Please join me in welcoming some new folks to our list: Sandrinha@aol.com ntgreen@earthlink.net We hope you will introduce yourselves and tell us about the family you are researching! Wanda Rabb researching R A B B, C A U S B Y, P A X T O N, F A R R I S, P A T T O N, M O R R I S, N I X , L A W S, C O N N E R, W I L S O N, R O B E R T S O N, J O N E S, E D W A R D S , H A R R I S, B R A D S H A W, G A N T T, G R E E N, H A M R I C K, M C S W A I N, and L O V E L A C E. All of these surnames were in NC and SC. Listmanager for CAUSBY-L, RABB-L, FARRIS-L, PAXTON-L, NIX-L, and LAWS-L Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr Genealogy Main Page: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr/main.html

All that came thru to me was the last two lines of your message:: On Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:14:20 -0500 (EST) Crawfordif@aol.com writes: >for someone like me, who "will get to all this someday", these lists >will be >invaluable, including the occupations > >

All that came thru to me was this last line of your message: On Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:15:32 -0500 (EST) Crawfordif@aol.com writes: >I have seen him before, but I dont think I have him linked to my tree. > >

I have seen him before, but I dont think I have him linked to my tree.

for someone like me, who "will get to all this someday", these lists will be invaluable, including the occupations

Ran across this site tonight and found the following COSBY entry... ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/pensions/ Virginia Pension Roll of 1835 Report from the Secretary of War In relation to the Pension Establishment Of the United States 1835 Copied and indexed by William R. Navey P. O. Box 251 Hollyridge, NC 28445-0251 ZACCHEAUS COSBY AUGUSTA COUNTY PRIVATE VIRGINIA STATE TROOPS $23.11 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $57.77 AMOUNT RECEIVED NOVEMBER 29, 1833 PENSION STARTED AGE 81 Anyone have this guy in their database? Wanda Rabb researching R A B B, C A U S B Y, P A X T O N, F A R R I S, P A T T O N, M O R R I S, N I X , L A W S, C O N N E R, W I L S O N, R O B E R T S O N, J O N E S, E D W A R D S , H A R R I S, B R A D S H A W, G A N T T, G R E E N, H A M R I C K, M C S W A I N, and L O V E L A C E. All of these surnames were in NC and SC. Listmanager for CAUSBY-L, RABB-L, FARRIS-L, PAXTON-L, NIX-L, and LAWS-L Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr Genealogy Main Page: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr/main.html

I appologize to anyone that I may have offended with my last message about the lack of postings to the list. I hope everyone's health improves soon. I understand since I have multiple health problems of my own. I suppose that is why I tend to be aware of the lack of postings. I spend way too much time at my computer. Everyone have a happy holiday. Take care!! Linda

Barbara....thanks for sharing the genealogy terms. I imagine we can all find those useful. Maxine....good to hear from you. I hope your mom is doing better and you will have more time to devote to your genealogy too. Linda.....I was glad you chimed in to let me know I was not alone out here! I keep planning to post some more CAUSBY information but I too have been dealing with a family health situation and haven't had time to do anything else. Maybe life will settle down one of these days and I will be able to post some of my notes. If anyone out there has any tidbits of information to post, we would all welcome it! Wanda

