The following article was published in the daily edition of this newsletter at http://blog.eogn.com on September 12, 2004. Anyone who has been doing genealogy for a while knows that there is no such thing. In England, Ireland, and Scotland, as well as most of Europe, coats of arms are not issued to families. They are only issued to individuals. At any given time, only one person is authorized to display a particular coat of arms, and then only if he (or sometimes she) possesses written authorization to do so from the heralds in the issuing country. Anyone else who uses a coat of arms is guilty of some form of impersonation." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So, don't go buying a "family" coat of arms .. no such thing. Sally Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Good articles ... Finding Documentation at a Cemetery by Christine Sievers If you are unable to find the death certificate of your ancestor, cemeteries can offer an abundance of information. Sometimes, it will include all or almost all of the facts found on a death certificate, and even more. Obtaining this information for your first dead male ancestor, will give you the skills you need when going further back in time where cemeteries are older and vital records are harder to find. More importantly, we never have too much documentation on our ancestors. http://gentod.com/archive.mv?id=381 Recording Cemeteries with Digital Photography By Steve Paul Johnson - December 21, 1999 The use of a digital camera can help you record more tombstones in less time Learn how to use this great new tool. http://www.interment.net/column/records/digital/digital.htm The Mausoleum A bunch of articles relating to cemeteries. http://www.interment.net/column/library.htm Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
Women do not have a Y chromosome so there is no point in doing a surname test for women. Women do have mitochondrial DNA (men do too). The mitrochrondrial DNA (MtDNA) is passed down from mother to daughter through the generations. Family Tree DNA does our surname tests and they also have MtDNA tests. They can be very interesting to. If you would like more information go to http://www.familytreedna.com MtDNA can be used to determine Native American ancestry. Both males and females can test to see if their female ancestors were Native American. Let me explain a little. My name is Bette Bunker, mom Arline Mills, gma Cora Freeman, ggma Addie Palmer, gggm Elizabeth Bangle, ggggm Angeline Caswell. As you can see we do not share a surname. I have a brother and sister who share the MtDNA that I inherited from these women. My brother can trace the DNA of these women back as easily as I can. We all match. However, my brother also has Y-DNA inherited from my father that neither my sister nor I have as only males have Y-DNA. The MtDNA tests can determine which group you are descended from. There are about 12-15 distinctly different women way back in the ages from which we are all descended. The researchers can determine which of these women you descend from and also which areas these DNA types migrated into at certain times. DNA testing is fascinating and has resolved some real puzzles in the Bunker family already. You might also be interested in the MtDNA testing. While women have no Y-DNA to test, if you have a brother and it seems certain that you have the same father, you can get him tested to see which Bunker group you are in. If you have no brother, a male Bunker cousin or an uncle or grandfather will work. This is as close as a woman can come to ascertaining the group she belongs in with Y-DNA. However, there are paternity tests too where both parents and the child are tested and they can be accurate to 99.99% to determine the parents of the child. In these tests the recombinant DNA is tested as well as the MtDNA and in males the Y-DNA. Recombinant DNA is the DNA you get from both parents. It is too complicated for me to understand completely and definitely too complicated for me to try to explain but there are numerous sites on the web that you can search by just putting DNA in your search box in your browser. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.
COLONIAL DISEASES & CURES http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/disease.html Examples: ABLEPSIA - blindness AGLUTITION - inability to swallow, frequently found on death certificates AGUE - recurring fever and chills of of malaria AGUE-CAKE - a hard tumor or swelling on the left side of the abdomen, lower than the false rib, resulting from enlargement of the spleen or liver, and supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers ANCOME - [whitlow] an ulcerous swelling, a boil APOPLEXY - stroke COLONIAL OCCUPATIONS http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/occupation.html Our early American colonists did not have quite the same employment opportunities as we do today. There were no TV producers, car salesmen, rocket scientists, and certainly no computer programmers. The first emigrants to America had occupations concerned primarily with simple, basic survival in the New World. They were, for the most part, skilled laborers, who could make things most of us now only dabble in as hobbies. Examples: ACATER: supplied food provisions, such as a ships chandler ACCIPITRARY a falconer or keeper and tamer of hawks ACCOMPANT: an accountant ACCOUCHEUR / ACCOUCHEUS: one who assisted women in childbirth ACCOUTREMENT MAKER / ACCOUTRE: a supplier of military accessories ACRE-MAN / ACKERMAN: a man who ploughed or cultivated the land Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We have not inherited the world from our forefathers .. we have borrowed it from our children. .. Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus" .
