I have received several copies of the HAPPY99 VIRUS (or WORM) from email that was sent to ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST over the last few days. Please read the follwing message. D. Scott Dingler Listowner I borrowed this explanation from my colleague who has the SCROOTS list. He is a computer guru. Please read carefully. DO NOT SEND ANY MESSAGES TO THE LIST ABOUT THIS PLEASE!!! NOTE: This warning is the exception to the rule. Do not follow this as and example and start sending virus warnings to the forum. This type of message is OFF TOPIC in the forum, unless posted by the Forum Manager. I've recently received several emails from various people containing an attached file named HAPPY99.EXE. Some of these were from Forum members. Some were addressed to the Forum, but they were blocked by our automatic screening program. The HAPPY99.EXE program is a WORM. See below for more information about what that means. If you receive a message with that file attached don't execute it - delete it immediately. _______________________ VirusName: Happy99.Worm Aliases: Trojan.Happy99, I-Worm.Happy Description: This is a worm program, NOT a virus. This program has reportedly been received through email spamming and USENET newsgroup posting. The file is usually named HAPPY99.EXE in the email or article attachment. When being executed, the program also opens a window entitled "Happy New Year 1999 !!" showing a firework display to disguise its other actions. The program copies itself as SKA.EXE and extracts a DLL that it carries as SKA.DLL into WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. It also modifies WSOCK32.DLL in WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and copies the original WSOCK32.DLL into WSOCK32.SKA. WSOCK32.DLL handles internet-connectivity in Windows 95 and 98. The modification to WSOCK32.DLL allows the worm routine to be triggered when a connect or send activity is detected. When such online activity occurs, the modified code loads the worm's SKA.DLL. This SKA.DLL creates a new email or a new article with UUENCODED HAPPY99.EXE inserted into the email or article. It then sends this email or posts this article. If WSOCK32.DLL is in use when the worm tries to modify it (i.e. a user is online), the worm adds a registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce=SKA.EXE The registry entry loads the worm the next time Windows start. Removing the worm manually: 1. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.EXE 2. delete WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SKA.DLL 3. replace WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL with WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.SKA 4. delete the downloaded file, usually named HAPPY99.EXE Safe Computing: This worm and other trojan-horse type programs demonstrate the need to practice safe computing. One should not execute any executable-file attachment (i.e. EXE, SHS, MS Word or MS Excel file) that comes from an email or a newsgroup article from an unknown or a untrusted source. Norton AntiVirus users can protect themselves from this worm by downloading the virus definitions updates released on Jan 28, 1999 or later either through LiveUpdate or from the following webpage: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html Write-up by: Raul K. Elnitiarta - January 28, 1999 ___________________ For more information regarding viruses see the following sites. http://www.mcafee.com/ http://www.symantec.com/avcenter http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/happy99.worm.html http://www.earthlink.net/daily/tuesday/macroviruses http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Unsolicited, unexplained attachments are unacceptable! "... you CAN get a virus by reading an attachment in an email message, such as an MS Word or Excel document, which is infected by a macro virus. You can also get a virus by running an executable program (such as *.exe , *.com or *.bat) someone e-mails you as an attachment." -- SOURCE: http://www.cyberramp.net/hoax.htm Food For Thought: If the one that holds our future is the one that holds our hand, we will always have reason to give thanks for we will surely be blessed. Check out my Gealogy home page at http://www.mindspring.com/~sdingler/ Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ D. Scott Dingler 711 Robin Court Woodstock, GA 30188 ********************************************************* * * * JESUS OUR SAVIOR WILL CARRY US ALL THE WAY !!!!!!! * * * *********************************************************

That was a great explanation of land locations by Stephanie. The DeedMapper.com website has some good explanations of land locations. Also, I found a blank Alabama Plat Book on microfilm at Clayton Library in Houston. I copied them with the intention of placing all my Alabama ancestors. I have not done this yet, but it is still on my list of things to do. I expect the Plat book would be available from the Family History Library in Salt Lake. Since the plats are mostly square, they are easy to draw. It really helps to locate the neighbors. Betty

