies when doing this type of research. If you know<br />
the date <strong>and</strong> place for an event, then look it up first.<br />
It will tell you the name of the farm so that you can<br />
then locate the household examination register. If<br />
the dates are not known, then locating the household<br />
examination register will help you to learn the dates<br />
<strong>and</strong> places of various events for the various family<br />
members in order to locate the records.<br />
Once the application is launched then select the<br />
county or parish. A list of records will appear. Once you<br />
select one of them then a second list will appear with a<br />
list of pages. Some of them will be identified as an index,<br />
a table of contents, blank or normal. After selecting<br />
a page it will appear in the main window. Click on the<br />
left most magnifying glass icon to make the selection<br />
panel disappear so that you can view the record.<br />
“Our archive contains images of the original Swedish<br />
Church Records from the 16th to the 20th century.<br />
These include births, marriages, deaths, <strong>and</strong><br />
household examinations (similar to a yearly census)<br />
records.” There was a detailed review of Genline by<br />
Michael John Neill on page 92 of the January/February<br />
2007 issues of Everton’s Genealogical Helper.<br />
It should be noted that Genline does not contain<br />
information on people that were born after 1897 due<br />
to Swedish law <strong>and</strong> that it cannot be searched by<br />
family name. Once the place is known then a feature<br />
called GIDx allows searches by place names such as<br />
parish, village, or even farms to find other household<br />
examination books.<br />
Anyone can view a list of the records that are currently<br />
available for the 2,687 parishes at http://www.<br />
genline.com/databasen/walk3.php. There is a household<br />
extraction form with English titles that can be<br />
downloaded at http://www.genline.com/resources/<br />
extractionforms.php.<br />
List of Records for Kinne-Kleva in Skaraborg County<br />
Household Examinations/Clerical Surveys<br />
(Husförhörslängd)<br />
“Household examinations, or clerical surveys, are<br />
the result of a law given in 1686 that required ministers<br />
to keep records of the members of their parish,<br />
stating where they lived <strong>and</strong> whether they knew the<br />
catechism. Although this law was given in 1686, the<br />
majority of these records don’t begin until the early<br />
19th century. In the earlier years clerical surveys were<br />
taken yearly <strong>and</strong> in the later years, the same entry<br />
in a register may have been used for several years.<br />
This record type is one of the most useful among the<br />
parish records because it allows you to continually<br />
follow an individual or family from year to year.”<br />
Information listed in these records “may include:<br />
• Individual’s name<br />
• Residence<br />
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bride.” Information that may be listed on a marriage<br />
record includes:<br />
parish Vimmerby l<strong>and</strong>sforsamling in the County Kalmar<br />
• Whether able to read, write, or recite the catechism<br />
• Birth date <strong>and</strong>/or place<br />
• Marriage date<br />
• Occupation<br />
• Moving dates <strong>and</strong>/or places<br />
• Death date<br />
Births/Christenings (Födde/Döpte)<br />
• Names of bride <strong>and</strong> groom<br />
• Marriage date<br />
• Ages<br />
• Whether single or widowed<br />
• Residences<br />
• Occupations<br />
• Parents’ names<br />
• Birthplaces<br />
• Names of witnesses<br />
Deaths/Burials (Döde/Begravne)<br />
Fodelsebok (Births) for 1897 in Kinne-Kleva<br />
in Skaraborg Count<br />
“Birth information generally began being recorded<br />
in christening records in the 18th century. Christenings<br />
were to take place within a few days of the birth.<br />
Therefore, even if no birth information is specifically<br />
given in a record, it can be approximated.” Christening<br />
records usually list:<br />
• Child’s name<br />
• Parents’ names<br />
• Place of residence<br />
• Christening date<br />
• Birth date<br />
• Names of godparents<br />
• Names of witnesses<br />
Marriages (Vigde)<br />
“Marriages generally took place in the parish of the<br />
“Death information generally began being recorded<br />
in burial records in the 18th century. Burials were to<br />
take place within a few days of the death. Therefore,<br />
even if no death information is specifically given in a<br />
record, it can be approximated. Burials were recorded<br />
in the parish in which the burial took place, which is<br />
not necessarily the same parish in which the death<br />
occurred.” Burial records usually list:<br />
• Deceased’s name<br />
• Burial date<br />
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• Death date<br />
• Burial place<br />
• Age of deceased<br />
• Residence<br />
• Cause of death<br />
Moving Records<br />
“Moving records were used to keep track of individuals<br />
<strong>and</strong> families moving in <strong>and</strong> out of the parish.<br />
Although they begin in some areas in the 1700s,<br />
they are generally more complete beginning in the<br />
1800s.” These records are organized chronologically<br />
<strong>and</strong> usually list the following:<br />
• Individual’s name<br />
• Occupation<br />
• Marital status<br />
• Name of parish/village moving from<br />
• Name of parish/village moving to<br />
Moving In (Inlyttningslängd)<br />
parish Vimmerby l<strong>and</strong>sforsamling in the County Kalmar<br />
Moving Out (Utflyttningslängd)<br />
Moving Out - Card<br />
Unknown Parish<br />
If the parish where they lived is unknown there is<br />
still some hope. Hopefully a census or emigration<br />
records can provide the birth parish.<br />
Arkion<br />
www.arkion.se—Subscription site<br />
Click on English in the title bar. This site is mostly in<br />
Swedish but it has a few English sections.<br />
SVAR provides information about the Swedish archives<br />
<strong>and</strong> is provided by the Department of the National<br />
Archives. It lets you locate the original records<br />
that are in public archives. There is a subscription<br />
service for access to databases with scanned images<br />
<strong>and</strong>/or indexes. Information is also provided about<br />
purchasing records on microfiche.<br />
A search of the archives for “Scanned images”<br />
yields 3,546 documents. These can be selected by<br />
county or archival institution <strong>and</strong> also by type: general,<br />
fire insurance, court, church, <strong>and</strong> military.<br />
Census Records—There are indexes for the entire<br />
1890 <strong>and</strong> 1900 census as well as for part of the 1870<br />
1854 Kinne Kleva Utflyttningslängd<br />
Census 1890 - Västernorrl<strong>and</strong>s län or Anders Bäckman<br />
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<strong>and</strong> 1880 censuses. The 1890 Census index provides<br />
the person’s parish of birth.<br />
There is a free demo of the 1890 census search for<br />
the County of Västernorrl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Sollefteå parish. A<br />
search for Bockman found an Anders Bäckman.<br />
ANNO 1890. The Swedish Census 1890<br />
http://www.foark.umu.se/census/y/index.htm—<br />
Free site—Index only<br />
PDF <strong>and</strong> OCR files <strong>and</strong> organized in alphabetical<br />
order by family name which reference the<br />
church book volume <strong>and</strong> page number where<br />
you can find the original record entry.<br />
The information contained in these registers<br />
will assist you to locate the entries for people in<br />
Genline’s Swedish Church Records archive.“<br />
A guide for using the Stockholm City Archives can<br />
be downloaded from Genline at http://www.genline.<br />
com/downloads/Stockholm City Archives.doc.<br />
The Roteman Archives contains population records.<br />
“The Roteman Institution was established under<br />
a government ordinance from November 10, 1876,<br />
as well as a decision of the Stockholm City Council<br />
from June 1, 1877. On January 1, 1878, Stockholm was<br />
divided into 16 wards, called rotar, with about 8,000<br />
to 10,000 inhabitants each. Every rote was assigned<br />
one roteman who administered the work of the Roteman<br />
office. This roteman population registration system<br />
was in operation for nearly 50 years (1878–1926).<br />
By 1926, when the system was abolished, the number<br />
of wards had increased to 36 due to the population<br />
increases <strong>and</strong> to the incorporation of two suburban<br />
parishes into the city.”<br />
The 1890 Census for the counties of Norrbotten,<br />
Västerbotten, Västernorrl<strong>and</strong>, Jämtl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Värml<strong>and</strong><br />
can be searched at this site. This data displayed<br />
is similar to the SVAR.<br />
“For the 1890 Census the population was registered<br />
in their home parishes with name, year of birth,<br />
parish of birth, gender, occupation, <strong>and</strong> marital status.<br />
In 1994 ARKION (a division under the National<br />
Archives of Sweden) started a project of digitizing<br />
the Swedish Census of 1890. The five counties from<br />
the Census 1890—about 800.000 persons, have been<br />
made accessible on the Internet by the Research Archives<br />
at Umeå University.<br />
It is possible to search for persons or groups of<br />
persons by the following variables: home parish,<br />
residence, first name, last name, year of birth, parish<br />
of birth, occupation, marital status, <strong>and</strong> gender.” An<br />
exact search for Backman did not find the Bäckman<br />
entry however a partial search for “ckman” did.<br />
Stockholm City Archive<br />
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se—Free site<br />
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se/en/—English<br />
“If you do not have the date <strong>and</strong> year of birth<br />
for an ancestor in one of the parishes in Stockholm<br />
then use the free registers at Stockholm<br />
City Archives. These registers are available as<br />
Search the Roteman Archives:<br />
http://www3.ssa.stockholm.se/Rotemansarkivet/<br />
Search.aspx<br />
There is an English option available.<br />
Search results for Anderson<br />
Stockholm population registers 1800-1881—Fee<br />
based<br />
“This is a population register for the timeperiod<br />
1800 to 1881. Stockholm City Archives<br />
currently transfers the printed or h<strong>and</strong>written<br />
registers into digital form.<br />
The digital registers contain the following<br />
information:<br />
• Year of record<br />
• Last name<br />
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• First name<br />
• Title in Swedish<br />
• Additional information included in the registers<br />
• Parish or district<br />
Important note: These digital registers only<br />
indicate the presence of a record. The records<br />
themselves are currently only digitally available<br />
for four years (1835, 1845, 1860 <strong>and</strong> 1870). The<br />
rest is not yet available in a digital format. They<br />
can only be accessed directly at the Stockholm<br />
City Archives or as ordered copies (as paper or<br />
digital copies created after a request).”<br />
Ancestry.com<br />
www.ancestry.com —Subscription site<br />
A current list of their records for Sweden can be<br />
found at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/<br />
dbpage.aspxtp=1652381&p=5216.<br />
Värml<strong>and</strong>, Sweden, Parish Records,<br />
1661-1895 (in Swedish)—Free Index<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspxdbid=1194<br />
“Original data: Värml<strong>and</strong>, Sweden, Parish<br />
Records, 1661-1895. Microfilm. Emigrantregistret/Kinship<br />
Center, Karlstad, Sweden.<br />
About Värml<strong>and</strong>, Sweden, Parish Records,<br />
1661-1895<br />
This database contains Lutheran parish records<br />
from some 81 parishes in the county of<br />
Värml<strong>and</strong> in Sweden. The overall collection<br />
covers the years 1661-1895 <strong>and</strong> includes records<br />
such as births/christenings, marriages, deaths/<br />
burials, communions, household examinations,<br />
<strong>and</strong> moving records.<br />
This database contains Lutheran parish records<br />
from some 81 parishes in the county of<br />
Värml<strong>and</strong> in Sweden. A list of the parishes<br />
included in this database can be seen in the<br />
browse table below. The overall collection covers<br />
Värml<strong>and</strong>, Sweden, Parish Records,<br />
1661-1895 > Alster > Döde (Deaths) > 1860-1869<br />
the years 1661-1895. However, for each parish the<br />
years covered may vary. While most parishes<br />
began keeping records in 1686, some parishes<br />
started earlier than this time <strong>and</strong> others started<br />
later. In some cases, parish records have been<br />
either lost or destroyed <strong>and</strong> so some may not<br />
exist for a given year.”<br />
Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951<br />
(in Swedish)<br />
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx<br />
dbid=1189—Index<br />
While there are no images, this database may provide<br />
the place of origin for an immigrant.<br />
“Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,<br />
Inc., 2007. Original data: EMIGRANTEN<br />
POPULÄR 2006 is a coproduction between<br />
Emigrantregistret in Karlstad <strong>and</strong> Göteborgs-<br />
Emigranten in Göteborg.<br />
This collection contains various Swedish<br />
emigration records from 1783-1951. Specifically<br />
it includes the following five databases:<br />
1. EmiHamn: Passengers traveling to North<br />
America (with a few to Argentina, Australia,<br />
Brazil, Denmark, Finl<strong>and</strong>, Germany, New Zeal<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Norway, <strong>and</strong> Russia) from:<br />
• Göteborg, 1869-1951 (1,135,888 records)<br />
• Hamburg, 1850-1891 (21,708 records)<br />
• Helsingborg, 1929-1950 (413 records)<br />
• Kalmar, 1881-1893 (3,338 records)<br />
• Köpenhamn, 1868-1898 (56,127 records)<br />
• Malmö, 1874-1928 (165,876 records)<br />
• Norrköping, 1859-1922 (8,545 records)<br />
• Stockholm, 1869-1940 (34,887 records)<br />
2. EmiLarsson: Written letters to the agents<br />
Larsson Brothers & Co, 1879-1911 (consisting<br />
of 50,000 letters from the emigrants <strong>and</strong> about<br />
12,000 answers from the Larsson Brothers). The<br />
original letters are bound into 109 volumes. The<br />
Larsson Brothers archive in Göteborg is the only<br />
emigrant agent archive in the world. The reference<br />
code for each record gives reference to<br />
the actual letter held at the county archive in<br />
Göteborg.<br />
3. EmiPass: Passport holders from 1783 to<br />
1860, compiled from original records kept at the<br />
county archive in Göteborg (16,012 records)<br />
4. EmiSal: Passengers from the Swedish<br />
America Line, 1915-1950 both to <strong>and</strong> from<br />
America (242,000 records)<br />
5. EmiSjo: Sailors who were listed in the<br />
sailor houses in Göteborg, Lysekil, Marstr<strong>and</strong><br />
Strömstad, <strong>and</strong> Uddevalla <strong>and</strong> who are recorded<br />
as discharges, escapees, or dead outside<br />
of Europe, 1812-1930 (16,996 records).<br />
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similar to the US’ GNIS database. There are 104, 449<br />
locations online <strong>and</strong> about 300,000 in the database<br />
offline. Use “Sök I Databasen” to start a search<br />
Riksskatteverket<br />
http://www.skatteverket.se/folkbokforing/<br />
sverigesforsamlingargenomtiderna/forteckning<br />
.4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80003999.html—Free site<br />
The Swedish Tax Agency’s (Riksskatteverkets) catalogued<br />
list of the Swedish parishes throughout time<br />
(svenska församlingarna genom tiderna). Click on<br />
the first letter <strong>and</strong> then scroll down.<br />
Search results for Bockman<br />
Information available in these records will<br />
vary according to database <strong>and</strong> original record<br />
type. The following is a list of the type of information<br />
that may be found among these records:<br />
• Name (given <strong>and</strong> surname)<br />
• Age <strong>and</strong>/or birth date<br />
• Birthplace<br />
• Gender<br />
• Occupation or title<br />
• Residence or place of origin<br />
• Emigration date<br />
• Destination<br />
• Port of departure<br />
• Ship name<br />
• Database name (EmiHamn, EmiLarsson, Emi-<br />
Pass, EmiSal, or EmiSjo)”<br />
Sverige Atlas<br />
http://www.sverigeatlas.se—Free site<br />
Want to find the exact position of your ancestors’ village<br />
<strong>and</strong> home This link is an atlas giving the geographical<br />
positions in Latitude <strong>and</strong> Longitude. It is<br />
Parishes starting with “K”<br />
Google Translation of the entry for Kall:<br />
Cold 232,104<br />
Pastoratskod: 101,304 Province: 1810 Västernorrl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
1810-05-07 Jämtl<strong>and</strong> County. Breakdown:<br />
utbrutet <strong>and</strong> incorporated Husa utility<br />
chapel assembly. Parish: former possibly Åre,<br />
1316 own, probably mid-1300s-1928 During Field,<br />
1928-05-01-own. PARISH CATECHETICAL<br />
MEETING Length: (1695) <strong>and</strong> 1805—Födelsebok:<br />
1688—Miscellaneous: some people to<br />
the 1941 church book in The Field patchwork<br />
assembly.<br />
Icel<strong>and</strong><br />
Results for Kinne-Kleva<br />
Finding Records of Your Ancestors<br />
in Icel<strong>and</strong> 1835 to 1900<br />
B&W: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/<br />
RG/images/36693 icel<strong>and</strong> finding ancestor.pdf<br />
Color: http://www.familysearch.org/<br />
eng/search/RG/images/36693 icel<strong>and</strong><br />
finding ancestor color.pdf<br />
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~islwgw/<br />
This is a very basic page with some links.<br />
I can honestly say that Icel<strong>and</strong> is not a country that<br />
often comes to my mind. Working on this article did<br />
prove to me that the human brain does store a wide<br />
assortment of anything away that you would never<br />
think you would need or use again.<br />
As the patronymics chart at the beginning showed,<br />
the practice is still in use in Icel<strong>and</strong>. Once at a holiday<br />
party, I was talking to someone who had been visiting<br />
Icel<strong>and</strong> frequently for business. He told how his<br />
contact had adopted a boy <strong>and</strong> gave him the normal<br />
patronymic name. Several years later he <strong>and</strong> his wife<br />
were finally able to have their own son <strong>and</strong> the adopted<br />
son’s name was changed so that the biological<br />
son could have the correct name. I also recalled seeing<br />
something on television a number of years ago<br />
about a nationwide genealogical database for Icel<strong>and</strong><br />
that was being used along with medical research.<br />
After a bit of searching I was able to locate a website<br />
that gives some information about the projects current<br />
status. Here is a portion of it that gives “The<br />
Good News”:<br />
Share Your Ancestors<br />
http://www.grapevine.is/Home/ReadArticle/<br />
Share-Your-Ancestors<br />
by Ian Watson<br />
“Icel<strong>and</strong>’s genealogy is nearly done. “Finishing”<br />
a whole nation’s genealogy would be<br />
unthinkable in North America or Western Europe,<br />
where one looks back at previous centuries’<br />
populations as incomprehensible, surging<br />
masses of migrating humanity. But, as so often,<br />
Icel<strong>and</strong> is a little different from some other parts<br />
of the world.<br />
You may have heard that Icel<strong>and</strong> has unusually<br />
good genealogical records dating all the<br />
way back to the saga age, <strong>and</strong> that Icel<strong>and</strong>ers can<br />
trace their ancestry to the Vikings. The truth is a<br />
bit less romantic. The earliest detailed record of<br />
every single Icel<strong>and</strong>er is the 1703 census. Most<br />
Icel<strong>and</strong>ic church records date only from 1785.<br />
The majority of lines fade into the darkness of<br />
time as one tries to trace back through the 1600s.<br />
Most Icel<strong>and</strong>ers who lived in the year 1600 did<br />
not leave a record of even their names for posterity.<br />
The only memories that survive are of the<br />
wealthy, learned, or notorious. “<br />
He then goes on to give “The Bad News”:<br />
Íslendingabók is connected to the net (www.<br />
islendingabok.is), <strong>and</strong> any Icel<strong>and</strong>er can sign up<br />
for a free username <strong>and</strong> password. Many have,<br />
<strong>and</strong> find Íslendingabók fun to use, despite the<br />
fact that they are not allowed to see everything<br />
in it. If you have a password, you are allowed to<br />
see a list of all other Icel<strong>and</strong>ers’ names <strong>and</strong> birthdates.<br />
You can view full information on everyone<br />
who shares a great-gr<strong>and</strong>parent with you. You<br />
can also ask the computer to find out whether<br />
you have a common ancestor with any given Icel<strong>and</strong>er—if<br />
you do, the computer will show you<br />
the lines of descent to both people. And you can<br />
see all information on individuals born before<br />
1700, including their full ancestral charts. One<br />
way Icel<strong>and</strong>ers commonly use Íslendingabók is<br />
to see how closely prospective boyfriends or girlfriends<br />
are related to them or if they are related<br />
to notable Icel<strong>and</strong>ic persons, such as Björk or the<br />
Prime Minister. Another is simply to find out<br />
about people’s families <strong>and</strong> to answer the Icel<strong>and</strong>ic<br />
question of “hverra manna ert þú”—“who<br />
are your people” Between the online Icel<strong>and</strong>ic<br />
telephone book, the National Registry (open to<br />
anyone with an Icel<strong>and</strong>ic bank account), the online<br />
index of Icel<strong>and</strong>ic newspaper obituaries, <strong>and</strong><br />
Íslendingabók, it is possible to find out a lot about<br />
peoples’ families in Icel<strong>and</strong>.”<br />
Unfortunately Icel<strong>and</strong>ic censuses, church records,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the like are not publicly available either.<br />
National Archives of Icel<strong>and</strong><br />
www.archives.is<br />
http://www.archives.is/index.phpnode=english<br />
Censuses were taken in 1703, 1762, 1801, 1816, 1845<br />
(the first to include birthplace), <strong>and</strong> 1885.<br />
Searchable 1703, 1835 & 1870 Census<br />
http://www.skjalasafn.is/manntol/index.phpb=1&<br />
cmd=nyleit—Free site<br />
The 1703 census is probably the first census in the<br />
world that lists the population of a whole nation including<br />
name, age, <strong>and</strong> status of every individual.<br />
1870 search for people named Hans<br />
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The number of Icel<strong>and</strong>ers in the spring of 1703 totaled<br />
50,366 individuals.<br />
Searching the 1870 census by name, returns a list,<br />
selecting a person will then show the Farm/Household.<br />
The information returned includes their Name,<br />
Gender, Age, Marriage, Class, Farm, Parish, <strong>and</strong><br />
County.<br />
Timarit.is<br />
http://timarit.is/lang=4—Free site in English<br />
They have a large section of digitized publications.<br />
Morgunblaðið is a newspaper that has online copies<br />
from 1913 to 2000.<br />
You can select date range month, date, <strong>and</strong> page<br />
number. A DjVu plugin is suggested but the pages<br />
can be viewed without it but there is no navigation<br />
or zooming tools.<br />
Morgunblaðið—2 November 1913 page 2<br />
Visit us at<br />
www.everton.com<br />
www.halfdan.is<br />
www.halfdan.is—Free site<br />
The Emigration from Icel<strong>and</strong><br />
to North America<br />
http://www.halfdan.is/vestur/vestur.htm—in English<br />
Information <strong>and</strong> advice is given on Icel<strong>and</strong>ic genealogy<br />
research along with a variety of links.<br />
1816 Census<br />
http://www.halfdan.is/vestur/census.htm—Index<br />
The 1816 census of Icel<strong>and</strong> is available in PDF format,<br />
selectable by location. It contains the Name, Age, Parish,<br />
Home, Place of Birth, Status, <strong>and</strong> Occupation.<br />
These PDF files can be saved. Use the binoculars icon<br />
to search through a document for a name.<br />
Summary<br />
The Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian countries all have wonderful<br />
collections of church records. However, access to<br />
them is different in each country. Census records,<br />
if they are available, are used more to locate a person<br />
<strong>and</strong>/or their family in order to find where they<br />
lived <strong>and</strong> where they were born in order to be able<br />
to locate the various parish records. The volunteer<br />
projects that are connecting photographs of churches<br />
<strong>and</strong> farms to the various records really add a nice<br />
new dimension to research <strong>and</strong> are a good example<br />
of what can be done. Sweden will be joining Norway<br />
in this effort.<br />
Posting queries on both Surname <strong>and</strong> Location<br />
sites might help you get in touch with other researchers<br />
who have already obtained copies of civil, church,<br />
or family records <strong>and</strong> might be willing to share.<br />
Until the Danish census record indexes are complete,<br />
I guess I will be spending quite of bit of my<br />
“free time” Søg i kirkebøger <strong>and</strong> Søg i folketælling<br />
looking for my Bockmans <strong>and</strong> Neuhauses at the Danish<br />
Archives.<br />
Jeffrey A. Bockman is a genealogical<br />
lecturer <strong>and</strong> writer from Naperville,<br />
Illinois. He presented at the 2008<br />
OGS, 2007 <strong>BYU</strong>, 2006 NGS,<br />
2003, 2001, <strong>and</strong> 1998 FGS<br />
Conferences. He is active in society<br />
<strong>and</strong> conference management. He<br />
was a frequent feature writer<br />
for Heritage Quest Magazine.<br />
He is the author of the book<br />
Give Your <strong>Family</strong> A Gift That Money Can’t Buy<br />
/ Record & Preserve Your <strong>Family</strong>’s <strong>History</strong>.<br />
His website is at www.JeffBockman.com.<br />
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Build It <strong>and</strong> They Shall Come<br />
By Wi l l i a m No r i n<br />
SThe Field of Dreams, in Dyersville, Iowa; Courtesy of Wikipedia, <strong>and</strong> used under GNU Free Documentation License<br />
Some of you will recognize this expression from the<br />
movie, “Field of Dreams,” staring Kevin Costner, one<br />
of my all time favorite sports films. In the movie,<br />
Costner plays the part of an Iowa farmer who hears<br />
a voice telling him, “Build it <strong>and</strong> they shall come.”<br />
He heeds the advice <strong>and</strong> builds a regulation baseball<br />
diamond in the middle of his Kansas cornfield.<br />
Eventually, Shoeless Joe Jackson <strong>and</strong> other long deceased<br />
members of the old Chicago Black Sox ball<br />
club come out of the cornfield <strong>and</strong> start playing ball<br />
on the newly built diamond.<br />
I have been a genealogist for 23 years <strong>and</strong> during<br />
that time I have stumbled through many old cemeteries<br />
fighting off mosquitoes <strong>and</strong> nearly tripping on long<br />
stringy weeds. I have strained my eyes to the limit attempting<br />
to read endless rolls of blurred U.S. Census<br />
microfilm <strong>and</strong> I have traveled great distances in order<br />
to uncover deeds, naturalization records, <strong>and</strong> vital<br />
statistics housed in ancient county courthouses.<br />
Now much of that reaching out to find relatives is<br />
past <strong>and</strong> cousins are contacting me instead. I receive<br />
an average of 20 hits a day on my webpage, ht t p://<br />
www.geocities.com/norins, <strong>and</strong> every other morning<br />
there is usually one or two email messages from<br />
people who want to know if I might be related to them.<br />
This has all happened due to the fact that I have built<br />
an infrastructure by placing my URL on 35 different<br />
search engines, 50 different home pages <strong>and</strong> in seven<br />
different surname databases.<br />
In addition, The Cape Breton Genealogical Society<br />
has scanned a 300+ page family history that I have<br />
written <strong>and</strong> I have made it available as a link on my<br />
webpage so that people can do detailed searches of my<br />
ancestry. I also have a <strong>Family</strong> Tree Maker GEDCOM<br />
link that people can search.<br />
I have a list of cousins “I Met on the Net.” This list<br />
currently contains the names of 56 “new” kinfolk. This<br />
past week I found someone on Gen Forum, a genealogical<br />
bulletin board, a rooter who is also researching<br />
Gillises on Prince Edward Isl<strong>and</strong>. I contacted her<br />
<strong>and</strong> learned that her third-great gr<strong>and</strong>uncle, Duncan<br />
Gilles, <strong>and</strong> my uncle Donald Gillis, were brothers.<br />
This contact, Clair Bigelow, lives in Boston <strong>and</strong> has<br />
provided me with names <strong>and</strong> vital statistics for 145<br />
additional relatives—information I am still entering<br />
into my database.<br />
I have built this comprehensive infrastructure <strong>and</strong>,<br />
even though Shoeless Joe Jackson may not be with<br />
them, a bunch of cousins are coming regularly to play<br />
in the ballpark.<br />
Shoeless Joe Jackson;<br />
Courtesy of Wikipedia,<br />
<strong>and</strong> used under GNU Free<br />
Documentation License<br />
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Online Genealogy for Beginners<br />
<strong>and</strong> Pros on Dynastree<br />
By Ch r i s t i a n Ric h t s c h e i d<br />
Genealogy has been our passion for a long time. Recently<br />
however, genealogy has become a popular leisure<br />
activity even for those who have not yet been fascinated<br />
by tracing family roots. One reason for this is the fact<br />
that the search for ancestors has become a lot easier <strong>and</strong><br />
more fun than before through the Internet.<br />
Those people who had been deterred by the required<br />
efforts can now easily type in their last name in search<br />
engines on the Internet <strong>and</strong> find out a lot about their<br />
ancestry. Adding their knowledge to the family tree or<br />
the genealogical database is now easier than ever.<br />
The completely cost-free website Dynastree (www.<br />
dynastree.com, formerly known as ht t p://itsourtree.<br />
com) lets people create their family tree online, invite<br />
relatives <strong>and</strong> add genealogical information. The easyto-use<br />
interface conceals a powerful genealogical tool<br />
that can be used by both professional <strong>and</strong> hobby genealogists.<br />
For those who already have collected <strong>and</strong><br />
stored genealogical data, the website offers the family<br />
tree import in GEDCOM format. GEDCOM (GEnealogical<br />
Data COMmunication) is the st<strong>and</strong>ard format<br />
for genealogical data (file ending .ged).<br />
To start a family tree, the user begins by adding his<br />
relatives, entering all the known information in the<br />
persons’ profiles. The relatives’ email addresses can be<br />
entered directly into the persons’ profiles <strong>and</strong> everyone<br />
is invited automatically. When the relative logs onto the<br />
family tree, he can add additional family information,<br />
invite further relatives, <strong>and</strong> so on <strong>and</strong> so forth. Thus,<br />
the family network grows virally <strong>and</strong> the genealogical<br />
knowledge of possibly hundreds of more or less distant<br />
relatives is collected playfully <strong>and</strong> easily.<br />
The viral growth factor is the key advantage of<br />
online genealogy tools. No other type of genealogical<br />
research offers the same amount of knowledge<br />
combined with the speed <strong>and</strong> data quality. Sharing<br />
genealogical data with relatives, friends, <strong>and</strong> other<br />
genealogists means fast-paced first-h<strong>and</strong> expansion<br />
of the genealogical research results. There are several<br />
websites on the Internet that offer genealogical<br />
services with varying qualities <strong>and</strong> prizes. While<br />
other genealogy sites can cost up to $30 per month,<br />
the Dynastree services are offered completely for free<br />
<strong>and</strong> the features offered so far will always be a professional<br />
genealogical tool that is free of any costs.<br />
In a family network featuring active members from<br />
all parts of the world, one can start a photo album,<br />
upload your scanned photos <strong>and</strong> mark relatives <strong>and</strong><br />
ancestors in the pictures. Of course, the entire family<br />
network remains private so that only your relatives<br />
can see your family tree, the information it contains,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the photo albums. So if someone from the Polish<br />
part of the family has some old pictures of his greatgr<strong>and</strong>father,<br />
he can just upload the photo <strong>and</strong> mark his<br />
great-gr<strong>and</strong>father in the image. The more documents<br />
the family uploads, the more common ancestors might<br />
be found, of course. To illustrate the development of<br />
the family, Dynastree automatically shows entered<br />
birthplaces in an interactive map of the world.<br />
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To facilitate the communication between relatives<br />
all around the world, Dynastree offers family friendly<br />
communication features. Just like any other common<br />
web email service, every user gets its own inbox <strong>and</strong><br />
family mail features. The recipients are quickly selected<br />
from a list of all active members <strong>and</strong> friends<br />
of the family. As a special service, Dynastree offers<br />
automatic reminder e-mails for all kinds of events in<br />
the family such as birthdays, wedding anniversaries,<br />
or obits. That way, one cannot forget any important<br />
dates concerning the family.<br />
To make sure that such personal <strong>and</strong> partly private<br />
information like biographies cannot be read by<br />
complete strangers (very distant relatives can easily<br />
be completely unknown to others in very large<br />
family trees) Dynastree offers a detailed but easyto-use<br />
rights management. This allows every user<br />
to determine who of the family tree can see which<br />
detail of information in his profile (e.g. depending on<br />
how close the familial relationship is). In addition to<br />
a multilingual communication platform for family<br />
members, Dynastree offers a forum for genealogists,<br />
a blog, <strong>and</strong> an information center containing valuable<br />
information on ancestry research.<br />
Dynastree was founded in 2007 <strong>and</strong> is supported<br />
