Actually, the name is properly spelled Frohsinn and means to be in a happy mood or spirit. If the name was changed around the time of WWI, it may have been in response to anti-German sentiment at the time. Hamburger steaks were renamed Salisbury steaks for this reason at the time. Bronya Feldmann Myers researcher on 4/2/01 4:00 AM, AL-MOBILEBAY-D-request@rootsweb.com at AL-MOBILEBAY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > AL-MOBILEBAY-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 40 > > Today's Topics: > #1 City directories [Anita Lowrance <vetcop@home.com>] > #2 Re: City directories ["Mark" <mbasque@ddyne.com>] > #3 Fw: [MSPONTOT-L] Stealing Genealog ["Nancy Bell" <nb7020@bellsouth.net] > #4 Froshinn - Laurendine ["Craig McGraw" <bayshore@garbersof] > #5 Re: I AGREE [Nola Duffy <nduffy@patch.net>] > #6 Re: City directories [blueskye@primenet.com (Marianne Gi] > > Administrivia: > MOBILE BAY AREA ROOTS Digest [AL-MOBILEBAY-D] is brought to you > by the Mobile (Alabama, USA) Genealogical Society and by RootsWeb. > MGS's home page is at http://www.siteone.com/clubs/mgs > RootsWeb's home page is at http://www.rootsweb.com/ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE from MOBILE BAY AREA ROOTS Digest, click on > the following link -- mailto:AL-MOBILEBAY-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > Leave Subject Line BLANK and type ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE (pay > attention to your spelling) in the body of message. 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I am still looking for any > Selph families anywhere in Mobile area sincemid 1800's. Thank you. > > ______________________________ > From: "Mark" <mbasque@ddyne.com> > Date: Sunday, April 1, 2001 9:50 AM > To: AL-MOBILEBAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: City directories > >> Can anyone tell me if there are any city directories for Mobile and if >> what would be the earliest year accessible. I am still looking for any >> Selph families anywhere in Mobile area sincemid 1800's. Thank you. > Anita, > Yes, the genealogy branch of the Mobile Public Library has all the city > directories, going back, I seem to recall, into the late 1830's or so. > Someone else on the list may be able to supply the exact range of dates, but > you'll find a complete set there extending back into the time period that > you are interested in. > --Mark > > ______________________________ > From: "Nancy Bell" <nb7020@bellsouth.net> > Date: Sunday, April 1, 2001 5:15 AM > To: AL-MOBILEBAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Fw: [MSPONTOT-L] Stealing Genealogy and Selling it... > >> The following e mail was sent to a mailing list I'm on. This type of > behavior is inexcusable. I wrote to ancestryweb. com and sent a copy of the > letter to the person in question. Their e mail addresses are on the website > below. I think we all should write and protest this behavior, as it > violates a legitimate genealogist's "code of ethics", so to speak! It could > happen to any of us who exchange information! >> >> Nancy >> >> > **************************************************************************** > ************** >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Lynn McCandless <lynnintx@texas.net> >> To: <MSPONTOT-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 3:02 PM >> Subject: [MSPONTOT-L] Stealing Genealogy and Selling it... >> >> >>> It has come to my attention that a person has taken some of the >>> genealogy that I shared with him several years ago and put it on CD and >>> is now selling it. I feel that I have been taken by this person who I >>> believe does not know how to do research and is just using all the >>> Seago/Sego lines to get info for his CD. His webpage which I found thru >>> Gendex is: http://www.ancestryweb.com/ >>> He is selling my family research on CD at >>> http://www.ancestryweb.com/genweb/sego/ >>> I have tried to email him but he does not answer my email. >>> >>> How would all of you feel if researchers did not share info and people >>> like this will drive researchers to do that. How would you feel to >>> learn that a person had betrade you like he has done me? Needless to >>> say, some of the info was incorrect as I did not have all the >>> documentation done on the lines at that time and I did find some errors >>> in my work. So incorrect info will get past along to people who want >>> the easy way out of research. >>> Well, I now have this off my chest as I have been boiling all week about >>> this. >>> -- >>> Lynn Appling McCandless >>> Please visit my webpages: >>> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lynn/ >>> send mailto:lynnintx@texas.net >>> >>> >>> >>> ==== MSPONTOT Mailing List ==== >>> Do you have any old photos of historical places or an old class photo > that >> others may be interested in seeing? You can make a photocopy and send to >> Debbie Anderson 3071 Newmarket Dr. Memphis, TN 38134 I will see that they >> get scanned in and placed on the web site. >>> >>> >> > > ______________________________ > From: "Craig McGraw" <bayshore@garbersoft.net> > Date: Sunday, April 1, 2001 1:21 PM > To: AL-MOBILEBAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Froshinn - Laurendine > > Hello... > > I am the Webmaster and Administrator