For more info...Dan Burrows is the person to e-mail This is part 2 of the final chart of the series. Other charts included WAR CHART, OCCUPATION CHART, and DISEASE CHART. Please share this information and feel free to re-publish. Dan Burrows dburrows1@juno.com dburrows2@juno.com MAIDEN NAME - A girl's last name or surname before she marries. MANUSCRIPT - A composition written with the hand as an ancient book or an un-printed modern book or music. MARRIAGE BOND - A financial guarantee that no impediment to the marriage existed, furnished by the intended bridegroom or by his friends. MATERNAL - Related through one's mother, such as a Maternal grandmother being the mother's mother. MEASUREMENTS - Link - 7.92 inches; Chain - 100 Links or 66 feet; Furlong - 1000 Links or 660 feet; Rod - 5 1/2 yds or 16 1/2 ft (also called a perch or pole); Rood - From 5 1/2 yards to 8 yards, depending on locality; Acre - 43,560 square ft or 160 square rods. MESSUAGE - A dwelling house. METES & BOUNDS - Property described by natural boundaries, such as 3 notches in a white oak tree, etc. MICROFICHE - Sheet of microfilm with greatly reduced images of pages of documents. MICROFILM - Reproduction of documents on film at reduced size. MIGRANT - Person who moves from place to place, usually in search of work MIGRATE - To move from one country or state or region to another. (Noun : migration) MILITIA - Citizens of a state who are not part of the national military forces but who can be called into military service in an emergency; a citizen army, apart from the regular military forces. MINOR - One who is under legal age; not yet a legal adult. MISTER - In early times, a title of respect given only to those who held important civil officer or who were of gentle blood. MOIETY - A half; an indefinite portion MORTALITY - Death; death rate. MORTALITY SCHEDULES - Enumeration of persons who died during the year prior to June 1 of 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 in each state of the United States, conducted by the bureau of census. MORTGAGE - A conditional transfer of title to real property as security for payment of a debt. MOTHER-IN-LAW - Mother of one's spouse. NAMESAKE - Person named after another person. NECROLOGY - Listing or record of persons who have died recently NEE - Used to identify a woman's maiden name; born with the surname of.NEPHEW - Son of one's brother or sister. NIECE - Daughter of one's brother or sister. NONCUPATIVE WILL - One declared or dictated by the testator, usually for persons in last sickness, sudden illness, or military. ORPHAN - Child whose parents are dead; sometimes, a child who has lost one parent by death. ORPHAN'S COURT - Orphans being recognized as wards of the states, provisions were made for them in special courts. PASSENGER LIST - A ships list of passengers, usually referring to those ships arriving in the US from Europe. PATENT - Grant of land from a government to an individual. PATERNAL - Related to one's father. Paternal grandmother is the father's mother. PATRIOT - One who loves his country and supports its interests. PEDIGREE - Family tree; ancestry. PENSION - Money paid regularly to an individual, especially by a government as reward for military service during wartime or upon retirement from government service. PENSIONER - One who receives a pension. PERCH - See measurements. POLE - See measurements. POLL - List or record of persons, especially for taxing or voting. POST - Latin prefix meaning after, as in post-war economy. POSTERITY - Descendants; those who come after. POWER OF ATTORNEY - When a person in unable to act for himself, he appoints another to act in his behalf. PRE - Latin prefix meaning before, as in pre-war military build-up. PRE-EMOTION RIGHTS - Right given by the federal government to citizens to buy a quarter section of land or less. PROBATE - Having to do with wills and the administration of estates. PROGENITOR - A direct ancestor. PROGENY - Descendants of a common ancestor; issue. PROVED WILL - A will established as genuine by probate court. PROVOST - A person appointed to superintend, or preside over something. PROXIMO - In the following month, in the month after the present one. PUBLIC DOMAIN - Land owned by the government. QUAKER - Member of the Religious Society of Friends. QUITCLAIM - A deed conveying the interest of the party at that time. RECTOR - A clergyman; the ruler or governor of a country. RELICT - Widow; surviving spouse when one has died, husband or wife. REPUBLIC - Government in which supreme authority lies with the people or their elected representatives. REVOLUTIONARY WAR - U.S. war for independence from Great Britain 1775 - 1783. ROD - See measurements. ROOD - See measurements. SHAKER - Member of a religious group formed in 1747 which practiced communal living and celibacy. SIBLING - Person having one or both parents in common with another; a brother or sister. SIC - Latin meaning thus; copied exactly as the original reads. Often suggests a mistake or surprise in the original. SON-IN-LAW - Husband of one's daughter. SPINSTER - A woman still unmarried; or one who spins. SPONSOR - A bondsman; surety. SPOUSE - Husband or wife. STATUTE - Law. STEP-BROTHER / STEP-SISTER - Child of one's step-father or step-mother. STEP-CHILD - Child of one's husband or wife from a previous marriage. STEP-FATHER - Husband of one's mother by a later marriage. STEP-MOTHER - Wife of one's father by a later marriage. SURNAME - Family name or last name. TERRITORY - Area of land owned by the united States, not a state, but having its own legislature and governor. TESTAMENTARY - Pertaining to a will. TESTATE - A person who dies leaving a valid will. TESTATOR - A person who makes a valid will before his death. TITHABLE - Taxable. TITHE - Formerly, money due as a tax for support of the clergy or church. TORY - Loyalist; one who supported the British side in the American Revolution. TOWNSHIP - A division of U.S. public land that contained 36 sections, or 36 square miles. Also a subdivision of the county in many Northeastern and Midwestern states of the U.S. TRADITION - The handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, genealogies, etc. from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth. TRANSCRIBE - To make a copy in writing. ULTIMO - In the month before this one. UNION - The United States; also the North during the Civil War, the states which did not secede. VERBATIM - Word for word; in the same words, verbally. VITAL RECORDS - Records of birth, death, marriage or divorce. VITAL STATISTICS - Data dealing with birth, death, marriage or divorce. WAR BETWEEN THE STATES - U.S. Civil War, 1861 - 1865. WARD - Chiefly the division of a city for election purposes. WILL - Document declaring how a person wants his property divided after his death. WITNESS - One who is present at a transaction, such as a sale of land or signing of a will, who can testify or affirm that it actually took place. WPA HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY - A program undertaken by the US Government 1935 - 1936 in which inventories were compiled of historical material. YEOMAN - A servant, an attendant or subordinate official in a royal household; a subordinate of a sheriff; an independent farmer. Barbara