by SAP founder Hasso Plattner. Dynastree offers its<br />
software in eight languages besides English: German,<br />
Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese,<br />
French, Spanish, <strong>and</strong> Dutch. The global concept of<br />
the network is a crucial factor to successful online genealogy.<br />
As migration led to the distribution of families<br />
all over the world, the nine languages Dynastree<br />
supports help finding relatives abroad. For the future,<br />
Dynastree plans further expansion to other countries<br />
such as Russia <strong>and</strong> Turkey.<br />
The success all around the globe has been overwhelming:<br />
So far, 60 million profiles have been added<br />
to six million family trees. Every week more than<br />
100,000 new family trees are created. The entire database<br />
is searchable available for free so that genealogists<br />
can search for distant relatives <strong>and</strong> ancestors with a<br />
mouse click. The found persons can be contacted directly,<br />
if they accept it in their rights management.<br />
The complete tree data can be downloaded in GED-<br />
COM format <strong>and</strong> one can load the family tree in the<br />
also completely cost-free professional desktop software<br />
that has recently been released. The “Dynastree<br />
Home Edition” offers all the easy genealogical editing<br />
on the home PC or even on a portable USB drive. That<br />
way, the family tree can be taken anywhere, shown<br />
in family reunions, or shared via email.<br />
Dynastree co-founder Daniel Groezinger explains:<br />
“Like Google’s strategy of turning the expensive<br />
Keyhole software into the free Google Earth, we decided<br />
to offer software that is usually pricy—for free.<br />
This applies to the web as well as the desktop version<br />
of our software.”<br />
While Dynastree´s web <strong>and</strong> desktop software are<br />
free, the company will add premium services soon.<br />
From the first quarter of 2009 on, poster printouts of<br />
family trees can be ordered. Layout elements such as<br />
background images, colors, <strong>and</strong> profiles frames will<br />
be completely customizable. As every family tree has<br />
its specific sizes depending on the number of generations<br />
<strong>and</strong> number of relatives entered, not every<br />
poster size can be suitable for the tree, so Dynastree<br />
offers various formats.<br />
The family trees that are created on the network<br />
can of course contain duplicate information. Once the<br />
tree has been built <strong>and</strong> relatives or ancestors are found<br />
through the search option, the next logical stage is to<br />
merge the two structures to create one common family<br />
tree. The developers are currently working hard on<br />
what is, according to the founders’ vision, an important<br />
step towards the world’s largest family tree, one<br />
single tree including hundreds of millions of profiles<br />
<strong>and</strong> eventually showing the familial relationship to<br />
virtually everyone.<br />
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On the Bookshe f NEW BOOKS FOR GENEALOGISTS<br />
SCo m p il e d by Le l a n d K. Mei tz ler<br />
Send us a copy of your genealogical or local history book<br />
<strong>and</strong> we will list it in this magazine along with the information<br />
you provide. We may add our comments or edit yours,<br />
if we deem it necessary. Do not expect critical reviews in<br />
this publication. There are numerous scholarly periodicals<br />
that can do that for you. Send your book to the Book Editor,<br />
The Genealogical Helper, PO Box 830, Bountiful,<br />
UT 84011. Then, send an email attachment to Lel<strong>and</strong>@<br />
everton.com with the title, author, copyright date, physical<br />
dimensions, number of pages, hard or soft cover, index<br />
or none, item number (if any), <strong>and</strong> ISBN (if any), cost of<br />
book, shipping cost, <strong>and</strong> location where the book can be<br />
purchased, <strong>and</strong> finally a full description of the book—in<br />
that order. Include your website as well as physical address<br />
if applicable. Books received will be placed in the Everton<br />
Library Collection in Logan, Utah upon publication of the<br />
announcement.<br />
Genealogies <strong>and</strong> <strong>Family</strong> Histories<br />
The Keeney <strong>Family</strong> from Coast to<br />
Coast; an Informal <strong>History</strong> of the<br />
Ancestors <strong>and</strong> Descendants of George<br />
Keeney of Newport, Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong><br />
Compiled by Karyl Keeney<br />
Hubbard <strong>and</strong> S<strong>and</strong>ra Keeney<br />
Pattok, 2008. Published by<br />
Gateway Press, 6x9; 330 pp,<br />
softcover, fully indexed. Order<br />
from Karyl Hubbard,<br />
824 Pan Vista Dr. Omak,<br />
WA 98841, or S<strong>and</strong>i Pattok,<br />
2114 Isl<strong>and</strong> Dr. Hastings, MI<br />
49058. $35.00 postpaid.<br />
The history of the family<br />
line of George Keeney, born<br />
Newport, Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong>, 1766.<br />
Includes his line back to William Kenie/Keeney of<br />
New London, Connecticut <strong>and</strong> follows the family<br />
through Ontario, Canada, Michigan, <strong>and</strong> California.<br />
Includes source notes, some illustrations, maps,<br />
charts, family pictures, bios, <strong>and</strong> obituaries.<br />
The Hausmann, Petri, Fleischmann,<br />
Ahner, Neunuebel, Oeth, Boehm,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Schlegel Families<br />
Compiled by Priscilla Wright Hausmann; 2008;<br />
11x8; 226 pp, hardcover, indexed. LOC# 2008928233.<br />
Send check for $56.00, which includes postage, to<br />
Priscilla W. Hausmann, 1311 Stonewood Circle,<br />
West Bend, Wisconsin 53095.<br />
How-To<br />
A genealogy of these local<br />
families who came to America<br />
in the mid 1800s. Contains a<br />
large photo gallery <strong>and</strong> large<br />
addenda. Probably the only<br />
published genealogy containing<br />
these local names from<br />
Washington <strong>and</strong> Ozaukee<br />
Counties, Wisconsin. Published<br />
in 2008 by Tennessee<br />
Valley Publishing Company.<br />
A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering<br />
Your African-American Ancestors<br />
By Franklin Carter Smith &<br />
Emily Anne Croom; 2003; Reprinted<br />
2008 by GPC; 8.5x11;<br />
256 pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Genealogical<br />
Publishing Company, 3600<br />
Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260,<br />
Baltimore, MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; GPC5455;<br />
ISBN: 9780806317885; $34.95<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
How do you approach the unique challenges of<br />
African-American genealogy How can you make<br />
the most of your research time <strong>and</strong> effort Join expert<br />
genealogists Franklin Carter Smith <strong>and</strong> Emily Anne<br />
Croom to explore successful strategies for getting<br />
started <strong>and</strong> moving beyond the basics.<br />
Using examples, illustrations, <strong>and</strong> case studies, A<br />
Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your African-American<br />
Ancestors shows you how to<br />
• Gather <strong>and</strong> preserve your family’s special oral<br />
<strong>and</strong> social history<br />
• Research census records, especially the important<br />
1870 census<br />
• Use African-American-specific sources, including<br />
the Freedmen’s Bureau <strong>and</strong> Freedman’s<br />
Bank records<br />
• Work with <strong>and</strong> evaluate county <strong>and</strong> federal<br />
records.<br />
This book is unique because it includes methods<br />
for successful research in slavery-era records as well<br />
as strategies to help you identify your ancestors’<br />
slaveholder <strong>and</strong> slaveholding family. Case studies<br />
from various states <strong>and</strong> time periods tell the stories<br />
of real families whose lives were recorded in public<br />
records that you too can use. Discovering your family<br />
history can be a powerful experience that also allows<br />
you to create a special legacy for your loved ones.<br />
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On the Bookshelf<br />
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists<br />
By Emily Anne Croom; 2000;<br />
Reprinted 2008 by GPC;<br />
8.5x11; 290 pp; softbound;<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Genealogical Publishing<br />
Company, 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
GPC1221; ISBN:<br />
9780806317878; $34.95 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
What do you do when you hit the proverbial brick<br />
wall Try gleaning advice from literary sleuths like<br />
Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, <strong>and</strong> Hercule Poirot.<br />
That’s what expert genealogist Emily Croom helps<br />
you do in The Sleuth Book for Genealogists, which<br />
blends literary methods of deduction with genealogical<br />
expertise.<br />
Using the sleuths’ acknowledged expertise in the<br />
deduction arts, The Sleuth Book will invigorate your<br />
genealogical research, helping you to<br />
• Determine your research goal<br />
• Organize what you know<br />
• Practice “cluster genealogy” research<br />
• Document your research<br />
• Decide whether you’ve answered your research<br />
questions.<br />
Case studies <strong>and</strong> research examples throughout<br />
the book—including case studies of an Illinois Civil<br />
War Veteran, a former Mississippi slave, <strong>and</strong> a Tennessee<br />
farm wife, among others—illustrate genealogical<br />
sleuths in action, taking you step by step through<br />
the process of solving frustrating research problems.<br />
Appendixes include an introduction to genealogy<br />
fundamentals <strong>and</strong> a practical, detailed guide to citing<br />
your sources.<br />
The Beginner’s Guide to Using Tax Lists<br />
By Cornelius Carroll; 1996;<br />
Reprinted 2002; 8.5x11; 64<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9201;<br />
ISBN: 9780806347073; $17.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Tax lists are one of our<br />
most valuable, if often neglected, sources of genealogical<br />
information. Tax lists can refer to personal<br />
property tax lists, tithables, poll lists, l<strong>and</strong> tax lists,<br />
<strong>and</strong> rent rolls. They usually divulge the names of<br />
heads of households <strong>and</strong> other males aged 16 or over,<br />
as well as valuations of slaves, cattle, horses, other<br />
types of personal property, l<strong>and</strong> taxes, <strong>and</strong> notes of<br />
interest. They can be used not only to trace a family’s<br />
migration <strong>and</strong> its taxable property, but also to<br />
prove parentage when no other records are available.<br />
Tax lists place individuals in a particular place at a<br />
particular time <strong>and</strong> indicate the amount <strong>and</strong> type<br />
of property owned. They may also indicate the relationship<br />
of individuals in a household <strong>and</strong> their<br />
approximate ages.<br />
The Beginner’s Guide to Using Tax Lists is Cornelius<br />
Carroll’s primer for making the best genealogical usage<br />
of tax lists. At the outset the author differentiates<br />
between tax lists, quit rents, tithables, militia lists,<br />
censuses, <strong>and</strong> similar records <strong>and</strong> the laws that applied<br />
to them. Then, by focusing on the tax lists of<br />
Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, <strong>and</strong> Tennessee,<br />
he demonstrates how tax lists can be used for determining<br />
parentage, birth <strong>and</strong> death dates, indentured<br />
servitude, slavery, manumission, <strong>and</strong> racial status.<br />
They can be used, in conjunction with other records<br />
to help determine the parentage of a female, the date<br />
of a marriage, migration routes, <strong>and</strong> the accuracy<br />
of family traditions. Mr. Carroll has also included a<br />
list of dates of county formation for the four states<br />
referred to above <strong>and</strong> a number of sample tax lists<br />
in order to expose researchers to the legal <strong>and</strong> other<br />
factors affecting the ages <strong>and</strong> classes of people who<br />
were taxable at any given time.<br />
A Pocket Guide for Genealogists—<br />
Second Edition<br />
By Judy Jacobson; 2003; Reprinted<br />
2007; 5.5x8.75; 281<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9411;<br />
ISBN: 9780806352190; $29.95<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Unlike a textbook or howto<br />
book, which genealogists<br />
should consult prior to venturing<br />
upon a research trip, A Field Guide for Genealogists,<br />
by Judy Jacobson, is the perfect book to take with<br />
you once you have embarked. Consider the following<br />
scenarios: (1) You’re doing research in a courthouse<br />
when you come across a term in a will that you don’t<br />
underst<strong>and</strong>; (2) You run across an old photograph<br />
of people who are supposed to be your ancestors,<br />
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but you just can’t place the subjects of the photo; (3)<br />
You find your great-great-great-gr<strong>and</strong>mother’s death<br />
certificate only to learn that she died from a disease<br />
you’d never heard of. The latest title from the prolific<br />
Mrs. Jacobson is designed to remove not only the<br />
foregoing stumbling blocks but also to answer thous<strong>and</strong>s<br />
of other practical questions that quite naturally<br />
arise during the course of research.<br />
A Field Guide for Genealogists is a veritable encyclopedia<br />
of solutions for situations that can arise in<br />
research. For example, to return to the problem with<br />
the photograph, the Field Guide includes sections on<br />
the basics of dating photographs <strong>and</strong> identifying<br />
historical eras from hairstyles or clothing. Similarly,<br />
legal terms found in genealogical records are identified<br />
in one of the several glossaries compiled by Mrs.<br />
Jacobson. Other lists cover antiquated names of diseases<br />
<strong>and</strong> calamities, as well as units of measurement<br />
used in bygone days. There are glossaries of genealogical<br />
terms, nicknames, surnames, place names,<br />
<strong>and</strong> occupations. The author has prepared a section<br />
on problems to anticipate at the county courthouse,<br />
offers hints for deciphering old h<strong>and</strong>writing, discusses<br />
different types of calendars, <strong>and</strong> has incorporated<br />
time lines of American history, migration, <strong>and</strong><br />
transportation. Other topics covered are the range of<br />
records at the National Archives, the evolution of the<br />
U.S. census, what to look for in museums, American<br />
ethnic groups, finding information in museums, using<br />
library vertical files, <strong>and</strong> much more—all from<br />
the practical st<strong>and</strong>point of solving a problem on site.<br />
In fact, short of carting around an entire library of<br />
reference books on your next research trip, Judy Jacobson’s<br />
Field Guide for Genealogists, in scarcely 300<br />
pages, is the closest thing we know of in the way of<br />
an all-purpose manual to help you once you’ve arrived<br />
at your destination.<br />
Back to the Beginning—Remarkable True<br />
Stories of Adoption Searches & Reunions<br />
By Ava Friddle, Judy Andrews,<br />
Kristen Hamilton,<br />
with Joe Bardin; 2008; 6x9;<br />
203 pp; softbound. Order<br />
from the publisher at: Research<br />
Etc., Inc., 8390 E.<br />
Via De Ventura #F110-184,<br />
Scottsdale, AZ 85258-3188; or<br />
www.BackToTheBeginning<br />
Book.com; CF9411; ISBN:<br />
978-0-9816412-0-1; $18.95<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Adoption Searches are<br />
unique to each person involved. Some clients simply<br />
want medical histories. For others the stakes are much<br />
higher: a daughter seeking to underst<strong>and</strong> the trauma<br />
her birthmother went through at the time of relinquishment;<br />
a son wanting to set the record straight<br />
on his own family history; a birthfather who never<br />
even saw his daughter when she was born, but never<br />
forgot her; a birthmother who wanted reassurance<br />
that she did the right thing when she placed her child<br />
for adoption 21 years ago. This book offers not only<br />
true stories that touch the heart, but invaluable experience<br />
in underst<strong>and</strong>ing the dynamics of adoption<br />
reunions from the perspective of all those involved<br />
in the Adoption Triad. The authors of this book operate<br />
a licensed P.I. firm in Scottsdale, Arizona specializing<br />
in adoption searches. I found the stories to<br />
be very compelling—<strong>and</strong> not only interesting, but<br />
educational from the st<strong>and</strong>point of one interested in<br />
the research process. I highly recommend this book<br />
to my readers.<br />
Death Matters—<strong>History</strong>—Humor—Advice<br />
By Richard H. McHugh;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 180 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Heritage Books,<br />
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave., Suite<br />
104, Westminster, MD 21157;<br />
Phone 800-876-6103; Fax 410-<br />
871-2674 or www.heritagebooks.com;<br />
M4557; ISBN:<br />
978-0-7884-4557-6; $21.50<br />
plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
Death Matters attempts to<br />
cover three subjects: history,<br />
humor, <strong>and</strong> advice. A brief history of McHugh Funeral<br />
Homes weaves its way through the narrative.<br />
Man’s care of the dead from the time of the Cro-<br />
Magnon man to the present is discussed. The final<br />
chapter examines the use of pre-planned <strong>and</strong> prepaid<br />
funerals in our time. There is an abundance of<br />
humor that the author remembers from his <strong>and</strong> his<br />
forebears’ service in the ambulance-funeral business.<br />
This is a very interesting read…<br />
Germany<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 14—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria I—Unterfranken<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007; 201 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0027; ISBN: 978-1-933194-16-5. Order<br />
from the publisher at: <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Co.,<br />
PO Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-992-3705; Fax:<br />
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815-642-0103; www.family<br />
rootspublishing.com/store/<br />
product view.phpid=26;<br />
$34.95 plus $4.90 p&h; Visa<br />
<strong>and</strong> MC accepted on the website;<br />
library purchase orders<br />
also accepted at the website.<br />
This volume is also produced<br />
in a hardbound edition at<br />
$65—see the website for details<br />
<strong>and</strong> ordering. There is a<br />
town index at the website—just type the name of<br />
your town in the search engine to find its location.<br />
Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 14 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in the summer of 2007. Written in English<br />
by Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 1,872 Unterfranken<br />
places, was principally written to help family<br />
historians resolve where their family may have<br />
gone to church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that<br />
may be seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Library microfilm). This is the 14th of a series of<br />
45 volumes, covering all of Germany. The series is<br />
still in process. Note that Bavaria (including the<br />
Pfalz, found in the Rhinel<strong>and</strong> III Volume 13 book) is<br />
covered in its entirety in nine volumes, plus an index<br />
(Map Guides 13 through 23). Even the smallest places<br />
are listed in this series—some with as little population<br />
as one person! These places are as of about 1870.<br />
If the place existed prior to that date, it will most<br />
likely be listed. If the place was named after that date,<br />
the chances drop.<br />
Each volumes of the series does the following:<br />
• Identifies the parish where an ancestor worshipped<br />
based on where they lived.<br />
• Gives the FHL microfilm number for the family’s<br />
parish records. However, it should be noted<br />
that very few of the Bavarian records have been<br />
filmed, so not many FHL film numbers are<br />
given.<br />
• Identifies nearly every city, town, <strong>and</strong> place that<br />
included residents.<br />
• Visually identifies church parishes for Lutherans<br />
& Catholics in each district.<br />
• Identifies adjoining parishes in case an ancestor<br />
attended an alternate parish.<br />
• Aids in area searches, particularly across district<br />
or regional borders.<br />
• Provides visual identification of search areas in<br />
which to look for a family.<br />
• Helps in determining proximity of one area to<br />
another.<br />
• Aids in determining reasonable distances of<br />
travel from one area to another.<br />
• Identifies population centers in each parish.<br />
• Identifies archives, repositories, <strong>and</strong> other<br />
resources.<br />
• Aids in identification of the location of minority<br />
religions.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 15—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria II—Oberfranken<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007;<br />
228 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0029; ISBN: 978-1-<br />
933194-18-9. Order from the<br />
publisher at: <strong>Family</strong> Roots<br />
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,<br />
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-<br />
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;<br />
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product<br />
view.<br />
phpid=27; $34.95 plus $4.90<br />
p&h; Visa <strong>and</strong> MC accepted on the website; library<br />
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This<br />
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at<br />
$65—see the website for details <strong>and</strong> ordering. There<br />
is a town index at the website—just type the name of<br />
your town in the search engine to find its location.<br />
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Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 15 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in the summer of 2007. Written in English by<br />
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 3,218 Oberfranken<br />
places, was principally written to help family historians<br />
resolve where their family may have gone to<br />
church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be<br />
seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library<br />
microfilm). This is the 15th of a series of 45 volumes,<br />
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.<br />
See the information on Volume 14 above for details<br />
about what the books will do for the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 16—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria III—Mittelfranken<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007;<br />
190 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0031; ISBN: 978-1-<br />
933194-20-2. Order from the<br />
publisher at: <strong>Family</strong> Roots<br />
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,<br />
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-<br />
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;<br />
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product<br />
view.<br />
phpid=28; $34.95 plus $4.90<br />
p&h; Visa <strong>and</strong> MC accepted on the website; library<br />
purchase orders also accepted at the website. This<br />
volume is also produced in a hardbound edition at<br />
$65—see the website for details <strong>and</strong> ordering. There<br />
is a town index at the website—just type the name of<br />
your town in the search engine to find its location.<br />
Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 16 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in the fall of 2007. Written in English by Kevan<br />
Hansen, the volume, listing 2,646 Mittelfranken<br />
places, was principally written to help family historians<br />
resolve where their family may have gone to<br />
church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be<br />
seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library<br />
microfilm). This is the 16th of a series of 45 volumes,<br />
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.<br />
See the information on Volume 14 above for details<br />
about what the books will do for the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 17—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria IV—Oberpfalz<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2007; 242 pp; softbound;<br />
indexed; Item # FR0033; ISBN: 978-1-933194-23-3.<br />
Order from the publisher at: <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing<br />
Co., PO Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-<br />
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;<br />
www.familyrootspublishing.com/store/product<br />
view.<br />
phpid=29; $34.95 plus $4.90<br />
p&h; Visa <strong>and</strong> MC accepted<br />
on the website; library purchase<br />
orders also accepted<br />
at the website. This volume<br />
is also produced in a hardbound<br />
edition at $65—see<br />
the website for details <strong>and</strong><br />
ordering. There is a town index at the website—just<br />
type the name of your town in the search engine to<br />
find its location.<br />
Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 17 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in the winter of 2007. Written in English by<br />
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 4,465 Oberpfalz<br />
places, was principally written to help family historians<br />
resolve where their family may have gone to<br />
church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be<br />
seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library<br />
microfilm). This is the 17th of a series of 45 volumes,<br />
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.<br />
See the information on Volume 14 above for details<br />
about what the books will do for the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 18—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria V—Schwaben<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;<br />
218 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0035; ISBN: 978-1-<br />
933194-25-7. Order from the<br />
publisher at: <strong>Family</strong> Roots<br />
Publishing Co., PO Box 830,<br />
Bountiful, UT 84011; 801-<br />
992-3705; Fax: 815-642-0103;<br />
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view.<br />
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is a town index at the website—just type the name of<br />
your town in the search engine to find its location.<br />
Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 18 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in February of 2008. Written in English by<br />
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 3,643 Schwaben<br />
places, was principally written to help family historians<br />
resolve where their family may have gone to<br />
church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be<br />
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microfilm). This is the 18th of a series of 45 volumes,<br />
covering all of Germany. The series is still in process.<br />
See the information on Volume 14 above for details<br />
about what the books will do for the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 19—Kingdom of<br />
Bavaria VI—Niederbayern I<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;<br />
209 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0037; ISBN: 978-1-<br />
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Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 19 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in March of 2008. Written in English by Kevan<br />
Hansen, the volume, listing 4,779 Niederbayern<br />
places, was principally written to help family historians<br />
resolve where their family may have gone to<br />
church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be<br />
seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library<br />
microfilm). This is the 19th of a series of 45<br />
volumes, covering all of Germany. Note that Niederbayern<br />
is covered in two volumes, 19, <strong>and</strong> 20. The series<br />
is still in process. See the information on Volume<br />
14 above for details about what the books will do for<br />
the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 20—Kingdom of<br />
Bavaria VII—Niederbayern II<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008; 198 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0039; ISBN: 978-1-933194-29-5. Order<br />
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website—just type the name<br />
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Publishing Company, Volume<br />
20 of the German Map Guide<br />
series was published in May of 2008. Written in<br />
English by Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 4,527<br />
Niederbayern places, was principally written to help<br />
family historians resolve where their family may<br />
have gone to church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind<br />
that may be seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Library microfilm). This is the 20th of a series<br />
of 45 volumes, covering all of Germany. Note that<br />
Niederbayern is covered in two volumes, 19, <strong>and</strong> 20.<br />
The series is still in process. See the information on<br />
Volume 14 above for details about what the books<br />
will do for the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 21—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria VIII—Oberbayern I<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;<br />
210 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0041; ISBN: 978-1-<br />
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your town in the search engine to find its location.<br />
Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 21 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in June of 2008. Written in English by Kevan<br />
Hansen, the volume, listing 5,171 Oberbayern places,<br />
was principally written to help family historians resolve<br />
where their family may have gone to church—<br />
<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be seen today<br />
(many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library microfilm).<br />
This is the 21st of a series of 45 volumes, covering all<br />
of Germany. Note that Oberbayern is covered in two<br />
volumes, 21, <strong>and</strong> 22. The series is still in process. See<br />
the information on Volume 14 above for details about<br />
what the books will do for the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 22—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria IX—Oberbayern II<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;<br />
250 pp; softbound; indexed;<br />
Item # FR0043; ISBN: 978-1-<br />
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Published by <strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing Company,<br />
Volume 22 of the German Map Guide series was published<br />
in September of 2008. Written in English by<br />
Kevan Hansen, the volume, listing 4,620 Oberbayern<br />
places, was principally written to help family historians<br />
resolve where their family may have gone to<br />
church—<strong>and</strong> left vital records behind that may be<br />
seen today (many available on <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Library<br />
microfilm). This is the 22nd of a series of 45 volumes,<br />
covering all of Germany. Note that Oberbayern<br />
is covered in two volumes, 21, <strong>and</strong> 22. The series is<br />
still in process. See the information on Volume 14<br />
above for details about what the books will do for<br />
the researcher.<br />
Map Guide to German Parish<br />
Registers Volume 23—Kingdom<br />
of Bavaria X—Gazetteer & Master<br />
Index to Volumes 13-22<br />
By Kevan M. Hansen; 2008;<br />
256 pp; softbound; Item<br />
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Volume 23 of the German Map Guide series was<br />
published in November of 2008. Written in English<br />
by Kevan Hansen, the volume is an index to all the<br />
towns found in Bavaria I-IX, as well as those listed in<br />
the Pfalz section German Map Guide Volume 13. The<br />
book gives the name of the town, <strong>and</strong> the Bavarian<br />
province in which the town is found, as well as the<br />
book <strong>and</strong> page number(s) where data on that town<br />
can be located. This is the 23rd of a series of 45 volumes,<br />
covering all of Germany. The production of the<br />
series is still ongoing. Note that Bavaria is covered in<br />
its entirety in nine volumes, plus this index that also<br />
covers the Pfalz, found in Rhinel<strong>and</strong> III, Volume 13.<br />
Even the smallest places are listed in this index <strong>and</strong><br />
series—some with as little population as one person!<br />
These places are as of about 1870. If the place existed<br />
prior to that date, it will most likely be listed. If the<br />
place was named after that date, the chances drop. Researched<br />
<strong>and</strong> compiled from the text <strong>and</strong> footnotes of<br />
many old gazetteers <strong>and</strong> maps, this volume is the most<br />
complete Bavarian gazetteer ever compiled, <strong>and</strong> can<br />
act as a st<strong>and</strong>-alone gazetteer of Bavaria, with or without<br />
the rest of the German Map Guide series. Volumes<br />
covering Hessen, Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein,<br />
Oldenburg, Württemberg, Hessen-Nassau, Rhinel<strong>and</strong>,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Bavaria are now complete. See the description for<br />
volume 14 above, as well as the website, www.familyrootspublishing.com,<br />
for more details on the series.<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong><br />
Irish Gravestone Inscriptions—<br />
A Guide to Sources in Ulster<br />
Edited by William O’Kane<br />
& Eoin Kerr; Originally published<br />
in 1999; Reprinted 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 57 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite<br />
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;<br />
or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF4309 ISBN: 9780806316161;<br />
$12.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Heritage World of County<br />
Tyrone, Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>, has<br />
surveyed the gravestone inscriptions for almost 900<br />
cemeteries across the northern part of Irel<strong>and</strong>. The<br />
great majority of these cemeteries are located in Northern<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong>, although the figure includes a substantial<br />
number from two other Ulster counties, Donegal <strong>and</strong><br />