I have enjoyed this mailing list for the week or two I have been on it. They have some informative discussions. (I like the Holmes quote below.) Mary-Gene -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Old Names of Occupations Resent-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:33:55 -0600 Resent-From: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:34:15 -0500 From: John Parrott <johnparrot@cox.net> Reply-To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com References: <20040908195338.56314.qmail@web40902.mail.yahoo.com> Don't know about your great grandfather's title, "Professor" but many people who could read and write were given honorary titles by the people in the area simply out of respect for the work they were doing. You have to remember illiteracy was rampant back then and in many cases these people were interpreters, letter writers and readers as well as being teacher of children. John Parrott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emaress Nova" <emaress_nova@yahoo.com> To: <VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Old Names of Occupations > Paul, Still within occupations - but not watermen > - My great grandfather was 23 years old when he > joined the guard unit that eventually became the > 27th Va Inf in the Civil War. He listed himself > as a teacher by trade. After the war he turned up > in Lexington VA in the census, married and with > one child (he was the one who reported her birth > and he listed himself as Professor)I know that he > was an itinerant school teacher and that at one > point he was called a singing master. I have > never been able to find out where he got his > education to become a teacher. How were people > educated in the mountains of Virginia to become > teachers? And was his "Professors" title one that > he gave himself do yu suppose? > --- Paul Drake <pauldrake@charter.net> wrote: > > > > > Definitions in our very powerful language turn > > on the "wheres" and "whens" of the words, and > > dictionaries can not be correct for all time. > > Oystermen, ferry operators, crabbers, > > lobstermen, "boatmen", canal boatmen, etc., > > etc., whether for their own account of for hire > > by others, in the past have been known as > > watermen. > > > > Holmes said it well: "A word is not a crystal, > > transparent and unchanging. It is, rather, the > > skin of a living thought, and its meaning may > > vary greatly with the time and the context in > > which it is found." > > > > Paul
Glossary of Old Occupations and Trades The world of work has changed greatly from the times of our ancestors, causing many occupational names and terms to fall into disuse. If you found your ancestor named as a ripper, seinter, hosteler, sperviter, dobber, or pettifogger, would you know what it meant? Probably not. Yet, the work that our ancestors chose for their living is an important part of who they were. Learning about the occupations of our ancestors can provide insight into their daily lives, social status, and possibly even the origin of your family surname. Not to mention, many old occupations are interesting enough to add a touch of spice to your family history. Continue article at: http://genealogy.about.com/library/glossary/bl_occupations.htm?nl=1 Examples: Malender - farmer Malster - brewer of malted beverages (beer) Manciple - steward Marescallus - marshall Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We have not inherited the world from our forefathers .. we have borrowed it from our children. .. Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [VAROOTS] Church Parishes in Virginia Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:06:36 -0600 Resent-From: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:06:30 EDT From: FRMRNYR@aol.com Reply-To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com I thought this would be useful to everyone, I found this really interesting book in the library yesterday and here is a very small portion of that book. It's a book by a MEADE and it tells you the location of every church parish that ever was and what happened to it. Whether it's still in service today or whether it merged with another parish. I did not realize how many St. Paul parishes there were in VA. When I think of St. Paul's I automatically think of Norfolk, but as you can see from the list below, that is not the case. AND a few of these have their own vestry books, such as new Kent and Bristol. and St. marks of Culpeper to name a few. OLD CHURCH PARISHES IN VIRGINIA ST. ANDREWS CHURCH WAS IN ESSEX COUNTY ST. ANDREWS PARISH WAS IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY ST. ANNE'S PARISH WAS IN ALBEMARLE ST. DAVIDS PARISH WAS IN KING WILLIAM ST. GEORGES CHURCH FREDERICKSBURG ST. GEORGE'S PARISH IN ACCOMAC ST. GEORGE IN SPOTSYLVANIA ST. JAMES IN ACCOMAC ST. JAMES IN RICHMOND ST. JAMES NORTHAM PARISH ST. JAMES SOUTHAM PARISH ST. JAMES PARISH IN JEFFERSON COUNTY ST. JAMES PARISH IN MECKLENBURG ST. JOHN'S IN RICHMOND HILL ST. JOHN'S IN BALTIMORE ST. JOHN'S IN CUMBERLAND ST. JOHN'S CHURHC IN HAMPTON ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, MOORE PARISH ST. JOHN'S PARISH IN KING WILLIAM ST. LUKES IN NEWPORT NEWS ST. LUKES CHURCH, SOUTHAM PARISH ST. LUKES IN MECKLENBURG ST. LUKES IN SOUTHAMPTON ST. MARGARET PARISH IN KING WILLIAM ST. MARGARET IN WESTMINISTER ST. MARK'S IN COALSMOUTH ST. MARKS IN SUSSEX ST. MARISH IN CAROLINE COUNTY ST. MARY'S PARISH IN LANCASTER ST. MARY'S IN RICHMOND COUNTY ST. MATHTEW CHURCH IN LEXINGTON ST. MATTHEW CHURCH IN WHEELING ST. MICHAELS NEAR BELL HAVEN ST. MICHAELS CHURCH IN CHARLESTON S.C. ST. PARULS IN ALEXANDRIA ST. PAULS IN CUMBERLAND ST. PAULS IN GOOCHLAND ST. PAULS IN KING GEORGE ST. PAULS IN RICHMOND ST. PUALS IN SUSSEX ST. PAULS IN WESTMORELAND ST. PAULS IN NORFOLK ST. PARISH IN HANOVER ST.PAULS IN KING GEORGE ST.PETERS CHURCH IN WESTMORELAND ST. PETERS IN NEW KENT ST.PHILIPS IN CHARLESTON S.C. ST. THOMAS IN ORANGE ST. THOMAS IN CULPEPER ST. THOMAS IN ORANGE COUNTY ST. THOMAS RUSSELL PARISH ST. STEPHENS IN NORFOLK ST. STEPHENS IN CULPEPER ST. STEPHENS IN NORTHUMBERLAND ST. STEPHEN'S IN RUSSEL PARISH ST. STEPHENS IKING AND QUEEN ST. STEPHENS IN NORTHUMBERLAND hope this helps, Kristina www.nyvagenealogy.homestead.com/1866ministers.html ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237