ABSTRACT - Summary of important points of a given text, especially deeds and wills. ACRE - See measurements. ADMINISTRATION (of estate) - The collection, management and distribution of an estate by proper legal process. ADMINISTRATOR (of estate) - Person appointed to manage or divide the estate of a deceased person. ADMINISTRATRIX - A female administrator. AFFIDAVIT - A statement in writing, sworn to before proper authority. ALIEN - Foreigner. AMERICAN REVOLUTION - U.S. war for independence from Great Britain 1775 - 1783. ANCESTOR - A person from whom you are descended; a forefather. ANTE - Latin prefix meaning before, such as in ante-bellum South, "The South before the war" APPRENTICE - One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement or by any means to serve another person for a certain time, with a view of learning an art or trade. APPURTENANCE - That which belongs to something else such as a building, orchard, right of way, etc. ARCHIVES - Records of a government, organization, institution; the place where records are stored. ATTEST - To affirm; to certify by signature or oath. BANNS - Public announcement of intended marriage. BENEFICIARY - One who receives benefit of trust or property. BEQUEATH - To give personal property to a person in a will. Noun -- bequest. BOND - Written, signed, witnessed agreement requiring payment of a specified amount of money on or before a given date. BOUNTY LAND WARRANT - A right to obtain land, specific number of acres of unallocated public land, granted for military service. CENSUS - Official enumeration, listing or counting of citizens. CERTIFIED COPY - A copy made and attested to by officers having charge of the original and authorized to give copies. CHAIN - See measurements. CHATTEL - Personal property which can include animate as well as inanimate properties. CHRISTEN - To receive or initiate into the visible church by baptism; to name at baptism; to give a name to. CIRCA - About, near, or approximate -- usually referring to a date. CIVIL WAR - War between the States; war between North and South, 1861 - 65. CODICIL - Addition to a will. COLLATERAL ANCESTOR - Belong to the same ancestral stock but not in direct line of descent; opposed to lineal such as aunts, uncles & cousins. COMMON ANCESTOR - Ancestor shared by any two people. CONFEDERATE - Pertaining to the Southern states which seceded from the U.S. in 1860 - 1, their government and their citizens. CONSANGUINITY - Blood relationship. CONSORT - Usually, a wife whose husband is living CONVEYANCE - See deed. COUSIN - Relative descended from a common ancestor, but not a brother or sister. DAUGHTER-IN-LAW - Wife of one's son. DECEASED - Dead. DECEDENT - A deceased person. DECLARATION OF INTENTION - First paper, sworn to and filed in court, by an alien stating that he wants to be come a citizen. DEED - A document by which title in real property is transferred from one party to another. DEPOSITION - A testifying or testimony taken down in writing under oath of affirmation in reply to interrogatories, before a competent officer to replace to oral testimony of a witness. DEVISE - Gift of real property by will. DEVISEE - One to whom real property (land) is given in a will. DEVISOR - One who gives real property in a will. DISSENTER - One who did not belong to the established church, especially the Church of England in the American colonies. DISTRICT LAND OFFICE PLAT BOOK - Books or rather maps which show the location of the land patentee. DISTRICT LAND OFFICE TRACT BOOK - Books which list individual entries by range and township. DOUBLE DATING - A system of double dating used in England and America from 1582-1752 because it was not clear as to whether the year commenced January 1 or March 25 DOWER - Legal right or share which a wife acquired by marriage in the real estate of her husband, allotted to her after his death for her lifetime. EMIGRANT - One leaving a country and moving to another. ENUMERATION - Listing or counting , such as a census. EPITAPH - An inscription on or at a tomb or grave in memory of the one buried there. ESCHEAT - The reversion of property to the state when there are no qualified heirs. ESTATE - All property and debts belonging