Monaghan, as well as several from County Louth.<br />
The survey encompasses cemeteries of all religious<br />
denominations as well as those administered by local<br />
district <strong>and</strong> borough councils. In each case, there<br />
is an exact transcript of all gravestone inscriptions,<br />
together with a simple plan of the cemetery.<br />
Information pertaining to these cemeteries can<br />
be acquired from Heritage World either as an index,<br />
giving county, parish, person, cemetery name, date<br />
of death, <strong>and</strong> denomination, or as a full gravestone<br />
inscription. These details can be supplied for any<br />
name in a particular cemetery, parish, or county.<br />
This book lists all cemeteries surveyed to date by<br />
Heritage World. Arranged by county, all 900 cemeteries<br />
are listed by the civil parish in which they are<br />
located, together with their religious denomination.<br />
In brief, then, this is a guide to the 900 cemeteries<br />
surveyed in the nine counties of Antrim, Armagh,<br />
Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Tyrone, with pointers for the researcher<br />
to follow for acquiring full details of individual<br />
gravestone inscriptions.<br />
Pocket Guide to Irish<br />
Genealogy—Third Edition<br />
By Brian Mitchell; 2008; 7x10;<br />
83 pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
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ISBN: 9780806353852; $16.95<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The third edition of Brian<br />
Mitchell’s Pocket Guide to Irish<br />
Genealogy is, page for page,<br />
perhaps the best book on genealogical research in<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong> ever written.<br />
By skillfully blending case studies, maps, charts,<br />
<strong>and</strong> his own mastery of the subject, Mitchell has<br />
managed to convey the basics of Irish genealogical<br />
research in scarcely 80 pages. Following introductory<br />
chapters on the background of research on the<br />
American side, the author describes the nature <strong>and</strong><br />
uses of all significant record sources in Irel<strong>and</strong>, including<br />
but not limited to civil <strong>and</strong> parish registers,<br />
gravestone inscriptions, wills, the Griffith’s Valuation,<br />
tithe books, the 1901 <strong>and</strong> 1911 censuses, newspapers,<br />
hearth money rolls, the registry of deeds, estate<br />
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records, <strong>and</strong> ordnance survey memoirs. Another important<br />
chapter explains the differences between the<br />
various administrative divisions of Irel<strong>and</strong>, knowledge<br />
of which is critical in tracking down all available<br />
records on Irish ancestors. The Third Edition<br />
includes a new chapter on “Irish Genealogy <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Internet,” which discusses all the principal websites<br />
for conducting Irish research online. Mitchell has<br />
also totally overhauled <strong>and</strong> updated the book’s two<br />
concluding chapters, which cover Irel<strong>and</strong>’s major genealogical<br />
record offices <strong>and</strong> heritage centers. The<br />
critical chapters furnish the addresses <strong>and</strong> phone<br />
numbers, hours of operation, contact persons, <strong>and</strong><br />
major record holdings <strong>and</strong> databases of the organizations<br />
that are central to Irish family history. Enriched<br />
by the author’s experience as a professional geographer,<br />
genealogical researcher, <strong>and</strong> director of an Irish<br />
heritage center, the Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy is<br />
an outst<strong>and</strong>ing value!<br />
Tracing Your Donegal<br />
Ancestors—New Edition<br />
By Helen Meehan & Godfrey<br />
Duffy; 2008; Published<br />
by <strong>and</strong> available from Flyleaf<br />
Press, 4 Spencer Villas,<br />
Glenageary, County Dublin,<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong>. $23.00 U.S. includes<br />
shipping ($24.00 Canadian).<br />
ISBN: 978-0-9539974-9-7. See:<br />
www.flyleaf.ie/donegal.htm.<br />
Donegal families are an<br />
interesting mix of native<br />
Irish families <strong>and</strong> of Scots-<br />
Irish who came to the county<br />
from the 17th century. The county experienced a<br />
high level of emigration both to North America <strong>and</strong><br />
also to Scotl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> North of Engl<strong>and</strong>. This new<br />
<strong>and</strong> greatly exp<strong>and</strong>ed edition sets out the range of<br />
Donegal genealogical sources available to the family<br />
history researcher. It devotes a chapter to each source<br />
type explaining what information each contains, <strong>and</strong><br />
where each record can be accessed. Common names<br />
in the county include O’Neill, O’Donnell, Bonner,<br />
Barr, Bradley, Duffy, Friel, Gormley, O’Kane, Gallagher,<br />
Harkin, McBride, McCafferty, McDaid, Patton,<br />
Morrissey, Ward, Sweeney. It is also one of the<br />
counties which experienced a high level of emigration<br />
to North America <strong>and</strong> elsewhere.<br />
Irish Emigrants in North America<br />
By David Dobson; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 120 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
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CF9976 ISBN:<br />
9780806353937; $18.50 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
Emigration from Irel<strong>and</strong> to<br />
the Americas started in earnest<br />
during the early 18th century.<br />
In 1718 the first successful emigration<br />
from Irel<strong>and</strong> to New<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong> occurred, laying the<br />
foundation for the large-scale<br />
settlement of colonial America by the “Scots-Irish.”<br />
This work is the seventh installment (<strong>and</strong> the fourth<br />
volume) in a series compiled by Mr. David Dobson<br />
that documents the departure of thous<strong>and</strong>s of individuals<br />
who left Irel<strong>and</strong> for the promise of the New<br />
World between roughly 1670 <strong>and</strong> 1830. As many as<br />
half of the immigrants referred to here disembarked<br />
at Canadian ports in Ontario, while most of the rest<br />
entered North America through New York, New Jersey,<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>, Virginia, <strong>and</strong> North Carolina.<br />
Part Seven is based mainly on archival sources in<br />
Canada, Denmark, Engl<strong>and</strong>, Irel<strong>and</strong>, Scotl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong><br />
the U.S., together with contemporary newspapers <strong>and</strong><br />
journals, a few published records, <strong>and</strong> some gravestone<br />
inscriptions from both sides of the Atlantic. In<br />
the majority of cases, Mr. Dobson’s transcriptions provide<br />
some or all of the following: name of passenger,<br />
date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Irel<strong>and</strong>, reason<br />
for emigration, <strong>and</strong>, sometimes, place of origin in<br />
Irel<strong>and</strong>, place of disembarkation in the New World,<br />
date of arrival, number of persons in the household,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the source of the information. Here is an entry<br />
that is typical of those found in the volume:<br />
LITTLEWOOD, ANN, from Drummond, parish of<br />
Tamlaght Finlaggan, emigrated from Londonderry to<br />
St. John, New Brunswick, on the 196 ton brig Ambassador<br />
in April 1834 [RIA].<br />
Scots-Irish<br />
Scots-Irish Links 1575-1725—Part Seven<br />
By David Dobson; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 122 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9904<br />
ISBN: 9780806353920; $18.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
During the 18th century, as many as 100,000 Scottish<br />
Lowl<strong>and</strong>ers relocated to the Plantation of Ulster<br />
(Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>). Within a few generations, the<br />
descendants of these Ulster Scots emigrated in substantial<br />
numbers across the Atlantic, where, as the<br />
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Scotch-Irish (Scots-Irish), they<br />
made a major contribution to<br />
the settlement <strong>and</strong> development<br />
of colonial America.<br />
This is the sixth volume<br />
(seventh part) in a series<br />
compiled by Mr. Dobson to<br />
identify the Lowl<strong>and</strong> Scots<br />
who migrated to Ulster between<br />
1575 <strong>and</strong> 1725—many<br />
of whose progeny may have<br />
emigrated to America. For<br />
this volume, Mr. Dobson relied<br />
on primary source material found in the Public<br />
Record Office of Northern Irel<strong>and</strong> in Belfast, <strong>and</strong> in<br />
the National Archives of Scotl<strong>and</strong> in Edinburgh. He<br />
has supplemented those findings with research into<br />
secondary sources in the Linen Hall Library, Belfast,<br />
<strong>and</strong> in the library of the University of St. Andrews,<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong>. These are sources, by <strong>and</strong> large, that Mr.<br />
Dobson has not consulted for the previous volumes<br />
in this series.<br />
As with previous volumes, each listing provides<br />
the inhabitant’s name, occupation, place of residence,<br />
a date, <strong>and</strong> the source. In some instances, Mr. Dobson<br />
gives quite a bit more, for example:<br />
CAMPBELL, JOHN, ordained as a Presbyterian<br />
minister at Carncastle, Irel<strong>and</strong>, on 2 May 1677, a minister<br />
at Loudoun, Ayrshire, from 1685 to 1689, then<br />
he returned to Irel<strong>and</strong> as minister at Carncastle from<br />
1690 to 1714, returned to Scotl<strong>and</strong>, husb<strong>and</strong> of Agnes<br />
Cunningham. [F.3.120]<br />
In all, Mr. Dobson has uncovered an additional<br />
1,500 Lowl<strong>and</strong> Scots who re-settled in Ulster, <strong>and</strong><br />
many of their progeny would cross the Atlantic.<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong> During the Plantation of<br />
Ulster—The People of Ayrshire 1600-1699<br />
By David Dobson; 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 139 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite<br />
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;<br />
or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9018 ISBN: 9780806353913;<br />
$19.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The people who moved<br />
from Scotl<strong>and</strong> to Irel<strong>and</strong> in<br />
the 17th century overwhelmingly<br />
originated in southwest<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong>. This region includes Ayrshire, from whose<br />
ports originated some of the earliest trading voyages<br />
to the New World. The opportunities in Ulster<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ayrshire’s close proximity to Irel<strong>and</strong>, however,<br />
discouraged transatlantic emigration. While many<br />
moved for good economic reasons, others fled from<br />
religious persecution. Those who settled in Ulster<br />
were the forefathers of the Scotch-Irish.<br />
This book is the second volume in a series designed<br />
to provide information on Scottish communities<br />
that participated in the Ulster exodus <strong>and</strong> for<br />
which parish registers are virtually non-existent. The<br />
Old Parish Registers of the Church of Scotl<strong>and</strong> are<br />
the backbone of genealogical research in Scotl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
but in the case of Ayrshire, for example, only eight of<br />
46 extant registers date from before 1650, the earliest<br />
dating from 1638. This work partially fills that gap<br />
<strong>and</strong> uses sources generally not available to American<br />
researchers with Scottish forebears, most of them<br />
primary sources in the National Archives of Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
in Edinburgh <strong>and</strong> other sources, such as the Commissary<br />
Courts of Glasgow <strong>and</strong> Edinburgh, the High<br />
Court of the Admiralty, burgh records, Register of<br />
Deeds, Retours, customs records, <strong>and</strong> a h<strong>and</strong>ful of<br />
published sources.<br />
While Mr. Dobson makes no claims for comprehensiveness,<br />
this book does identify more than 1,800<br />
17th-century residents of Ayrshire who may have<br />
figured in the exodus to Ulster. Each such individual<br />
is identified by name, occupation, at least one date<br />
(e.g., burgess of Ayr, 1607, or testament, 1662), <strong>and</strong><br />
the source of the information. In many cases, the<br />
entries also identify the resident’s parents, spouse,<br />
or offspring; vessel(s) traveled on; additional dates;<br />
<strong>and</strong> more. Researchers with Boyd, Campbell, Cochrane,<br />
Cunningham, Dalrymple, Ferguson, Fullarton,<br />
Hunter, Kennedy, Montgomery, Muir, or Wallace<br />
lines should note that these families were much in<br />
evidence in Ayrshire in the 17th century.<br />
The first volume in this series, The People of Dumfries<br />
<strong>and</strong> Galloway, 1600-1699, is arranged in the same way as<br />
this second volume. The major families in the Dumfries-<br />
Galloway region were Gordon, Irving, Johnston, Kennedy,<br />
Maxwell, McKie, McLellan, <strong>and</strong> McDowall, <strong>and</strong><br />
many others are featured in this volume.<br />
The Clans, Septs & Regiments<br />
of the Scottish Highl<strong>and</strong>s<br />
By Frank Adam—revised by Sir Thomas Innes of<br />
Learney; Originally published in 1970, reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 624 pp; softbound. Order from the<br />
publisher at: Clearfield Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211; or<br />
www.genealogical.com; CF40 ISBN: 9780806304489;<br />
$52.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
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This is the eighth edition<br />
of the st<strong>and</strong>ard work on the<br />
Highl<strong>and</strong> clans, the most accurate<br />
account of Scottish<br />
clans, tartans, <strong>and</strong> fighting<br />
regiments ever published.<br />
This particular edition features<br />
an alphabetical list of<br />
Scottish family names arranged<br />
according to the<br />
clans with which they were<br />
associated.<br />
An authoritative <strong>and</strong> beautiful<br />
book, ranging across the entire spectrum of<br />
Scottish history <strong>and</strong> culture, it is primarily an encyclopedia<br />
of Scottish clanship, devoted, in the main,<br />
to a discussion of the following subjects: Scottish<br />
Highl<strong>and</strong>s, Highl<strong>and</strong> garb, the tartan, Highl<strong>and</strong><br />
surnames <strong>and</strong> titles, Highl<strong>and</strong> regiments, coats of<br />
arms in the clan system, Highl<strong>and</strong> chiefs <strong>and</strong> chieftans,<br />
badges of clans <strong>and</strong> families, <strong>and</strong> lists of clan<br />
septs <strong>and</strong> dependents. Nowhere in print is there as<br />
complete an account of the Scottish Highl<strong>and</strong>s in all<br />
these aspects.<br />
The work was originally published in 1908, with a<br />
second edition in 1924 <strong>and</strong> a third in 1934. The late Sir<br />
Thomas Innes of Learney edited <strong>and</strong> revised it from<br />
the fourth edition (1952) to the eighth edition of 1970.<br />
American Indian<br />
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—<br />
Volume VII Applications 21,881-26,099<br />
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 288 pp;<br />
softbound. Order from the<br />
publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9927 ISBN:<br />
9780806353890; $31.50 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
Between May 1905 <strong>and</strong><br />
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme<br />
Court authorized the Secretary<br />
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern<br />
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution<br />
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The<br />
purpose of the authorization was to settle outst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Cherokees in 1835-36 <strong>and</strong> 1845.<br />
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing<br />
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with<br />
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation<br />
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).<br />
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19<br />
states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these<br />
individuals were living west of the Mississippi River,<br />
but all of them were considered to be Eastern Cherokee<br />
by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee<br />
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama, Georgia,<br />
North Carolina, <strong>and</strong> Tennessee in 1835. (Mr. Miller<br />
submitted a supplemental report in January 1910 that<br />
resulted in another 610 eligibles.)<br />
Volume VII represents an additional 4,200 applications.<br />
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical<br />
value from the applications, which in every case<br />
provides the application number, applicant’s name<br />
<strong>and</strong> city of residence, number of other persons in<br />
the applicant’s family, references to family members<br />
found in other applications, <strong>and</strong> the disposition of<br />
the application. In some instances, Mr. Bowen has<br />
supplemented the core elements found in the abstracts<br />
with references to other family members by<br />
name, relationship(s), <strong>and</strong> dates of birth <strong>and</strong>/or death.<br />
In a number of cases, these applications refer to the<br />
origins of Native Americans other than Cherokee<br />
(Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Slave, etc.). Mr. Bowen<br />
notes these connections in the index to each volume,<br />
in parentheses, next to the individual’s name.<br />
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—<br />
Volume VIII Applications 26,100-30,199<br />
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 286 pp;<br />
softbound. Order from the<br />
publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9928 ISBN:<br />
9780806353906; $31.50 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
Between May 1905 <strong>and</strong><br />
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme<br />
Court authorized the Secretary<br />
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern<br />
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution<br />
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The<br />
purpose of the authorization was to settle outst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Cherokees in 1835-36 <strong>and</strong> 1845.<br />
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing<br />
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with<br />
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation<br />
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).<br />
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19<br />
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states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these<br />
individuals were living west of the Mississippi River,<br />
but all of them were considered to be Eastern Cherokee<br />
by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee<br />
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama, Georgia,<br />
North Carolina, <strong>and</strong> Tennessee in 1835. (Mr. Miller<br />
submitted a supplemental report in January 1910 that<br />
resulted in another 610 eligibles.)<br />
Volume VIII represents an additional 4,100 applications.<br />
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical<br />
value from the applications, which in every case<br />
provides the application number, applicant’s name<br />
<strong>and</strong> city of residence, number of other persons in<br />
the applicant’s family, references to family members<br />
found in other applications, <strong>and</strong> the disposition of<br />
the application. In some instances, Mr. Bowen has<br />
supplemented the core elements found in the abstracts<br />
with references to other family members by<br />
name, relationship(s), <strong>and</strong> dates of birth <strong>and</strong>/or death.<br />
In a number of cases, these applications refer to the<br />
origins of Native Americans other than Cherokee<br />
(Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Slave, etc.). Mr. Bowen<br />
notes these connections in the index to each volume,<br />
in parentheses, next to the individual’s name.<br />
Eastern Cherokee By Blood 1906-1910—<br />
Volume IX Applications 30,200-34,185<br />
Transcribed by Jeff Bowen;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 283 pp;<br />
softbound. Order from the<br />
publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9929 ISBN:<br />
9780806353968; $31.50 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
Between May 1905 <strong>and</strong><br />
April 1907, the U.S. Supreme<br />
Court authorized the Secretary<br />
of the Interior to identify the descendants of Eastern<br />
Cherokees entitled to participate in the distribution<br />
of more than $1 million authorized by Congress. The<br />
purpose of the authorization was to settle outst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
claims made under treaties between the U.S. government<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Cherokees in 1835-36 <strong>and</strong> 1845.<br />
On May 28, 1909, Mr. Guion Miller, representing<br />
the Interior Department, submitted his findings with<br />
respect to 45,847 separate applications for compensation<br />
(totaling about 90,000 individual claimants).<br />
Miller qualified about 30,000 persons inhabiting 19<br />
states to share in the fund. Ninety percent of these<br />
individuals were living west of the Mississippi<br />
River, but all of them were considered to be Eastern<br />
Cherokee by blood, that is, descendants of the Cherokee<br />
Nation that had been evicted from Alabama,<br />
Georgia, North Carolina, <strong>and</strong> Tennessee in 1835. (Mr.<br />
Miller submitted a supplemental report in January<br />
1910 that resulted in another 610 eligibles.)<br />
Volume IX represents just under 4,000 applications.<br />
Mr. Bowen culled every shred of genealogical value<br />
from the applications, which in every case provides<br />
the application number, applicant’s name <strong>and</strong> city of<br />
residence, number of other persons in the applicant’s<br />
family, references to family members found in other<br />
applications, <strong>and</strong> the disposition of the application.<br />
In some instances, Mr. Bowen has supplemented the<br />
core elements found in the abstracts with references<br />
to other family members by name, relationship(s),<br />
<strong>and</strong> dates of birth <strong>and</strong>/or death. In a number of<br />
cases, these applications refer to the origins of Native<br />
Americans other than Cherokee (Choctaw, Seminole,<br />
Creek, Slave, etc ). Mr. Bowen notes these connections<br />
in the index to each volume, in parentheses, next to<br />
the individual’s name.<br />
Military<br />
American Militia in the<br />
Frontier Wars, 1790-1796<br />
By Murtie June Clark; Originally<br />
printed in 1990; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 393<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF1001;<br />
ISBN: 9780806312774; $38.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
This book is a compilation<br />
of the records of the state militia<br />
organizations that were authorized <strong>and</strong> paid by<br />
the federal government to fight in the Indian Wars<br />
from 1790 until 1796, shortly after Anthony Wayne’s<br />
legendary victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.<br />
More specifically, it is a transcription of the muster<br />
rolls <strong>and</strong> pay rolls of the state militia troops who<br />
were paid to protect the frontier or who fought alongside<br />
federal troops in the various frontier campaigns.<br />
In addition, it contains data on some of the militia<br />
troops called out to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, the<br />
infamous western Pennsylvania tax revolt of 1784.<br />
From the records of the Adjutant General’s Office<br />
located in the National Archives, Murtie June Clark<br />
compiled data from the surviving federal records of<br />
the militia organizations of the following states <strong>and</strong><br />
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territories: Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio Territory,<br />
Pennsylvania, Southwest Territory (modern<br />
Tennessee), <strong>and</strong> Virginia. Named in these records,<br />
with dates of enlistment, rank, <strong>and</strong> other items of<br />
information, are militia troops participating in St.<br />
Clair’s defeat in the Northwest Territory, Anthony<br />
Wayne’s expeditions, the Whiskey Rebellion, the<br />
Battle of Fallen Timbers, <strong>and</strong> a host of campaigns in<br />
areas north of the Ohio River, in the Miro District of<br />
Tennessee, on the Holston <strong>and</strong> Cumberl<strong>and</strong> rivers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> in innumerable skirmishes along the Oconee in<br />
Georgia <strong>and</strong> in various other places. Enhancing the<br />
basic text is an index of names, a chronology of events<br />
from 1783 to 1796, <strong>and</strong> a bibliography!<br />
Civil War Stories: Tales of Everyday<br />
Soldiers <strong>and</strong> Civilians, Volume I<br />
By Greg M. Romaneck with<br />
Erin Elizabeth Romaneck;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 316 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Heritage Books,<br />
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave.,<br />
Suite 104, Westminster, MD<br />
21157; Phone 800-876-6103;<br />
Fax 410-871-2674 or www.<br />
heritagebooks.com; R4598;<br />
ISBN: 0788445987; $29.00<br />
plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
Between 1861 <strong>and</strong> 1865 the<br />
United States was divided by a bloody conflict that<br />
claimed over 630,000 lives. During those terrible<br />
years Americans killed one another, burned cities to<br />
the ground, <strong>and</strong> marched across the l<strong>and</strong> as if they<br />
were a pestilential cloud of locusts. That conflagration<br />
has come down through the years to be known<br />
as the American Civil War. Yet, despite the fact that<br />
thous<strong>and</strong>s of books <strong>and</strong> articles have been written<br />
about the people, places, <strong>and</strong> things that made up<br />
the Civil War, it remains all too easy to forget that its<br />
participants were everyday people. Civil War Stories<br />
is a two-volume social history that narrows the focus<br />
onto the lives of these everyday soldiers <strong>and</strong> civilians.<br />
Each chapter tells the story of an individual or a topic<br />
in the pantheon of Civil War history that impacted the<br />
lives of common soldiers or civilians. Readers of this<br />
work will meet refugees, slaves, infantryman longing<br />
to return home, <strong>and</strong> the cost of America’s bloodiest<br />
war. Written by a researcher who has published<br />
numerous articles <strong>and</strong> books on the Civil War, <strong>and</strong><br />
who spent 12 years engaged in living history events<br />
of that era in America’s past, Civil War Stories offers<br />
a unique, up close <strong>and</strong> personal look at perhaps the<br />
most influential portion of the American saga.<br />
Civil War Stories: Tales of Everyday<br />
Soldiers <strong>and</strong> Civilians, Volume II<br />
By Greg M. Romaneck with<br />
Erin Elizabeth Romaneck;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 282 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Heritage Books,<br />
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave.,<br />
Suite 104, Westminster, MD<br />
21157; Phone 800-876-6103;<br />
Fax 410-871-2674 or www.<br />
heritagebooks.com; R4599;<br />
ISBN: 0788445995; $27.00<br />
plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
Between 1861 <strong>and</strong> 1865<br />
the United States was divided by a bloody conflict<br />
that claimed over 630,000 lives. During those terrible<br />
years Americans killed one another, burned cities to<br />
the ground, <strong>and</strong> marched across the l<strong>and</strong> as if they<br />
were a pestilential cloud of locust. That conflagration<br />
has come down through the years to be known<br />
as the American Civil War. Yet, despite the fact that<br />
thous<strong>and</strong>s of books <strong>and</strong> articles have been written<br />
about the people, places, <strong>and</strong> things that made up<br />
the Civil War, it remains all too easy to forget that<br />
its participants were everyday people. Civil War Stories<br />
is a two-volume social history that narrows the<br />
focus onto the lives of these everyday soldiers <strong>and</strong><br />
civilians. Each chapter tells the story of an individual<br />
or a topic in the pantheon of Civil War history that<br />
impacted the lives of common soldiers or civilians.<br />
Readers of this work will meet refugees, slaves, infantryman<br />
longing to return home, <strong>and</strong> the cost of<br />
America’s bloodiest war. Written by a researcher who<br />
has published numerous articles <strong>and</strong> books on the<br />
Civil War, <strong>and</strong> who spent 12 years engaged in living<br />
history events of that era in America’s past, Civil<br />
War Stories offers a unique, up close <strong>and</strong> personal<br />
look at perhaps the most influential portion of the<br />
American saga.<br />
From Providence to Fort Hell—<br />
Letters from Company K Seventh<br />
Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong> Volunteers<br />
By Robert Gr<strong>and</strong>champ; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 174 pp;<br />
softbound. Order from the publisher at: Heritage<br />
Books, Inc., 100 Railroad Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,<br />
MD 21157; Phone 800-876-6103; Fax 410-871-<br />
2674 or www.heritagebooks.com; G3743; ISBN:<br />
0788437437; $21.00 plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
On September 6, 1862 the Seventh Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong><br />
Volunteers was mustered into the service of<br />
the United States for three years. The Seventh was<br />
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incorporated into the Army<br />
of the Potomac <strong>and</strong> joined<br />
the First Brigade, Second Division,<br />
Ninth Corps. They<br />
would fight with this unit<br />
from the horrors of Fredericksburg<br />
to the garrison of<br />
Fort Hell before Petersburg.<br />
Along the way, the regiment<br />
fought engagements in Mississippi<br />
<strong>and</strong> Kentucky <strong>and</strong><br />
would return to Virginia in<br />
1864. Here the men from the<br />
Seventh Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong> Volunteers would face constant<br />
danger from Spotsylvania to the North Anna,<br />
Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, <strong>and</strong> Poplar<br />
Spring Church. One of the ten companies in that regiment<br />
was Company K. Found in collections throughout<br />
Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong> these transcribed <strong>and</strong> edited letters<br />
tell of a community of men at war. Here are the vivid<br />
accounts of battles <strong>and</strong> leaders, of fatiguing marches,<br />
<strong>and</strong> horrible illness as the men recorded it in letters<br />
home to their families. These letters reflect a critical<br />
moment in this nation’s history as these farmers<br />
<strong>and</strong> mill workers turned their backs from home <strong>and</strong><br />
went south to fight in the Civil War. Carefully preserved<br />
through the generations these letters allow<br />
the veterans of the Seventh Rhode Isl<strong>and</strong> to speak.<br />
From these simple words, penned on faded pieces<br />
of paper the past is brought to life. These letters are<br />
presented to the reader exactly as the soldier wrote<br />
them, along with historical narrative, identification<br />
of those mentioned in the text, a roster, images, <strong>and</strong><br />
bibliographical notes.<br />
The Civil War in TEXAS <strong>and</strong><br />
the SOUTHWEST<br />
By Colonel USA (Ret) Roy F.<br />
Sullivan; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 150<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Heritage<br />
Books, Inc., 100 Railroad<br />
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,<br />
MD 21157; Phone 800-<br />
876-6103; Fax 410-871-2674<br />
or www.heritagebooks.com;<br />
S4370; ISBN: 0788443704;<br />
$19.00 plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
“The contributions of the<br />
Texas Navy to the Republic<br />
(of Texas) were more important than contemporaries<br />
understood. During the critical first months of revolution,<br />
the Navy fought off blockaders, interrupted<br />
Mexican supply lines, <strong>and</strong> provided the opportunity<br />
for victory at San Jacinto. Later, aided by American<br />
<strong>and</strong> French quarrels with Mexico, it prevented a seaborne<br />
or sea-supported attack of Texas. And finally,<br />
in 1843 the Navy thwarted a well-organized full scale<br />
invasion of Yucatan which, if successful, would have<br />
led inevitably to reinvasion, possibly reconquest of<br />
Texas.” Many people have never heard of the Republic<br />
of Texas, nor know that the “Lone Star State” was<br />
its own nation for ten years after winning independence<br />
from Santa Ana at San Jacinto. Texans were<br />
on their own, struggling to create a new republic in<br />
the mold (<strong>and</strong> shadow) of the United States. A navy<br />
was needed—a strong <strong>and</strong> feisty one—to defend 600<br />
miles of Texas Gulf coast from a strong <strong>and</strong> aggressive<br />
Mexico which wanted Texas back. To defend themselves<br />
Texans had three navies. The Impromptu Navy<br />
was a collection of hearty individuals <strong>and</strong> small craft<br />
curbing Mexico’s harsh authority along the coast. The<br />
First Navy blockaded Mexican ports, seized shipping<br />
carrying arms <strong>and</strong> munitions to Mexican armies <strong>and</strong><br />
reduced Mexico’s powerful navy to an escort role.<br />
The Second (<strong>and</strong> last) Texas Navy’s sailing ships confronted<br />
Mexico’s state-of-the-art warships, defeated<br />
them, preventing Mexico’s blockade of its rebellious<br />
Yucatan <strong>and</strong> Tabasco provinces while forcing Santa<br />
Ana to an armistice with Texas.<br />
Abe Lincoln Afloat<br />
By J. C. Ladenheim; 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 82 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher at:<br />
Heritage Books, Inc., 100 Railroad<br />
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,<br />
MD 21157; Phone<br />
800-876-6103; Fax 410-871-2674<br />