I'm not sending this as a solicitation for a subscription - I just thought there might be someone interested in the New England conference that is coming up. Also, I'm wondering about the Guild of One Name Studies. I know BFA joined one such group several years ago, but don't know whether this is the same one. Or is this one the one from England? Mary-Gene -------- Original Message -------- Subject: GenWeekly, vol. 1, no. 9--September 2, 2004 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:27:50 -0600 From: GenWeekly.com <noreply@genweekly.com> Reply-To: GenWeekly.com <noreply@genweekly.com> To: mgpage@unlimited.net GenWeekly, vol. I, no. 9 Complimentary Version It's Genealogy. It's Weekly. It's GenWeekly. September 2, 2004 All articles are Copyrighted© 2004 by GenWeekly, Inc. All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT As of September 3rd, 2004, GenWeekly.com will be under new ownership. We think our readers will be pleased with the results. 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You can learn more about our reasonably priced subscription plans by CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW: http://www.genweekly.com/index.php?cPath=21 Step 6--Genealogy Detecting LaRae Free Kerr The 6th step in the genealogy research cycle, Searching Original Records, requires many of the same steps criminal detectives use. Another Look at Obituaries By Dae Powell If you know what to look for, searching through the obituaries can yield a plentiful harvest of useful information. It's All Relative - The Guild of One-Name Studies By Nathan W. Murphy, AG® The Guild of One-Name Studies oversees massive research efforts carried on by genealogists from all over the globe. Whenever you come across a rare surname in your studies, make sure to check the Guild's online list to find out if someone is conducting a one-name study that can assist you. If you suspect that a surname you are studying is rather unique in the world, begin a one-name study yourself. The results are fascinating! Genealogy News & Events Montgomery County, TX Versus Ronald Jackson's Heirs Ronald V. Jackson, a Salt Lake City resident who founded the Accelerated Indexing System in the 1960s, purportedly gave an unspecified donation in his will to the Montgomery County (TX) Memorial Library's genealogy department. He apparently spent some time researching there and became attached to the library and its employees. Jackson's heirs disregarded the gift to the library at his death and the county has hired a Utah law firm to pursue the case. Jackson often made donations to the library, including one in 1993 of 18 rolls of microfilm containing U.S. Census information to the Genealogy Department. The collection is valued at $80,000. In addition to being a pioneer in the indexing field, Jackson taught genealogy at Brigham Young University for three years. At this point, the county has not filed any lawsuits and is making efforts to settle out of court. New England Regional Conference Next Spring The 8th New England Regional Genealogical Conference will be held from March 31-April 3, 2005 at the beautiful Holiday Inn By The Bay in Portland Maine. The theme of the Conference is "New England Crossroads 2005". Four of the country' best known genealogists will be the lead speakers for this program: Tony Burroughs, Cyndi Howells, Elizabeth Shown Mills and Craig Scott. More than 40 additional speakers at this three day Conference a will discuss a wide range of topics in tracks devoted to New England Research, Ethnic Genealogy, Federal Records, Libraries and Records, Writing and Publishing, Skills and Methodology, DNA Research and Computers the Internet and other technical topics. Complete program details and a registration form can be found at: www.NERGC.org <http://www.NERGC.org>. Register early! Some of the special events will fill up very quickly! 