to a person. ET AL - Latin for "and others". ET UX - Latin for "and wife". ET UXOR - And his wife. Sometimes written simply Et Ux. EXECUTOR - One appointed in a will to carry out its provisions. Female = Executrix FATHER-IN-LAW - Father of one's spouse. FEE - An estate of inheritance in land, being either fee simple or fee tail. An estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services. FEE SIMPLE - An absolute ownership without restriction. FEE TAIL - An estate of inheritance limited to lineal descendant heirs of a person to whom it was granted. FRANKLIN, STATE OF - An area once known but never officially recognized and was under consideration from 1784 - 1788 from the western part of North Carolina. FRATERNITY - Group of men (or women) sharing a common purpose or interest. FREE HOLD - An estate in fee simple, in fee tail, or for life. FRIEND - Member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker. FURLONG - See measurements. GAZETTEER - A geographical dictionary; a book giving names and descriptions of places usually in alphabetical order. GENEALOGY - Study of family history and descent. GENTLEMAN - A man well born. GIVEN NAME - Name given to a person at birth or baptism, one's first and middle names. GLEBE - Land belonging to a parish church. GRANTEE - One who buys property or receives a grant. GRANTOR - One who sells property or makes a grant. GREAT-AUNT - Sister of one's grandparent GREAT-UNCLE - Brother of one's grandparent. GUARDIAN - Person appointed to care for and manage property of a minor orphan or an adult incompetent of managing his own affairs. HALF BROTHER/HALF SISTER - Child by another marriage of one's mother or father; the relationship of two people who have only one parent in common. HEIRS - Those entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit property from another. HOLOGRAPHIC WILL - One written entirely in the testator's own handwriting. HOMESTEAD ACT - Law passed by Congress in 1862 allowing a head of a family to obtain title to 160 acres of public land after clearing and improving it for 5 years. HUGUENOT - A French Protestant in the 16th and 17th centuries. One of the reformed or calvinistic communion who were driven by the thousands into exile in England, Holland, Germany and America. ILLEGITIMATE - Born to a mother who was not married to the child's father. IMMIGRANT - One moving into a country from another. INDENTURE - Today it means a contract in 2 or more copies. Originally made in 2 parts by cutting or tearing a single sheet across the middle in a jagged line so the two parts may later be matched. INDENTURED SERVANT - One who bound himself into service of another person for a specified number of years, often in return for transportation to this country. INFANT - Any person not of full age; a minor. INSTANT - Of or pertaining to the current month. (Abbreviated inst.) INTESTATE - One who dies without a will or dying without a will. INVENTORY - An account, catalog or schedule, made by an executor or administrator of all the goods and chattels and sometimes of the real estate of a deceased person. ISSUE - Offspring; children; lineal descendants of a common ancestor. LATE - Recently deceased. LEASE - An agreement which creates a landlord - tenant situation. LEGACY - Property or money left to someone in a will LEGISLATURE - Lawmaking branch of state or national government; elected group of lawmakers. LIEN - A claim against property as security for payment of a debt. LINEAGE - Ancestry; direct descent from a specific ancestor. LINEAL - Consisting of or being in as direct line of ancestry or descendants; descended in a direct line. LINK - See measurements. LIS PENDENS - Pending court action; usually applies to land title claims. LODGE - A chapter or meeting hall of a fraternal organization. LOYALIST - Tory, an American colonist who supported the British side during the American Revolution. -----Original Message----- From: Mario & Barbara Martinez <mlm@mosquitonet.com> To: CAUSBY-L@rootsweb.com <CAUSBY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 12:55 PM Subject: Re: FW: KY-F: DISEASE CHART #2 >Thank you very much! > >Would anyone be interested in Occupations of the same vintage? > >