or www.heritagebooks.com;<br />
L4558; ISBN: 0788445588;<br />
$13.50 plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
In 1828, Abe Lincoln, a<br />
gangling 18-year old Hoosier<br />
farm boy, made the first of<br />
two 2,500 mile journeys down <strong>and</strong> up the Mississippi<br />
River, which he undertook at no small risk to<br />
life <strong>and</strong> limb. The youth marveled at the hazards of<br />
navigation, the strange plants <strong>and</strong> animal life, the<br />
crime <strong>and</strong> bustling commerce encountered along the<br />
great river <strong>and</strong> the slave plantations emerging from<br />
the wilderness. He visited a great city, heard foreign<br />
languages spoken, saw foreign flags, <strong>and</strong> watched in<br />
distress as men <strong>and</strong> women were sold off by pitiless<br />
auctioneers. He returned home by steamboat, realizing<br />
every boy’s prayers, <strong>and</strong> thereafter held himself<br />
out as an experienced river man. The author, a retired<br />
neurosurgeon, has been a lifelong Lincoln student<br />
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<strong>and</strong> a former president of the Abraham Lincoln Association<br />
of Jersey City, the oldest Lincoln society in<br />
the United States.<br />
Delaware<br />
Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle<br />
County, Delaware—April 1761-July 1777<br />
By Margaret Dealyne Mealy;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 285 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Colonial Roots,<br />
17296 Coastal Highway,<br />
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-<br />
8608; 302-644-2798; www.<br />
colonialroots.com; D3031;<br />
$31.00 plus $6.50 p&h.<br />
Contains detailed abstracts<br />
from Books D <strong>and</strong> E. These<br />
records reveal not only the<br />
names of minors (girls under<br />
age 18 <strong>and</strong> boys under 21) but the names of the<br />
guardians which could be the mother, father (in the<br />
case of property left to the children by one other than<br />
the father), <strong>and</strong> husb<strong>and</strong>s (when married to a girl under<br />
18). Other information includes the name of subsequent<br />
husb<strong>and</strong> of the widow, accountings by the<br />
executors or administrators of the estate, valuations<br />
of the l<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> division of the l<strong>and</strong>. The eldest son is<br />
specified since he received two shares to his siblings’<br />
one share. Example of an entry (condensed): Richard<br />
Dinniss <strong>and</strong> his wife Hannah, late Hannah Coates, one of<br />
the daughters of Mary Coates, late Mary Hale, set forth<br />
that Mary Hale married John Coates, late of Philadelphia,<br />
bricklayer. She died seized of 282 acres; her husb<strong>and</strong> died<br />
soon thereafter. Her children are named along with the<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>s of her daughters. A deceased daughter is also<br />
named. A wealth of information.<br />
Orphans’ Court Proceedings of New Castle<br />
County, Delaware—April 1778-July 1787<br />
By Sarah Deakyne Burke;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 255 pp; softbound;<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Colonial Roots,<br />
17296 Coastal Highway,<br />
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-<br />
8608; 302-644-2798; www.<br />
colonialroots.com; D3032;<br />
$28.50 plus $6.50 p&h.<br />
Contains detailed abstracts<br />
from Book F. These records<br />
reveal not only the names<br />
of minors (girls under age 18 <strong>and</strong> boys under 21),<br />
but the names of the guardians which could be the<br />
mother, father (in the case of property left to the<br />
children by one other than the father), <strong>and</strong> husb<strong>and</strong>s<br />
(when married to a girl under 18). Other information<br />
includes the name of subsequent husb<strong>and</strong> of<br />
the widow, accountings by the executors or administrators<br />
of the estate, valuations of the l<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong><br />
division of the l<strong>and</strong>. The eldest son is specified since<br />
he received two shares to his siblings’ one share. Example<br />
of an entry (condensed): Richard Dinniss <strong>and</strong><br />
his wife Hannah, late Hannah Coates, one of the daughters<br />
of Mary Coates, late Mary Hale, set forth that Mary Hale<br />
married John Coates, late of Philadelphia, bricklayer. She<br />
died seized of 282 acres; her husb<strong>and</strong> died soon thereafter.<br />
Her children are named along with the husb<strong>and</strong>s of her<br />
daughters. A deceased daughter is also named. A wealth<br />
of information.<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> of Frederick County, Maryl<strong>and</strong>—<br />
2 Volumes<br />
By T. J. C. Williams <strong>and</strong><br />
Folger McKinsey; Originally<br />
printed in 1910; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 1,724 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the<br />
publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF6410; ISBN:<br />
9780806380124; $140.00 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
If the genealogist would<br />
identify the perfect county history—one containing<br />
equal parts of history <strong>and</strong> biography, <strong>and</strong> enough<br />
genealogy to make the blood race—Williams’ <strong>History</strong><br />
of Frederick County, Maryl<strong>and</strong> would surely be his/her<br />
choice. The history of Braddock’s campaign, the local<br />
events of the Revolution, John Brown’s raid nearby,<br />
the old National Road, the earliest American railroad<br />
<strong>and</strong> its opening to Frederick, <strong>and</strong> the great events of<br />
the Civil War are all covered in the first volume of<br />
this monumental work. Of particular interest to the<br />
genealogist are the 1790 census of Frederick County<br />
<strong>and</strong> the roster of Maryl<strong>and</strong> Troops in the French <strong>and</strong><br />
Indian War.<br />
The second volume, the “Biographical Record of<br />
Representative Families,” is really worth pausing<br />
over, for it contains no fewer than 1,100 biographical<br />
<strong>and</strong> genealogical sketches, in most cases supplied<br />
by the subjects of the sketches themselves. Each<br />
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sketch attempts to establish the origins of the subjects’<br />
forebears, giving the dates <strong>and</strong> places of their<br />
birth, marriage, <strong>and</strong> residence, <strong>and</strong> facts concerning<br />
their immigration to <strong>and</strong> settlement in this country<br />
(most were of German or Scotch-Irish extraction). The<br />
authors then describe the subjects’ family members,<br />
place of residence, education, religion, occupation,<br />
<strong>and</strong> life <strong>and</strong> times in Frederick County, which in earlier<br />
years comprised the entire area of Western Maryl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
And what we are left with finally is not only<br />
an underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the rise <strong>and</strong> progress of a great<br />
county <strong>and</strong> its people, but also a clear perception of<br />
the county in the great genealogical chain.<br />
Every-name Index for the Two Volumes of<br />
<strong>History</strong> of Frederick County Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
Compiled by Patricia A.<br />
Fogle; Originally printed<br />
in 2002; Reprinted 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 220 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9780; ISBN:<br />
9780806351902; $26.50 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
For all of its magnificence,<br />
this irreplaceable work has a major shortcoming—<br />
it lacks an every-name index. Now, thanks to the<br />
prodigious efforts of Patricia A. Fogle, Clearfield<br />
Company is proud to announce the publication of<br />
a complete name index to Williams <strong>and</strong> McKinsey’s<br />
<strong>History</strong> of Frederick County, Maryl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Like the work it is based<br />
upon, the index is divided into<br />
two parts. The index to Volume<br />
I (the historical narrative) takes<br />
up the first third of Mrs. Fogle’s<br />
effort, while the remaining two<br />
thirds cover the genealogical<br />
sketches in Volume II. All told,<br />
the researcher will find more<br />
than 40,000 individuals named<br />
in this index. All individuals or<br />
libraries who currently own the<br />
<strong>History</strong> of Frederick County, Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
will want to purchase Mrs.<br />
Fogle’s finding aid as an invaluable<br />
companion to the original<br />
volumes. Those researching Frederick<br />
County who do not own the<br />
<strong>History</strong> but can gain access to the<br />
base volumes will also want to keep Mrs. Fogle’s<br />
Index on h<strong>and</strong>, since it unlocks an enormous number<br />
of links to the county’s past.<br />
Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume I: 1658-1674—Libers:<br />
1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4A, 4B, 4C<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; Originally<br />
printed in 2004; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 310<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9859;<br />
ISBN: 9780806352602; $29.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The Prerogative Court was<br />
the focal point for probate for<br />
colonial Maryl<strong>and</strong>. A judge <strong>and</strong> various clerks staffed<br />
the court. All matters of probate went directly to the<br />
Prerogative Court, which was located in the colonial<br />
capital. Eventually administration of probate was delegated<br />
to the several county courts; however, many<br />
documents related to probate continued to be filed<br />
at the Prerogative Court <strong>and</strong> not in the corresponding<br />
county.<br />
The work at h<strong>and</strong> consists of abstracts of Prerogative<br />
Court of Maryl<strong>and</strong> records for the period 1658<br />
to 1674. Mr. Skinner has combed through administration<br />
bond, will, inventory, administration account,<br />
<strong>and</strong> final balance entries to produce this collection.<br />
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The abstracts are arranged in chronological order by<br />
court session, <strong>and</strong> in every instance they give the<br />
names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses,<br />
administrators, <strong>and</strong> so forth). In many cases we also<br />
learn the details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> more. In all, Mr. Skinner identifies some<br />
6,000 17th-century Maryl<strong>and</strong>ers whose existence <strong>and</strong><br />
activities would otherwise remain hidden in some<br />
rich but very obscure records.<br />
Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative<br />
Court of Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume IX:<br />
1700-1703—Libers: 18B, 19A<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2007;<br />
5.5x8.5; 283 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite<br />
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;<br />
or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9971; ISBN: 9780806353449;<br />
$29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
This is the ninth volume in<br />
V. L. Skinner, Jr.’s popular series<br />
of transcriptions of 17thcentury<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong> probate<br />
records. Volume IX of Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryl<strong>and</strong> (1700–<br />
1703) marks the first one in the series whose coverage<br />
is confined solely to the 18th century.<br />
The Prerogative Court was the focal point for<br />
probate in colonial Maryl<strong>and</strong>. A judge <strong>and</strong> various<br />
clerks staffed the court. All matters of probate went<br />
directly to the Prerogative Court, which was located<br />
in Annapolis, Maryl<strong>and</strong>’s colonial capital. Eventually,<br />
administration of probate was delegated to the<br />
several county courts; however, many documents<br />
related to probate continued to be filed at the Prerogative<br />
Court <strong>and</strong> not in the corresponding county.<br />
It should be noted that the Prerogative Court was<br />
also the colony’s court for equity cases—resolution<br />
of disputes over the settlement <strong>and</strong> distribution of an<br />
estate. (Beginning in 1674, inventories <strong>and</strong> accounts<br />
were recorded in a separate series.)<br />
Volume IX consists of abstracts of the records for<br />
the period 1700 to 1703. Mr. Skinner has combed<br />
through administration, bond, will, inventory, administration<br />
accounts, <strong>and</strong> final balance entries to<br />
produce this collection. The abstracts are arranged<br />
chronologically by court session. For the most part,<br />
the transcriptions state the names of the principals<br />
(testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, <strong>and</strong> so<br />
forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves,<br />
appraisers, <strong>and</strong> more. Beginning with the previous<br />
volume in this series, it is interesting to note,<br />
the Prerogative Court no longer assigned appraisers<br />
for the assessment of individuals’ property. In<br />
all, this volume refers to roughly 7,500 residents of<br />
the Province of Maryl<strong>and</strong> at the outset of the 18th<br />
century.<br />
Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative<br />
Court of Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume X:<br />
1704-1707—Libers 19B, 19C<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; Originally<br />
printed in 2007; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 256<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9972;<br />
ISBN: 9780806353487; $29.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
This is the tenth volume<br />
of Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
(1704–1707), by V. L. Skinner. By now readers of this<br />
excellent series know that the Prerogative Court<br />
was the focal point for probate in colonial Maryl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
A judge <strong>and</strong> various clerks staffed the court.<br />
All matters of probate went directly to the Prerogative<br />
Court, which was located in Annapolis, Maryl<strong>and</strong>’s<br />
colonial capital. Eventually, administration of<br />
probate was delegated to the several county courts;<br />
however, many documents related to probate continued<br />
to be filed at the Prerogative Court <strong>and</strong> not<br />
in the corresponding county. It should be noted that<br />
the Prerogative Court was also the colony’s court for<br />
equity cases—resolution of disputes over the settlement<br />
<strong>and</strong> distribution of an estate. (Beginning in<br />
1674, inventories <strong>and</strong> accounts were recorded in a<br />
separate series.)<br />
Volume X consists of abstracts of the records for<br />
the period 1704 to 1707. Mr. Skinner has combed<br />
through administration, bond, will, inventory, administration<br />
account, <strong>and</strong> final balance entries to<br />
produce this collection. The abstracts are arranged<br />
chronologically by court session. For the most part,<br />
the transcriptions state the names of the principals<br />
(testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, <strong>and</strong> so<br />
forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves,<br />
appraisers, <strong>and</strong> more. In all, this volume refers to<br />
roughly 7,000 residents of the Province of Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
between 1704 <strong>and</strong> 1707.<br />
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Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court<br />
of Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume XI: 1703-1704,<br />
1707-1709—Libers 20, 21 (pp. 1-206)<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; Originally<br />
printed in 2007; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 292<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9973;<br />
ISBN: 9780806353579; $29.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Readers of this excellent<br />
series know that the Prerogative<br />
Court was the focal point for probate in colonial<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>. All matters of probate went directly to<br />
the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis,<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>’s colonial capital. The following<br />
documents were filed with the court: administration,<br />
bond, will, inventory, administration accounts, <strong>and</strong><br />
final balances. Eventually, administration of probate<br />
was delegated to the several county courts; however,<br />
many documents related to probate continued to be<br />
filed at the Prerogative Court <strong>and</strong> not in the corresponding<br />
county. It should be noted that the Prerogative<br />
Court was also the colony’s court for equity<br />
cases—resolution of disputes over the settlement <strong>and</strong><br />
distribution of an estate.<br />
Volume XI contains abstracts of the records for<br />
1703-1704 <strong>and</strong> 1707-1709, as found in Libers 20 <strong>and</strong><br />
21. As such, it overlaps chronologically with Volume<br />
X, which deals with the years 1704-1707. The abstracts<br />
are arranged chronologically by court session. For<br />
the most part, the transcriptions state the names of<br />
the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators,<br />
<strong>and</strong> so forth) as well as details of bequests,<br />
names of slaves, appraisers, <strong>and</strong> more. In all, this<br />
volume refers to roughly 8,000 residents.<br />
Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume XII: 1709-1712—Libers:<br />
21 (pp. 207-347), 22 (pp. 1-147)<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 292 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9994;<br />
ISBN: 9780806353654; $29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Readers of this excellent series know that the<br />
Prerogative Court was the focal point for probate<br />
in colonial Maryl<strong>and</strong>. All<br />
matters of probate went directly<br />
to the Prerogative<br />
Court, which was located in<br />
Annapolis, Maryl<strong>and</strong>’s colonial<br />
capital. The Prerogative<br />
Court was also the colony’s<br />
court for equity cases—resolution<br />
of disputes over the<br />
settlement <strong>and</strong> distribution<br />
of an estate. Volume XII contains<br />
abstracts of the records<br />
for the period 1709 to 1712, as<br />
found in Libers 21 <strong>and</strong> 22. Mr. Skinner has combed<br />
through administration, bond, will, inventory, administration<br />
account, <strong>and</strong> final balance entries for<br />
these years. The abstracts are arranged chronologically<br />
by court session. For the most part, the transcriptions<br />
state the names of the principals (testators,<br />
heirs, witnesses, administrators, <strong>and</strong> so forth) as well<br />
as details of bequests, names of slaves, appraisers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> more. This volume refers to more than 7,500<br />
residents.<br />
Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume XVI: 1721-1724—Libers:<br />
25 (pp. 88-135), 26, 27 (pp. 1-140)<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 300 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite<br />
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;<br />
or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9951; ISBN: 9780806353944;<br />
$29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The Prerogative Court was<br />
the focal point for probate in<br />
colonial Maryl<strong>and</strong>. All matters<br />
of probate went directly<br />
to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis,<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>’s colonial capital. The Prerogative<br />
Court was also the colony’s court for equity cases—<br />
resolution of disputes over the settlement <strong>and</strong> distribution<br />
of an estate.<br />
Following is a representative abstract from these<br />
volumes:<br />
Summons to Samuell Heigh & his wife executrix<br />
of John Israell (BA) to show cause why<br />
they don’t take LoA on his estate, or grant administration<br />
to another on behalf of the children.<br />
Date: 10 November 1724.<br />
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Volume XVI consists of abstracts of the records for<br />
the period 1721-24, as found in the remainder of Liber<br />
25, Liber 26, <strong>and</strong> the first 140 pages of Liber 27. The<br />
abstracts are arranged chronologically by court session.<br />
For the most part, the transcriptions state the<br />
names of the principals (testators, heirs, witnesses,<br />
administrators, <strong>and</strong> so forth) as well as details of bequests,<br />
names of slaves, appraisers, <strong>and</strong> more.<br />
Abstracts of the Testamentary<br />
Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>—Volume XVII: 1724-1727—Libers:<br />
27 (pp. 141-402), 28 (pp. 1-101)<br />
By V. L. Skinner, Jr.; 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 289 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite<br />
260, Baltimore, MD 21211;<br />
or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF9952; ISBN: 9780806353951;<br />
$29.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The Prerogative Court was<br />
the focal point for probate in<br />
colonial Maryl<strong>and</strong>. All matters<br />
of probate went directly<br />
to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis,<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>’s colonial capital. The Prerogative<br />
Court was also the colony’s court for equity cases—<br />
resolution of disputes over the settlement <strong>and</strong> distribution<br />
of an estate.<br />
Following is a representative abstract from these<br />
volumes:<br />
Summons to Samuell Heigh & his wife executrix<br />
of John Israell (BA) to show cause why<br />
they don’t take LoA on his estate, or grant administration<br />
to another on behalf of the children.<br />
Date: 10 November 1724.<br />
Volume XVII resumes with page 141 of Liber 27<br />
<strong>and</strong> pp. 1-101 of Liber 28. The abstracts are arranged<br />
chronologically by court session. For the most part,<br />
the transcriptions state the names of the principals<br />
(testators, heirs, witnesses, administrators, <strong>and</strong> so<br />
forth) as well as details of bequests, names of slaves,<br />
appraisers, <strong>and</strong> more.<br />
Catholic Families of Southern Maryl<strong>and</strong>—<br />
Records of Catholic Residents of St.<br />
Mary’s County in the Eighteenth Century<br />
Compiled by Timothy J. O’Rourke; Originally<br />
published in 1981; Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 153 pp;<br />
softbound. Order from the<br />
publisher at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF4337; ISBN:<br />
9780806311067; $21.00 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
“St. Mary’s County is<br />
where it all began,” writes<br />
Thomas Spalding in the introduction<br />
to this book. “There<br />
was established the first<br />
Catholic parish, the first Catholic school, the first<br />
community of religious men in English-speaking<br />
America.” Moreover, St. Mary’s residents played a<br />
key role in the development of the Catholic Church<br />
throughout the whole of America, providing the<br />
spearhead of the westward expansion of Catholicism.<br />
In 1785, for example, the first of many Catholic<br />
families from St. Mary’s crossed the mountains<br />
to find l<strong>and</strong> in Kentucky, while a few years later,<br />
driven by economic necessity, others migrated to<br />
Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, <strong>and</strong> Texas. So great<br />
was the number of St. Mary’s Catholics who moved<br />
to Kentucky, in fact, that a diocese was created for<br />
them in 1808.<br />
These early families left a mighty progeny, <strong>and</strong><br />
those of us today who seek ancestral connections<br />
will welcome the appearance of this book, for here<br />
are collected many of the earliest surviving records<br />
of the Catholic families of St. Mary’s County,<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong>. The most significant portion of the work<br />
contains the marriages <strong>and</strong> baptisms from the Jesuit<br />
parishes of St. Francis Xavier <strong>and</strong> St. Inigoes,<br />
which, in the case of baptisms (1767-1794), give the<br />
names of children, parents, <strong>and</strong> godparents, <strong>and</strong><br />
the date of baptism; <strong>and</strong> in the case of marriages<br />
(1767-1784), the names of the married partners <strong>and</strong><br />
the date of marriage. Other records include congregation<br />
lists (1768-1769), rent rolls (various dates),<br />
births (various dates), subscribers to the Oath of Allegiance<br />
(1778), militia lists (1794), <strong>and</strong> voters’ lists<br />
(1789-1790). Taken together, these records comprise<br />
an indispensable reference source <strong>and</strong> represent<br />
the most complete collection of such materials in<br />
print.<br />
Maryl<strong>and</strong> Genealogies—Two Volumes<br />
From the Maryl<strong>and</strong> Historical Magazine; Originally<br />
published in 1980; Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5;<br />
1097 pp; softbound. Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD 21211; or www.<br />
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genealogical.com; CF3735;<br />
ISBN: 9780806308876; $110.00<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
This work contains all the<br />
family history articles published<br />
in the Maryl<strong>and</strong> Historical<br />
Magazine from its inception<br />
through 1976. Most of the articles<br />
begin with the first member<br />
of the family in Maryl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> trace descendants in the<br />
male line down to the early<br />
18th century. Since they have<br />
been largely inaccessible to the researcher, we have<br />
excerpted these articles in entirety <strong>and</strong> rearranged<br />
them in this comprehensive two-volume work, adding<br />
an introduction by a noted Maryl<strong>and</strong> genealogist<br />
<strong>and</strong> personal name indexes.<br />
The consolidated articles—nearly 100 in number—<br />
now form a reference work of a type long needed<br />
in Maryl<strong>and</strong> genealogy, with the range <strong>and</strong> scholarly<br />
authority dem<strong>and</strong>ed by the researcher. Following<br />
is a list of the families named in the titles to the<br />
various articles: Abington, Auld, Ball, Bartlett, Belt,<br />
Berry, Bladen, Blakistone, Bonvile, Brengle, Briscoe,<br />
Brooke, Caile, Calvert, Chew, Christison, Churchill,<br />
Clements, Cohen, Coplestone, Croker, Cromwell,<br />
Dent, Dixon, Dorsey, Dunn, Egerton, Ellicott, Elliott,<br />
Emory, Fairfax, Faris, Fox, Foxworthy, Frisby, Fritchie,<br />
Frith, Gary, Gerard, Gist, Goldsborough, Gordon,<br />
Gough-Carroll, Hall, Harrison, Harwood, Haskins,<br />
Hausil, Hawley-Halley, Highl<strong>and</strong>, Hollyday, Hungerford,<br />
Hynson, Jones, Kemp, Key, Lambdin, Lane,<br />
LeCompte, Lee, Levis, Linthicum, Lloyd, Loockerman,<br />
Lowe, Lowndes, MacKeeles, Marsh, Merryman,<br />
Monroe, Morgan, Murdock, Neale, Owens-Owings,<br />
Pearce-Levy, Pennock, Plater, Poe, Price, Pritchett,<br />
R<strong>and</strong>all, Ridgely, Rigbie, Rockhold, Sewall, Sharpe,<br />
Skinner, Smallwood, Smith, Snead, Sparrow, Sprigg,<br />
Stansbury, Stevens, Stewart, Sweetser, Tasker, Taylor,<br />
Tilghman, Todd, Webb, Weems, West, Winchester-<br />
Owens-Owings-Price, Wise, Wrightson, <strong>and</strong> Young-<br />
Woodward-Hesselius.<br />
Cecil County, Maryl<strong>and</strong> Marriages<br />
References 1674-1824<br />
By Henry C. Peden Jr. & Veronica Clarke Peden;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 358 pp; softbound. Order from the publisher<br />
at: Colonial Roots, 17296 Coastal Highway,<br />
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-8608; 302-644-2798; www.<br />
colonialroots.com; D1674; $35.00 plus $6.50 p&h.<br />
This book is a comprehensive compilation of<br />
marriage references, actual <strong>and</strong> implied, in Cecil<br />
County, MD for its first 150 years from 1674 when the<br />
county separated from Baltimore<br />
County through 1824.<br />
It is much more than just<br />
names <strong>and</strong> dates. In many<br />
instances the reader will find<br />
births <strong>and</strong> deaths, names of<br />
parents, children, <strong>and</strong> other<br />
relatives, places of residence<br />
<strong>and</strong> burial, military service<br />
information, <strong>and</strong> places of<br />
residence <strong>and</strong> burials. These<br />
marriage references were<br />
gleaned from licenses, l<strong>and</strong><br />
records, probate records (wills, accounts, inventories,<br />
<strong>and</strong> distributions), bibles, church records, tombstone<br />
inscriptions, newspapers, military records,<br />
<strong>and</strong> family histories. Marriages were also found in<br />
nearby New Castle County, Delaware <strong>and</strong> in Chester<br />
<strong>and</strong> Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania. It should be<br />
noted that in some cases the dates of marriage are<br />
precise dates while in other cases, due to the lack<br />
of actual marriage records, they are approximate or<br />
undetermined.<br />
New Jersey<br />
East New Jersey L<strong>and</strong> Records,<br />
1702-1717 (Books H, I <strong>and</strong> “Little K”)<br />
By Richard S. Hutchinson;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 223 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Colonial Roots,<br />
17296 Coastal Highway,<br />
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-<br />
8608; 302-644-2798; www.<br />
colonialroots.com; D4557;<br />
$26.50 plus $6.50 p&h.<br />
This series covers the<br />
counties of Essex, Middlesex,<br />
Monmouth <strong>and</strong> Somerset.<br />
However, some Bergen Co.<br />
deeds are recorded, while others make references<br />
to Bergen Co. names within the deed’s description.<br />
Hutchinson’s latest volume also includes 19 wills,<br />
five intestate filings, <strong>and</strong> one declaration of intention<br />
to marry. In addition, the author has also added<br />
an addendum—a reprint of “A Further Account of<br />
New Jersey, In an Abstract of LETTERS Lately Writ<br />
from thence, By Several Inhabitants there Resident”<br />
(London, 1676). The period of this latest book, 1702 to<br />
1717 is the general period of recording, not the date of<br />
the actual transaction (l<strong>and</strong> sales, conveyances, mortgages,<br />
powers of attorney, etc.) that oft times predated<br />
the dates of the books. One is able to follow ownership<br />
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of l<strong>and</strong> from parents to their children <strong>and</strong> their children’s<br />
spouses in many of the conveyances.<br />
East New Jersey L<strong>and</strong> Records,<br />
1766-1772 (Books D3, E3 <strong>and</strong> F3)<br />
By Richard S. Hutchinson;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 243 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Colonial Roots,<br />
17296 Coastal Highway,<br />
Lewes, DE 19958; 800-576-<br />
8608; 302-644-2798; www.<br />
colonialroots.com; D4558;<br />
$27.00 plus $6.50 p&h.<br />
This series covers the counties<br />
of Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth,<br />
Morris, Somerset, <strong>and</strong><br />
Sussex. The period of this latest<br />
book, 1766-1772 is the general period of recording,<br />
not the date of the actual transaction (which includes<br />
l<strong>and</strong> sales, conveyances, mortgages, powers of attorney,<br />
etc.) that often times pre-dated the date of the<br />
books. One is able to follow ownership of l<strong>and</strong> from<br />
parents to their children <strong>and</strong> their children’s spouses<br />
in many of the conveyances.<br />
North Carolina<br />
Mecklenburg County, North<br />
Carolina—Abstracts of Early<br />
Wills 1763-1790 (1749-1790)<br />
By Brent H. Holcomb; Originally<br />
published in 1980;<br />
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 101<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9138;<br />
ISBN: 9780806345956; $17.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The will abstracts in this<br />
volume, 1749-1790, are based<br />
on the oldest Mecklenburg County wills of record, as<br />
well as upon the extant returns of wills <strong>and</strong> estates<br />
of the North Carolina Secretary of State. While the<br />
length <strong>and</strong> contents of these abstracts vary, most of<br />
them provide the name of the testator, date of the<br />
will, names <strong>and</strong> relationships of all heirs to the estate<br />
(sometimes with ages given or inferred), contents of<br />
the estate, names of executors, <strong>and</strong>, usually, the date<br />
of probate.<br />
Caswell County, North Carolina<br />
Marriage Bonds, 1778-1868<br />
Compiled by Katherine<br />
Kerr Kendall; Originally<br />
published in 1981; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 101<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9200;<br />
ISBN: 9780806312767; $21.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Caswell County, North<br />
Carolina was created from Orange County in 1777,<br />
<strong>and</strong> is today adjacent to Pittsylvania County, Virginia.<br />
Mrs. Kendall has abstracted all 5,700 extant<br />
marriage bonds for Caswell County from 1778, the<br />
date of the earliest bond, to 1868, when North Carolina<br />
changed the requirements of its marriage law.<br />
Each entry herein identifies the bride <strong>and</strong> groom, the<br />
date of the bond, <strong>and</strong> the name of the bondsman or<br />
witness. Contains a name index to brides, grooms,<br />
bondsmen, witnesses, <strong>and</strong> other persons named in<br />
the bonds.<br />
North Carolina 1850 Agricultural<br />
Census—Volume 1<br />
Transcribed <strong>and</strong> compiled by<br />
Linda L. Green; 2008; 8.5x11;<br />
202 pp; softbound. Order<br />
from the publisher at: Heritage<br />
Books, Inc., 100 Railroad<br />
Ave., Suite 104, Westminster,<br />
MD 21157; Phone 800-876-<br />
6103; Fax 410-871-2674 or<br />
www.heritagebooks.com;<br />
G4571; ISBN: 0788445715;<br />
$28.00 plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
These agricultural census records name only the<br />
head of the household; however, they do yield unique<br />
information about how people lived. Often, individuals<br />
who were missed on the regular U.S. census will<br />
appear on the agricultural census. Six of the agricultural<br />
census’s original 48 columns are transcribed<br />