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She is vice president of the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG) and a trustee of the National Institute of Genealogical Research Alumni Association (NIGRAA). She will assume the helm of OnBoard with the January 2005 issue. OnBoard is published in January, May, and September of each year. Articles cover research and certification topics, along with news of the Board and certified associates. Copies are distributed to BCG associates. The publication is available to interested genealogists as well. Subscriptions at $15 per year may be ordered on the BCG web site http://www.bcgcertification.org. Single copies of back issues are available at $5 each. The web site lists the contents of each issue. Ozarks Genealogical Society Fall Conference The Ozarks Genealogical Society will hold its 24th annual fall conference in Springfield, Missouri September 17-18, 2004. The conference will feature Henry Z. Jones, Jr., who has presented lectures and seminars at both NGS and FGS conferences in a number of states. In addition, he is the author of numerous books and lectures on a variety of topics of interest for genealogical researchers. Mini-sessions, book vendors, lunch, and a source book are included in the registration. For more information, visit the OGS Web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ozarksgs; or send a SASE to OGS Conference Registrar, PO Box 3945, Springfield MO 65808-3945. Guided Research Opportunity in D.C. Repositories The following information comes from the New England Historic Genealogical Society website, found at www.newenglandancestors.org <http://www.newenglandancestors.org> under "Education Center": Research Week in Washington, D.C. 3/13/2005 - 3/20/2005 Join us for a week of research in Washington, D.C., at the National Archives (NARA) and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library, two of the top genealogical repositories in the United States. NEHGS staff members will be at the two sites all week to help you with your research and provide personal consultations.Staff from NARA and the DAR library will present orientations at the beginning of the week. Participants already familiar with these repositories will want to hear about changes and new accessions. Both repositories contain vast amounts of unique material not found in Salt Lake City, Boston, or elsewhere. For more information about this program, including registration fees, email Amanda Batey at tours@nehgs.org <mailto:tours@nehgs.org>. Genealogy Jamboree Coming to Southern Utah in February 2005 The Genealogy & Family Heritage Jamboree is coming February 11 & 12, 2005 to the Dixie Convention Center in sunny St. George, Utah. This is the first time a genealogy event of this magnitude has come to Southern Utah. Mark your calendar - come hear major speakers, talk to vendors about new genealogy related products, and learn through exhibits and entertainment the native and immigrant heritage of the American Southwest. This nationally-advertised genealogy conference will include two fun-filled days of Historical and Cultural displays, 63 training seminars, over 100 vendor and exhibitor locations, the latest genealogy products and technology, free drawings and prizes each hour, and entertainment with an international flair. Pre-registration offers low admission prices with an Early Bird special of only $32 for the two-day Jamboree. The official registration kick-off will be in October 2004, but you can get a preview of the activities and advanced registration at http://www.cgslink.com/jamboree/. Check! often for updates. FSGS Annual Conference in Melbourne, FL Come join the Florida State Genealogical Society (FSGS) 28th Annual Conference. Register now for this exciting event to be held 12-13 November 2004 in Melbourne, Florida at the Hilton Melbourne Rialto Place (200 Rialto Place). The featured speaker, Sharon Tate Moody, CGRSsm, will present four exciting lectures. Her topics will be: With All My Worldly Goods I Thee Endow; Airing the Family Laundry: Secrets Revealed in Court Records; If Living Were A Crime. Evidence Your Ancestors Left at the Scene; and No Ring? No License? Are they Married? Applying the Common Law to Marriage. Ms. Moody is a well-known national genealogical lecturer. As a retired law enforcement officer, she brings a unique perspective into finding evidence and genealogical proof for cases. She is Vice President of the Association of Professional Genealogists, president of the Georgia Genealogical Society, trustee of the Taylor Foundation and a founding trustee of the Friends of the Georgia Archives. She is an associate of the Board for Certification of Genealogists as a Certified Genealogical Record Specialist. Several other amazing speakers will be featured at the conference. Registration information is available online at the FSGS Web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs. Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Online Database A free online database provided by the New England Historic Genealogical Society contains information on Massachusetts Revolutionary officers eligible for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati. Eligibility was based on the officer's length and terms of service. Membership in the Society of the Cincinnati was extended to the officers of the Continental Army, Navy, and Marines who had served until the end of the war, plus those who had been declared no longer needed by acts of Congress and those who had served honorably for three years during the war. This database focuses solely on Massachusetts officers known to be eligible for membership. Search the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati database for free at: http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/msc. Texas State Hispanic Genealogical Conference The 25th Annual Texas State Hispanic Genealogical and Historical Conference, "Racing through History - Tracing the Lives and Travels of our Ancestors", will be held September 17-19, 2004. This conference sounds like a party as well as an educational experience. The professionals will present a variety of outstanding topics on Hispanic research topics. This event will take place at the Holiday Inn Hotel, 2705 E. Houston Highway, Victoria, Texas. Michael A. Salinas, will present "Hispanic Genealogy on the Internet". This will be an exciting hands-on computer genealogy class. Space is limited to 20 per session. There will be three 45-minutes sessions. Come prepared with a specific area or topic that you are interested in. These 3 programs will be held at the University of Houston-Victoria. 