Thank you very much! Would anyone be interested in Occupations of the same vintage?

I am still interested in Causby research...just have not had time to do research since my mother has been sick. My Causbys are far from being linked. I hope that I can get back with you soon. Maxine Anglin in Tx

This is the 2nd half of the list I just sent. Linda --------------------- Forwarded message: From: debbiem@waymark.net (Debbie Mauelshagen) To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com ('SW_VA-L') Date: 97-11-18 08:34:23 EST I hope this will help, It was a posting to another list. Debbie M King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands >>>Kruchhusten - Whooping cough >>>Lagrippe - Influenza >>>Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of >>>the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days >>>Long sickness - Tuberculosis >>>Lues disease - Syphilis >>>Lues venera - Venereal disease >>>Lumbago - Back pain >>>Lung fever - Pneumonia >>>Lung sickness - Tuberculosis >>>Lying in - Time of delivery of infant >>>Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria >>>Mania - Insanity >>>Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition >>>Membranous Croup - Diphtheria >>>Meningitis - Inflations of brain or spinal cord >>>Metritis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge >>>Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air >>>Milk fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever >>>or brucellosis >>>Milk leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis >>>Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous >>>weeds >>>Mormal - Gangrene >>>Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body >>>Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue >>>Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine >>>Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles >>>Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue >>>Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration >>>Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys >>>Nervous prostration - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control >>>physical and mental activities >>>Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in >>>head >>>Nostalgia - Homesickness >>>Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles. It was >>>listed as "Cause of death" >>>Paroxysm - Convulsion >>>Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters >>>Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart >>>Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs >>>Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area >>>Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting >>>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth >>>Phthiriasis - Lice infestation >>>Phthisis - Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis >>>Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality >>>rate >>>Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath >>>Podagra - Gout >>>Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis >>>Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of spine >>>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to childbirth >>>Puerperal fever - Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant >>>Puking fever - Milk sickness >>>Putrid fever - Diphtheria. >>>Quinsy - Tonsillitis. >>>Remitting fever - Malaria >>>Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with pain in joints >>>Rickets - Disease of skeletal system >>>Rose cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy >>>Rotanny fever - (Child's disease) ??? >>>Rubeola - German measles >>>Sanguineous crust - Scab >>>Scarlatina - Scarlet fever >>>Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by red rash >>>Scarlet rash - Roseola >>>Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips >>>Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors >>>Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight >>>Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp >>>Screws - Rheumatism >>>Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with >>>abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease >>>Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo >>>Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums >>>and hemorrhages under skin >>>Septicemia - Blood poisoning >>>Shakes - Delirium tremens >>>Shaking - Chills, ague >>>Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters >>>Ship fever - Typhus >>>Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure >>>Sloes - Milk sickness >>>Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters >>>Softening of brain - Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with >>>an end result of the tissue softening in that area >>>Sore throat distemper - Diphtheria or quinsy >>>Spanish influenza - Epidemic influenza >>>Spasms - Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, >>>like a convulsion >>>Spina bifida - Deformity of spine >>>Spotted fever - Either typhus or meningitis >>>Sprue - Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore >>>throat >>>St. Anthony's fire - Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected >>>skin areas are bright red in appearance >>>St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements >>>performed involuntary >>>Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth >>>Stranger's fever - Yellow fever >>>Strangery - Rupture >>>Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness >>>Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk >>>Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to >>>environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause >>>Swamp sickness - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis >>>Sweating sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th >>>century >>>Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache >>>and dizziness >>>Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel >>>Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and >>>throat >>>Tick fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever >>>Toxemia of pregnancy - Eclampsia >>>Trench mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor >>>nutrition and poor hygiene >>>Tussis convulsiva - Whooping cough >>>Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and >>>dizziness >>>Variola - Smallpox >>>Venesection - Bleeding >>>Viper's dance - St. Vitus Dance >>>Water on brain - Enlarged head >>>White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone >>>Winter fever - Pneumonia >>>Womb fever - Infection of the uterus. >>>Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated >>>temperature or diarrhea >>>Yellowjacket - Yellow fever. ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== If I receive multiple error messages or a message that your mailbox is full, I will UNSUBSCRIBE your address. If it happens often you will be locked out. It is your duty to UNSUBSCRIBE if your mailbox is going to be full. -sysop