here: name of owner, improved acreage, unimproved<br />
acreage, cash value of farm, value of farm implements<br />
<strong>and</strong> machinery, <strong>and</strong> value of livestock. This volume<br />
covers the counties of: Alamance, Alex<strong>and</strong>er, Anson,<br />
Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe,<br />
Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, <strong>and</strong> Carteret. A<br />
surname index augments the records.<br />
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Macon County, North Carolina—<br />
Marriages—1829-1939<br />
By James E. Wooley; Originally<br />
printed in 1984; Reprinted<br />
2005; 5.5x8.5; 156 pp;<br />
softbound; Indexed; Order<br />
from the publisher at: Southern<br />
Historical Books, 375<br />
West Broad St., PO Box 1267,<br />
Greenville, SC 29601; 800-<br />
233-0152; Fax 864-233-2349;<br />
http://southernhistoricalpress.com;<br />
ISBN: 0-89308-<br />
342-9; $25.00 plus p&h.<br />
Macon County was formed<br />
in 1828 from Haywood County, <strong>and</strong> Haywood was<br />
formed in 1808 from Buncombe. Macon County<br />
is in the Western section of North Carolina <strong>and</strong> is<br />
bounded by the state of Georgia <strong>and</strong> Clay, Cherokee,<br />
Swain, <strong>and</strong> Jackson Counties, N.C. This book contains<br />
approximately 7,000 marriages in this 110-year<br />
period <strong>and</strong> is arranged alphabetically by groom. An<br />
index of brides is included. Also included are the<br />
names of the clerks, registrars, justices of the peace<br />
<strong>and</strong> ministers of the gospel who performed these<br />
ceremonies. On a marriage bond could be found the<br />
names of the groom <strong>and</strong> his bondsman, the bride,<br />
the witness, <strong>and</strong> the date the bond was issued. The<br />
marriage may have taken place the same day or a<br />
week or more later. In 1868, bonds were discontinued,<br />
although marriage licenses <strong>and</strong> certificates had<br />
been issued for many years. Only after 1851 was the<br />
J.P. or minister required to return the license to the<br />
Clerk of the Court’s office. According to the 1868 law,<br />
the marriage licenses were to be kept in the Registrar<br />
of Deeds Office, <strong>and</strong> the age, race, residence, <strong>and</strong><br />
place of marriage were to be recorded with the other<br />
information.<br />
Orange County, N.C. Abstracts of the<br />
Minutes of the Court of Pleas <strong>and</strong> Quarter<br />
Sessions of: Sept. 1752-Aug. 1766<br />
By Ruth H. Shields; Originally printed in 1965; Reprinted<br />
2005; 5.5x8.5; 183 pp; softbound; indexed.<br />
Order from the publisher at: Southern Historical<br />
Books, 375 West Broad St., PO Box 1267, Greenville,<br />
SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax 864-233-2349; http://<br />
southernhistoricalpress.com; ISBN: 0-89308-456-5;<br />
$30.00 plus p&h.<br />
Orange County was created in 1752 from Granville,<br />
Johnston <strong>and</strong> Bladen Counties with Granville having<br />
been formed from Edgecombe County. Rowan County<br />
was formed as the western boundary of Orange in<br />
1753. Counties formed from<br />
Orange were Guilford <strong>and</strong><br />
R<strong>and</strong>olph in 1770 with Rockingham<br />
taken from Guilford<br />
in 1785, Chatham in 1770 with<br />
a small portion of it taken to<br />
become part of Wake County<br />
in 1770, <strong>and</strong> in 1771 Caswell<br />
County was taken from Orange<br />
with Person County<br />
taken from Caswell in 1792.<br />
The court was held four times<br />
a year <strong>and</strong> heard such cases of<br />
assault, batteries, trespass, all breaches of the peace.<br />
They held authority of administration in intestate<br />
estates <strong>and</strong> orphans, granted license to build water<br />
gristmills, to taverns <strong>and</strong> ordinaries, <strong>and</strong> to build<br />
<strong>and</strong> maintain public ferries. The court also appointed<br />
Constables <strong>and</strong> Overseers of Roads, <strong>and</strong> named the<br />
men who lived within the bounds to keep them in<br />
repair, as well as recommending three persons to the<br />
Governor, of whom one was made Sheriff, as well<br />
as imposing taxes for roads, courthouses <strong>and</strong> goals,<br />
appointed all county officers, civil <strong>and</strong> military, all<br />
lists of Jurors <strong>and</strong> probates of Wills. These records<br />
are extremely valuable for the researcher, especially<br />
if an ancestor died intestate (without a will), <strong>and</strong> in<br />
some instances a person may be listed in these court<br />
records <strong>and</strong> nowhere else in the county records.<br />
Abstracts of Haywood County,<br />
North Carolina Deeds 1808-1838<br />
By Bill Eddleman; 2005;<br />
6x9; 282 pp; hardbound; indexed.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Southern Historical<br />
Books, 375 West Broad St.,<br />
PO Box 1267, Greenville,<br />
SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax<br />
864-233-2349; http://southern<br />
historicalpress.com; ISBN:<br />
0-89308-807-2; $35.00 plus<br />
p&h.<br />
Haywood County was created<br />
in 1808 from Buncombe<br />
County, N.C. It was an important migration path<br />
for early settlers moving into Tennessee, Georgia,<br />
<strong>and</strong> South Carolina. Deeds are GREAT sources for<br />
genealogical research due to the many <strong>and</strong> varied<br />
family members that are mentioned. Not only will<br />
the reader find the deed transaction itself, but often<br />
times such things as: marriages, relinquishment of<br />
dower, divisions of family farms among heirs, <strong>and</strong><br />
remarriages of widows are just a few of the matters<br />
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you can anticipate finding within records of deeds.<br />
Another very special note, the author has included<br />
a slave index to help those persons researching their<br />
African American lines. This book should make a<br />
GREAT EDITION to everyone’s library who has family<br />
in Western North Carolina.<br />
<strong>History</strong> of Surry County, North Carolina<br />
By J. G. Hollingsworth; Originally<br />
printed in 1935; Reprinted<br />
2005; 6x9; 288 pp plus<br />
new index; hardbound. Order<br />
from the publisher at: Southern<br />
Historical Books, 375<br />
West Broad St., PO Box 1267,<br />
Greenville, SC 29601; 800-233-<br />
0152; Fax 864-233-2349; http://<br />
southernhistoricalpress.com;<br />
ISBN: 0-89308-748-3; $35.00<br />
plus p&h.<br />
Surry County was formed<br />
from Rowan County in 1771. At the time of it creation<br />
it was surrounded by Iredell, Rowan, Stokes, Wilkes<br />
counties, N.C. <strong>and</strong> to the North by Henry county, VA.<br />
The time frame of this book concentrates on the Colonial<br />
& Revolutionary era, with such topics as frontier<br />
life, Indians, trade & transportation, labor, farming,<br />
politics, education, newspapers, <strong>and</strong> religion—all<br />
important in the development of the county. These<br />
types of HISTORY books are can be very helpful in<br />
your research. They can help one develop ideas or<br />
pathways to those missing ancestors by showing the<br />
customs <strong>and</strong> traditions of local residents. This is very<br />
important in trying to figure out what signification<br />
factors were prevalent in the county, such as floods,<br />
draughts, matters of economic prosperity, matters of<br />
governmental intrusion or influence, or one of any<br />
number of things that might cause a person to stay or<br />
move on. The author has also included numerous lists:<br />
muster rolls of soldiers who served in the War of 1812,<br />
the detached Militia organization of 1814, pensioners<br />
in Surry County of 1840 Revolutionary or Military<br />
services, Pensions issued to Surry in 1833 for services<br />
in the War of 1812, Mexican War veterans, numerous<br />
Civil War Companies including commissioned & noncommissioned<br />
officers <strong>and</strong> privates, <strong>and</strong> Veterans of<br />
the Spanish-American War <strong>and</strong> WWI.<br />
Duplin County, North Carolina<br />
Court of Pleas & Quarter<br />
Sessions 1784-1787 (Vol. 1)<br />
By Leora H. McEachem; Originally printed in 1978,<br />
1979 & 1980; Reprinted 2005; 5.5x8.5; 118; Indexed;<br />
softbound. Order from the<br />
publisher at: Southern Historical<br />
Books, 375 West Broad<br />
St., PO Box 1267, Greenville,<br />
SC 29601; 800-233-0152; Fax<br />
864-233-2349; http://southernhistoricalpress.com;<br />
ISBN: 0-89308-808-0; $23.50<br />
plus p&h.<br />
Duplin County was formed<br />
in 1750 from New Hanover<br />
County, NC. It is located in<br />
the Southeastern section of<br />
the state <strong>and</strong> is surrounded by the counties of Jones,<br />
Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Sampson, <strong>and</strong> Wayne.<br />
In these abstracts, one will find local office holders<br />
being appointed, the levying <strong>and</strong> expenditure of local<br />
taxes, selecting & summoning of juries, licenses being<br />
granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds<br />
& bills of sale being acknowledge by the grantor. The<br />
Court also oversaw a wide range of matters involving<br />
estates, including probate of will, settlements of<br />
estates, <strong>and</strong> appraisements, as well as matters dealing<br />
with bastardy, <strong>and</strong> many other valuable bits of<br />
information.<br />
Pennsylvania<br />
The German <strong>and</strong> Swiss Settlements<br />
of Colonial Pennsylvania—A Study of<br />
the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch<br />
By Oscar Kuhns; Originally<br />
printed in 1900; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 276 pp; softbound;<br />
indexed. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9723;<br />
ISBN: 9780806351353; $28.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Just who are the “Pennsylvania<br />
Dutch” When <strong>and</strong> why<br />
did they emigrate to colonial America Who founded<br />
their various colorful communities, <strong>and</strong> what was<br />
their style of life If you’re looking for answers to<br />
these <strong>and</strong> related questions about the Pennsylvania<br />
Dutch, you’ll find them in Oscar Kuhns’ classic<br />
treatise, The German <strong>and</strong> Swiss Settlements of Colonial<br />
Pennsylvania.<br />
In scarcely 200 pages, Professor Kuhns has surveyed<br />
the factors that compelled roughly 100,000<br />
emigrants from the Palatinate, Wurtenberg,<br />
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Zweibrucken, <strong>and</strong> other principalities in southern<br />
Germany to settle in Pennsylvania between 1683 <strong>and</strong><br />
1776 <strong>and</strong> establish a new way of life in their adopted<br />
homel<strong>and</strong>. The author pinpoints the different waves<br />
of colonial Germans <strong>and</strong> Swiss <strong>and</strong> illustrates the<br />
pivotal roles played by such personalities as William<br />
Penn, Francis Daniel Pastorius, <strong>and</strong> Henry Melchior<br />
Muhlenberg in helping launch communities in Philadelphia,<br />
in Lancaster <strong>and</strong> Berks counties, <strong>and</strong> ultimately<br />
throughout Pennsylvania. The entire process<br />
of immigration is captured in vivid descriptions of<br />
(often unscrupulous) immigrant recruitment, the<br />
difficult passage across the Atlantic, indentured servitude,<br />
<strong>and</strong> settling on the l<strong>and</strong>. Most of these immigrants<br />
were farmers, <strong>and</strong> their customs <strong>and</strong> manners<br />
are recounted in an examination of housing, provisions,<br />
agricultural methods, superstitions, <strong>and</strong> so<br />
forth. There is a chapter on language, literature, <strong>and</strong><br />
education <strong>and</strong> a separate appendix on German family<br />
names. Perhaps the most informative chapter in<br />
the book covers the extraordinarily diverse religious<br />
life of these Protestant Germans, which, while dominated<br />
by the Lutheran <strong>and</strong> Reformed churches, also<br />
accommodated Moravians, Mennonites, Brethren,<br />
Dunkards, Seventh-Day Baptists, Schwenkfelders,<br />
<strong>and</strong> others. Concluding as it does with a chapter on<br />
the Revolution, in which we discover which Pennsylvania-Germans<br />
were patriots <strong>and</strong> which were<br />
pacifists, The German <strong>and</strong> Swiss Settlements of Colonial<br />
Pennsylvania is one volume that will hold the interest<br />
of Americans of colonial German descent from<br />
cover to cover.<br />
South Carolina<br />
Edgefield County, South Carolina<br />
Deed Books 42 <strong>and</strong> 43<br />
Abstracted by Carol Wells;<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 238 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Heritage Books,<br />
Inc., 100 Railroad Ave.,<br />
Suite 104, Westminster, MD<br />
21157; Phone 800-876-6103;<br />
Fax 410-871-2674 or www.<br />
heritagebooks.com; W4509;<br />
ISBN: 078844509X; $24.50<br />
plus $7.00 p&h.<br />
The deed book abstracts<br />
in this volume were gleaned<br />
from documents that were recorded between 1826<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1829. In addition to the names, dates, <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong><br />
descriptions one would expect to find in such records,<br />
these deed abstracts also reveal names of<br />
children <strong>and</strong> neighbors, ties to other areas, clues to<br />
family wealth (or lack of), names of wives, mothers,<br />
slaves, previous spouses, kinship, etc. These pages<br />
contain deeds of trust for protection of wives <strong>and</strong><br />
small children from a husb<strong>and</strong>’s financial troubles;<br />
prenuptial agreements; depositions; powers of attorney<br />
connecting different places; sheriff sales to partition<br />
estates or settle lawsuits, which often include<br />
the names of slaves. Chains of title reach back to the<br />
18th century original grantees <strong>and</strong> list the names of<br />
subsequent owners. The names of witnesses, adjoining<br />
l<strong>and</strong>owners, heirs, churches, branches, creeks,<br />
bridges, <strong>and</strong> ferries are included. The deeds are presented<br />
in original page number order with a full<br />
name index.<br />
People <strong>and</strong> Professions of Charleston,<br />
South Carolina 1782-1802<br />
By James W. Hagy; Originally<br />
printed in 1992; Reprinted<br />
2008; 5.5x8.5; 112 pp; softbound;<br />
indexed. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9135;<br />
ISBN: 9780806313238; $19.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
This publication affords<br />
us as close a glimpse of the<br />
population of Charleston, South Carolina during the<br />
last quarter of the 18th century as we are likely to<br />
come by. Professor Hagy has compiled all the names<br />
<strong>and</strong> other pertinent genealogical information that<br />
can be found in the Charleston city directories of<br />
1782, 1785, 1790, 1794, 1796, 1801, <strong>and</strong> 1802 <strong>and</strong> in<br />
the federal censuses for Charleston for 1790 <strong>and</strong><br />
1800. In assembling his data, the author has chosen<br />
to respect the integrity of his sources, thus the<br />
contents of each directory or census are arranged<br />
in a separate alphabetical sequence, preceded by a<br />
brief commentary concerning the methods used by<br />
the original compilers in producing the directory or<br />
census in question. In the case of the city directories,<br />
the names of inhabitants are followed by their occupations<br />
<strong>and</strong> addresses; for the censuses of 1790<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1800, only the names of the heads of household<br />
appear. Since a given individual may appear/disappear<br />
in as many as nine different listings spanning<br />
a 20-year period, the People <strong>and</strong> Professions of<br />
Charleston affords genealogists the rare opportunity<br />
of tracing the mobility or migration of a given ancestor<br />
at very close range. While this work cannot<br />
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claim to include every resident of Charleston for the<br />
period under investigation, it nonetheless identifies<br />
over 13,000 persons who lived <strong>and</strong>/or worked there<br />
between 1782 <strong>and</strong> 1802.<br />
South Carolinians in the Revolution With<br />
Service Records <strong>and</strong> Miscellaneous<br />
Data—Also Abstracts of Wills, Laurens<br />
County (Ninety-Six District) 1775-1855<br />
By Sara Sullivan Ervin;<br />
Originally printed in 1949;<br />
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 230<br />
pp; softbound; indexed. Order<br />
from the publisher at:<br />
Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road,<br />
Suite 260, Baltimore, MD<br />
21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF1690; ISBN:<br />
9780806301044; $24.00 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
Assembled in this work<br />
are the names of the men <strong>and</strong> women who rendered<br />
Revolutionary service in South Carolina, with proof<br />
collected from various sources <strong>and</strong> brought together<br />
for the first time by a competent compiler. Heading<br />
the list of contents is the South Carolina Pension<br />
Roll. Also included are the following: Names of Officers,<br />
Continental Establishment; Medical Men of<br />
the American Revolution; Men of General Sumter’s<br />
Brigade; Revolutionary Prisoners; South Carolina<br />
Women of the Revolution; Ancestral Roll of the<br />
S.C.D.A.R.; Additional Rolls of Military Companies;<br />
Soldiers of Other States; <strong>and</strong> Genealogies of Families<br />
Descended from S.C. Revolutionary Soldiers.<br />
The abstracts of Laurens County wills run 40 pages,<br />
name thous<strong>and</strong>s of persons, <strong>and</strong> are arranged in<br />
alphabetical order by the name of the testator.<br />
Tennessee<br />
Earliest Tennessee L<strong>and</strong> Records<br />
& Earliest Tennessee L<strong>and</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
By Irene M. Griffey, CG; Originally printed in<br />
2000; Reprinted 2008; 6x9; 506 pp; softbound. Order<br />
from the publisher at: Clearfield Company, Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore, MD<br />
21211; or www.genealogical.com; CF9404; ISBN:<br />
9780806350417; $52.50 plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
Once in a generation, someone compiles a genealogy<br />
reference work that instantly becomes a st<strong>and</strong>ard<br />
in its field because it aggregates a vital collection of<br />
records in one place, explains how those records<br />
originally came to be, <strong>and</strong>, in<br />
the process, promises to save<br />
its users hours of toil. Earliest<br />
Tennessee L<strong>and</strong> Records <strong>and</strong> Earliest<br />
Tennessee L<strong>and</strong> <strong>History</strong>, by<br />
Irene Griffey, is such a book.<br />
The State of Tennessee was<br />
established, essentially, from<br />
l<strong>and</strong> ceded to the federal government<br />
by North Carolina.<br />
Clouding the various l<strong>and</strong><br />
cession laws that transferred<br />
the title of l<strong>and</strong> from North<br />
Carolina to the United States south of the River Ohio<br />
(a territory) <strong>and</strong> then to Tennessee was the requirement,<br />
however vaguely defined, that North Carolina<br />
Revolutionary soldiers’ promise of l<strong>and</strong> for military<br />
service be honored. Among other things, this requirement<br />
resulted in the inclusion of hundreds of<br />
footnotes to the Tennessee l<strong>and</strong> laws that spelled out<br />
the l<strong>and</strong> transfer process. In the first portion of this<br />
book, Mrs. Griffey has done an extraordinary job<br />
of sifting through <strong>and</strong> organizing the legal history<br />
of the early Tennessee l<strong>and</strong> laws so that genealogists<br />
may be able to grasp their substance. Among<br />
other things, researchers can now underst<strong>and</strong> when<br />
<strong>and</strong> why the various county l<strong>and</strong> offices were established,<br />
the six-step process for obtaining a l<strong>and</strong><br />
grant, the differences between military <strong>and</strong> other<br />
types of l<strong>and</strong> grants, <strong>and</strong>, of course, how to use early<br />
Tennessee l<strong>and</strong> records.<br />
The bulk of this remarkable volume, however,<br />
consists of abstracts of some 16,000 of the earliest<br />
Tennessee l<strong>and</strong> records in existence, arranged in<br />
a tabular format. For each record we are given the<br />
name of the claimant, the file number, the name of<br />
the assignee (if any), the county, number of acres,<br />
grant number, date, entry number, entry date, l<strong>and</strong><br />
book <strong>and</strong> page number, <strong>and</strong> a description of the<br />
stream nearest to the grant. A separate listing of assignees,<br />
with the corresponding claimant <strong>and</strong> file<br />
numbers follows in a separate table. The volume concludes<br />
with a lengthy appendix consisting of maps<br />
<strong>and</strong> a detailed chronology of Tennessee’s l<strong>and</strong> statutes.<br />
All of which makes Mrs. Griffey’s new book the<br />
most important contribution to Tennessee genealogy<br />
in recent memory.<br />
Virginia<br />
Families of Grace through<br />
1900—Remembering Radford Volume I<br />
By Joanne Spiers Moche; 2008; 5.5x8.5; 568 pp;<br />
softbound. Order from the publisher at: Heritage<br />
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The risk <strong>and</strong> adventure of<br />
settling field <strong>and</strong> forest so<br />
different from their motherl<strong>and</strong>s,<br />
shaped by political<br />
<strong>and</strong> economic events that<br />
offered both constraint <strong>and</strong><br />
opportunity, set the context for a group of travelers<br />
to become a community. And so it was, through<br />
triumph <strong>and</strong> tragedy, old social customs mixed<br />
with new cultural venues <strong>and</strong> a community was<br />
formed. European ships full of courageous, hopeful<br />
individuals found their way across the Atlantic<br />
Ocean to the shores of the North American continent.<br />
The English embraced Virginia’s shoreline in<br />
1607. More would come, from many countries, to<br />
bond together <strong>and</strong> call themselves Americans. This<br />
is the story of one of those American communities:<br />
Radford City, Virginia. Her history <strong>and</strong> the history<br />
of the Radford family for whom she was named are<br />
woven through these pages. The Radford family’s<br />
Episcopal Church history <strong>and</strong> parishioners shed<br />
additional light on the friends <strong>and</strong> activities of early<br />
residents. Inside is a historical <strong>and</strong> genealogical<br />
journey through those histories. From the first Native<br />
American settlement to the early years of the<br />
Radford City’s 1892 incorporation, over 800 family<br />
surnames <strong>and</strong> 50 illustrations of ordinary people<br />
in extraordinary times bring the New River City’s<br />
past to life. This book is their applause. Radford<br />
City is their legacy.<br />
Westmorel<strong>and</strong> County, Virginia<br />
Orders 1758-1761<br />
By Pamela S. Pearson; 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 338 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Colonial Roots, 17296<br />
Coastal Highway, Lewes,<br />
DE 19958; 800-576-8608;<br />
302-644-2798; www.colonialroots.com;<br />
D7525; $32.00<br />
plus $6.50 p&h.<br />
A faithful transcription<br />
of the orders. Includes court<br />
orders for administration<br />
<strong>and</strong> inventory of estates;<br />
acknowledgment of deeds, dower rights, bills of<br />
sale; appointments of officers, juries, attys., guardians,<br />
etc.; establishment of roads, mills, ferries, &<br />
ordinaries.<br />
Genealogical <strong>and</strong> Historical Notes<br />
on Culpeper County, Virginia<br />
By Raleigh Travers Green;<br />
Originally printed in 1900;<br />
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 314<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF2330;<br />
ISBN: 9780806379579; $32.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The chief printed genealogical<br />
source for Culpeper<br />
County, this work comprises a reprint of Dr. Philip<br />
Slaughter’s <strong>History</strong> of St. Mark’s Parish <strong>and</strong> a genealogical<br />
history of the county itself, including<br />
an important section entitled Notes for Genealogists<br />
which contains marriage records (1781-1825)<br />
<strong>and</strong> abstracts of wills (1749-1821). The book further<br />
includes numerous genealogies—many worked<br />
through five generations—colonial military lists,<br />
Civil War musters, <strong>and</strong> a great variety of miscellaneous<br />
information, all indexed in one alphabetical<br />
sequence.<br />
English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records<br />
Compiled by Louis des Cognets,<br />
Jr.; Originally printed<br />
in 1958; Reprinted 2008;<br />
5.5x8.5; 380 pp; softbound.<br />
Order from the publisher<br />
at: Clearfield Company,<br />
Inc., 3600 Clipper Mill<br />
Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.genealogical.com;<br />
CF1430; ISBN:<br />
9780806309293; $38.50 plus<br />
$4.00 p&h.<br />
Since its publication in<br />
1958 this work has been regarded as an important<br />
source-book for colonial Virginia genealogy. It contains<br />
transcriptions of numerous historical documents<br />
<strong>and</strong> provides a great deal of out-of-the-way<br />
information pertaining to Virginians of the 17th<br />
<strong>and</strong> early 18th centuries, much of it previously unknown.<br />
It is the product, in fact, of the compiler’s<br />
researches into the by-ways of the Public Record<br />
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Office in London, in particular his investigations<br />
of the reports sent from Virginia to the Colonial<br />
Office—an investigation into the very marrow of<br />
Virginia history.<br />
Among the documents copied <strong>and</strong> recorded here,<br />
such as lists of colonial officials, naval <strong>and</strong> militia<br />
officers, petitions, French refugees (1700-1702) <strong>and</strong><br />
lists of ships leaving <strong>and</strong> arriving at Virginia ports,<br />
three groups of records in particular deserve to be<br />
singled out: (1) The Present State of Virginia (with<br />
respect to individual counties), which gives county<br />
acreage, number of tithables, <strong>and</strong> names of sheriffs,<br />
burgesses, coroners, justices, clerks, surveyors,<br />
<strong>and</strong> ministers; (2) Patents for L<strong>and</strong>, 1699-1737 (with<br />
gaps), giving the name of the patentee, date of the<br />
patent, county, <strong>and</strong> acreage; <strong>and</strong> (3) The Rent Rolls<br />
of 1704, which supply the names of thous<strong>and</strong>s of<br />
property holders in 20 Virginia counties! “No student<br />
of colonial Virginia history, biography <strong>and</strong> genealogy<br />
can afford to be without this source book.”<br />
—Milton Rubincam, National Genealogical Society<br />
Quarterly.<br />
Related Families of Botetourt<br />
County Virginia—Revised Edition<br />
By J. William Austin, II<br />
<strong>and</strong> Rebecca H. R. Austin;<br />
Originally printed in 1977;<br />
Reprinted 2008; 5.5x8.5; 435<br />
pp; softbound. Order from<br />
the publisher at: Clearfield<br />
Company, Inc., 3600 Clipper<br />
Mill Road, Suite 260, Baltimore,<br />
MD 21211; or www.<br />
genealogical.com; CF9373;<br />
ISBN: 9780806350233; $42.50<br />
plus $4.00 p&h.<br />
The central Virginia county<br />
of Botetourt was formed from Augusta County<br />
in 1769. Botetourt County is the parent county, in<br />
part, of Allegany, Bath, Craig, Fincastle, Montgomery,<br />
Roanoke, <strong>and</strong> Rockbridge counties in Virginia.<br />
Published originally in 1977 <strong>and</strong> revised expressly<br />
for the Clearfield edition, Mr. <strong>and</strong> Mrs. Austin’s<br />
compendium of 48 family histories was fashioned<br />
together from a variety of primary <strong>and</strong> secondary<br />
sources. Among other things, the compilers made a<br />
careful study of Botetourt County marriages, wills,<br />
deeds, <strong>and</strong> death records from microfilm available<br />
at the Virginia State Library, as well as Botetourt<br />
County records housed at the county clerks’ offices<br />
in Fincastle (Botetourt County), Salem (Roanoke<br />
County), <strong>and</strong> Lexington (Rockbridge County). The<br />
end result is an extensively annotated collection of<br />
early Botetourt families, many of whose progenitors<br />
were born in the 18th century. The families included<br />
in the volume, in the sequence in which they appear,<br />
are: Adams, Ammen, Austin, Beckner, Blount,<br />
Bowyer, Burger, Coffman, Crowder, Dempsey, Deisher,<br />
Fellers, Finch, Firebaugh, Flaherty, Hannah,<br />
Howell, Jopling, Kessler, Leftwich, Linkenhoger,<br />
McFerran, Noffsinger, Obenshain-Sweetl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Peck <strong>and</strong> Dill, Poague, Rinehart, Ritchey, Saville,<br />
Simpson, Sizer, Slusser, Stoner, Switzer, Wilhelm,<br />
Wood, Border, Bane, Etzler, Crush, Hypes, Layman,<br />
Lunsford, Young, Garl<strong>and</strong>, Bolton, <strong>and</strong> Haden, <strong>and</strong><br />
some virtually indecipherable. The authors have indexed<br />
the names according to the variant spellings<br />
so as to draw no inferences that may be erroneous<br />
as to the identity of that person. It is advised that<br />
the researcher refer to the photostatic or microfilm<br />
copy for verification. Spelling of geographic locations<br />
vary widely also, as does the h<strong>and</strong>writing.<br />
To verify place names, one should check a modern<br />
topographic map for the closest approximation.<br />
Like most vestry books, Albemarle Parish's recounts<br />
parish business, such as payment <strong>and</strong> exemptions<br />
of levies, appointment of collectors, processions<br />
of l<strong>and</strong>, construction of churches, <strong>and</strong> so on. While<br />
it does not contain many references to blood relationships,<br />
it has the virtue of placing individuals<br />
in Albemarle Parish in the 18th century. Given the<br />
scarcity of Sussex County records for the period under<br />
investigation, researchers should welcome the<br />
opportunity to investigate the roughly 6,500 Surry/<br />
Sussex county inhabitants identified in this meticulously<br />
transcribed <strong>and</strong> indexed work.<br />
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Seeking Joseph Orio, Orion, Oryon, Horio b ca 1791 Alsace-<br />
Lorraine France, d ca 1879, Caledonia, Racine Co WI. Spouse:<br />
Mary Frances (unk) Dai (spouse’s 2nd m) m 1835-1840, NY/<br />
NJ. Children: stepchildren: Julius Dai, b. ca 1834, NY/NJ;<br />
Margarita (Margaret) Dai b 12 Dec 1835, NY/NJ. NOTE: have<br />
data on Margarita’s desc. Names <strong>and</strong> place of residence of<br />
ancestor’s parents unknown. <strong>Family</strong> religion was Catholic.<br />
Ancestor was a farmer.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Carole Haas, email: cjhaas@msn.com. Address:<br />
13320 44th Draw NE, Saint Michael, MN 55376. Phone:<br />
763-497-0000.<br />
Researching family of Fannie May (Mae) Taulbee Dunn<br />
b 21 May 1898, Breathitt Co KY d May 1990 Wolfe Co KY.<br />
Spouse: William Jessie Dunn m 15 Aug 1917. Children: Sanford<br />
Dunn b 16 Sep 1931; Menifee Dunn b 18 Feb 1926 d 8<br />
Jan 2005; George Dunn; Sally Dunn (McQuinn); Opal Dunn;<br />
Marcus Dunn. Ancestor’s parents were George Washington<br />
Taulbee & Emily Jane Banks.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: W<strong>and</strong>a Gardner, email: wlgardner@road<br />
runner.com.<br />
Looking for Henry Adams b 21 Aug 1820 Mahoning, Armstrong<br />
PA d 19 Nov 1890 Mahoning, Armstrong PA. Spouse:<br />
Julianna Bish m ca 1841 Armstrong PA. Children: John b ca<br />
1840 PA; Miner Franklin b ca 1842 PA; Thomas William b 1<br />
Mar 1844 PA; Margaret b ca 1846; Philip Miles b ca 1848 PA;<br />
Miron b ca 1850 PA; Silas Jackson b 28 May 1851 PA; Mary<br />
E b ca 1852 PA; Henry Campbell b ca 1854 PA; Susanna b ca<br />
1856 PA; Christina b ca 1858 PA; Patience b ca Sep 1859 PA.<br />
Ancestor’s parents were Samuel S Adams <strong>and</strong> Susanna E<br />
Corbet (Sorbet-Shorbet). <strong>Family</strong> religion <strong>and</strong> ancestor’s occupation<br />
unknown.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joan M. Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.<br />
Phone: 830-895-1695.<br />
Need info on William H Barr b May 1851 PA d unknown.<br />
Spouse: Patience Adams m date <strong>and</strong> place unknown. Children:<br />
Harry J b Apr 1876 PA; Ida May b 1878 PA; Minney b 29 Feb<br />
1880 Mahoning, Armstong, PA; Mary Ellen b 27 Sep 1882 PA;<br />
Charles b May 1885 PA. Parents place of residence <strong>and</strong> names<br />
known only as mother Sarah. Ancestor was a coal miner.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joan M. Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.<br />
Phone: 830-895-1695.<br />
Researching Sarah Cole b 5 Jun 1805 Barbour VA d 13 Oct<br />
1867 WV. Spouse: Daniel Bartlett m 25 Apr 1822 Harrison,<br />
VA. Children: John b 13 Feb 1823 VA; Eppa L b 30 Mar 1825<br />
VA; Joshua W b 17 Nov 1826 VA; William E b 5 Nov 1828 VA;<br />
Nancy b 27 Jan 1838 VA; Daniel Jr b 4 Feb 1841 VA; Martha<br />
Jane b 11 Aug 1844 VA; Barnes T b 18 Mar 1848 VA; Mary E b<br />
23 Nov 1849 VA. Names <strong>and</strong> place of residence of ancestor’s<br />
parents unknown. Ancestor was a housewife.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joan M. Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.<br />
Phone: 830-895-1695.<br />
Researching Cleophus Cole b Feb 1882 Barbour, WV d 1950<br />
where Spouse: Lily Jane Strader m 4 Nov 1903 Barbour, WV.<br />
Children: Carroll E b 24 Sep 1905 Barbour, WV; Cleophus b<br />
ca 1905 WV; Elizabeth b ca 1910 WV; Eugene G b ca 1913 Barbour,<br />
WV; Willard b 17 Nov 1914 Barbour, WV; Opal b ca 1918<br />
Barbour, WV; Virginia b 10 Sep 1918 WV; Willus; Gordon E b 6<br />
Feb 1922 PA; Fred Charles b 8 May 1927 PA. Names <strong>and</strong> place<br />
of residence of ancestor’s parents were Eppa D <strong>and</strong> Elizabeth<br />
(Bartlett) Cole. Ancestor was a railroader.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joan M Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.<br />
Seeking Jacob Anderson Defenbaugh (Deffenbaugh, Diffenbaugh,<br />
Dieffenbaugh) b 8 Mar 1845 OH d 8 May 1899<br />
Memphis, TN. Spouse: Mir<strong>and</strong>a Elizabeth Neise m 14 May<br />
1872 Lima, Allen, OH. Children: Frank E b 15 Mar 1873 IN;<br />
Cora May b 3 Mar 1875 Goshen, IN; Viola b 4 Aug 1878 Goshen,<br />
IN; Ina Mae b 25 Sep 1881 Goshen, IN; Harry Elmer b 14<br />
Dec 1886 Ottawa, KS; Charles Oscar b 18 Apr 1892. Ancestor’s<br />