of the Mobile & Bay Shore > Railroad Historical Society, based in Mobile, Alabama. Our main > function is the documentation and publication of resources about > this short, 39-mile-long branchline of the Mobile & Ohio which ran > from Prichard to Bayou la Batre. > > In the course of our research, we have run across instances of several > stations and flag stops where the name changed during the railroad's > 40-year lifetime. One such name change is FROSHINN, which is of > German origin, and means "sense of glad". > > Modern maps, at least from the 1920's onward, refer to this area by the > name known today - LAURENDINE. This is known to be a family name > dating back into the Civil War period. > > Our society is looking for information about both names, when the > change took place, and what the reason was for the change. If anyone > can provide some of this information, we would appreciate it. > > We also invite everyone to take a look at our website. The address is > noted below. > - ------------------------------------------------------------ > Craig McGraw > Webmaster, Mobile & Bay Shore RR HS > URL: http://bayshorehs.tripod.com/index.htm > EMail: bayshore@garbersoft.net > > ______________________________ > From: Nola Duffy <nduffy@patch.net> > Date: Sunday, April 1, 2001 2:35 PM > To: AL-MOBILEBAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: I AGREE > > Nancy, > > I totally agree. Those who defend posting every name they > can find to hand on their "tree" by saying they believe in > sharing, are simply avoiding the truth - most are name > collectors. They know nothing about those whose names they > grab but want to enhance the numbers that show in their > geckos. We all collect names because that is the nature of > our hobby but that is clearly not genealogy and they do more > harm than good. I HATE seeing a huge gedcom posted on > Rootsweb WorldConnect which carries the statement that "I > don't know anything more", the implication being "don't ask > me." > > I work full time on my project, literally 10 hours a day and > have paid thousands to qualified genealogists to document > my family project.. I collect names but always go back to > source material to check, verify and document. It makes me > furious to see my typographical errors posted all over the > public databases after my webpage has been corrected. If > they would even give their sources it would help the > unsuspecting find the corrections. > > I wish more people would start insisting that some sort of > checks and balances be put on these huge "name mills" but I > will not hold my breath. I tried to get WorldConnect people > to simply make people hit a check mark which says "This is > my work or I have permission of the owner" and you would > have thought I was committing treason - they wanted no part > of it. They too want to brag about their billions of name. > > Nola Duffy > nduffy@patch.net > > ______________________________ > From: blueskye@primenet.com (Marianne Gilbert) > Date: Sunday, April 1, 2001 2:33 PM > To: AL-MOBILEBAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: City directories > > I was able to find quite a few years of Mobile city directories on > microfiche through my LDS library (Mesa, AZ). They have them onsite, > however I don't get there very often (a few times a year). I don't remember > which years they were but they did have the mid-1800s. You might check your > local LDS Family History Center and see if they have them, if not, maybe > they can be ordered for you - that is, if you're not in Mobile. > > Marianne Gilbert > Phoenix, AZ > >>> Can anyone tell me if there are any city directories for Mobile and if >>> what would be the earliest year accessible. I am still looking for any >>> Selph families anywhere in Mobile area sincemid 1800's. Thank you. >> Anita, >> Yes, the genealogy branch of the Mobile Public Library has all the city >> directories, going back, I seem to recall, into the late 1830's or so. >> Someone else on the list may be able to supply the exact range of dates, but >> you'll find a complete set there extending back into the time period that >> you are interested in. >> --Mark >> >> >> ============================== >> Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >> Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bronya Feldmann" <bronya@sirius.com> Subject: Froshinn - Laureneine > Actually, the name is properly spelled Frohsinn and means to be in a happy > mood or spirit. > > If the name was changed around the time of WWI, it may have been in response > to anti-German sentiment at the time. Hamburger steaks were renamed > Salisbury steaks for this reason at the time. Bronya, Thank you for the reply. The name change was about that time, we figure. No clear date yet, though. When I was looking into this name change, the anti-German mood of the country was what I figured on, too. Your spelling of the name, however, escapes me. The map on which I found this name had the "SH" combination, as did the few Web hits I was able to locate. Is there, perhaps, a time-frame when the new spelling may have started? -------------------------------------------------------------- Craig McGraw Webmaster, Mobile & Bay Shore RR HS URL: http://bayshorehs.tripod.com/index.htm EMail: bayshore@garbersoft.net