I thought that someone on the list might be interested in this chart. I hope it helps someone. Linda --------------------- Forwarded message: From: debbiem@waymark.net (Debbie Mauelshagen) To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com ('SW_VA-L') Date: 97-11-18 08:34:09 EST >>>250 lines it will be split into two postings. >>> >>> >>>Ablepsy - Blindness >>>Ague - Malarial Fever >>>American plague - Yellow fever >>>Anasarca - Generalized massive edema >>>Aphonia - Laryngitis >>>Aphtha - The infant disease "thrush" >>>Apoplexy - Paralysis due to stroke >>>Asphycsia/Asphicsia - Cyanotic and lack of oxygen >>>Atrophy - Wasting away or diminishing in size. >>>Bad Blood - Syphilis >>>Bilious fever - Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or elevated temperature and >>>bile emesis >>>Biliousness - Jaundice associated with liver disease >>>Black plague or death - Bubonic plague >>>Black fever - Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin >>>lesions and high mortality rate >>>Black pox - Black Small pox >>>Black vomit - Vomiting old black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever >>>Blackwater fever - Dark urine associated with high temperature >>>Bladder in throat - Diphtheria (Seen on death certificates) >>>Blood poisoning - Bacterial infection; septicemia >>>Bloody flux - Bloody stools >>>Bloody sweat - Sweating sickness >>>Bone shave - Sciatica >>>Brain fever - Meningitis >>>Breakbone - Dengue fever >>>Bright's disease - Chronic inflammatory disease of kidneys >>>Bronze John - Yellow fever >>>Bule - Boil, tumor or swelling >>>Cachexy - Malnutrition >>>Cacogastric - Upset stomach >>>Cacospysy - Irregular pulse >>>Caduceus - Subject to falling sickness or epilepsy >>>Camp fever - Typhus; aka Camp diarrhea >>>Canine madness - Rabies, hydrophobia >>>Canker - Ulceration of mouth or lips or herpes simplex >>>Catalepsy - Seizures / trances >>>Catarrhal - Nose and throat discharge from cold or allergy >>>Cerebritis - Inflammation of cerebrum or lead poisoning >>>Chilblain - Swelling of extremities caused by exposure to cold >>>Child bed fever - Infection following birth of a child >>>Chin cough - Whooping cough >>>Chlorosis - Iron deficiency anemia >>>Cholera - Acute severe contagious diarrhea with intestinal lining >>>sloughing >>>Cholera morbus - Characterized by nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, >>>elevated temperature, etc. Could be appendicitis >>>Cholecystitus - Inflammation of the gall bladder >>>Cholelithiasis - Gall stones >>>Chorea - Disease characterized by convulsions, contortions and dancing >>>Cold plague - Ague which is characterized by chills >>>Colic - An abdominal pain and cramping >>>Congestive chills - Malaria >>>Consumption - Tuberculosis >>>Congestion - Any collection of fluid in an organ, like the lungs >>>Congestive chills - Malaria with diarrhea >>>Congestive fever - Malaria >>>Corruption - Infection >>>Coryza - A cold >>>Costiveness - Constipation >>>Cramp colic - Appendicitis >>>Crop sickness - Overextended stomach >>>Croup - Laryngitis, diphtheria, or strep throat >>>Cyanosis - Dark skin color from lack of oxygen in blood >>>Cynanche - Diseases of throat >>>Cystitis - Inflammation of the bladder >>>Day fever - Fever lasting one day; sweating sickness >>>Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed >>>Decrepitude - Feebleness due to old age >>>Delirium tremens - Hallucinations due to alcoholism >>>Dengue - Infectious fever endemic to East Africa >>>Dentition - Cutting of teeth >>>Deplumation - Tumor of the eyelids which causes hair loss >>>Diary fever - A fever that lasts one day >>>Diptheria - Contagious disease of the throat >>>Distemper - Usually animal disease with malaise, discharge from nose and >>>throat, anorexia >>>Dock fever - Yellow fever >>>Dropsy - Edema (swelling), often caused by kidney or heart disease >>>Dropsy of the Brain - Encephalitis >>>Dry Bellyache - Lead poisoning >>>Dyscrasy - An abnormal body condition >>>Dysentery - Inflammation of colon with frequent passage of mucous and >>>blood >>>Dysorexy - Reduced appetite >>>Dyspepsia - Indigestion and heartburn. Heart attack symptoms >>>Dysury - Difficulty in urination >>>Eclampsy - Symptoms of epilepsy, convulsions during labor >>>Ecstasy - A form of catalepsy characterized by loss of reason >>>Edema - Nephrosis; swelling of tissues >>>Edema of lungs - Congestive heart failure, a form of dropsy >>>Eel thing - Erysipelas >>>Elephantiasis - A form of leprosy >>>Encephalitis - Swelling of brain; aka sleeping sickness >>>Enteric fever - Typhoid fever >>>Enterocolitis - Inflammation of the intestines >>>Enteritis - Inflations of the bowels >>>Epitaxis - Nose bleed >>>Erysipelas - Contagious skin disease, due to Streptococci with vesicular >>>and bulbous lesions >>>Extravasted blood - Rupture of a blood vessel >>>Falling sickness - Epilepsy >>>Fatty Liver - Cirrhosis of liver >>>Fits - Sudden attack or seizure of muscle activity >>>Flux - An excessive flow or discharge of fluid like hemorrhage or >>>diarrhea >>>Flux of humour - Circulation >>>French pox - Syphilis >>>Gathering - A collection of pus >>>Glandular fever - Mononucleosis >>>Great pox - Syphilis >>>Green fever / sickness - Anemia >>>Grippe/grip - Influenza like symptoms >>>Grocer's itch - Skin disease caused by mites in sugar or flour >>>Heart sickness - Condition caused by loss of salt from body >>>Heat stroke - Body temperature elevates because of surrounding >>>environment temperature and body does not perspire to reduce temperature. >>> Coma and death result if not reversed >>>Hectical complaint - Recurrent fever >>>Hematemesis - Vomiting blood >>>Hematuria - Bloody urine >>>Hemiplegy - Paralysis of one side of body >>>Hip gout - Osteomylitis >>>Horrors - Delirium tremens >>>Hydrocephalus - Enlarged head, water on the brain >>>Hydropericardium - Heart dropsy >>>Hydrophobia - Rabies >>>Hydrothroax - Dropsy in chest >>>Hypertrophic - Enlargement of organ, like the heart >>>Impetigo - Contagious skin disease characterized by pustules >>>Inanition - Physical condition resulting from lack of food >>>Infantile paralysis - Polio >>>Intestinal colic - Abdominal pain due to improper diet >>>Jail fever - Typhus >>>Jaundice - Condition caused by blockage of intestines ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== If I receive multiple error messages or a message that your mailbox is full, I will UNSUBSCRIBE your address. If it happens often you will be locked out. It is your duty to UNSUBSCRIBE if your mailbox is going to be full. -sysop