parents were John <strong>and</strong> Phoebe (Ozias) Deffenbaugh. Ancestor<br />
was a cabinetmaker.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joan M Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.<br />
Looking for info on Robert Dirimple b 11 Mar 1815 ENG d 6<br />
Nov 1884 Battle Creek, MI. Spouse: Isabella McFall m place <strong>and</strong><br />
date unknown. Children: Eliza b 1839 Battle Creek, MI; John b<br />
1840 Battle Creek, MI; John b 1843 Battle Creek, MI; Samuel b<br />
1846 Battle Creek, MI; Robert b 1848 Battle Creek, MI; George<br />
b 12 Jan 1850 Battle Creek, MI; Charles b 1852 Battle Creek, MI;<br />
Robert b 28 May 1855 Battle Creek, MI; Isabella b Aug 1856 Battle<br />
Creek, MI; Isabella b 1858 Battle Creek, MI. Name of ancestor’s<br />
parent was Samuel Dalrymple. Ancestor was a mason.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joan M Evans, email: maury1b@gmail.com.<br />
Looking for Ollie (Oliver) William Leopard b 12 Apr 1906,<br />
Shreveport, LA d 1959 Houston, TX. Spouse: Anisi Ann Yount<br />
m date <strong>and</strong> place unknown. Children: Ollie William Leopard,<br />
Jr. b 1928; Charles Henry Leopard b 31 Oct 1930. <strong>Family</strong><br />
religion was Protestant.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Charles Leopard, email: charlesleopard@<br />
earthlink.net. Address: 3995 Villa Lake Rd., Powder Springs,<br />
GA 30127. Phone: 770 222-4570.<br />
Seeking John Joseph Hannan b 09 Feb 1887 Dundee, SCOT<br />
d 18 Jul 1962, Rochester, NY. Spouse: Theresa Marie Lewsley<br />
m 23 Nov 1911 where Children: Emily Teresa b 26 Apr 1913<br />
Patterson, NJ; John Joseph b 20 Dec 1917 Patterson, NJ; Leo<br />
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Daniel b 24 Feb 1921 Rochester, NY; Teresa Gertrude b 7 Aug<br />
1926 Rochester, NY; Raymond Francis b 27 Dec 1928 Rochester,<br />
NY. Ancestor’s parents were Daniel Hannan & Annie<br />
Sebastian. <strong>Family</strong> religion was Roman Catholic. Ancestor<br />
worked for Rochester Telephone.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Kevin Hannan, email: kphannan@gmail.com.<br />
Address: Smyrna, GA 30082. Phone: 770-431-0637.<br />
Researching Eliza Quilter Fleming b ca 1830 IRE d 1897 Wallingford,<br />
CT. Spouse: William Fleming m ca 1845-1850 Unknown<br />
where. Children: Richard b 1848/1850 MA or CT; Mary<br />
b 1854 CT; Catherine b 1856 CT. Ancestor’s parents were James<br />
Quilter <strong>and</strong> Mary (unknown). <strong>Family</strong> religion was Roman<br />
Catholic. Ancestor was a housewife. Source: Census, birth,<br />
marriage <strong>and</strong> death records of Wallingford, CT. Church <strong>and</strong><br />
Cemetery records. Seeking anyone following the Quilter surname<br />
especially in New Engl<strong>and</strong> or Irel<strong>and</strong>. Did Eliza marry<br />
William Fleming in Irel<strong>and</strong> or New Engl<strong>and</strong> Her children<br />
Richard m Mary O’Neill 1873 N ENG; Mary m Henry Jones<br />
1766 Wallingford CT; Catherine m John Hennessy 1878 Wallingford.<br />
CT. Eliza was a widow when she d 1897. Have been<br />
unable to locate any info on d of husb<strong>and</strong> William Fleming.<br />
Cannot find this family anywhere on the 1880 census. Eliza is<br />
bur in the “Catholic Cemetery” on Colony Street Wallingford,<br />
CT, but no record can be found for William. Seeking anyone<br />
following these families, any help would be appreciated.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@<br />
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA<br />
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.<br />
Looking for Mary O’Leary O’Neill b 1860 IRE d unknown.<br />
Spouse: George Edward O’Neill m 4 Apr 1883 East Haddam<br />
CT. Children: George Wm b 1884 CT; Joseph R. b 1886 CT;<br />
Loretta b 10 May 1891 CT. Names <strong>and</strong> place of residence of ancestor’s<br />
parents unknown. <strong>Family</strong> religion was prob. Catholic.<br />
Ancestor was a housewife. East Haddam m records: Census<br />
records all after her d. Looking for parents <strong>and</strong> siblings of<br />
Mary O’Leary <strong>and</strong> any information on her d which appears to<br />
have been between 1891 (birth of last child) <strong>and</strong> 1896 (husb<strong>and</strong><br />
remarries). By the 1900 census he has moved his family to<br />
NYC area, remarried <strong>and</strong> has started a second family. Would<br />
love to know what happened to Mary O’Leary <strong>and</strong> make any<br />
connection to this family in the East Haddam area.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@<br />
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA<br />
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.<br />
Seeking Nicholas Justin b ca 1732 d 2 Jan 1804, Canterbury,<br />
CT. Spouse: Sarah unknown maiden name m date <strong>and</strong> place<br />
unknown. Children: George b 1761 Canterbury, CT, m Lucy<br />
Galusha 1786, d. 1828 Canterbury, CT; Charles b ca 1754, William<br />
b ca 1759; plus additional children. Need any other info<br />
available on this family.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: C<strong>and</strong>y Rypczyk, email: Rypczyk@hotmail.<br />
com. Phone: 518-624-3888.<br />
Researching Dennis Denis Gleason Gleeson Gleson b unknown<br />
d 1871/1872. Spouse: Mary Conley m 15 Mar 1867<br />
Harford Co MD. Children: Eliza Jane b. 8 Feb 1868 York Co<br />
PA, m 30 Jun 1887 Carroll IA d 4 Aug 1952 Carroll IA. Would<br />
like any info available on this family.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Marvin Kennebeck, email: railfank@gmail.<br />
com. Phone: 608-223-2907.<br />
Looking for John McClell<strong>and</strong> b 1813, Dublin, IRE d 23 Jun<br />
1886, MD. Spouse: Emily Jane Low m 20 Jun 1837, Baltimore,<br />
MD. Children: Thomas b 1843 MD; Charlotte b 1849 MD; William<br />
b MD. Need any info available for this family. Ancestor<br />
was a cabinet maker.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.<br />
com. Phone: 410-975-0767.<br />
Seeking Anna Mae Chatterton b Jan 1897 Baltimore, MD d<br />
May 1949, Baltimore, MD. Spouse: William D. McClell<strong>and</strong> m<br />
date <strong>and</strong> location unknown. Children: Brooksie b Jun 1915<br />
MD; Catherine b Jan 1918 MD; Mary b 1920 MD. Ancestor’s<br />
parents were John Chatterton & Annie Leahy Requesting<br />
any info available.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.<br />
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.<br />
Looking for Cecelia K. Hockman b Jan 1859 VA d Oct 1910<br />
Baltimore, MD. Spouse: Charles F. Cuffley m date <strong>and</strong> place<br />
unknown. Children: James b Nov 1880 MD; Grace b Dec<br />
1881 MD; Annie b Mar 1883 MD; William b Mar 1891 MD;<br />
Raymond b Aug 1893 MD. Ancestor’s parents were Isaac &<br />
Cecelia Hockman Ancestor was a housewife.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.<br />
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.<br />
Researching Charles Francis Knipple b May 1873 Frederick<br />
MD d unknown. Spouse: Mary Anna Hahn m date <strong>and</strong><br />
place unknown. Children: Donzie b Mar 1894 MD; Frances<br />
b Mar 1896 MD; Charles b May 1898 MD; Grace b 1904 MD.<br />
Ancestor’s parents were John & Frances Knipple. Ancestor<br />
was a laborer.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.<br />
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.<br />
Seeking Catherine Elizabeth Ford b Oct 1853 Buckeyetown,<br />
MD d July 1924 Frederick, MD. Spouse: Jacob Michael Hahn<br />
m unknown. Children: Jacob b Apr 1880 MD; Jerome b Oct<br />
1890 MD; Nettie b Jul 1875 MD. Ancestor’s parents were Joseph<br />
Ford & Julia Dean<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Charles Cuffley, email: cuffcuffley08@yahoo.<br />
com. Phone: 410-975-8767.<br />
Would like any info on Eleanor Barr McConkey b July, 1811,<br />
Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, PA d 3 Feb 1901 Snowden Twp,<br />
Allegheny Co PA. Spouse: Robert McConkey m 23 Mar 1837<br />
Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, PA. Children: Elizabeth, b 1837<br />
m Alex Douglas; Margaret b 1840 m John W<strong>and</strong>lass; Martha<br />
b 1841; William b 1843 m Margaret Simpson; David b 1844.<br />
Ancestor’s parents were William Barr <strong>and</strong> Margaret Bryson.<br />
Ancestor was a housewife. Info from Census, BMD, Obits.<br />
Eleanor (Elinor) <strong>and</strong> Robert McConkey lived in Snowden<br />
Twp, Allegheny Co PA. She d 3 Feb 1901. I am hoping to make<br />
contact with any member of this family. I have been given a<br />
drawing of a family quilt that has been described as “individual<br />
patches made by many family members <strong>and</strong> friends<br />
<strong>and</strong> signed by each individual person,” then put together by<br />
Eleanor <strong>and</strong> her daughter. I have been told that this quilt still<br />
exists was h<strong>and</strong>ed down through the family of daughter Elizabeth<br />
McConkey McMichael. Does anyone know of or have<br />
this family quilt I would so love to have just a photo of this<br />
heirloom. I am descended from Eleanor Barr’s brother, William<br />
C. Barr. I was given photos of some very lovely stitched<br />
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samplers that were done by this same family. Hoping to make<br />
a connection to this Barr-McConkey family.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@<br />
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA<br />
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.<br />
Looking for Jane McConville Keeney b ca 1855 possibly<br />
PA d unknown. Spouse: Patrick Keeney (Kenny, Kinney)<br />
m 25 Nov 1875 Allegheny Co Pittsburgh, PA. Children: Edward<br />
b 1877 Pittsburgh; other children unknown. <strong>Family</strong><br />
religion was Catholic. Info from census, 1880 (only one found<br />
on it) marriage record 1875 Allegheny City; Baptism record<br />
where they are Godparents to my Duffy family 1879; City<br />
Directories to 1890. Her marriage record lists her as Jane<br />
McConville. The census of 1880 has Jenny <strong>and</strong> the baptism<br />
record as Johanna. (record keeping not all that great back<br />
then, was it). On the 1880 census they are living on West<br />
Carson St on Pittsburgh’s South Side. They lived next door<br />
to my family, Patrick Duffy <strong>and</strong> his wife Sarah McConville<br />
was Jane her sister Also living with them were Edward <strong>and</strong><br />
Sarah McConville who were the parents of Sarah Duffy.<br />
The family is found in the City Directories of Pittsburgh up<br />
to 1890, but cannot be found on the 1900 census. I have not<br />
found a Jane, Jenny, or Johanna on any earlier census, even<br />
thou I have found Edw & Sarah (who I believe may be her<br />
parents) <strong>and</strong> my own Sarah McConville Duffy. So who was<br />
Jane McConville Keeney Where did they go I know that<br />
Patrick Keeney was the son of Hugh <strong>and</strong> Alice Keeney, he<br />
was born in Pittsburgh abt 1852. Looking to make a connection<br />
with anyone following the McConville’s <strong>and</strong> Keeney’s<br />
from Allegheny Co PA.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Ruth Smith, email: familyhistoryseeker@<br />
msn.com. Address: 11306 Frankstown Rd., Pittsburgh, PA<br />
15235. Phone: 412-731-1146.<br />
Seeking Benjamin Sampson b 7 Apr 1799 Hardin Co. KY d 19<br />
Sep 1877 Mo. Spouse: (1) Elizabeth Neff (2) Mary Clinkenbeard<br />
(3) Anna Latta m (1) 12 Apr 1821 Hardin Co. Ky. (2)6 Aug 1844<br />
Buchanan Co. Mo. (3) 10 Jun 1852 Buchanan Co. Mo. Children:<br />
(1) Berli Dene b 18 Oct 1822 Hardin Co. KY; (2) Richard Masterson<br />
b 11 Mar 1824 KY; (3) Harriet Susan b 9 Apr 1829 Hardin<br />
Co. KY; (4) Martha M. b KY. Need info on parents. Ancestor’s<br />
occupation was probably millwright <strong>and</strong> farmer. Info from<br />
Wills, probates, census, county histories in Buchanan Co. Mo.<br />
Census for KY. 1790, 1800, 1810 Census for Indiana 1810,1820.<br />
Benjamin had sibling named John (B: Jan 1802 Danville, Ky.).<br />
Possible siblings James, Glenn, Martha (Eliza).<br />
%%<br />
Contact: William Sampson, email: bsampson2@<br />
comcast.net. Address: 7208 Perry Court West, Brooklyn Center,<br />
MN 55429. Phone: 763-566-4085.<br />
Researching family of John Henry Hathaway, (Jack Hathaway)<br />
b 16 Sep 1831 where d Oct. 6, 1914, Fort Supply, Woodward<br />
Co., OK. Spouse: Alice VanSkike McMillan Hathaway<br />
m 19 Nov 1876 Saline Co., MO. Children: John William b 3 Oct<br />
1877 Palmyra, MO; Robert Thomas b 3 May 1880, Howard Co<br />
MO; Charles Henry b 31 Jul 1882 Howard Co MO; stillborn son<br />
b 29 Oct 1890 Center, Ralls Co MO; Martha “Dolly” (McMillan)<br />
Sparrow b 1874 d 1955. Brothers Jimmie, Henry. Ancestor’s occupation<br />
was cut timber, made railroad ties, farmer.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Michael Hathaway, email: poetry man61@<br />
earthlink.net. Address: 522 E. South Ave., St. John, KS 67576-<br />
2212. Phone: 620-786-4955.<br />
Need info on Caroline Sarah Sherby b 20 Sep 1914 Newark NJ<br />
d 9 Feb 1958 Willowick OH. Spouse: William George Moore<br />
m ca 1937 where Children: Carol A b 31 May 1938 Clevel<strong>and</strong><br />
OH; Robert O b 28 Jul 1943 Clevel<strong>and</strong> OH; Sharon L b 9 Feb<br />
1947 Clevel<strong>and</strong> OH; Richard A b 18 Feb 1950 Clevel<strong>and</strong> OH.<br />
Would appreciate any info available on this family.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Jerry Nordstrom, email: jerrynord@frontier<br />
net.net. Address: 4183 Rt 13, Truxton, NY 13158. Phone: 607-<br />
842-6803.<br />
Looking for Sophia Hatt b ca 1830 NY d unknown. Spouse:<br />
William Smally m ca 1835. Children: Ann b ca 1835; Harriet<br />
b ca 1839; William b ca 1840; Nancy b ca 1844; May b ca 1843.<br />
Ancestor’s parents were William <strong>and</strong> Hannah (Spear) Hatt.<br />
Ancestor’s occupation was housewife. Hatt family tree that<br />
was brought to the Hatt reunion in Lansing, MI, 17 August<br />
1992, at that time in possession of Violet Boettcher, Lansing,<br />
MI. Searched 1850 census, Deerfield Twp., Livingston Co. MI.<br />
Sophia is living with her husb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> children, as well as<br />
William Hatt, whom I believe was her husb<strong>and</strong>. For about 25<br />
years I have been researching William Hatt (born circa 1758,<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong>, died after 1810, NY) <strong>and</strong> his descendants. One of<br />
his sons was William Hatt b (ca 1786, NY d Feb 1861; Howell<br />
b Livingston Co, MI), who was m to Hannah Spear (ca 1790,<br />
NY d 1828, near Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co. MI). This William<br />
<strong>and</strong> Hannah had six children: William, Jr.; Sofia; Melisa;<br />
Sampson; John “Jack”; Sarah; Polly. This query will primarily<br />
concentrate on Sophia. She appeared on a h<strong>and</strong>-drawn family<br />
tree that was brought to the Hatt reunion in 1992. Other than<br />
that, I had no record of her. I recently found a census record<br />
of Sophia <strong>and</strong> William Smally, in Deerfield Twp., Livingston<br />
Co., MI, with William Hatt living in their household. Since I<br />
didn’t know Sophia’s husb<strong>and</strong>’s name, I knew nothing abut<br />
her. This particular census doesn’t list relationships, but I believe<br />
William was Sophia’s father. If anyone knows anything<br />
about William <strong>and</strong> Sophia (Hatt) Smally, or their descendants,<br />
I would really appreciate hearing from you.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Debra Eddy, email: eddyb@voyager.net. Address:<br />
2521 W, Needmore Hwy., Charlotte, MI 48813. Phone:<br />
517-543-3021.<br />
Looking for Jonas Bastian/Bastin b 28 Apr 1831 PA d 12 Oct<br />
1891 PA. Spouse: Eliza, Elizza Ann Smith m unknown, PA.<br />
Children: LaRue (Bastian) Albright; Stephen Bastian; George<br />
S. Bastian; Anna S. Bastian; Thomas Bastian. Ancestor’s parents<br />
were probably Thomas <strong>and</strong> Sarah (). <strong>Family</strong> religion was<br />
Lutheran/Reformed.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Dianne Newman, email: kdnewman@<br />
voyager.net. Address: PO Box 262, Waters, MI 49797-0262.<br />
Researching Jacob A. Schmoyer/Smoyer b 11 Nov 1870, Lower<br />
Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA d unknown. Spouse: Annie, Anna,<br />
Bastian m 1895, Lower Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA. Children<br />
unknown. Ancestor’s parents were prob. Elias A. Schmoyer/<br />
Mary E. Albright. Ancestor’s occupation was prob. laborer.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Dianne Newman, email: kdnewman@voyager.net.<br />
Address: PO Box 262, Waters, MI 49797-0262.<br />
Seeking Oliver Charles Rohrbach/Rorbach b ca 1850, Berks<br />
Co., PA d 10 Oct 1908 PA. Spouse: Priscilla Croll m 01 Oct<br />
1878, PA. Children: Catharine Caroline b 13 Oct 1879; Ivah C.<br />
b 7 Jan 1881; Estella C. b 20 Apr 1887; Florence Ann b 24 Sep<br />
1891. All were born in the Topton, PA area. Ancestor’s parents<br />
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were Jacob Rohrbach/Caroline (); John Croll/Catherine De-<br />
Long. Ancestor’s occupation was Oliver was a miller, brother<br />
to Cyraneus Rohrbach.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Dianne Newman, email: kdnewman@<br />
voyager.net. Address: PO Box 262, Waters, MI 49797-0262.<br />
Searching for Henry Partee b 1830 () Tiffin Township, Defiance<br />
Co OH d aft 1870. Spouse: Mary Gier (b 6 Aug 1830<br />
Defiance OH) m 17 Aug 1851 Defiance OH. Children: Emery<br />
b 1854; Jacob b 1856 Defiance; Joseph b 1860; William b 1861;<br />
Sherman. Ancestor’s parents were Joseph Partee <strong>and</strong> Clarinda<br />
Kibble. Ancestor’s occupation was railroad worker. Already<br />
searched Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, <strong>and</strong> Ancestry.com.<br />
Record found was the date of his wedding. Last records found<br />
of Henry Partee show him living in Toledo OH ca 1872 working<br />
for the Michigan Southern Railroad possibly working as<br />
a fireman. Would appreciate any information from records<br />
of Henry Partee after 1872 particularly where/when he d.<br />
Willing to share any records that I currently have.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.<br />
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235.<br />
Phone: 614-670-7831.<br />
Seeking Daniel McKee b Irel<strong>and</strong> d Columbiana Co OH.<br />
Spouse: Rachel Wellington (Willington) m April 29,<br />
1813/1816 Children: Delilah (m George Jewell); Fisher b<br />
1829; Daniel b 1834; Clem b 1844; William b 1850. Searched<br />
Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, <strong>and</strong> Ancestry.com. In need of records<br />
regarding his birth place <strong>and</strong> date, parent’s names,<br />
date <strong>and</strong> location of death <strong>and</strong> date of his arrival in America.<br />
Willing to share any information concerning Daniel McKee<br />
that I currently have.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.<br />
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235.<br />
Phone: 614-670-7831.<br />
Seeking Fredericca Schmidt (AKA Henrietta Schmidt or Henerika<br />
Schmidt) b unknown d 1 May 1917. Spouse: Gottlieb Haug<br />
(Gottlieb Houck) m 21 May 1841. Children: Frederich b 1875;<br />
Julia b 1878; Rudolph b 1880; Otto b 1883 (Married Clara Partee).<br />
Have searched Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, <strong>and</strong> Ancestry.com.<br />
Have not found much information. Interested in date <strong>and</strong> location<br />
of her birth, date <strong>and</strong> location of arrival in America (if she<br />
was born abroad) <strong>and</strong> her parent’s names. Will be willing to<br />
share any information that I currently have for her.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.<br />
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235. Phone:<br />
614-670-7831.<br />
Need info on Henry Schmidt b unknown d unknown. Need<br />
name of spouse/ m date <strong>and</strong> place. Children: August J. b ca<br />
Aug 1872 possibly in Auglaize County OH August m Bertha<br />
Fisher ca 1897. Have searched Rootsweb, HeritageQuest, <strong>and</strong><br />
Ancestry.com. Have not found much about Henry. I believe<br />
his wife may have been b in OH but not sure if this is correct.<br />
HeritageQuest census shows that August J. Schmidt’s father<br />
(whom I am seeking) was born in GER <strong>and</strong> his mother was<br />
b in OH. Not fully sure that his name was Henry. He could<br />
have lived in Auglaize Co OH or Clark Co OH. Would be<br />
very grateful to know where <strong>and</strong> when he was b, names of<br />
his parents, who he m <strong>and</strong> where <strong>and</strong> when he d. Do not<br />
have much info to share regarding this search but willing to<br />
share what I have.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Helene Jewell Short, email: jnt3937@yahoo.<br />
com. Address: 5441 Rockport St., Columbus, OH 43235. Phone:<br />
614-670-7831.<br />
Looking for info on Francis Newton Raymond b 10 May 1849<br />
Rochester, NY d 18 Jan 1919 Perryton, TX. Spouse: Martha<br />
Jane Start m 1874 Parker Co TX. Children: Robert Benjamin<br />
b 19 Aug 1875 Decatur, TX; Alice Edith b 19 Aug 1877 Bowie,<br />
TX; Tallulah Belle b 9 Apr 1880 Jacksboro, TX; Edward Marion<br />
b 11 Oct 1883 Rising Star, TX; Bertha Mae b 27 Mar 1888<br />
Rising Star, TX; Ora Lee b 7 Feb 1891 Rising Star, TX; Laura<br />
Viona b 14 Nov 1893 Rising Star, TX. Ancestor’s parents were<br />
Francis <strong>and</strong> Mary Raymond. <strong>Family</strong> religion was Christian<br />
Church. Ancestor’s occupation was Mercantile Store Owner<br />
<strong>and</strong> Wheat Farmer.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Joyce Ogle, email: jaogle@earthlink.net. Address:<br />
1101 Sparrow Dr., Decatur, TX 76234. Phone: 940-627-<br />
5583.<br />
Seeking info on Joseph T. Hazel, Jr. Father Joseph E. Hazel,<br />
Sr. Last known address was Queens, NY. Would appreciate<br />
hearing from any one with knowledge of Joseph T. Hazel, Jr.<br />
whereabouts.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Mary Lee Mattison, PO Box 39642, Rochester,<br />
NY 14604. Phone: 585-482-5893.<br />
Searching for living male descendants of Richard Allen (Allin)<br />
b 26 Jan 1641, St. Mildred’s Parish, Canterbury, ENG d<br />
1725 New Kent Co VA. Some descendants are Drury, Drewry,<br />
Young, Josiah <strong>and</strong> Robert. The authors of Allens of the Southern<br />
States wish to establish a benchmark DNA for Allens from this<br />
line in the US.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Norma or George Miller, email: glanem@<br />
adelphia.net. Address: 1455 Superior Ave., Apt. 320, Newport<br />
Beach, CA 92663.<br />
Looking for Anthony Fox (Fuchs) b 5 Dec 1842 Loebschuetz,<br />
Prussia d 30 Jan 1904 Utica, NY. Spouse: Cynthia Gielle m<br />
date <strong>and</strong> location unknown. Children: Anthony Peter Fox,<br />
Jr. b Oct 1873; Francis J. Fox b Jan 1884; Mary E. b Jan 1877;<br />
Adam F. b unkn.; Mathew J. b Dec 1880; Charles G. b 19<br />
Sep 1886, all in Utica, NY. Ancestor’s parents were Anthony<br />
Fuchs <strong>and</strong> Mariae Catharinae Lister. Anthony served in war<br />
of 1866 (Kings War) <strong>and</strong> immigrated in 1868. Left several<br />
sisters in Prussia.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Edward J. Fox, email: Foxie-1@earthlink.net.<br />
Address: 242 Holiday Park Blvd., Palm Bay, FL 32907.<br />
Looking for Wheldon (Whelden) b 1834 Washington Co NY d<br />
1877 Butler Co IA. Spouse: Harriet Annette Sheldon b Cushman<br />
10-2-1828 m 8 Nov 1848 Boone Co IL. Children: Vernon<br />
b 5 Apr 1858; Ida Florence b 11 Apr 1851. Ancestor’s parents<br />
maybe were Henry Gabriel <strong>and</strong> Margaret John.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Pam Wheldon, email: wetzelcreek@hotmail.<br />
com. Address: 108120 E 72nd Ave., Deer Trail, CO 80105.<br />
Phone: 970-386-2278.<br />
Seeking John Snider b 23 Dec 1778 Stokes Co NC d 8 Apr 1852<br />
Bartholomew Co IN. Spouse: Hannah Kasner m 15 Dec 1803<br />
NC. Children: Cornelius b 10 Mar 1810, NC; Catherine b 12<br />
Sep 1804, NC; Wm. Jeremiah; Eliza; Mary; 2 unknown children;<br />
John C. b 25 Jan 1825 Stokes Co NC. Ancestor’s parents<br />
were Moravians, lived in Stokes Co NC. May have been a Rev<br />
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soldier from SC or some connection with Joannes Snider who<br />
arrived in ship Molly in 1727.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Erma Heckman, Address: 5970 Nixon St., St<br />
Charles, IA 50240.<br />
Need info on Ethan Blodgett b VT 28 Nov 1799/ d MA 14<br />
Jan 1875. Spouse: Lois Aldrich b 10 May 1797 d 14 Jan 1870 m<br />
date <strong>and</strong> place unknown. Children: Sophia b 5 May 1829 d<br />
6 Jan 1913. Would like any info available on this family. Was<br />
parent serving in the Rev. War<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Dr. William B. Thiel, email: wbthiel88@<br />
netzero.net. Address: W 352 N 5292 Lake Dr., Oconomowoc,<br />
WI 53066-2513.<br />
Need bur <strong>and</strong> grave sites of Joseph Maheu family. (Joseph<br />
Maheu name was Americanized to Mayhue ca 1830). Joseph<br />
was b 20 Aug 1779 sur Richelieu, QUE, bap across the river<br />
at St. Charles sur Richelieu, QUE on this date, d unknown<br />
but ca 1840-1848 at Vergennes VT or NW PA. Spouse: Marie<br />
Amable Oligny dit Lavergant b 8 Jan 1788 Laprairie, QUE m<br />
25 Feb 1805, St Luc QUE, Richelieu River Valley, Montreal,<br />
CAN. Children: Marie Catherine b 8 Dec 1806, St Denis sur<br />
Richelieu, QUE; John B. sic Jean Baptist b 1814 on board ship<br />
on Lake Champlain migrating to Vergennes, VT; Mary b 1816<br />
Vergennes, VT; Harriet b 15 Jul 1817, Vergennes, VT; Susan b 12<br />
Mar b 1819 Vergennes, VT; Charles b 1828 Vergennes, VT. Ancestor’s<br />
parents were Pierre Denis Maheu <strong>and</strong> Marie Josephete<br />
Verrieur m 27 Jan 1772 St Denis sur Richelieu, QUE. Marie<br />
Catherine was left to become a nun in either VT or QUE. Need<br />
religious order <strong>and</strong> religious name, d date <strong>and</strong> gravesite.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Frederick E. Mayhue, email: jmayhue@<br />
access995.com. Address: PO Box 9999, AJ-1401, LaBelle, PA<br />
15450.<br />
Seeking Charles Harry Chumley (Chomesky) b 21 Nov 1896,<br />
Atlanta, GA d 9 Oct 1976 Fulton Co Atlanta, GA. Spouse:<br />
Dorothy Laird m 13 Jul 1963. Ancestor’s parents were Jacob<br />
Chomesky <strong>and</strong> Sarah Goldberg. Mr. Chumley had two sisters<br />
<strong>and</strong> three brothers all living in Atlanta, GA.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Ms. Dorothy Chumley, email: jwilho@tds.net.<br />
Address: 2260 Cherring Ln., Dunwoody, GA 30338. Phone:<br />
404-247-7844 (Cell).<br />
Looking for Titus Gordon Vespasian Simons b 15 Apr ca<br />
1771/1773 MA CT d 13 Dec 1851 Kendallville, Noble Co, IN.<br />
Spouse: Sylvia Jackson m date <strong>and</strong> location unknown. Children:<br />
Solomon Austin b 1785, Warren Co PA; Louisa Levina<br />
Simons Smith b 12 Nov 1798 Warren Co PA; Titus Augustus b 4<br />
Aug 1804 Warren Co PA; David S b 18 Aug 1806 Warren Co PA.<br />
Ancestor’s parents date of m <strong>and</strong> place of residence unknown.<br />
Any info on this Simon family would be greatly appreciated.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Glen Simons, email: gsimons@cinci.rr.com.<br />
Address: 28 Miami Lakes Dr., Milford, OH 45150.<br />
Researching Florence Imogene Blount b 10 Aug 1888 St.<br />
Thomas, Jamaica d 8 Jun 1968 NY. Spouse: James Burnett Corbett<br />
m 22 Oct 1919 NY. Children: Etta b Aug 1910 US Panama<br />
Canal Zone; Vincent b Feb 1917 Spanish Canal Zone; Virginia<br />
b Sep 1920 US Panama Canal Zone. Ancestor’s parents were<br />
Helen Tilly <strong>and</strong> Samuel/or Robert Blount. Any info available<br />
for this family would be greatly appreciated.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Jerilyn Wharton. Address: 140-12 De Krutf<br />
Place, Bronx, NY 10475.<br />
Looking for a connection between Fred VonHof listed on the<br />
1920 Census in Ypsilanti Ward 5, Washtenaw Co., MI, <strong>and</strong><br />
Wilhelm (William) VonHofe on the same Census in Webster,<br />
Washtenaw Co MI. William (my father) had four children<br />
with his wife Louise b 1917; 1918; 1920; 1921. Fred’s wife had<br />
a child in Aug 1919. I need any history on Fred’s family including<br />
that child.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Mrs. Frieda Risvold, email: FritzyRitzy@hotmail.com.<br />
Address: 1210 S 244th Pl., Seattle, WA 98198-3895.<br />
Seeking the Yerby, Irby, Yearby, family. John Yearby sailed<br />
on the ship Neptune to ME to work off a sentence for stealing.<br />
He arrived with Thomas Penny in 1743. He ended up in NC at<br />
Barton Creek. Need any info on this family available.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: Arlene Yearby, email: absimono sbc@global.<br />
net. Address: 302 Moore St., Dexter, MO 63841. Phone: 573-<br />
614-4100.<br />
Correction:<br />
Would like to find info on Felix McHugh b IRE d IRE dates<br />
<strong>and</strong> places unknown. Spouse: Bridget Moran () McHugh m<br />
date <strong>and</strong> place unknown—prob IRE. Children: Mary b IRE;<br />
(Alex<strong>and</strong>er) Felix b IRE; Bridget b IRE. Felix was from near<br />
Sligo, IRE. Bridget Moran McHugh was a widow, immig to<br />
CAN ca 1841 with son <strong>and</strong> two daughters. Mary m John Kilgallen;<br />
Bridget m Patrick Regan. Alex<strong>and</strong>er Felix McHugh<br />
b 20 Aug 1812, d Ottawa 14 Jan 1900.<br />
%%<br />
Contact: John H. Wilson, email: jwlson@sbeglobal.net.<br />
Address: 1212 W El Paso St., Fort Worth, TX 76102.<br />
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Alaska, Anchorage<br />
April 18, 2009<br />
Arizona, Sun City<br />
February 21, 2009<br />
Arkansas, Hot Springs Village<br />
March 21, 2009<br />
Arkansas, Little Rock<br />
September 2-5, 2009<br />
Arkansas, Marshall<br />
June 5-6, 2009<br />
California, Brea<br />
March 14, 2009<br />
California, Burbank<br />
June 26-28, 2009<br />
California, Burbank<br />
June 11-13, 2010<br />
California, Escondido<br />
March 7, 2009<br />
California, Palm Springs<br />
January 31, 2009<br />
California, San Diego<br />
January 10, 2009<br />
California, Santa Rosa<br />
April 25, 2009<br />
California, Whittier<br />
February 28, 2009<br />
Colorado, Denver<br />
January 24, 2009<br />
Colorado, Denver<br />
February 20-21, 2009<br />
Florida, Daytona Beach<br />
January 24, 2009<br />
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The following listing is in four parts: Genealogy Related Seminars, Workshops,<br />
Conferences, & Institutes; Genealogy Related Research Tours; Genealogy<br />
Cruises; <strong>and</strong> <strong>Family</strong> Reunions.<br />
See the separate sidebar “On the Horizon Index by Place” to locate events<br />
specific to your area, then go directly to the event listing by its date.<br />
Genealogy Related<br />
Seminars, Workshops,<br />
Conferences, & Institutes<br />
January 10, 2009—<br />
San Diego, California<br />
San Diego Genealogy Society is<br />
holding their annual seminar<br />
<strong>and</strong> luncheon Saturday, January<br />
10, 2009 at the H<strong>and</strong>lery<br />
Hotel, 950 Hotel Circle, San Diego,<br />
CA. The featured speaker<br />
is well-known genealogist Lloyd<br />
Bockstruck who will give presentations<br />
in both the morning<br />
<strong>and</strong> afternoon. For more<br />
information please see: www.<br />
rootsweb.com/~casdgs.<br />
January 12-16, 2009—<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah<br />
The Utah Genealogical Association’s<br />
2009 Salt Lake Institute of<br />
Genealogy will be held at the<br />
Radisson Hotel. The Institute offers<br />
a week of in-depth instruction<br />
by expert genealogists in ten<br />
courses:<br />
Course 1: American Records & Research:<br />
Focusing on Localities.<br />
Course 2: Research of the Gulf<br />
South—Georgia, Florida, Alabama,<br />
Mississippi, Louisiana,<br />
Arkansas, <strong>and</strong> Texas.<br />
Course 3: English Research.<br />
Course 4: Research in German<br />
Speaking Areas.<br />
Course 5: Colonial American<br />
Research.<br />
Course 6: Effective Use of the<br />
Internet.<br />
Course 7: Hispanic Research: Discovering<br />
Your Ancestors in<br />
Spain <strong>and</strong> Latin America.<br />
Course 8: Beyond the Library: Research<br />
in Archives, Courthouses<br />
<strong>and</strong> Manuscript <strong>Collections</strong>.<br />
Course 9: (Course full) Skill<br />
Building for Professional-Level<br />
Research.<br />
Course 10: Genealogical Problem<br />
Solving.<br />
For more information or to enroll<br />
online, see: www.infouga.org.<br />
January 16-20, 2009—<br />
Auckl<strong>and</strong>, New Zeal<strong>and</strong><br />
The New Zeal<strong>and</strong> Society of Genealogists<br />
will host their 12th<br />
Australasian Congress on Genealogy<br />
<strong>and</strong> Heraldry. For more<br />
information, see: www.affhocongress2009.org.<br />
January 24, 2009—<br />
Denver, Colorado<br />
The <strong>History</strong> Section of the Reference<br />
<strong>and</strong> User Services Association<br />
(RUSA) invites librarians,<br />
library staff, <strong>and</strong> the public to attend<br />
“Behind the Genealogy Reference<br />
Desk,” a one-day institute<br />
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday,<br />
Jan. 24, 2009, at the Denver Public<br />
Library, held in conjunction with<br />
the ALA 2009 Midwinter Meeting.<br />
Participants will learn from<br />
local genealogy experts about how<br />
such resources as the Colorado<br />
Rail Museum <strong>and</strong> the Colorado<br />
State Archives can assist coast-tocoast<br />
family history researchers.<br />
Speakers will also address ways<br />
to overcome the challenges of<br />
closed-record environments. Onsite<br />
registration will be available<br />
at the following rates: $115, RUSA<br />
members; $135, ALA members;<br />
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$160, non-members; $85, students<br />
<strong>and</strong> retirees. The price includes<br />
lunch <strong>and</strong> a tour of the Colorado<br />
Historical Society Stephen Hart<br />
Library <strong>and</strong> the Colorado State<br />
Archives.<br />
Details <strong>and</strong> registration instructions<br />
are at the event’s website:<br />
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/<br />
rusa/events/index.cfm. The Institute<br />
presenters will be: Janice<br />
Prater, genealogy librarian, pastpresident<br />
of the Colorado Genealogical<br />
Society <strong>and</strong> editor of the<br />
International Society for British<br />
Genealogy <strong>and</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong>’s<br />
quarterly publication; Charles<br />
Albi, director emeritus of the<br />
Colorado Rail Museum, Golden<br />
(Colo.); Jose Esquibel, expert on<br />
colonial New Mexico <strong>and</strong> author<br />
of Royal Road: El Camino Real from<br />
Mexico City to Santa Fe; Dr. Wendel<br />
Cox, western bibliographer,<br />
Denver Public Library <strong>and</strong> author<br />
of A World Together, a World Apart:<br />
the United States <strong>and</strong> the Arikaras,<br />
1803-1851; Rebecca Lentz, director<br />