Thanks for the tutorial Stephanie! Kim Hinson Taylor

Uyless, I am sure there is someone else out there who can explain this much better than I. Two lines are supposed to be run through a territory to be surveyed. The base line= east and west, and the meredian line= north and south. They are supposed to intersect at right angles. the townships were surveyed from this point of intersection. Each township is 6 miles square (36 square miles) and is divided in 36 sections of 640 acres ( one square mile) each and all townships are numbered with reference to the base line and meridian line. They are numbered first from the base line north and south and then from the meridian line east and west. In the east/west numbering they are refered to as ranges. Yours would be 19 townships south and 15 west of the Baseline. The baseline being Huntsville. The sections are then divideby running lines through their centers north and south & east and west.. The divisions are called half sections and quarter sections. The township section numbering starts in the uper right of the square and moves to the left for 6 "squares and then down for number 7--to the right to 12 and straight down for 13 and back to the left--and so on for 36 squares. ------------------------------------- 6 5 4 3 2 1 ------------------------------- 7 8 9 10 11 12 -------------------------------------- 18 17 16 15 14 13 I'm sorry if I am making this more confusing--but I don't know how to make it plainer and this may not really be what you wanted at all. For a much clearer explanation and the diagrams to go along with it--check the RRESEARCHERS GUIDE TO AMERICAN GENEALOGY. I have tried to condense what they say and have only succeeded in confusing myself. You can find a copy of this at your local library. Stephanie

Let me try this again for a better transmission. Can anyone help with the conversion of the following BLM land references to an actual or approximate location in Alabama? Number # 1 Land Office: ................................Tuscaloosa Aliquot Part Reference: .......................SESE Section Number: .....................................13 Township:..................................... 19 South Range:.......................................... 15 West Meridian/Survey Area: ......Huntsville Meridian Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale: Sale-Cash Entries Date Signed: Apr 1, 1859 Acreage: 160.87 Number # 2 Land Office: .....................................Huntsville Aliquot Part Reference: ..........................S*SW Section Number: ........................................28 Township:......................................... 6 South Range: ...............................................10 East Meridian/Survey Area:......... Huntsville Meridian Misc. Document Number:...................... 18626 Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale: Homestead Entry Orig. Date Signed: May 3, 1895 Acreage: 159.20 Thanks, Uyless, Florida

Can anyone help with the conversion of the following land purchase references to an actual or approximate location in Alabama: ......................................................................1....... .......................2.................... land Office.........................................Tuscaloosa...................Hu ntsville Aliquot Part Ref:................................. ......SESE.......................S*SW Section Number............................................3........................... ..28 Township...............................................19 South......................6 South Range.....................................................15 West.......................10 East Meridian/Survey Are.....................Huntsville Meridian....Huntsville Maridian Date of purchase.................................Apr 1, 1859................May 3, 1895 Thanks, Uyless, Florida

Please believe this is not a flame or spam. But I just wondered can the people using AOL not turn off MIME ? It sure does put a lot of unnecessary information on the top of all their messages. It always seems to be AOL members. Jim James E. Walker Marietta, GA J-Walker@worldnet.att.net

Dear Genealogical Enthusiast, The University of Alabama’s Cartographic Research Laboratory is creating an atlas of Alabama cemeteries. The atlas, entitled the Historical Atlas of Alabama, Volume II: Cemetery Locations by County, is scheduled to be complete in the summer of 1999. We would like to know if you would be interested in reviewing the information we have collected thus far for your Alabama county or counties of interest. Obviously local experts on cemeteries are of great importance to the creation of a complete and accurate book. Please email us at cartlab@bama.ua.edu with your postal mailing address as well as the names of the counties if you would like to review our research. We would be happy to send you the information. Please know that this information comes at no obligation, we are simply interested in confirming the completeness and accuracy of our data. To find out more about us, please feel free to visit our new web site at: http://www.as.ua.edu/geography/cart_lab/ Thank you for your consideration, Craig Remington Director, Cartographic Research Lab Department of Geography, University of Alabama

Would like to exchange information with anyone working on Allens in Benton/Calhoun Co.,AL. Betty in Houston, TX