In a message dated 97-11-19 00:15:59 EST, you write: << To: CAUSBY-L@rootsweb.com I just found an interesting site that I thought I would share with you all. You can check the frequency of any name in the 1990 Census at http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/freqnames.html. For fun I checked for CAUSBY and found it occurred with the frequency of 15,894 out of 88,799 making it a fairly rare surname. COSBY occurred with the frequency of 2,917 out of 88,799 surnames. >> Wanda, Thanks for the information. The list has been so quiet. I am wondering if you and I are the only persons on the list that doesn't have their Causby/Cosby links to the rest. Happy Thanksgiving to all out there. Linda L. Brown

I just found an interesting site that I thought I would share with you all. You can check the frequency of any name in the 1990 Census at http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/freqnames.html. For fun I checked for CAUSBY and found it occurred with the frequency of 15,894 out of 88,799 making it a fairly rare surname. COSBY occurred with the frequency of 2,917 out of 88,799 surnames. Wanda Rabb researching R A B B, C A U S B Y, P A X T O N, F A R R I S, P A T T O N, M O R R I S, N I X , L A W S, C O N N E R, W I L S O N, Homepage: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr Genealogy Main Page: http://www.netunlimited.net/~wcr/main.html

-----Original Message----- From: Wanda Rabb <wcr@netunlimited.net> To: CAUSBY-L@rootsweb.com <CAUSBY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, 2 November 1997 2:00 Subject: Welcome new subscriber! Wanda Just to let you know I will be changing my email address soon and will let you know as soon as I have. lisa