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Finding Documentation at a Cemetery by Christine Sievers If you are unable to find the death certificate of your ancestor, cemeteries can offer an abundance of information. Sometimes, it will include all or almost all of the facts found on a death certificate, and even more. Obtaining this information for your first dead male ancestor, will give you the skills you need when going further back in time where cemeteries are older and vital records are harder to find. More importantly, we never have too much documentation on our ancestors. Whether you have the death certificate or not, a visit to your ancestor's grave may be the only concrete object that remains to tell of his or her existence. This is sadly true for many of our women ancestors. As a genealogist, you will find that at the site of your ancestor's final resting place, he or she will become more alive to you. Then, you may be bitten by the cemetery bug and begin planning your family picnic's and trips around graveyards. Before you visit the cemetery, there is some planning to do. First, call the to find the hours that it is opened, and when a good time would be to talk to someone about the burial records. Large, modern cemeteries are busy places; so you will need to be patient and polite. Identify who you are, your relationship to the deceased, and that you are a genealogist. For the remainder of the article: http://genealogytoday.com/columns/MYtree/040831.html =========================================================== Searching for Obituaries by Christine Sievers This article continues on with your search for the death certificate of the first dead male in the line that you are researching. This sounded like an easy task, but you may have run into a stumbling block that you didn't expect. You checked out where in your relative's state the death certificate is supposed to be filed, and you sent the necessary information; but they have no record of your ancestors death. It wasn't there. You may know where your grandfather lived, where he is buried and even have the death date. What went wrong? The first place to start is, again, with your relatives. Because it is the first dead ancestor in your line, you are in luck. There is bound to be one relative who remembers a part of the story that is missing. Just where did this ancestor die? You may find out that his death occurred when he was visiting out of state. Now your search becomes a bit more complicated, because death certificates are usually filed where the death occurred. If no one remembers where he died, you are still not out of luck. Find out if anyone may have an obituary buried somewhere in their mementos. It may mention where the death occurred, or give a sold clue like "John Smith died while he was visiting his son Tom. Obituaries contain helpful resources for your family research, providing the names of siblings, children and other relatives, including the hard-to-find married names of females. Beware, they often contain errors. I found that from my own experience of providing an obituary for my mother. When printed in the newspaper, I was horrified to see some of the misspellings. And, I thought I had been very clear about the spellings. Nevertheless, they are worth finding for the clues they provide and the color they add to the life of your ancestor. For the remainder of the article: http://www.genealogytoday.com/columns/MYtree/040704.html Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We have not inherited the world from our forefathers .. we have borrowed it from our children. .. Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
This announcement is made to advise Bunker Family Association members who subscribe to the Bunker-L e-mail list at Rootsweb that the hosting service for the BFA's web site has been changed. The web site address remains the same: www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. Changing our ISP for our web site enables us to maintain the BFA's web presence at a substantial annual savings (our fees will be about 50% of the previous ISP's charges on an annual basis). I felt compelled to recommend this change given the drop in web hosting prices and the availablility of competitive markets, and BFA President Gil Bunker and Treasurer Jo Ann Snyder agreed that this was a prudent choice to make at this time. Our web hosting costs will drop from about $204 a year to $100 a year. The change-over took place a week ago Sunday, and our web site was inaccessible for less than 30 minutes due to the change. Since I received no questions or comments about this, it does not appear any BFA member was inconvenienced, and I'm sure members will appreciate the value of these savings to our association. As usual, if any BFA member has a comment or question about the web site, please feel free to send me an e-mail. ************* Doug Detling (D15- II), BFA Web site/e-mail coordinator Please change your address book to list me as: doug.detling@greencity.org