Seeking info on John Ruben WALKER b- 8 sep 1851 Ragland, St Clair co, AL d- 5 May 1912 Ragland//m- Rebecca Ann M. COCHRAN 4 Oct 1874 she was born abt 1851 and d- between 1877 and 1881. They had (1) William Charlie Earnest WALKER b- 18 Aug 1875 in Calhoun Co., and d- 25 Oct 1883 in Fairview. (2) Nora Ann Jennetta WALKER b- 1 Mar 1877 and d- 29 Aug 1877. From the obit it looks like Rebecca died about the same time. In the Obit it says Earnest seemed to be warned of his death. Before he was taken sick he seemed serious and sad and asked his grandma if she would not go down into the grave with him. When he thought his mama and sister were in heaven he seemed to be satisfied. The obit was signed Aunt Fannie...Who was she? Although This was the first wife of John Ruben's and I stemed from his second wife Delilah Malinda CHAPMAN I would like to solidify this relationship so they are not forgotten. Can you help. James E. Walker Marietta, GA J-Walker@worldnet.att.net

Hi All: I'd like to get as much information as I can on the following African-American members of my family living in Oxford and Anniston in Calhoun County at least from the 1900-1940's: Alf Clyde Williams (a farmer, lived at 630 Hale Street in Oxford) - b. 1865 in LaGrange, GA - d. 1944 in Oxford, Ala; his wife, Callie Williams, and their son, Lincoln - b. 1888 in GA, and their daughter, Maxie - b.1897 in Oxford, Ala. Mittie Williams Steed - b. 1870's in LaGrange, GA - d. 1944-45 in Oxford or Anniston (lived at 732 Luttrell in Oxford with husband Charlie Steed) Emma Williams Hall - b. 1865 in LaGrange, GA, lived at 1101 Church Street in Oxford with husband Daniel Hall Carrie Dower Greene; Bessie Dower Greene; Cliff Walker; Mamie Dower; King Dower; Leon Dower and Lela Dower: all who once lived in Anniston, Oxford, or Hobson City. I will gladly share any information I have on these individuals, especially Alf Williams. He is my grandfather. Thanks.

Am seeking the parents and siblings of: CAMPBELL, John, born Sept 26, 1835, Mississippi, married Sept 24, 1861, in Calhoun County, Alabama, to Caroline 'Carrie' Myler MALLORY, born Feb 4, 1834, Calhoun Co., AL, died Feb 7, 1910, Ladonia, Fannin Co., TX. Children: William Strait, born 1862, died 1863; Clyde, born 1865, died 1868 (places unknown); Mary Eliza, born Dec 8, 1868, Arkansas; Laura Dolly, born Jan 14, 1870, probably Jackson Co., for sure Arkansas; Alice/Alace, born 1873, TX; and Beulah/Bula, born 1876, Ladonia, TX. The 1870 Arkansas census for Jackson County, Arkansas, shows John, Caroline, Mary E., and a nameless female 8 months old living in household. Other Campbell's seen on 1870, Jackson Co., census were Archibald, age 50, born SC, and Thomas, age 37, born SC. Am wondering if these two could be related to my John Campbell, and if they also were once in Calhoun Co., AL. Thank you, Karen Foster Montgomery Sugar Land, TX

I have through ROOTSWEB set up a LIST "CADDELL-L" for our surname(s). It is now active. This covers all the variations worldwide. This msg is being sent to all lists where family have been known to reside or have resided. If you have any questions, please contact me. Bill Caddell bcaddell@hcnews.com

Looking for any information whatsoever about Malinda Chandler (Born - about 1820 South Carolina (according to census), Died - Itasca, Hill Co., Texas) married Joseph Melton Pruitt (Born - 1819 Abbeville County, South Carolina, Died - 5 Mar 1891 Itasca, Hill Co., Texas) on 17 Feb 1842 in Benton County, Alabama. The Benton County, Alabama Chandlers who could be her father were John Chandler (born 1780-1790) and Richard Chandler (born 1790-1800). Possible brothers were Tyre Chandler (Born - 1815 South Carolina), Emory Chandler (Born - 1810 South Carolina) and James Chandler (Born - 1806 South Carolina). There were a lot of Chandlers in Benton County, Alabama in those days. Does anyone have them sorted out? Thanks for any information. Ken