I apologize for the length of this post, but I thought it might be simpler to forward rather than rewriting to send to the lists. It explains the upcoming changes to the archiving of our lists. >Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:45:32 -0800 (PST) >From: karen@rootsweb.com >Subject: Announcment: RootsWeb Message Archives, Changes Coming >To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:44:54 -0800 (PST) >Reply-To: listowners@rootsweb.com >Organization: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/21 >X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com > >Sorry to have been virtually absent in the discussion of archiving >messages. Life has been pretty much on hold for me for weeks, first >getting ready to go to Chile to visit the nephew, then going to Chile, >then coming back with food poisoning, then spending one whole day at >the office before coming down with the flu. At RAND, it's probably >now "Karen who? Does she still work here?" > >Marc and Brian and I have talked (using that ancient technology, >the telephone), and here's the current scoop on message archives for >RootsWeb mailing lists. It won't all take effect for a week or two, >so to the extent you want to survey the readers of your respective >mailing lists for their opinions, you'll have time. > >1. Once the new (web-based) system is on line, we will be turning off the >old (e-mail based) system of accessing archives. Experience has shown >that it is hard on the system (uses too many CPU cycles on large lists), >and hard on the user (difficult to understand, tricky syntax) and hard >on the system administrators (I'm going to =scream= the next time some >listowner has a list member write to me to get personalized instruction >on how to search the archives via e-mail, because the listowner doesn't >want to be bothered.) Once the new tools are in place, this old horse >is going to be put out to pasture. (I know that not everyone has web >access -- you might want to have a few volunteers on each list who will >do lookups for those without web access.) > >2. So, what's the new web-based system to be? Evolving, for a start. >In the initial phases, for those lists that are participating, the >most recent messages will be available via the web in a threaded >format. (This is what Marc has been working on.) The older messages >(including the old Maiser archives) will be available via a clunky >search engine (like that used for ROOTS-L on http://searches.rootsweb.com). >(I've been working on this, at least, until I got diverted by all that >stuff up there in the first paragraph.) We hope to do two additional >things: find a new search engine that will index both the threaded and >unthreaded message bases, and as time allows, convert the unthreaded >message bases to threaded. There are some open issues here that we >haven't worked through yet, so it will be awhile, but that's the target. > >3. What about passwords? These have proven much more controversial >than I ever expected. I do understand (shoot, I pushed for them) why >they are useful and solve a lot of problems. The difficulty is that >they seem to introduce at least as many problems as they solve. Some >of which hit closer to home than I like (such as whiney letters to >webspinner@rootsweb.com asking what the password is). Anything that >requires more work from the system administration people is almost >guaranteed to be a non-starter, and passwords unfortunately fit that >criteria. Besides having to deal with people who can't remember passwords >or who type them in the wrong case, etc., there's also the problem >that to change a password will require manual intervention (we haven't >developed the software yet so the listowner could do so automatically), >and a password that is stable and never changed isn't much security. >If your archived messages need to be secure, a simple password won't >be enough to secure them. If your archive messages don't need to be >secure, then there's no need for a password. Bottomline: passwords >make more work, but add little additional security. So, no passwords, at >least not for now, probably never. > >4. Can you edit the archives? No, at least, not now. The tools >to let you do so aren't available, and the time for someone (me) to >do it for you is in too short of supply. Except for cases of >egregious copyright violation, death threats, etc, I won't be >available to edit your archives for you. I know this means there >will be some cruft, subscribe/unsubscribe commands, reposted digests, >spam, etc. For most lists, even with the cruft, the signal to noise >ratio will still be quite high. > >5. Does your list have to participate? No. If you don't want your >list included, go to the utility page for your mailing list, follow >the button at the bottom labelled "edit selected files" and add to your >reject list the address "archiver@lists.rootsweb.com". (If you go to >your utility page, and you don't have a button like that at the >bottom, then and only then, write to listmaster@rootsweb.com and ask >that the address archiver@lists.rootsweb.com be added to the reject >list for your mailing list. Be sure to say what mailing list.) Note >that, if your list doesn't participate in the web-based archives, >there will be no access to your archives unless you make alternative >arrangements (for instance, through your ISP) to provide such. If you >decide you do want to set up your own message archive elsewhere, we >will zip up your old archives here (including the old messages from >Maiser, if any) and put them somewhere so you can FTP them. Not all >lists want archives (hi, Wally!): if that describes your list, just >opt out of the web-based archives, and voila!, you're set. > >6. What if you have a single hothead who doesn't want his/her messages >included? You have some options. a) You can simply not participate. >b) You can tell him/her tough, and go ahead and participate. c) You can >ask that we not include your material from before the cutover (see >below), and tell your hothead that anything he/she posts after the >cutover will be included. (For the third case, send a letter to >listmaster@rootsweb.com, etc. etc.) > >Target date for the cutover: 1 December 1997. That should provide time >for you to touch base with your listmembers (if you so desire), and >for us to further shakedown the scripts that will be used to make >all this happen. Marc's beta-test will probably be back online before >then. > >Karen >

Anyone know about the lineage of Elliot Cosby, of Canada?

Our CAUSBY-L is now being archived by Rootsweb and is also under password protection. The note I am forwarding explains how to access these archived files. As you post to the list, you might keep in mind the importance of using relevant subject lines since that will make it easier to locate notes of interest in the archives. >Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 06:56:28 -0800 (PST) >X-From_: nozell@wildcat.mv.com Sat Nov 8 06:56:24 1997 >Old-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 11:01:34 GMT >To: CAUSBY-L-request@rootsweb.com >From: Marc Nozell <marc@nozell.com> >Reply-To: marc@nozell.com >CC: Marc Nozell <marc@nozell.com> >Subject: Re: CAUSBY-L Mailing List Web Archive info >X-URL: http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/ >X-Diagnostic: Unprocessed > >Hello, > >You are getting this message because you are the listowner of the >CAUSBY-L mailing list and have requested that your list be >archived on the web. Take a look at the webpage: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/~archiver/ > >and follow the links down to the archives. > >To access your mailing list web archive use the following information: > > username: CAUSBY-L > password: 12lawless > >The passwords are randomly generated from a large dictionary so if you >get one that offends your sensibilities, drop me a line and I'll >generate a new one. > >Also, this username/password is unrelated to the one you may use to >administer your mailing list via the web or any username/password you >use to FTP file to rootsweb.com. > >Feel free to share this username/password which whoever you want -- >put it on a list webpage for all access, mail just to list members or >tell no one at all. > >-marc > >-- >Marc Nozell <marc@nozell.com> http://www.nozell.com >