Most of us have experienced viruses, system lockups, spyware and spam...and it often gets in the way of our interest in serious genealogy. I'm writing this message because I wanted to share my experiences in hopes of you will not be discouraged when your computer gets in the way of pursuing your family history. I have spent the last two weekends completely reorganizing the way I access the Internet. My computer system is not state of the art--it doesn't have the fastest processor, though it has multiple reliable hard drives and plenty of memory. It was assembled to accomplish handle three of my interests--genealogy, photography and digital music, and it does a solid reliable job. It serves me well, and yours should too. So what did I do to protect it from the ravages of internet terrorism--spam, viruses, and spyware. A brief caveat--my experience is based on using Microsoft Windows, and not Linux or Mac OS. 1. Up to date operating system--kept up to date religiously, installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 as soon as it was available; since I have a broadband cable connection, I downloaded the whole thing. Most people will want to use the Windows Update (via Internet Explorer) feature to keep their operating system up to date, even if they use an older version of the operating system such as Windows 2000. Since I already have a hardware firewall (I use a router so two computers share an Internet connection), I initially disabled my software firewall (I use Computer Associates EZ Trust firewall, a slimmed down version of the free Zone Alarm firewall) to install XP Service Pack 2, which enables the WinXP firewall by default. That is better than nothing to protect a computer, but a configurable software firewall is preferable, so I disabled the XP SP2 firewall, and re-enabled my EZ Trust Firewall. Then I re-ran all the security checks using Steve Gibson's tests (www.grc.com). My machines are thus protecting from incoming and outgoing disruptions. 2. Readily updated anti-virus programs. You know you should have them, but do you. There are free and commercial antivirus programs available, and these will help protect your computer and the spread of viruses to others. So install an antivirus program, and keep it up to date. You'll do yourself, and others, a giant favor. 3. If you can, use an alternative browser to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. You'll need to keep IE to access the Windows Update feature, and some commercial web sites require its use, but there are alternative browsers such as Opera and Mozilla. I use a slimmer version of Mozilla--called Firefox--and have incorporated features to make it work like IE, only better. See www.firefoxie.net for a useful configuration. I believe this browser setup to be more secure. 4. Using e-mail programs--I use Eudora for some e-mail accounts, and Outlook 2003 for others. My Eudora account is only to download e-mail from my e-mail account as my local cable company, and I use that program's filter rules to get rid of unsolicited e-mail (I get only about 10 messages a day to that address, so it isn't super critical. But my main accounts at my domain greencity.org are the subject of massive amounts of e-mail, including spam, spoofed messages ostensibly sent from my domain, and virus-laden missives, so I have had to take serious, concerted efforts to rid myself of these headaches. What have I done? I am currently using three spam filtering programs. One is installed right in Outlook--called Qurb--which categorizes all mail reaching my accounts based on its content, and filtering messages it considered spam. But I wanted a way to reject messages and never have them enter my e-mail program. So I paid for a year to try Spam Arrest, a commercial program that sets up a challenge-response system forcing those who wish to send me e-mail to confirm their addresses (which most spammers won't do). That works great, except that it doesn't work consistently enough, in my opinion, and I'll probably stop using this program when my trial year is up. What I have decided to do, is install a similar product--ChoiceMail One--which allows me to maintain complete control of the white and black list because the software is installed on my personal computer to process the mail, so I'm not subject to external services such as Spam Arrest (which has its own mail servers to filter the mail). That may prove to be the most reliable in my fight against spam. 5. Shielding my e-mail address on web site pages; I've converted those to GIF images that can't be read by spam-bots (programs that harvest e-mail addresses from web pages). 6. I also routinely run software to check and eliminate what is know as "spyware." I use both Spybot Search and Destroy amd Adaware on a weekly basis to eliminate programs and internet junk. My system is also protected by a software program that prevents my browser's initial, that is, home page, from being reset to some other page. No computer arrangement is completely 100% secure, but with these things done (which took the better part of a couple of days), I feel I've protected my system as best as I can short of pulling the plug on my Internet connnection. And, of course, I couldn't do that and work on these genealogy mailing lists or web sites (more on the latter in a subsequent e-mail). ************* Doug Detling - Please change your address book to list me as: doug.detling@greencity.org
This is a pay per view site with English records and images. http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/ ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.