of the Stephen Hart Library, Colorado<br />
Historical Society; James K.<br />
Jeffrey, genealogy specialist at the<br />
Denver Public Library <strong>and</strong> president<br />
of the Colorado Council of<br />
Genealogical Societies.<br />
January 24, 2009—<br />
Daytona Beach, Florida<br />
The Volusia-Flagler Council of<br />
Genealogical Societies is sponsoring<br />
their annual 2009 Genealogy<br />
Seminar, with speakers George<br />
G. Morgan <strong>and</strong> Drew Smith of<br />
Aha! Seminars, Inc. Their topics<br />
will be “The Genealogist as CSI,”<br />
(George G. Morgan); “Where is the<br />
Book with My <strong>Family</strong> In It,” (Drew<br />
Smith); “The U.S. Naturalization<br />
Process & Documents: 1790-1954,”<br />
(George G. Morgan); <strong>and</strong> “The<br />
Genealogy Guys Podcast” Live,<br />
(George Morgan & Drew Smith).<br />
Find the registration form at:<br />
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~f<br />
lvcgs/2009SemRegFinalMay16200<br />
8wht.pdf.<br />
January 24, 2009—Victoria,<br />
British Columbia, Canada<br />
Royal Roads University is sponsoring<br />
a 1-day seminar with Dave<br />
Obee. The seminar is entitled<br />
“Writing about Local <strong>and</strong> <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong>: It Doesn’t Have to be<br />
Boring!” The program runs from<br />
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost is $90 + GST.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/<br />
PEOI1554-Y08.htm.<br />
January 31, 2009—<br />
Palm Springs, California<br />
The Palm Springs Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor their annual<br />
seminar, featuring Forensic Genealogist<br />
Colleen Fitzpatrick. For<br />
information, e-mail: info@palm<br />
springsgensoc.org or phone Carol<br />
Glow at 760-323-0250.<br />
February 7, 2009—Boerne, Texas<br />
The Genealogical Society of Kendall<br />
County, Texas is sponsoring<br />
their Annual Seminar from 9 a.m.<br />
to 4 p.m. at the Boerne Convention<br />
<strong>and</strong> Community Center, 820<br />
E. Adler Rd, Boerne, TX.<br />
Dr. George K. Schweitzer, PhD,<br />
ScD, will be the speaker at this 5th<br />
Annual Seminar. Dr. Schweitzer’s<br />
topics will include the Civil War,<br />
German Genealogical Research,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Genealogy in the Southeastern<br />
US. Registration information<br />
will be available on the website no<br />
later than October 2008. For more<br />
info <strong>and</strong> registration, see: www.<br />
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txgskc/<br />
seminar.htm.<br />
February 14, 2009—<br />
Secaucus, New Jersey<br />
The Hudson County Genealogical<br />
Society is hosting a seminar<br />
featuring Megan Smolenyak, who<br />
will be presenting “Trace Your<br />
Roots with DNA.” With amazing<br />
swiftness, “genetealogy” (the marriage<br />
of genetics <strong>and</strong> genealogy)<br />
is graduating from pioneering<br />
research to st<strong>and</strong>ard practice. But<br />
what is it exactly <strong>and</strong> how can we<br />
Florida, Port Charlotte<br />
February 28, 2009<br />
Illinois, Moline<br />
April 18, 2009<br />
Illinois, St. Charles<br />
February 28, 2009<br />
Indiana, Mishawaka<br />
March 14, 2009<br />
Kansas, Topeka<br />
April 25, 2009<br />
Kansas, Wichita<br />
June 20, 2009<br />
Louisiana, Lake Charles<br />
October 16-17, 2009<br />
Louisiana, Baton Rouge<br />
April 18, 2009<br />
Massachusetts, Waltham<br />
April 26, 2009<br />
Michigan, Kalamazoo<br />
March 28, 2009<br />
Michigan, Midl<strong>and</strong><br />
October 15-17, 2009<br />
Missouri, Jefferson City<br />
August 7-8, 2009<br />
Missouri, St. Louis<br />
May 2, 2009<br />
Nevada, Las Vegas<br />
April 4, 2009<br />
New Hampshire, Manchester<br />
April 22-26, 2009<br />
New Jersey, Secaucus<br />
February 14, 2009<br />
New York<br />
2010<br />
North Carolina, New Bern<br />
March 14, 2009<br />
North Carolina, Raleigh<br />
May 13-16, 2009<br />
Ohio, Clevel<strong>and</strong><br />
October 14-17, 2009<br />
Ohio, Huron<br />
April 2-5, 2009<br />
Pennsylvania, Lancaster<br />
April 25, 2009<br />
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia<br />
August 2-7, 2009<br />
South Dakota, Rapid City<br />
September 9-14, 2009<br />
Tennessee, Knoxville<br />
September, 2010<br />
Texas, Boerne<br />
February 7, 2009<br />
Texas, Houston<br />
March 21, 2009<br />
Texas, Plano<br />
April 18, 2009<br />
Utah, Bountiful<br />
March 7, 2009<br />
Utah, Provo<br />
July 28-31, 2009<br />
Utah, Salt Lake City<br />
April 28-June 5, 2010<br />
Virginia, Virginia Beach<br />
March 28, 2009<br />
Washington, Seattle<br />
March 7, 2009<br />
Washington, Seattle<br />
May 16, 2009<br />
Washington, Spokane<br />
September 11-13, 2009<br />
Wisconsin, Middleton<br />
April 3-4, 2009<br />
Wisconsin, Neenah<br />
October 2-3, 2009<br />
Canada<br />
Alberta, Edmonton<br />
April 18-19, 2009<br />
Alberta, Medicine Hat<br />
June 14-21, 2009<br />
British Columbia, Kelowna<br />
April 25-26, 2009<br />
British Columbia, Surrey<br />
March 7, 2009<br />
British Columbia, Surrey<br />
October 19, 2009<br />
British Columbia, Victoria<br />
January 24, 2009<br />
British Columbia, Victoria<br />
February 21-28, 2009<br />
use it to further our genealogical<br />
endeavors Come hear one of the<br />
co-authors of Trace Your Roots with<br />
DNA discuss her own <strong>and</strong> others’<br />
experience launching <strong>and</strong> managing<br />
a DNA project, including such<br />
considerations as test <strong>and</strong> vendor<br />
selection factors, privacy, <strong>and</strong><br />
convincing others to participate.<br />
It will be held from 11:00 a.m. to<br />
1:00 p.m. at the Secaucus Public<br />
Library. For more information,<br />
see: www.hudsoncountynjgenealogy.org/events/2009-02-14<br />
event.<br />
html.<br />
February 20-21, 2009—<br />
Denver, Colorado<br />
The Colorado Genealogical Society<br />
will host their annual seminar,<br />
featuring Dr. Thomas H.<br />
Shawker <strong>and</strong> Patricia O’Brien<br />
Shawker. On Friday, February 20,<br />
2009, Dr. Shawker will address<br />
the society’s regularly scheduled<br />
meeting on “Your Genealogy <strong>and</strong><br />
Your Health” at Christ the King<br />
Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton<br />
Ct., Denver. On Saturday, February<br />
21, he will present “DNA Testing:<br />
the Very, Very Basics <strong>and</strong> Race<br />
Ethnicity,” <strong>and</strong> “Ancestry: DNA<br />
Testing.” Patricia Shawker will<br />
speak on “One <strong>Family</strong>’s Footprint<br />
in the Federal Records <strong>and</strong> Before<br />
Statehood: Territorial Records.”<br />
Friday’s presentation is free <strong>and</strong><br />
visitors are welcome. Saturday<br />
is an all-day event at the Central<br />
Denver Public Library, 13th &<br />
Broadway, Denver, with a materials<br />
fee of $30 per person. For more<br />
information, see: www.cogensoc.<br />
us/cgsevents.htm.<br />
February 21, 2009—<br />
Sun City, Arizona<br />
The West Valley Genealogical Society<br />
of Youngtown, Arizona is<br />
sponsoring their annual seminar,<br />
to be held at the First Presbyterian<br />
Church, 12225 W. 103rd Ave., Sun<br />
City, Arizona, from 8:30 a.m. to<br />
2:30 p.m. The speaker will be Laura<br />
Prescott, professional researcher,<br />
writer, <strong>and</strong> speaker; regular columnist<br />
for Ancestry, contributing<br />
editor for New Engl<strong>and</strong> Ancestors,<br />
as well as a contributor to Genealogical<br />
Computing <strong>and</strong> NGS News<br />
Magazine. Laura will speak on<br />
“Finding the Unexpected in Unexpected<br />
Places.” For more information<br />
<strong>and</strong> registration, see: www.<br />
azwvgs.org.<br />
February 21-28, 2009—Victoria,<br />
British Columbia, Canada<br />
Royal Roads University is sponsoring<br />
a three-day class in Discovering<br />
Your <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong>.<br />
Dave Obee will be instructing.<br />
Hours during the three days are<br />
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The course will<br />
cover using the Internet, geography,<br />
the census, civil registration,<br />
newspapers, immigration records,<br />
military records, <strong>and</strong> much more.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/<br />
PEOI1555-Y08.htm.<br />
February 28, 2009—<br />
Whittier, California<br />
The Whittier Area Genealogical<br />
Society (WAGS) will once again<br />
hold its annual day-long seminar<br />
Saturday, February 28, 2009. The<br />
speaker will be Curt B. Witcher,<br />
manager of the Historical Genealogy<br />
Department of the Allen<br />
County Public Library in Fort<br />
Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Witcher is a<br />
former president of both the Federation<br />
of Genealogical Societies<br />
<strong>and</strong> the National Genealogical<br />
Society.<br />
February 28, 2009—<br />
Port Charlotte, Florida<br />
The Southwest Florida Genealogy<br />
Research Group is sponsoring a<br />
seminar featuring Baerbel Johnson.<br />
The title of the program is<br />
Putting Flesh on the Genealogical<br />
Skeleton. Topics will be “Marriage<br />
Laws <strong>and</strong> Customs in Germany,”<br />
German Research on the Internet,”<br />
Strategies for Solving German Research<br />
Problems,” <strong>and</strong> “Internet<br />
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Resources for Locating the 19th<br />
Century German Emigrant.” It will<br />
be held at the St. James Episcopal<br />
Church, 1375 Viscaya Dr. from 8:00<br />
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more information,<br />
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.<br />
com/~flggrg/.<br />
February 28, 2009—<br />
St. Charles, Illinois<br />
The DuPage County Genealogical<br />
society is sponsoring their 34th<br />
Annual Conference featuring<br />
Everton’s Genealogical Helper Managing<br />
Editor, Lel<strong>and</strong> K. Meitzler.<br />
Mr. Meitzler will speak on “The<br />
Witness,” “Using Tax Records,”<br />
“Chasing Women,” <strong>and</strong> “Your Ancestor<br />
Was Not Lost in the Courthouse<br />
Fire.” Contributing Editor,<br />
Jeff Bockman will speak on “They<br />
Came in Ships,” <strong>and</strong> “Drilling<br />
Down for DNA.” Tracks are also<br />
planned on Chicago research as<br />
well as Allen County Public Library<br />
research. The Conference<br />
will be held at Hilton Garden Inn,<br />
4070 East Main St., St. Charles, Illinois.<br />
See www.dcgs.org for more<br />
information.<br />
March 7, 2009—<br />
Escondido, California<br />
The Escondido <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Fair will be held at the Escondido,<br />
California South Stake Center,<br />
2255 Felicita Road. Genealogical<br />
Helper managing editor Lel<strong>and</strong> K.<br />
Meitzler is scheduled to speak up<br />
to four times during the day. For<br />
more information, see www.family<br />
historyfair.org.<br />
March 7, 2009—<br />
Bountiful, Utah<br />
The annual South Davis Regional<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Fair will be held<br />
at the Bountiful High School. For<br />
more information, see: www.devclean.com/famhistfair/index.html.<br />
March 7, 2009—<br />
Seattle, Washington<br />
The Pacific Northwest Historians<br />
Guild will hold its annual<br />
conference at the Seattle Museum<br />
of <strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Industry.<br />
The theme is the centennial of the<br />
1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition<br />
(AYPE). The World’s Fair<br />
took place in Seattle from June 1 to<br />
October 16, 1909. For more information<br />
go to their website above<br />
or check out their flyer at: www.<br />
pnwhistorians.org/News/PacN-<br />
WHisGuildFlyer.pdf.<br />
March 7, 2009—Surrey,<br />
British Columbia, Canada<br />
The British Columbia Genealogical<br />
Society & the Surrey Public<br />
Library will sponsor an all-day<br />
seminar with Megan Smolenyak.<br />
Megan will speak on: “Trace Your<br />
Roots with DNA;” “Reverse Genealogy:<br />
Techniques for Finding<br />
Your Lost Loved Ones;” “Introduction<br />
to Ancestry.com;” <strong>and</strong><br />
“Cases That Made My Brain Hurt.”<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
bcgs.ca.<br />
March 14, 2009—<br />
Brea, California<br />
The Genealogical Society of North<br />
Orange County will present a<br />
one-day seminar featuring Stephen<br />
Morse, speaking on “One-<br />
Step Webpages: A Potpourri of<br />
Genealogical Search Tools,” to be<br />
held at the Brea United Methodist<br />
Church, 480 N. State College<br />
Blvd. The hours will be from 8:00<br />
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information,<br />
see: www.gsnocc.org/gsnocc/<br />
seminar09pg1.html.<br />
March 14, 2009—<br />
Mishawaka, Indiana<br />
The South Bend Area Genealogical<br />
Society’s annual “Michiana Genealogy<br />
Fair” for 2009 will be held<br />
at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris<br />
Public Library, 209, Lincoln Way<br />
East. Genealogical Helper Contributing<br />
Editor, Jeff Bockman, will<br />
be the featured speaker. Jeff will<br />
be speaking on “Using Maps for<br />
Genealogical Research” <strong>and</strong> “No<br />
Birth Certificate, No Problem.”<br />
Ontario, Oakville<br />
May 29-31, 2009<br />
Ontario, Ottawa<br />
March 27-29, 2009<br />
Ontario, Ottawa<br />
September 18-20, 2009<br />
Saskatchewan, Regina<br />
April 23-26, 2009<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
London<br />
May 3, 2009<br />
New Zeal<strong>and</strong><br />
Auckl<strong>and</strong><br />
January 16-20, 2009<br />
Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
Aberdeen<br />
April 25, 2009<br />
Stirling<br />
June 19-21, 2009<br />
Research Tours<br />
see page 160<br />
Illinois, Galesburg<br />
March 9-14, 2009<br />
Utah, Salt Lake City<br />
January 12-16, 2009<br />
Utah, Salt Lake City<br />
May 14-21, 2009<br />
Utah, Salt Lake City<br />
October 5-9, 2009<br />
Utah, Salt Lake City<br />
December 6-12, 2009<br />
Genealogy Cruises<br />
see page 161<br />
Eastern Caribbean<br />
January 10-18, 2009<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Reunions<br />
see page 161<br />
Rusagonis, NB, Canada<br />
(Calkins)<br />
Apr 30-May 2, 2009<br />
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Over 20 genealogical materials<br />
vendors <strong>and</strong> exhibitors will also<br />
be present for attendees browsing<br />
<strong>and</strong> assistance. For more information,<br />
see: www.sbags.org or email:<br />
WHMinish@aol.com.<br />
March 14, 2009—<br />
New Bern, North Carolina<br />
Craig Roberts Scott, CG, will provide<br />
a four-part workshop “Overcoming<br />
Brick Walls.” The talks<br />
include: Service Not Found: Finding<br />
Your Ancestor in the Military;<br />
Maiden Name Not Found: Finding<br />
Your Female Ancestors; L<strong>and</strong><br />
Not Found: Finding Your Ancestor<br />
on the Ground; <strong>and</strong> Where Oh<br />
Where: Using the Internet to Solve<br />
Brick Wall Problems. This workshop,<br />
to be held at the Broad Street<br />
Christian Church, New Bern, is<br />
cosponsored by the North Carolina<br />
Genealogical Society <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Craven County Genealogical Society.<br />
For more information, see:<br />
www.ncgenealogy.org.<br />
March 21, 2009—<br />
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas<br />
The Village Genealogical Society<br />
is sponsoring their “2009 Spring<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Workshop” featuring<br />
Michael John Neill, M.S. Topics<br />
of the all day workshop will<br />
be “Researching the Entire <strong>Family</strong>,”<br />
“Problem Solving Applied<br />
to Genealogy,” “I Found it; Now<br />
What,” <strong>and</strong> “Tried <strong>and</strong> Tested<br />
Tidbits.” Workshop hours are 9:00<br />
a.m.-3:30 p.m. Registration fee $35.<br />
For registration form <strong>and</strong> details,<br />
please call Jeanette Frahm at 501-<br />
922-9220, e-mail J44F65@yahoo.<br />
com or visit http://pages.sudden<br />
link.net/hsvgs/.<br />
March 21, 2009—<br />
Houston, Texas<br />
The Houston Genealogical Forum<br />
will present “Antebellum Military<br />
Records” with Craig Scott as<br />
speaker. For more information see:<br />
www.hgftx.org or send an e-mail<br />
to: programs@hgftx.org.<br />
March 27-28, 2009—<br />
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br />
The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario<br />
Genealogical Society <strong>and</strong> the Ottawa<br />
Public Library will present<br />
their 26th Gene-O-Rama at the Ben<br />
Franklin Place, 101 Centrepoint<br />
Dr. The Gene-O-Rama will include<br />
Marketplace, Internet Search<br />
Room: free Internet searching of<br />
library resources, including Ancestry.com<br />
(provided courtesy of<br />
the Ottawa Public Library) Computer<br />
Demonstration Room with<br />
informal access to CD collections,<br />
databases, <strong>and</strong> genealogy software<br />
packages. Assistance will be<br />
available in all computer rooms.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
ogsottawa.on.ca/geneorama/.<br />
March 28, 2009—<br />
Kalamazoo, Michigan<br />
The Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor their<br />
2009 Spring Conference, featuring<br />
Paula Stuart-Warren. Topics will<br />
be “NUCMC & Its Cousin: Keys<br />
to “Lost Ancestral Records;” “Tho’<br />
They Were Poor, They May Have<br />
Been Rich in Records;” “Organizing<br />
Your Genealogical Materials;”<br />
<strong>and</strong> Finding Ancestral Places of<br />
Origins.” The hours will be from<br />
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more<br />
information, see: www.rootsweb.<br />
ancestry.com/~mikvgs/spring<br />
conference.html.<br />
March 28, 2009—<br />
Virginia Beach, Virginia<br />
The Virginia Beach Genealogical<br />
Society is sponsoring their<br />
2009 annual conference, WHO &<br />
WHAT: TELL ME ABOUT IT©,<br />
featuring John Philip Colletta,<br />
Ph. D. John is speaking on four<br />
topics: “Lesser-Used Federal Records,”<br />
“Libraries, Archives, &<br />
Public Records Offices: Underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
Resource Repositories,”<br />
“Effective Interviewing,”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Turning Biographical Facts<br />
into Real-Life Events: How to<br />
Build Historical Context.” The<br />
program will be held at the Virginia<br />
Beach Central Library, 4100<br />
Virginia Beach Blvd. Map: ht t p://<br />
tinyurl.com/2bpv84. Doors open<br />
at 8:30 a.m. Colletta starts at 8:55<br />
a.m. <strong>and</strong> runs until 4:30 p.m. The<br />
venue closes at 5 p.m. See: www.<br />
genealogyjohn.com; <strong>and</strong> ht t p://<br />
www.rootsweb.com/~vavbgs/ for<br />
TELL ME ABOUT IT©, exhibitors,<br />
VBGS <strong>and</strong> offerings.<br />
Early Registration is recommended.<br />
Please reserve your spot<br />
by sending $35/$40* today with<br />
Registration Form to VBGS 2009<br />
Annual Conference, PO Box 62901,<br />
Virginia Beach, VA 23466-2901,<br />
well before late date of March 16,<br />
2009*. VBGS members pay $35*<br />
<strong>and</strong> benefit yearlong from our ongoing<br />
classes, excellent speakers,<br />
& newsletters, not to mention the<br />
added goods we provide for our<br />
members. Nonmembers pay $40*.<br />
And we invite you to join VBGS.<br />
Late & at-the-door registrations<br />
add $5*. Registration, membership<br />
forms, <strong>and</strong> details at www.<br />
rootsweb.com/~vavbgs/. A number<br />
of restaurants <strong>and</strong> fast food<br />
places are near. Lighter snacks<br />
<strong>and</strong> drinks are available throughout<br />
the day. Brown bag your lunch<br />
<strong>and</strong> use your saved time with exhibitors<br />
<strong>and</strong> vendors. Contact:<br />
VBGS http://www.rootsweb.com/<br />
~vavbgs—information posts as<br />
available. J. B. Wright 757-495-0672<br />
or Jwright73@cox.net.<br />
April 2-5, 2009—<br />
Huron, Ohio<br />
The Ohio Genealogical Society<br />
will sponsor their 50th anniversary<br />
conference at the Sawmill<br />
Creek Resort <strong>and</strong> Convention<br />
Center, 400 Sawmill Creek. It is<br />
entitled: “Digging for Gold: Finding<br />
our <strong>Family</strong> Nuggets.” For more<br />
information, see: www.ogs.org/<br />
conference2009/.<br />
April 3-4, 2009—<br />
Middleton, Wisconsin<br />
The Wisconsin State Genealogical<br />
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Society will sponsor their Gene-A-<br />
Rama, to be held at Madison Marriott<br />
West, 1313 John Q. Hammons<br />
Dr. The featured speaker will be<br />
Christine Rose. For more information,<br />
see: http://wsgs.org.<br />
April 4, 2009—<br />
Las Vegas, Nevada<br />
The Clark County, Nevada, Genealogical<br />
Society is sponsoring<br />
a seminar featuring Dr. George<br />
K. Schweitzer. For more information,<br />
see www.rootsweb.ancestry.<br />
com/~nvccngs/.<br />
April 18, 2009—<br />
Anchorage, Alaska<br />
The Anchorage Genealogical Society<br />
will present a seminar featuring<br />
Megan Smolenyak, speaking<br />
on: “Introduction to Ancestry.<br />
com,” “Reverse Genealogy: Techniques<br />
for Finding Your Lost<br />
Loved Ones,” “Find that Obituary<br />
Online Newspaper Search”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Cases That Made my Brain<br />
Hurt.” For more information, see:<br />
www.anchoragegenealogy.org/<br />
seminar.htm.<br />
April 18, 2009—<br />
Moline, Illinois<br />
The Rock Isl<strong>and</strong> County Illinois<br />
Genealogical Society <strong>and</strong> the Scott<br />
County, Iowa Genealogical Society<br />
will sponsor the 35th Annual<br />
Quad Cities Genealogical Conference.<br />
The featured speaker will be<br />
Curt Witcher. The seminar will be<br />
held at the Moline Viking Club,<br />
1450 41st St. For more information,<br />
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.<br />
com/~ilbgsrim/news/AnnualGen<br />
Conference.html.<br />
April 18, 2009—<br />
Baton Rouge, Louisiana<br />
The Louisiana Genealogical <strong>and</strong><br />
Historical Society will sponsor<br />
their annual seminar, to be held<br />
at the Embassy Suites Hotel. For<br />
more information, see: www.<br />
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~la-lghs/<br />
seminar.htm.<br />
April 18, 2009—<br />
Plano, Texas<br />
The Genealogy Friends are sponsoring<br />
an All-Day Workshop, featuring<br />
Naomi Taplin <strong>and</strong> Alan<br />
Lefever from the Texas Baptist<br />
Historical Collection, speaking on:<br />
“Preserving Precious Memories.”<br />
Bring your own family treasures<br />
<strong>and</strong> learn how best to preserve<br />
them. The seminar will be from<br />
9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Plano<br />
Bible Chapel, 1900 Shiloh Road.<br />
Pre-registration is $38.00 - $45 at<br />
the door. Contact: Brenda Kellow,<br />
President, The Genealogy Friends,<br />
PO. Box 860477, Plano, TX 75086-<br />
0477; GenFriends@Genealogy<br />
Friends.org; www.Genealogy<br />
Friends.org.<br />
April 18-19, 2009—<br />
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br />
The Alberta Genealogical Society<br />
Conference will take place. For<br />
more information, see: www.abgen<br />
soc.ca.<br />
April 22-26, 2009—<br />
Manchester, New Hampshire<br />
The 10th New Engl<strong>and</strong> Regional<br />
Conference “Discovering <strong>Family</strong><br />
Treasures,” will feature speakers<br />
Megan Smolenyak, Tom Jones, <strong>and</strong><br />
Jim Hansen. More information or<br />
to register, see: www.nergc.org.<br />
April 23-26, 2009—Regina,<br />
Saskatchewan, Canada<br />
The Saskatchewan Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor their 40th<br />
Anniversary Showcase Genealogy<br />
Conference. For more information,<br />
see: www.saskgenealogy.com.<br />
April 25, 2009—<br />
Santa Rosa, California<br />
The Sonoma County Genealogical<br />
Society is sponsoring an all-day<br />
seminar with Lloyd Bockstruck.<br />
He will speak on “Court Records<br />
for Genealogical Research,” “Colonial<br />
<strong>and</strong> States Statutes: Overlooked<br />
Sources for Genealogical<br />
Research,” “Bridging the Atlantic:<br />
Finding Your Ancestral Home,”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Substitutes for Birth <strong>and</strong><br />
Death Records.”<br />
This will be the 17th all-day session<br />
sponsored by SCGS. It will be<br />
held in the Harry A. Merlo Theater<br />
at the Wells Fargo Center for the<br />
Arts, Highway 101 at River Road.<br />
Pre-registration is highly recommended<br />
to reserve your seat<br />
for this event. Price of admission<br />
for pre-registration is $20 for<br />
members of the Sonoma County<br />
Genealogical Society, $25 for nonmembers.<br />
Admission at the door,<br />
beginning at 8 a.m., will be $30.<br />
Send your reservations to Registrar<br />
Audrey Phillips, 96 Eastside<br />
Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954-3609.<br />
Questions about registration can<br />
also be directed to her by phone<br />
at 707-763-4492. Other questions<br />
about the seminar should be directed<br />
to Lois Nimmo, program<br />
chairman, e-mail: loisnim@scb<br />
global.net or phone 707-537-1684.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cascgs/<br />
bockstruck2.htm.<br />
April 25, 2009—<br />
Indianapolis, Indiana<br />
Pamela K. Boyer will be the featured<br />
speaker for the Indiana<br />
Genealogical Society’s 20th Anniversary<br />
Conference. Other speakers<br />
will be Dr. Jack Early, Curt<br />
Witcher, Bennie McRae, Dr. Alan<br />
January, Kevin Flanagan, Dona<br />
Stokes-Lucas, <strong>and</strong> Ron Darrah.<br />
For more information or to register,<br />
go to www.indgensoc.org/<br />
conference.html or write to 2009<br />
Conference, Indiana Genealogical<br />
Society, PO Box 10507, Ft. Wayne,<br />
IN 46852-0507.<br />
April 25, 2009—<br />
Topeka, Kansas<br />
The Topeka Genealogical Society<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Kansas State Historical<br />
Society are sponsoring the 37th<br />
Annual Conference. John Phillip<br />
Colletta will be the featured<br />
speaker. The seminar will be held<br />
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at the Kansas State <strong>History</strong> Center,<br />
6425 SW Sixth St. For more information,<br />
see: www.tgstopeka.org/<br />
conference.html.<br />
April 25, 2009—<br />
Lancaster, Pennsylvania<br />
Sponsored by the Lancaster Mennonite<br />
Historical Society <strong>and</strong><br />
the Lancaster County Historical<br />
Society, the 2009 Lancaster <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Conference will take<br />
place at the Eden Resort Inn. The<br />
theme of the conference is Roots<br />
on the Move! Stories of Immigration.<br />
The keynote speaker will be<br />
Barry Moreno, director of Ellis<br />
Isl<strong>and</strong> Memorial Library. Immigration<br />
will be the topic of the keynote<br />
lecture. He will also present<br />
classes on: “Stories from Ellis Isl<strong>and</strong>,”<br />
“Women <strong>and</strong> Immigration,”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Children <strong>and</strong> Immigration.”<br />
On Friday April 24, there will be<br />
a special motor coach tour to Ellis<br />
Isl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
April 25, 2009—<br />
Aberdeen, Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
The Aberdeen & NE Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Society will be<br />
hosting the 20th Annual conference<br />
of the Scottish Association of<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Societies. It will be<br />
held at Kings’ College Conference<br />
Centre in historic Old Aberdeen.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
scothist.org.<br />
April 25-26, 2009—<br />
Kelowna, British Columbia,<br />
Canada<br />
The Kelowna <strong>and</strong> District <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Society will sponsor a<br />
seminar featuring Rick <strong>and</strong> S<strong>and</strong>ra<br />
Roberts. For more information,<br />
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.<br />
com/~bckdgs/.<br />
April 26, 2009—<br />
Waltham, Massachusetts<br />
The Massachusetts Genealogical<br />
Council is sponsoring their<br />
annual seminar. The speakers<br />
are sponsored by NEHGS of<br />
Boston. Lecturers include Michael<br />
LeClerc, speaking on “Online<br />
Resources for New Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Research.” Josh Taylor of NEHGS<br />
will give two presentations on<br />
“Essential Tools for Genealogists:<br />
What to Buy <strong>and</strong> How to Buy It!”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Genealogical Networking in<br />
Today’s World.” Ann S. Lainhart<br />
will give two lectures on “State<br />
Census Records” <strong>and</strong> “Massachusetts<br />
Institutional Records<br />
at the State Archives.” The program<br />
includes specialized topics<br />
such as “Researching Parish Records<br />
in Portugal” <strong>and</strong> “Recovering<br />
the Lost <strong>History</strong> of Annie<br />
Londonderry: An Idiosyncratic<br />
Search for the World’s First Female<br />
Sports Star.” Additionally,<br />
there will be two lectures from<br />
New Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>History</strong> Festival<br />
founder John Horrigan, including<br />
“Great American Fires of the<br />
19th Century” <strong>and</strong> “Winters of<br />
the Revolution.” For more information,<br />
email: mbrophy@brophy<br />
gen.com.<br />
May 2, 2009—<br />
St. Louis, Missouri<br />
The St. Louis Genealogical Society<br />
is sponsoring their annual<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Conference, to<br />
be held at the Maryl<strong>and</strong> Heights<br />
Community Centre. The featured<br />
speaker will be David Rencher<br />
AG, CG, FIGRS, FUGA, Director<br />
of Records <strong>and</strong> Information Division,<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>and</strong> Church <strong>History</strong><br />
Department of the Church of<br />
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<br />
This organization has taken on<br />
the project to convert the Church’s<br />
vast collection of microfilmed<br />
records into indexed digital images,<br />
which will then be made<br />
available on the Internet. David’s<br />
current assignment promises to<br />
transform the way genealogists<br />
access original documents pertaining<br />
to their family history research.<br />
For more information on<br />
the conference, see: www.stlgs.<br />
org/fair.htm.<br />
May 3, 2009—<br />
London, Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Fair Promotions, Ltd, in cooperation<br />
with <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Societies<br />
<strong>and</strong> related groups will hold their<br />
event at the Barbican Exhibition<br />
Centre. For more information, see:<br />
www.thefhevent.com.<br />
May 13-19, 2009—<br />
Raleigh, North Carolina<br />
The National Genealogical Society<br />
is sponsoring their annual conference<br />
to be held in Raleigh, North<br />
Carolina. The conference hotel is<br />
the Raleigh Marriott City Center,<br />
501 Fayetteville St., Raleigh,<br />
NC 27601. For more information,<br />
see: www.ngsgenealogy.org/<br />
Conferences/2009/.<br />
May 16, 2009—<br />
Seattle, Washington<br />
The Seattle Genealogical Society<br />
is sponsoring their annual Spring<br />
Seminar, with John Philip Colletta<br />
as their featured speaker. For more<br />
information, see: www.rootsweb.<br />
ancestry.com/~waseags/.<br />
May 29-31, 2009—<br />
Oakville, Ontario, Canada<br />
The Ontario Genealogical Society<br />
will sponsor their annual conference,<br />
entitled “From the Printed<br />
Page to the Digital Age.” Kory<br />
Meyerink will be the featured<br />
speaker. For more information,<br />
see: www.ogs.on.ca.<br />
June 5-6, 2009—<br />
Marshall, Arkansas<br />
The Searcy County (AR) Historical<br />
Society is sponsoring the<br />
Twentieth Annual North Arkansas<br />
Ancestor Fair at the E H<br />
Building, County Fairgrounds.<br />
Friday (9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.): Arkansas<br />
<strong>History</strong> Commission Staff<br />
present programs on: Baptist Records;<br />
l<strong>and</strong> platting & legal descriptions;<br />
using newspapers in<br />
genealogical research; gleaning<br />
information from photographs.<br />
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Dinner to meet kin & start ancestor<br />
hunting. Saturday (9 a.m.-3<br />
p.m.): Genealogical Swap Meet<br />
with family historians <strong>and</strong> genealogical/historical<br />
societies<br />
from north Arkansas counties.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
ancestorfair.us or contact James<br />
Johnston, 2333 N East Oaks Drive,<br />
Fayetteville, AR 72703; 479-442-<br />
3691; Johnston@ipa.net.<br />
June 14-21, 2009—<br />
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada<br />
The International Convention of<br />
Germans from Russia, sponsored<br />
by the American Historical Society<br />
of Germans from Russia will<br />
be held with Leona Mann <strong>and</strong><br />
Mabel Kiessling co-chairing the<br />
convention. For more information,<br />
see: www.ahsgr.org/convention.htm.<br />
June 19-21, 2009—<br />
Stirling, Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
Homecoming Stirling 2009 is a<br />
three-day <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Conference<br />
for those interested in Scotl<strong>and</strong><br />
or with Scottish connections.<br />
It will be held in Albert Halls,<br />
Dumbarton Road, in Stirling.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
homecomingstirling.com.<br />
June 20, 2009—<br />
Wichita, Kansas<br />
The 2009 conference presented<br />
by The Kansas Council of Genealogical<br />
Societies, Inc. <strong>and</strong> The<br />
Wichita Genealogical Society,<br />
featuring Megan Smolenyak, is<br />
scheduled at the Spiritual Life<br />
Center in Wichita, Kansas. Sessions<br />
include: “Trace Your Roots<br />
with DNA,” “Welcome to Roots<br />
Television,” “Reverse Genealogy,”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Find That Obituary: Online<br />
Newspaper Research.” Early registration:<br />
$45.00, if received by<br />
May 30, 2009. Late registration:<br />
$50.00. Contact kscouncilgensoc@<br />
juno.com for details or visit the<br />
website at: http://skyways.lib.<br />
ks.us/genweb/kcgs/.<br />
June 26-28, 2009—<br />
Burbank, California<br />
The Southern California Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor their annual<br />
SCGS Jamboree. The Southern<br />
California Genealogy Jamboree<br />
<strong>and</strong> Resource Expo is a three-day<br />
gathering of genealogists, family<br />
historians, experts, novices, exhibitors,<br />
vendors, genealogical society<br />
leaders, speakers <strong>and</strong> others<br />
who are interested in tracing their<br />
roots. The 2009 Genealogy Jamboree<br />
is expected to draw over 1200<br />
participants. There will be more<br />
than 75 presentations <strong>and</strong> panel<br />
discussions, over 30 lecturers, a<br />
room full of exhibitors <strong>and</strong> vendors,<br />
<strong>and</strong> plenty of opportunities<br />
to network <strong>and</strong> socialize.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