MOSES SULLIVAN a REV Soilder lived in Greenville Co, SC the son of Charles Sullivan d/ about 1810 in Greenville Co, SC and buried in the Old Sullivan Cemetery known as (The Grove and Old Lebannon Cemetery) He married MILLINDER CHANDLER the daughter of JOEL CHANDLER a REV soilder. After Moses died his wife and children moved to Bibbs Co, Ala. There is where Milly died Aug 1832. Looking for info on their children::::: Mary m/Robert Scott she died in Greenville Co, SC Martha m/Joel Ferguson Matilda m/James Webb Agnes m/Vardy Bonds Nancy m/Issac Littleton Joel m/Deliah Johnson Patsy m/Charles Ferguson These children lived in Bibbs, Calhoun, Marshall, Blount, Lowndes, and other counties in Ala. Also some of these children moved to Miss. Need info on any and all of these children---------james--------

Joel Sullivan the son of MOSES SULLIVAN and MILLINDER (MILLY) CHANDLER moved to Bibbs Co, Ala with his mother and sisters about 1810 from Greenville Co, SC where his father had died. Joel wife was DELIAH JOHNSON Joel Died about 1844 in Benton Co, Ala. in 1850 Deliah was in the Marshall Co, Ala census. Joel owned land in Blount Co, Ala in 1824-1829-1833 and was in Blount Co, Ala 1830 census. Their children were:::::::: Daniel m/ Angeline Burks 6 Dec 1836 Dunklin m/ Lydia Burks 17 Sept 1843 Elizabeth m/ James Hollingsworth 12 July 1846 Matilda m/ Sim Thomas 29 Nov 1836 Joel m/ Martha Jane Eeds 7 aug 1851 Joshua West m/ Margarett Eads 30 Oct 1856 Stephen (B) or (P) may have married Eliza C Young 4 Jan 1852 Moses B m/ Mildred Ann Snead 29 June 1853 Looking for any info on any of these people-------james----

Looking for THOMAS SULLIVAN the son of DANIEL SULLIVAN nad ANGELINE BURKS. I think he was born in Blount Co, Ala about 1845. In the 1880 census of Calhoun Co, Ala. Did not have a wife but had 2 children:::William b/@1871, and Julia b/@1874. also living with his was his mother Ann (Angeline) a/64. Does anyone know anything about these people?????????james---------

Looking for ancestors of DANIEL SULLIVAN son of Joel sullivan and DELIAH JOHNSON. Daniel born about 1814 in Greenville Co, SC (I think) married 6 Dec 1836 in Blount Co, Ala to ANGELINE BURKS born about 1816 GA. Angeline was in the 1880 Calhoun Co, Ala census. Angeline was the daughter of CHESLEY BURKS and LYDIA ROBINSON. Children that was in the 1850 census:::::::::: Nancy M a/13 John R a/12 Mary a/9 On 19 Dec 1860 a L. A. Best married a Mary Martha a/7 Sullivan Thomas a/6 Lydia a/1 Can anyone help with this family???????????????????????????james----

Emily BARKER was the youngest of nine children of John Barker (1780-1847) and Margaret Agnes Patterson (1780-1849). This family moved to Benton County from SC. Need all details about Emily - DOB, DOD, marriage, children, descendants. Jay Barker jaybark@ix.netcom.com

Do you know this Wallace family? I am wondering if the child "Marion" is my lost JAMES MARION WALLACE. Is there anyone who can help with this line? Uyless 1850 Census of DeKalb County, Alabama Wallace, William...farmer....52..m........SC ............, Cynthia...............46..f..........Ga ............, Elizabeth............25..f..........Tn ............, Sarah.................20..f..........Tn ............,..Cynthia...............18..f..........Tn ............, Joseph................17..m........Tn ............,Manerva.................15..f..........Tn ............, Henry.................. 13..m........Tn ............, Lidney................. 11..m........Tn ............, Marion................. 7..m.........Al ............, Louisa...................5..f...........Al ............, Martha...................3...f..........Al