This site was mentioned by Dick Eastman in his newsletter. It looks pretty good. Latest entries are from Illinois but there are military records, etc. as well. Bette http://www.sources2go.com/ ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.
NEHGS has this site listed in their latest newsletter. Looks like a good one. Bette Featured Website: Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea The Mystic Seaport website (www.mysticseaport.org) is rich in information and research resources. To access the resources, click on the Research icon on the home page. On the main Research page you will find links that include Highlights of a number of collections, Online Experiences, Online Catalogs, and Resources. Click on Online Experiences and then on the Library Digital Initiative link to access the Initiative's home page. Collections digitized through this initiative include American Maritime Westward Expansion, 19th Century American Merchant Marine Digital Library (which includes the Ship and Yacht Registers), and Immigration Images. Items in these collections include correspondence, individual and family papers from the manuscript collections, diaries, ship registers, maps, ships plans, and passenger logbooks, to name a few. A number of these items have been transcribed so that they may be searched as well as viewed. To get a sense of the wide range of subject areas that comprise the Mystic Seaport online collections, click on the Subject List link. Support for these projects has come from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Brooks Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the National Park Service Maritime Heritage Program. The American Maritime Westward Expansion Collection comprises materials centered on the theme of how and why people traveled west and what they did once they arrived. While many people traveled overland, others traveled completely by sea or by both land and sea to reach their destinations. The materials, which come from a number of individual collections, look at the events, culture, beliefs, and personal experiences related to westward expansion from a marine perspective. Most materials included here date from the mid-to-late nineteenth century. The items that have been digitized include account books, journals, logbooks, letters, shipping papers, and much more. A selection of nautical charts has also been included. This collection is hosted on both the Library of Congress and Mystic Seaport websites. You will find links to both host websites on the Maritime Westward Expansion Collection home page. The 19th Century Merchant Marine Digital Library currently contains over 100,000 digital images. As described on the website, the focus of this project is on "merchant vessels of the nineteenth century, the people who owned and sailed them and records pertaining to them." The digital collection for this project consists of Ship and Yacht Registers. Marine travel and transport played a prominent role in populating and serving the needs of the people of the United States. Access to ship registers may be able to assist you in your genealogical research if your ancestor was affiliated with a merchant ship or emigrated across an ocean. The registers may be accessed either from the Library Digital Initiative home page or via the 19th Century Merchant Marine Digital Library link. Digital images of the registers in the collection may be viewed by clicking on the registers link. In addition, the Ship and Yacht Register database can be searched by vessel and by shipmaster. Immigration Images: The collections of the Museum of America and the Sea at Mystic Seaport include images of many ships that brought immigrants to the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These images have now been made available online via the Immigration Images Collection. You browse through the Vessel List and the Steamship Line List, name by name. Clicking on a vessel name link will bring up images of and detailed information about the vessel. You can also search the collection by vessel or steamship line name. Connecticut Ship Database, 1789 1939: The United States Customs Service has maintained records that are useful for research on vessels. During the 1930s the Works Progress Administration compiled and transcribed vessel registration data from many customs districts. And much it was then published. The Connecticut data was not. In 1999 the G. W. Blunt White Library, with support from the National Park Service Maritime Heritage Program, created the Connecticut Ship Database 1789-1939, which includes the following Connecticut customs districts: New London/Stonington, New Haven, Bridgeport/Fairfield, and Hartford/Middletown. Currently, this database contains the records for about 15,000 vessels and the people associated with them. The project is ongoing and will continue until all of the personal names from the records have been added to the database. The database provides a variety of information about each vessel and the names of owners and masters. You can run a Vessel Search by vessel name, a People Search by the last name of the person or the name of the company that owned it or an advanced search by keyword or by a specific data field. Search results include not only the vessels names but also the people associated with the vessel. The information provided in this article should help you get a jumpstart with your research on the Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea website. There is a wealth of information that is just a few clicks away. Enjoy! Visit the Mystic Seaport website at www.mysticseaport.org. ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.