scgsgenealogy.com.<br />
July 28-31, 2009—<br />
Provo, Utah<br />
The annual Conference on <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> <strong>and</strong> Genealogy will be<br />
sponsored by <strong>BYU</strong>.<br />
August 2-7, 2009—<br />
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<br />
The Jewish Genealogical Society of<br />
Greater Philadelphia will host the<br />
29th annual IAJGS International<br />
Conference on Jewish Genealogy.<br />
It will be held at the Sheraton Philadelphia<br />
City Center Hotel at 17th<br />
<strong>and</strong> Race Street. For more information,<br />
see: www.jewishgen.org/<br />
jgsp/2009Conference.htm.<br />
August 7-8, 2009—<br />
Jefferson City, Missouri<br />
The Missouri State Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor their annual<br />
conference at the Capital Plaza<br />
Hotel with featured speaker, Julie<br />
Miller, CGSM. Julie Miller is a<br />
Certified Genealogist with more<br />
than 30 years of genealogy experience.<br />
She is a newspaper columnist<br />
for the Broomfield Enterprise<br />
<strong>and</strong> is on the Board of Directors<br />
for the National Genealogical Society,<br />
Association of Professional<br />
Genealogists, <strong>and</strong> International<br />
Society of <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Writers<br />
<strong>and</strong> Editors. Ms. Miller is the<br />
President of the Colorado Chapter<br />
of the Association of Professional<br />
Genealogists <strong>and</strong> Past President of<br />
the Colorado Genealogical Society.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
mosga.org.<br />
September 2-5, 2009—<br />
Little Rock, Arkansas<br />
The Federation of Genealogical<br />
Societies Annual conference will<br />
be held at the Little Rock Statehouse<br />
Convention Center. It is<br />
titled “Passages Through Time.”<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
fgsconference.org/index.php.<br />
September 9-14, 2009—<br />
Rapid City, South Dakota<br />
The annual seminar of the Germans<br />
From Russia Heritage Society<br />
will be held in Rapid City.<br />
September 11-13, 2009—<br />
Spokane, Washington<br />
The Eastern Washington Genealogical<br />
Society is sponsoring<br />
the 2009 Washington State Genealogical<br />
Society’s State Conference<br />
at the historic Davenport<br />
Hotel. The featured speaker will<br />
be Megan Smolenyak. The fourdiamond<br />
Davenport Hotel will<br />
be the venue for the meetings,<br />
vendors, <strong>and</strong> meals <strong>and</strong> is offering<br />
special accommodations package.<br />
Single <strong>and</strong> double-occupancy<br />
rooms are $155 per night, triple<br />
are $165, <strong>and</strong> accommodations for<br />
four are $175 per night. The hotel<br />
now is taking reservations for<br />
that weekend. For more information,<br />
see: www.rootsweb.ancestry.<br />
com/%7Ewasgs/.<br />
September 18-20, 2009—<br />
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br />
The British Isles <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Society of Greater Ottawa will<br />
sponsor their annual seminar.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
bifhsgo.ca.<br />
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October 2-3, 2009—<br />
Neenah, Wisconsin<br />
The Wisconsin State Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor its annual<br />
Fall 2009 Seminar, with featured<br />
speaker, Michael John Neill. It will<br />
be held at the Best Western Bridgewood<br />
Resort Hotel & Conference<br />
Center, 1000 Cameron Way. For<br />
more information, see: http://wsgs.<br />
wetpaint.com.<br />
October 14-17, 2009—<br />
Clevel<strong>and</strong>, Ohio<br />
The annual Seminar of the Czechoslovak<br />
Genealogical Society International<br />
will be held in Clevel<strong>and</strong>.<br />
October 15-17, 2009—<br />
Midl<strong>and</strong>, Michigan<br />
The Michigan Genealogical Council<br />
is sponsoring their annual seminar<br />
with the Thursday afternoon<br />
<strong>and</strong> evening of October 15 including<br />
tours of Midl<strong>and</strong> County Historical<br />
Society facilities. On the<br />
following two days, 16 speakers<br />
with 32 sessions in four tracks will<br />
be featured. Thirty vendors & societies<br />
are expected to exhibit. A<br />
banquet & lunches with speakers<br />
are planned. For more information,<br />
see: www.rootsweb.com/~mimgc/.<br />
Email: faeae@chartermi.net.<br />
October 16-17, 2009—<br />
Lake Charles, Louisiana<br />
The Southwest Louisiana Genealogical<br />
<strong>and</strong> Historical Library’s<br />
second “Branching Out in Genealogy”<br />
Seminar will feature Carolyn<br />
Earle Billingsley. For more details,<br />
see: www.calcasieu.lib.la.us, or<br />
email: gen@calcasieu.lib.la.us or<br />
phone 337-437-3490.<br />
October 19, 2009—Surrey,<br />
British Columbia, Canada<br />
The Annual Tri-stake <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Conference will be held.<br />
April 28-May 5, 2010—<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah<br />
The National Genealogical Society<br />
is sponsoring their annual<br />
conference to be held in Salt Lake<br />
City, Utah. For more information,<br />
see the following website (when<br />
it launches): www.ngsgenealogy.<br />
org/Conferences/2010/.<br />
June 11-13, 2010—<br />
Burbank, California<br />
The Southern California Genealogical<br />
Society will sponsor<br />
their annual SCGS Jamboree. The<br />
Southern California Genealogy<br />
Jamboree <strong>and</strong> Resource Expo is<br />
a three-day gathering of genealogists,<br />
family historians, experts,<br />
novices, exhibitors, vendors, genealogical<br />
society leaders, speakers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> others who are interested<br />
in tracing their roots. The 2010<br />
Genealogy Jamboree is expected<br />
to draw over 1200 participants.<br />
There will be more than 75 presentations<br />
<strong>and</strong> panel discussions,<br />
over 30 lecturers, a room full of exhibitors<br />
<strong>and</strong> vendors, <strong>and</strong> plenty<br />
of opportunities to network <strong>and</strong><br />
socialize.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
scgsgenealogy.com.<br />
September, 2010—<br />
Knoxville, Tennessee<br />
The Federation of Genealogical<br />
Societies will hold their annual<br />
conference in Knoxville, with a<br />
strong emphasis on genealogy on<br />
the Internet.<br />
2010—New York State<br />
The New York State Chapter of the<br />
Palatines to America will sponsor<br />
the 300th anniversary celebration<br />
of Palatine immigration to<br />
America.<br />
Genealogy Related<br />
Research Tours<br />
<strong>and</strong> Retreats<br />
March 9-14, 2009—<br />
Galesburg, Illinois<br />
The Carl S<strong>and</strong>berg College is sponsoring<br />
the 11th Annual Genealogy<br />
Week, with Michael John Neill,<br />
MS. Michael will speak on “Using<br />
Ancestry.com;” “Using Footnote.<br />
com;” “Using <strong>Family</strong>Search.org;”<br />
“Using L<strong>and</strong> Records;” “Genealogy<br />
Problem Solving;” <strong>and</strong><br />
“Using Non-English Language<br />
Records.” The classes run from<br />
9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, covering<br />
one topic per day. For more<br />
information, see: www.rootdig.<br />
com/s<strong>and</strong>burg.html.<br />
May 14-21, 2009—<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah<br />
Michael John Neill will sponsor<br />
his annual Salt Lake City <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Trip. For information, see:<br />
www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html.<br />
October 5-9, 2009—<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah<br />
The International Society for British<br />
Genealogy <strong>and</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
will take place in Salt Lake City,<br />
Utah. For more information, see:<br />
www.isbgfh.org.<br />
December 6-12, 2009—<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah<br />
Do You Want to Make Gigantic<br />
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Helper Managing Editor, Lel<strong>and</strong><br />
K. Meitzler, <strong>and</strong> Donna Potter Phillips<br />
at the 25th annual Salt Lake<br />
Christmas Tour to the <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Library this December.<br />
The Salt Lake Christmas tour is<br />
known for having the highest percentage<br />
of professional researchers<br />
per attendee of any Salt Lake<br />
research tour.<br />
Why December Early December<br />
is an ideal time to come to the <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Library. The library isn’t<br />
crowded, as it is at other times of<br />
the year. The festivities in Salt Lake<br />
City are underway <strong>and</strong> the Christmas<br />
Tour <strong>Family</strong> is waiting with<br />
open arms for you to join them.<br />
By joining us in Salt Lake City<br />
on a Salt Lake Christmas Tour,<br />
you will be in the right place—<br />
at the right time—to locate more<br />
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ancestors than you may have ever<br />
found before.<br />
For more information, see: www.<br />
SaltLakeChristmasTour.com, or<br />
call 801-949-7259.<br />
January 16-20, 2009—<br />
Otahuhu, New Zeal<strong>and</strong><br />
The 12th Australasian Congress<br />
of Genealogy & Heraldry will be<br />
held in Auckl<strong>and</strong> at Kings College,<br />
Golf Avenue, Otahuhu, Auckl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
New Zeal<strong>and</strong>. The theme is “Preserving<br />
the Past for the Future.”<br />
For more information, see: ht t p://<br />
www.affhocongress2009.org.<br />
Genealogy Cruises<br />
January 10-18, 2009—<br />
Eastern Caribbean<br />
Irish genealogy is one of the most<br />
difficult research topics in family<br />
history. To make it a little easier,<br />
The Irish Ancestral Research Association<br />
(http://tiara.ie) is organizing<br />
an Irish genealogy cruise in<br />
January 2009. You do not have to<br />
be a member to join the cruise. We<br />
want to create an opportunity for<br />
everyone to learn how to research<br />
Irish families.<br />
This trip will focus on Irish<br />
research. All speakers have presented<br />
at national genealogical<br />
conferences <strong>and</strong> are recognized<br />
as knowledgeable in their fields.<br />
There will be two tracks. Track<br />
1 will have lectures on basic resources<br />
<strong>and</strong> techniques for Irish<br />
research. Track 2 will focus on<br />
more advanced topics <strong>and</strong> is intended<br />
for those with experience<br />
in using Irish records. The first<br />
thirty registrants will be given<br />
a one-hour private consultation<br />
with one of the professional genealogists<br />
on the program.<br />
SPEAKERS:<br />
• Valerie Adams, Public Record<br />
Office of Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Belfast<br />
• Mary Ellen Grogan, TIARA,<br />
Boston<br />
• George B. H<strong>and</strong>ran, expert on<br />
Griffith’s Valuation, Boston<br />
• Michael J. Leclerc, New Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Historic Genealogical Society,<br />
Boston<br />
• Gregory O’Connor, National<br />
Archives of Irel<strong>and</strong>, Dublin<br />
• Eileen <strong>and</strong> Sean O’Duill,<br />
Dublin<br />
SHIP: Royal Caribbean, Independence<br />
of the Seas<br />
This is Royal Caribbean’s newest<br />
ship. Independence is a sister<br />
ship to Freedom of the Seas. If you<br />
watch the Travel Channel, there is<br />
an hour-long program on Freedom<br />
of the Seas hosted by Samantha<br />
Brown. Independence will be a<br />
large ship, but it will have something<br />
for everyone from the Conference<br />
Center to the FlowRider<br />
surf simulator.<br />
ITINERARY: Eight nights in the<br />
Eastern Caribbean.<br />
Cruise begins <strong>and</strong> ends in Fort<br />
Lauderdale, Florida, with day<br />
visits to: San Juan, Puerto Rico;<br />
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas;<br />
Philipsburg, St. Maarten; <strong>and</strong><br />
Royal Caribbean’s private beach<br />
at Labadee, Haiti. The lectures are<br />
scheduled for the three “At Sea”<br />
days. They will not conflict with<br />
opportunities to visit the ports.<br />
For detailed information on<br />
the cruise, go to the TIARA website<br />
(http://tiara.ie) <strong>and</strong> click on<br />
“Trips.” For more information,<br />
contact Mary Ellen Grogan at me<br />
grogan@ix.netcom.com.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Reunions<br />
Apr 30-May 2, 2009—<br />
Rusagonis, New Brunswick,<br />
Canada<br />
The Calkins <strong>Family</strong> Association<br />
is sponsoring its 5th tri-annual<br />
International Calkins <strong>Family</strong><br />
reunion to be held in Syracuse<br />
NY Apr 30th, May 1st, <strong>and</strong> 2nd,<br />
2009. The invitation is extended<br />
to all descendants of our original<br />
ancestors, Hugh <strong>and</strong> Ann Calkins,<br />
who l<strong>and</strong>ed in North America in<br />
1638. Thursday evening: meet <strong>and</strong><br />
greet with refreshments. Friday:<br />
all day bus tour of historical places<br />
in the area, including lunch. Saturday:<br />
morning workshop, catered<br />
lunch afternoon, business meeting<br />
<strong>and</strong> evening banquet with Gary<br />
Boyd Roberts as the guest speaker.<br />
For information <strong>and</strong> costs, contact<br />
Minnie Frese, 509 Rusagonis Rd.,<br />
Rusagonis, New Brunswick, Canada<br />
E3B 8Z3, phone 506-357-3841.<br />
Email: minmin@nbnet.nb.ca.<br />
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Surname Index ENTRIES INDICATE THE FIRST INSTANCE WITHIN A STORY, ARTICLE, ETC.<br />
A<br />
Abernathy 167<br />
Abington 137<br />
Adam 127<br />
Adams 15, 144,<br />
146, 161, 164<br />
Agar 165<br />
Ahner 118<br />
Albi 153<br />
Albright 148<br />
Aldrich 150<br />
Allen 51, 149<br />
Allin 149<br />
Alt 163<br />
Ammen 144<br />
Anderson 60<br />
Andrews 51, 120<br />
Arends 60<br />
Arner 71<br />
Auld 137<br />
Austin 144<br />
B<br />
Babb 162<br />
Bachmann 164<br />
Backman 108<br />
Bäckman 108<br />
Baker 13<br />
Ball 137<br />
Bane 144<br />
Banks 81, 146<br />
Bardin 120<br />
Barnes 80<br />
Barnum 2, 14, 15<br />
Barr 126, 146,<br />
147, 148<br />
Bartlett 137, 146<br />
Bastian 148<br />
Bastin 148<br />
Beckner 144<br />
Beckord 45<br />
Belt 137<br />
Benjamin 162<br />
Berry 137<br />
Bigelow 114<br />
Billingsley 160<br />
Bish 146<br />
Bitz 162<br />
Bladen 137<br />
Blakistone 137<br />
Blankenau 3, 42, 44<br />
Blankenaufull<strong>and</strong> 44<br />
Blodgett 150<br />
Blount 144, 150<br />
Blue 163<br />
Bockman 3, 87,<br />
91, 96, 112, 155<br />
Bockstruck 78,<br />
152, 157<br />
Boehm 118<br />
Boettcher 148<br />
Bolton 144<br />
Bonner 126<br />
Bonvile 137<br />
Border 144<br />
Bowen 128, 129<br />
Bowker 13<br />
Bowman 81<br />
Bowyer 144<br />
Boyd 127<br />
Boyer 157<br />
Bradford 51, 80<br />
Bradley 126<br />
Brechman 44<br />
Brengle 137<br />
Briscoe 137<br />
Brockschmid 43, 44<br />
Brooke 137<br />
Brooks 162<br />
Brown 132<br />
Bruce 51<br />
Bruggen 44<br />
Brumbaugh 80<br />
Bryson 147<br />
Buchanan 21, 22<br />
Burch 162<br />
Burger 144<br />
Burke 132<br />
Burnett 11<br />
Busekist 60<br />
Buzzard 163<br />
C<br />
Caesar 37<br />
Caile 137<br />
Calkins 161<br />
Calvert 137<br />
Campbell 3,<br />
64, 68, 127<br />
Cannon 63<br />
Carmack 68<br />
Carner 162<br />
Carpenter 51<br />
Carroll 119, 137<br />
Case 11<br />
Casilear 68<br />
Ceely 166<br />
Chatterton 147<br />
Chew 137<br />
Chilton 51<br />
Chomesky 150<br />
Christianson 166<br />
Christison 137<br />
Chubenko 167<br />
Chumley 150<br />
Churchill 51, 137<br />
Clark 77, 129<br />
Clarke 137<br />
Clause 39<br />
Claypoole 162<br />
Clements 137<br />
Clinkenbeard 148<br />
Closson 38<br />
Clouston 72<br />
Coates 132<br />
Cochrane 127<br />
Coffman 144<br />
Cohen 137<br />
Cole 146<br />
Coleman 162<br />
Colletta 156, 157<br />
Conley 147, 163<br />
Connor 165<br />
Connors 166<br />
Conroy 12<br />
Cook 15<br />
Cooper 2, 16<br />
Coplestone 137<br />
Corbet 146<br />
Corbett 150<br />
Costner 114<br />
Cox 153<br />
Croker 137<br />
Croll 148, 149<br />
Cromwell 137<br />
Croom 118, 119<br />
Crowder 144<br />
Crush 144<br />
Cuffley 147<br />
Cunningham 127<br />
Curry 46<br />
D<br />
Dai 146<br />
Daley 62<br />
Dalrymple 127, 146<br />
Darnall 163<br />
Darnell 163<br />
Darrah 157<br />
Davis 81<br />
Deakyne 132<br />
Dealyne 132<br />
DeBartolo 68<br />
Deere 11<br />
Defenbaugh 146<br />
Deisher 144<br />
De Lancey 77<br />
DeLong 149<br />
DeMond 77<br />
Dempsey 144<br />
Dent 137<br />
Derheim 2<br />
des Cognets 143<br />
Dieffenbaugh 146<br />
Diffenbaugh 146<br />
Digges 83<br />
Dill 144<br />
Dingwall 2,<br />
20, 22, 23<br />
Dinniss 132<br />
Dirimple 146<br />
dit Lavergant 150<br />
Dixon 137<br />
Dobson 126, 127<br />
Dod 163<br />
Dollahite 84<br />
Dollarhide 23, 63, 84<br />
Dorsey 137<br />
Drage 167<br />
Drewry 149<br />
Drury 149<br />
Duffield 46,<br />
47, 48, 49<br />
Duffy 126, 148<br />
Dunlop 51<br />
Dunn 137, 146<br />
E<br />
Earle 160<br />
Early 157<br />
Easterly 11<br />
Eastman 24<br />
Eberd 45<br />
Eberhard 45<br />
Eddleman 139<br />
Eddy 148<br />
Egerton 137<br />
Egle 82<br />
Eichler 165<br />
Eide 103<br />
Eidissen 103<br />
Elington 51<br />
Ell 164<br />
Ellicott 137<br />
Elliott 137, 163<br />
Emory 137<br />
Epperly 165<br />
Erichsen 103<br />
Erickson 104<br />
Ernst 44<br />
Ervin 142<br />
Esquibel 153<br />
Etzler 144<br />
Evans 146, 162<br />
Evart 45<br />
F<br />
Fairfax 137<br />
Faris 137<br />
Fellers 144<br />
Felsberg 168<br />
Ferguson 127<br />
Finch 144<br />
Findlay 71<br />
Firebaugh 144<br />
Fisher 149<br />
Fitzpatrick 168<br />
Flaherty 144<br />
Flanagan 157<br />
Fleischmann 118<br />
Fleming 147<br />
Fogarty 71<br />
Fogle 133<br />
Ford 147<br />
Fox 137, 149<br />
Foxworthy 137<br />
Fraser 77<br />
Frese 161<br />
Friddle 120<br />
Friel 126<br />
Frisby 137<br />
Fritchie 137<br />
Frith 137<br />
Frostad 103<br />
Fuchs 149<br />
Fullarton 127<br />
G<br />
Gallagher 126<br />
Galusha 147<br />
Gardner 146<br />
Garl<strong>and</strong> 144<br />
Gary 137<br />
Gerard 137<br />
Gielle 149<br />
Gier 149<br />
Gilbert 162<br />
Gillis 114<br />
Gilpatrick 168<br />
Gilroy 77<br />
Girard 39<br />
Gist 137<br />
Gjertsen 103<br />
Gleason 147<br />
Gleeson 147<br />
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Gleson 147<br />
Goldberg 150<br />
Goldsborough 137<br />
Goodrich 168<br />
Goodrick 168<br />
Goodridge 168<br />
Gordon 127, 137<br />
Gormley 126<br />
Gough 137<br />
Gow 72<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong>champ 130<br />
Green 72, 138, 143<br />
Grey 51<br />
Griffey 142<br />
Grogan 161<br />
Gwathmey 78<br />
H<br />
Haas 146<br />
Haden 144<br />
Hagy 141<br />
Hailey 3, 64, 68<br />
Hale 132<br />
Hall 137<br />
Halley 137<br />
Hamilton 51, 120<br />
H<strong>and</strong>ran 161<br />
Hannah 144<br />
Hannan 146, 147<br />
Hansen 120,<br />
121, 122, 123,<br />
124, 125, 157<br />
Hansmeyer 44<br />
Harkin 126<br />
Harper 74<br />
Harris 15<br />
Harrison 137<br />
Hart 153<br />
Hartig 164<br />
Harwood 137<br />
Haskins 137<br />
Hathaway 148<br />
Hatt 148<br />
Haug 149<br />
Hausil 137<br />
Hausmann 118<br />
Havlice 83<br />
Hawley 137<br />
Haxtun 81<br />
Hays 164<br />
Hazel 149<br />
Heckman 150<br />
Heigh 135, 136<br />
Heitman 13<br />
Hemmingsen 103<br />
Hennessy 147<br />
Hennon 2, 30, 34<br />
Hesselius 137<br />
Heth 14<br />
Highl<strong>and</strong> 137<br />
Hills 81<br />
Hinckley 72<br />
Hinman 81<br />
Hinshaw 78, 79<br />
Hockman 147<br />
Hoffman 3, 50<br />
Holcomb 138<br />
Hollingsworth 140<br />
Hollowak 80<br />
Hollyday 137<br />
Holmes 119<br />
Hooverson 2,<br />
3, 10, 15<br />
Horio 146<br />
Horrigan 158<br />
Houck 149<br />
Houghton 51<br />
Howe 81<br />
Howell 144<br />
Hubbard 118<br />
Hughs 60<br />
Hungerford 137<br />
Hunter 127<br />
Hutchins 162<br />
Hutchinson 137, 138<br />
Hynson 137<br />
Hypes 144<br />
I<br />
Ingebrigtsen 103<br />
Ingram 162<br />
Innes 127, 128<br />
Irby 150<br />
Irving 127<br />
Irwin 164<br />
Israell 135, 136<br />
J<br />
Jackson 114, 150<br />
Jacobson 103,<br />
119, 120<br />
James 12<br />
January 157<br />
Jarren 165<br />
Jeffrey 153<br />
Jensen 167<br />
Jesek 62<br />
Jewell 149, 166<br />
Johansen 103<br />
Johansson 50<br />
John 149<br />
Johnson 10, 154<br />
Johnston 127, 159<br />
Jones 72, 77, 137,<br />
147, 157<br />
Jopling 144<br />
Josiah 149<br />
Justin 147<br />
K<br />
Kasner 149<br />
Kaufman 70<br />
Keeney 118, 148<br />
Kelly 56, 57,<br />
58, 72, 163<br />
Kemp 137<br />
Kendall 138<br />
Kenie 118<br />
Kennebeck 147<br />
Kennedy 127<br />
Kenny 148<br />
Kerr 125, 138<br />
Kessler 144<br />
Key 137<br />
Kibble 149<br />
Kiessling 159<br />
Kilpatrick 168<br />
King 10<br />
Kinney 148<br />
Kirkpatrick 168<br />
Kleikamp 45<br />
Knipple 147<br />
Knudson 3, 51<br />
Kodak 24<br />
Kolb 166<br />
Koogler 167<br />
Kovacevic 164<br />
Kropp 164, 168<br />
Kuhns 140<br />
L<br />
Ladenheim 131<br />
Lainhart 158<br />
Lair 165<br />
Laird 150<br />
Lambdin 137<br />
Lambert 166<br />
L<strong>and</strong>is 81, 163<br />
Lane 137<br />
Larsson 109<br />
Latta 148<br />
Latzerus 36<br />
Lawson 167<br />
Layman 144<br />
Lazarus 3, 36, 38, 39<br />
Leahy 147<br />
Leathers 62<br />
Leclerc 161<br />
LeClerc 158<br />
LeCompte 137<br />
Lee 70, 137<br />
Leeson 51<br />
Lefever 157<br />
Leftwich 144<br />
Leiper 36, 37<br />
Lentz 153<br />
Leonard 62<br />
Leopard 146<br />
Lesan 51<br />
Levis 137<br />
Levy 137<br />
Lewsley 146<br />
Lienen 42, 43, 44<br />
Lifferth 74<br />
Lincoln 131, 132<br />
Lind 15<br />
Linkenhoger 144<br />
Linkletter 72<br />
Linthicum 137<br />
Lister 149<br />
Littlewood 126<br />
Lloyd 137<br />
Lohmeyer 166<br />
Londonderry 158<br />
Loockerman 137<br />
Low 147<br />
Lowe 137<br />
Lowndes 137<br />
Lowry 163, 167<br />
Lucas 157<br />
Luek 50<br />
Lunsford 144<br />
Lupole 167<br />
Luxenberg 73<br />
M<br />
MacKeeles 137<br />
Maheu 150<br />
Majors 11<br />
Makepeace 51<br />
Malcom 163<br />
Mann 159<br />
Marple 119<br />
Marsh 137<br />
Mason 51, 166<br />
Mather 80<br />
Mattison 149<br />
Mauer 72<br />
Maxwell 127<br />
Mayhue 150<br />
McBride 126<br />
McCafferty 126<br />
McClell<strong>and</strong> 147<br />
McConkey 147, 148<br />
McConville 148<br />
McCormick 11<br />
McDaid 126<br />
McDowall 127<br />
McEachem 140<br />
McFall 146<br />
McFerran 144<br />
McHugh 120, 150<br />
McKee 149<br />
McKendrey 47, 48<br />
McKie 127<br />
McKinsey 132, 133<br />
McLellan 127<br />
McMichael 147<br />
McMillan 148<br />
McQuinn 146<br />
McRae 157<br />
Mealy 132<br />
Meehan 126<br />
Meitzler 70, 76,<br />
118, 155, 160<br />
Merlo 157<br />
Merrill 167<br />
Merryman 137<br />
Metzger 162<br />
Metzler 72<br />
Meyerink 158<br />
Midkiff 62<br />
Miller 71, 128,<br />
129, 149, 159<br />
Mills 74, 146<br />
Milner 71<br />
Mitchell 68, 125, 126<br />
Moche 142<br />
Monroe 137<br />
Montgomery 51, 127<br />
Moore 47, 71,<br />
148, 162<br />
Moran 150<br />
Moreno 158<br />
Morgan 137, 153<br />
Morrissey 126<br />
Morrow 167<br />
Morse 51, 155<br />
Moughty 72<br />
Moulton 167<br />
Muggenthaler 38<br />
Muhlenberg 141<br />
Muir 127<br />
Murdock 137<br />
Myers 166<br />
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Surname Index<br />
N<br />
Naeseth 97<br />
Nauta 70, 73<br />
Neale 137<br />
Neff 148<br />
Neill 105, 156, 160<br />
Neise 146<br />
Neuhaus 91, 112<br />
Neuhausen 91<br />
Neunuebel 118<br />
Newman 148, 149<br />
Nicola 71<br />
Noffsinger 144<br />
Nordstrom 148<br />
Norin 3, 114<br />
Norlie 13<br />
O<br />
Obee 153, 154<br />
Obenshain 144<br />
O’Brien 154<br />
O’Connor 161<br />
O’Donnell 126<br />
O’Duill 72, 161<br />
Oelgeschlager 44<br />
Oeth 118<br />
O’Kane 125, 126<br />
O’Leary 147<br />
Olson 104<br />
O’Neill 126, 147<br />
Orio 146<br />
Orion 146<br />
O’Rourke 136<br />
Orvell 15<br />
Oryon 146<br />
Owens 137<br />
Owings 137<br />
Ozias 146<br />
P<br />
Packard 51<br />
Partee 149<br />
Pastorius 141<br />
Pate 83<br />
Pattok 118<br />
Patton 126<br />
Pearce 137<br />
Pearson 143<br />
Peck 144<br />
Peden 137<br />
Pedersen 103<br />
Peduto 2, 24<br />
Penn 141<br />
Penner 71<br />
Pennock 137<br />
Penny 150<br />
Petri 118<br />
Phillips 3, 62,<br />
63, 160, 162<br />
Phillipson 164<br />
Piccirillo 167<br />
Pitman 163<br />
Pittman 163<br />
Plater 137<br />
Poague 144<br />
Poe 137<br />
Poirot 119<br />
Pollmeier 44<br />
Posehn 166<br />
Potter 3, 51, 62,<br />
63, 160, 162<br />
Prater 153<br />
Prescott 154<br />
Price 137, 168<br />
Pritchett 137<br />
Q<br />
Quilter 147<br />
R<br />
Radford 143<br />
Rafford 58<br />
R<strong>and</strong>all 137<br />
Rasmussen 93, 103<br />
Rathbone 65<br />
Ratliff 46, 47, 48, 49<br />
Raymond 149<br />
Reed 162<br />
Regan 150<br />
Reineke 44<br />
Reiss 15<br />
Rencher 72, 158<br />
Rich 164<br />
Richelieu 150<br />
Richtscheid 3<br />
Ridgely 137<br />
Rigbie 137<br />
Rinehart 144<br />
Risvold 150<br />
Ritchey 144<br />
Rixford 81<br />
Robbins 62<br />
Robert 149<br />
Roberts 158, 161<br />
Rockhold 137<br />
Rohrbach 148, 149<br />
Romaneck 130<br />
Ronning 3, 56, 58<br />
Root 65<br />
Rorbach 148<br />
Rose 157<br />
Roser 80<br />
Rosholt 13<br />
Rotherham 163<br />
Rubincam 144<br />
Rumsey 89<br />
Ruschkamp 45<br />
Russell 11<br />
Russert 36<br />
Rypczyk 147<br />
S<br />
Sabine 77<br />
Sagan 103<br />
Sampson 148<br />
Saros 165<br />
Saur 12<br />
Savage 81<br />
Saville 144<br />
Schaffner 162<br />
Schlegel 118<br />
Schmidt 149<br />
Schmoyer 148<br />
Schrader 38<br />
Schulz 3<br />
Schweitzer 153, 157<br />
Scott 156, 167<br />
Scudder 14<br />
Sebastian 147<br />
Sedlacek 60<br />
Seversen 103<br />
Sewall 137<br />
Shakespeare 95<br />
Sharp 46, 47, 49<br />
Sharpe 137<br />
Shawker 154<br />
Sheilds 139<br />
Sheldon 149<br />
Sherby 148<br />
Sherwin 164<br />
Shorbet 146<br />
Short 149<br />
Shurtleff 81<br />
Sibley 13<br />
Siciliano 3<br />
Simon 150<br />
Simons 150<br />
Simonsen 103<br />
Simpson 144, 147<br />
Siweke 42, 43<br />
Sizer 144<br />
Skinner 133, 134,<br />
135, 136, 137<br />
Slaughter 143<br />
Slusser 144<br />
Smallwood 137<br />
Smally 148<br />
Smith 118, 137, 147,<br />
148, 150, 153<br />
Smolenyak 153,<br />
155, 157, 159<br />
Smolenyk 157<br />
Smoyer 148<br />
Snead 137<br />
Snider 149, 150<br />
Snowden 60<br />
Solsten 97<br />
Sonneborn 44<br />
Sorbet 146<br />
Southworth 51<br />
Sparrow 137<br />
Spear 148<br />
Speck 162<br />
Spiers 142<br />
Sprigg 137<br />
Staley 71<br />
Stallbories 43<br />
St<strong>and</strong>rige 73<br />
Stanger 72<br />
Stankiewicz 166<br />
Stanley 95<br />
Stansbury 137<br />
Start 149<br />
Statler 162<br />
Stemmons 76<br />
Stephenson 72<br />
Stevens 137<br />
Stewart 137<br />
Stoddard 81<br />
Stokes 157<br />
Stoner 144<br />
Stotebury 51<br />
Stotesbury 51<br />
Strachey 13<br />
Strader 146<br />
Stuart 156<br />
Stumpp 41<br />
Sulgrave 51<br />
Sullivan 131<br />
Summers 3, 52, 55<br />
sur Richelieu 150<br />
Sweeney 126<br />
Sweetl<strong>and</strong> 144<br />
Sweetser 137<br />
Switzer 144<br />
Szabolics 165<br />
Szepes 165<br />
T<br />
Taplin 157<br />
Tasker 137<br />
Taulbee 146<br />
Taylor 51, 137, 158<br />
Thames 51<br />
Thiel 150<br />
Thompson 2,<br />
20, 23, 51<br />
Thorndale 23<br />
Thronsen 103<br />
Tilghman 137<br />
Tilly 150<br />
Timman 167<br />
Tims 51<br />
Todd 137<br />
Tofte 168<br />
Tolle 60<br />
Tonelli 163<br />
Turner 162<br />
V<br />
Van Swearingen 51<br />
Verrieur 150<br />
Virkus 13<br />
VonHof 150<br />
VonHofe 150<br />
W<br />
Waddell 11<br />
Wadlington 162<br />
Wagner 162<br />
Walker 46<br />
Wallace 15, 127<br />
W<strong>and</strong>lass 147<br />
Ward 126<br />
Warren 156<br />
Washington 51<br />
Watson 20, 21, 111<br />
Wayne 130<br />
Webb 137<br />
Webster 51<br />
Weems 137<br />
Weggemans 42, 45<br />
Weimans 42, 45<br />
Weir 163<br />
Wellington 149<br />
Wells 141<br />
West 137<br />
Wharton 150<br />
Whelden 149<br />
Wheldon 149<br />
White 167<br />
Wilhelm 144<br />
Williams 68, 132<br />
Willington 149<br />
Wilson 12, 150<br />
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Winchester 137<br />
Windle 166<br />
Winslow 51, 80<br />
Winthrop 80<br />
Wise 137<br />
Witcher 154, 157<br />
Wolbert 3, 60<br />
Wood 144, 162<br />
Woodward 137<br />
Wooley 139<br />
Worrall 60<br />
Wray 72<br />
Wright 118<br />
Wrightson 137<br />
Wyatt 162<br />
X<br />
Xavier 136<br />
Y<br />
Yearby 150<br />
Yerby 150<br />
Young 70, 73, 81,<br />
137, 144, 149<br />
Yount 146<br />
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Advertiser’s Index<br />
Numeric<br />
1739 Publications 163<br />
A<br />
ADN Genealogical Research 164<br />
ALE Group 163<br />
American Descendants of Lawrence<br />
Pearson Rotherham, Yorkshire,<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong> 1642–2005 163<br />
American Historical Society of<br />
Germans from Russia 41<br />
Ancestry Records, RHB, LLC,<br />
Larry Tonelli 163<br />
Anthony Adolph 164<br />
Anundsen Publishing Company 55<br />
Arphax 69<br />
AskAGenie.com 49<br />
Aviation Archaeology 163<br />
B<br />
BCG Genealogical St<strong>and</strong>ards<br />
Manual, The 123<br />
Berrish Books, Gone<br />
From Texas 162<br />
Buzzard <strong>and</strong> Alt Families 163<br />
C<br />
California Research,<br />
Margaret Posehn 166<br />
Canada Genealogical Research<br />
Library <strong>and</strong> Archives<br />
of Canada 165<br />
Carl Elliott Books 163<br />
Carolina Maps 167<br />
Central New York Research,<br />
Cindy Drage 167<br />
Chicago, Illinois Research,<br />
Kim Stankiewicz 166<br />
City Directories 165<br />
Colonial Roots 84<br />
D<br />
Daniel Dod <strong>Family</strong> in<br />
America 163<br />
Darnall, Darnell <strong>Family</strong> Vol. II,<br />
The 163<br />
Dear Myrtle 15, 150<br />
Diane Kropp 164<br />
Die Pommerschen Leute 165<br />
DMK Heritage 164<br />
Dogwood Printing 121<br />
E<br />
Eastman’s Online Genealogy<br />
Newsletter 86<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales Research,<br />
Raymond Foster 164<br />
European Focus 40<br />
European Workbook 162<br />
Everton Publishers 1, 50, 58, 59,<br />
85, 176, Back Inside Cover<br />
F<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Chronicle 9, 117<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Roots Publishing<br />
Company 75<br />
Footnote.com 6<br />
G<br />
Geneabase 162<br />
Genealogical Publishing<br />
Company, Inc. 23, 74<br />
Genealogical Records Researcher;<br />
Connie Casilear Mitchell 68<br />
Genealogical Research in Germany,<br />
Ulrike Bachmann 164<br />
Genealogical Research,<br />
Mark Adams 164<br />
Genealogical Society of<br />
New Jersey 167<br />
Genealogy on Television 163<br />
Genealogy Publishing Service 164<br />
Genealogy Services, Mary<br />
Lynn Felsberg 168<br />
Genline.com 45<br />
Genoom.com 113<br />
German Ancestors,<br />
Volker Jarren 165<br />
German Translation, Ann<br />
C. Sherwin 164<br />
German Translation & Research,<br />
Jutta Epperly 165<br />
German Translations,<br />
Karin Ell 164<br />
Getting Personal with Your<br />
Ancestors, Irene P. Lambert 166<br />
Gilbert Gallery 162<br />
Goodrich <strong>Family</strong> Association 168<br />
Great Britain & U.S. Research,<br />
Eileen Rich 164<br />
Guide to Genealogy<br />
Research, Francis Pittman<br />
Malcom 163<br />
H<br />
Hans L<strong>and</strong>is, Swiss Anabaptist<br />
Martyr in Seventeenth<br />
Century Documents 163<br />
Historica 165<br />
Historical Research Associates 164<br />
Hungarians <strong>and</strong> Germans,<br />
Martha R. Conner 165<br />
I<br />
Illinois <strong>and</strong> Midwestern<br />
Research, Ronald Kolb 166<br />
Illinois Death Record Searches <strong>and</strong><br />
Genealogical Publications 166<br />
Iowa Research, Jim<br />
Christianson 166<br />
Irish/European Union 165<br />
K<br />
Kansas Council Of Genealogical<br />
Societies, Inc. 51<br />
Kirkpatrick Association, George<br />
M Kirkpatrick 168<br />
L<br />
Lancaster County<br />
Connections 162<br />
Lineages 28<br />
LiveRoots.com 34<br />
M<br />
Massachusetts Document<br />
Retrieval Service 166<br />
Minnesota Reearch, Darlene<br />
C Joyce 164<br />
Minnesota Research,<br />
Authentic Origins 166<br />
N<br />
National Institute for<br />
Genealogical Studies 151<br />
New Jersey Genealogical Research,<br />
Michelle L. Chubenko 167<br />
New Jersey Newspaper Searches,<br />
Dennis Piccirillo 167<br />
New Jersey Research, John<br />
E. Rendfrey 167<br />
New Mexico Research,<br />
Charles L. Jensen 167<br />
Northeast Professional Genealogy,<br />
Rev. Dr. Robert L. Rafford 58<br />
Northwest Arkansas Research,<br />
Marcia Connors 166<br />
North West Missouri Genealogical<br />
Society, Atchison County 166<br />
O<br />
Ohio-Pennsylvania Research,<br />
Mary Scott 167<br />
Ohio Research, Henry<br />
R. Timman 167<br />
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Advertiser’s Index<br />
Oregon Newspaper Research,<br />
Gregory Toftdahl 167<br />
Oregon Research, Leslie<br />
Lawson 167<br />
Osage County, Kansas Historical<br />
& Genealogical Research 166<br />
Ozarks Genealogical<br />
Society, Inc. 166<br />
P<br />
Pennsylvania/Delaware,<br />
Mary Fitzpatrick 168<br />
Pennsylvania Genealogy<br />
Monthly 167<br />
Photorepair.com 49<br />
Pitman/Pittman Newsletter 163<br />
Plaistow, NH Vital Records,<br />
Mary Ellen Moulton 167<br />
POINTers, The American Network<br />
of Italian Genealogy 165<br />
Professional Genealogy<br />
Research 165<br />
R<br />
Reed Genealogy 162<br />
Revolutionary War Soldier<br />
<strong>and</strong> His Descendants,<br />
James St<strong>and</strong>ridge 73<br />
RMB Genealogical Services 165<br />
Roots Magic 35<br />
S<br />
Salt Lake Christmas Tour 61<br />
Salt Lake Plaza Hotel Front<br />
Inside Cover, 34, Back Cover<br />
Scotia-Hypernia Books,<br />
Nina Hutchins 162<br />
Sojourn of the Ingrams,<br />
Gladys Ingram 162<br />
South Carolina Magazine of<br />
Ancestral Research, The 168<br />
South Central Texas Research,<br />
Holly Heinsohn, B.A.,<br />
M.A.I.S. 168<br />
Southern California Research,<br />
Liz Stookesberry Myers 166<br />
Southern Genealogy 167<br />
Speck & Benjamin Reed<br />
Families 162<br />
S-T Imaging, Inc 29<br />
T<br />
Tapping Your Roots; Lisa E.<br />
Morrow Koogler 167<br />
Tennessee <strong>Family</strong> Finder 168<br />
Texas Research, Diane<br />
Tofte Kropp 168<br />
That Metzger <strong>Family</strong> & Others,<br />
That Wadlington <strong>Family</strong> &<br />
Others, Donna Metzger 162<br />
The Past Lane, Cheryl<br />
Abernathy 167<br />
Tracing a Legacy 165<br />
Transcription—Diaries, Service<br />
Letters, College Letters,<br />
Priscilla Weir 163<br />
Translation <strong>and</strong> Paleography,<br />
Peter D. Hays 164<br />
Translator of German, French,<br />
Dutch, Gordon Hartig 164<br />
V<br />
Val’s Roots Professional<br />
Genealogy Services 165<br />
Virginia <strong>and</strong> Genealogy 168<br />
Virginia Genealogical Research,<br />
Don G. Price 168<br />
W<br />
Washington, D.C. <strong>and</strong> North<br />
Virginia, Greg Mason 166<br />
Washington, D.C. Research,<br />
S<strong>and</strong>ra L. Ceely 166<br />
West Central Missouri Genealogical<br />
Society <strong>and</strong> Library, Inc. 167<br />
White’s Genealogy Services 167<br />
Will-Britt Books 133<br />
Y<br />
Your <strong>Family</strong> in <strong>History</strong> 163<br />
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