August 22, 2004, Amber Elizabeth Martin and Jacob Wesley Pierce were married in Lyons, Colorado. Amber is the daughter of LiAnn and Jon Pennington and Ric Martin. Jake is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pierce, III. Amber is the granddaughter of Bette Bunker Richards and great-granddaughter of Martin Bunker (D-1346, RN 9474). What a beautiful bride and we are so happy for her. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.
I am so please to announce the birth of my first great-grandson, Joshua Jeremy Dykeman, who was born in Spokane, WA on August 15, 2004, son of Martin Dykeman. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.
From the Cape Cod Times, 8/26/04: Clifford G. 'Bunk' Bunker Jr., 78 Worked for St. Regis Paper Mill, town of N. Attleboro ATTLEBORO - Clifford George "Bunk" Bunker Jr., 78, who leaves family on the Cape, died Tuesday at his home after a long illness. He was the husband of Dorothy A. (O'Donnell) Bunker for 49 years. Mr. Bunker was born, raised and educated in Attleboro and moved to North Attleboro in 1955. He returned to his family home in Attleboro in 1976. A Navy veteran, he served as a Seabee from 1943 to 1946 and saw action in Okinawa. He worked for St. Regis Paper Mill in Attleboro for many years and later for the town of North Attleboro department of public works for 10 years. He retired in 1976 due to illness. He was a communicant of Holy Ghost Church, Attleboro, and a member of Knights of Columbus Council 330 and Attleboro Moose Lodge. While raising his family, he enjoyed taking his children ice fishing. He also enjoyed hunting and fishing. In his later years, he liked puttering around his home, gardening and reading the newspaper. Besides his wife, survivors include two daughters, Debra Ann Miller of Sagamore Beach and Patricia M. Ruo of Smithfield, R.I.; three sons, Robert C. Bunker of Bloomsburg, Pa., Michael D. Bunker of Orchard Park, N.Y., and Steven F. Bunker of Paxton; a brother, Henry Bunker of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; 14 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Private services will be held tomorrow in the Commonwealth Chapel of Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, North Attleboro. Burial is in St. Stephen's Cemetery, Attleboro. Memorial donations may be made to Holy Ghost Church, 71 Linden St., Attleboro, MA 02703.
Anyone searcing in Virginia? Hope this helps. Mary-Gene -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [VAROOTS] Maps of Counties Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:41:33 -0600 Resent-From: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:41:22 -0400 From: Derrell Oakley Teat <margaret.teat2@verizon.net> Reply-To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Here is a great link to county formations, http://www.segenealogy.com/virginia/va_maps.htm Derrell Oakley Teat ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237
This information is taken from RG17 Vol 214, #22013 held in the National Archives of Canada. Although I cannot be sure, I believe this list was prepared by Miss Rye in answer to the problems which arose in 1875 when the Doyle Report was released. Mr. Doyle was sent in 1874 to inspect the children sent to Canada by the Unions (workhouses). His report was very negative about Miss Rye's work and she did not bring any children to Canada for a few years after the release of the report. This list of children is very odd in that each child appears in a list and is given a number. You then have to look at other pages and match the number to get the comments. I have tried to piece together the pages to give you a complete look at a child's record. The list is in the same order as given (thus the "A"s are together but not necessarily in strict alphabetical order). Occasionally you will see "Stet" which I believe was used to mean "as before." I also believe this list was for all of the children brought to Canada thus far [1878]. by © Marjorie P. Kohli, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2000-2002 http://www.dcs.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/lists/rye1878.html#s Workhouses and Homes Which Sent Children To Canada 1869-1939 The following list contains the names of workhouses and other institutions which appear in the records of the Government of Canada as having sent children to Canada. Numerous documents were used to obtain the list (which is a work in progress). These documents are in the collection of the National Archives of Canada. Names are given as they appear in the official records. The county in which the Union/workhouse is located is in square brackets. http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/lists/unionnames.html Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We have not inherited the world from our forefathers .. we have borrowed it from our children. .. Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
http://shorl.com/huvekokigale You can enter any info you have on ancestors married in PA. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com We have not inherited the world from our forefathers .. we have borrowed it from our children. .. Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"