VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT. The USGenWeb Archives Pensions Project is looking for volunteer transcribers and coordinators <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pensions/>. If you have copies of your ancestors' pension applications, please consider transcribing and submitting them to the USGenWeb Archives for inclusion in the Pensions Project.

The last time I posted a message concerning the Gen Connect boards it was brought to my attention that not all counties were covered which I wasn't aware of. If you check back now I think you'll find that all counties are now listed - check out the index at this address http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/Ca.html and start sharing your CA data or post a query to the query board Colleen

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ON COUNTY AND SURNAME RESOURCES. <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~classifieds/index.html> If you are a genealogical or historical society member, bookseller, professional genealogist, or have something else to sell to genealogists, please visit the appropriate County or Surname Resources and post information on the new "For Sale" message board. If you are looking for a particular genealogy book, a professional genealogical researcher in a specific area, or for something else, post information on the appropriate "Wanted to Buy" board. Messages that are not county specific may be posted at: <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~classifieds/genbbs.cgi/ForSale>. CLASSIFIEDS POLICIES: <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~classifieds/Rules.html> Use of the classifieds boards is currently completely free. In the future RootsWeb may charge a nominal fee for new listings to help cover the costs of operating the message boards.

Just visted the new free databases on line at Ancestry.com - here's a couple that might be of interest American Civil War Research Database Posted on 6/27/99 http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/cwrd/cwrd_index.htm Did a search for my gggf Walter B. Welton but did not put in anything other than his name. I know he is listed in the Orton book (Records of California Men in the War of The Rebellion 1981-1867) and I have his military records - he appears with his CA Cavalary unit (also found another man by the same name out of Mass) on this database with quite a bit of information Also of interest to CA Shasta County, California Register, 1898 Posted on 6/21/99 http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3819.htm Los Angeles Daily News, Obituaries, 1990-1999 Posted on 6/29/99 http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3440.htm California Narratives: John Bidwell Posted on 6/30/99 http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3849.htm Happy hunting. Colleen

PAF Comes to Windows - You Can Download for Free Personal Ancestral File (PAF). One of the first genealogy software programs, it has remained a DOS program since its inception. Here is the press release announcing the release of PAF 4.0 for Windows. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Beginning Monday morning June 28 -- just five weeks after the launch of its top-rated new Internet genealogy service -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is offering free downloads of Personal Ancestral File® 4.0, a new Windows-based version of its popular genealogical management program for home computers. The new software program is available free of charge via the Internet at www.familysearch.org. PAF 4.0 does not provide genealogical data. Instead, the program helps users organize their family history records. It can produce, in automated or manual form, records for personal family histories or charts and logs to help users in their search for missing ancestors. It also includes new multimedia features and enhances the more popular features of PAF 3.0. System Requirements: -- Windows 95/98/NT version -- IBM compatible 486/66 processor (Pentium recommended) -- 16-32 MB memory -- 20MB hard disk space -- 256-color display adapter supporting 640x480 screen resolution (but optimized for 800x600) -- Internet access (if downloading from Internet) -- CD-ROM (not available until sometime in early 2000) Personal Ancestral File 4.0 will also be available on CD ROM for a nominal price in early 2000. Users will be able to purchase it from the Church's distribution centers worldwide. Copyright 1998 by SodaMail. All rights reserved. Rhonda R. McClure

ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES ("RootsWeb Guide") <http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/index.htm>. More than 11,000 people visited Lesson One, "Where to Begin," during its first week online. Lesson Two, "What's in a Name?" is now available at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson2.htm>. Dewdrop Inn.

New site for obituary lookup volunteers all over the US.... http://members.aol.com/sjhcamp/index.html

It's been brought to my attention that not all counties are represented on the list of counties that have Gen Connect Boards available. My message should have stated: ALL GEN CONNECT COUNTIES THAT PREVIOUSLY HAD A GEN CONNECT QUERY BOARD now have a suite of boards available to post Bible, Biographies, Deeds, Obits, Pensions and Wills http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/Ca.html Sorry. Colleen

There are now suites of boards available for each CALIFORNIA county. Included in the suite is a Query board and boards to post Bible, Biographies, Deeds, Obits, Pensions and Wills http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/Ca.html Time to start sharing your CA information! Colleen

UNITED STATES TOWN/COUNTY DATABASE INTERACTIVE SEARCH. <http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi>. Have you heard the name of a place where your ancestors might have lived, but not had a clue in what county (and sometimes in what state) it was? There's no need to fear, RootsWeb is here. Now when you are faced with this situation, there is an easy way to solve the problem. Simply type in the town's name and a list with links to the states/counties in which there is such a place will appear. Previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 24, 16 June 1999. Please visit RootsWeb's main Web page at <http://www.rootsweb.com/>.

ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING YOUR FAMILY TREE ("RootsWeb Guide") <http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/>. Designed with the beginning genealogist and new RootsWeb user in mind, each lesson will include text, suggested reading list, links to some of the relevant resources hosted by RootsWeb, and links to some relevant resources found elsewhere on the Internet. Lesson One, "Where to Begin," is online now. Lesson Two is scheduled to be posted next week. Additional lessons will be posted most weeks thereafter. Even experienced genealogists and long-time RootsWeb users might learn some useful new things. Please stop by. Previously published by RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 24, 16 June 1999. Please visit RootsWeb's main Web page at <http://www.rootsweb.com/>.

VOLUNTARY, ANONYMOUS ROOTSWEB AUDIENCE PROFILER SURVEY. We hate surveys. They are intrusive, boring, and a general pain. Nevertheless, we need your help on this one. We are trying to sell banner advertising on the RootsWeb site so that we can use the advertising revenue to support the growth of RootsWeb and to keep genealogy data free. If we can tell our advertisers who you are, not individually but statistically, we can sell more advertising and charge higher advertising rates. By completing this survey you contribute financially to RootsWeb just as if you had made a donation. This survey is voluntary and anonymous. We do not ask for your name or for any other identifying information. If you choose to participate, please answer truthfully. We want the data to be accurate. We will post the survey results on the RootsWeb site in approximately two weeks. Visit <http://www.audienceprofiler.com/survey/submit.html> to participate. Thank you for your help.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B73A85376F126C4F003F4540 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message I received may be applicable here in California. Sincerely, Edward, Sr. -- ============================================================ CAGenWeb CC --- Kern, Imperial, Tehama, & Siskiyou Counties, CA Kern Co: http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/kerncty.htm Imperial Co: http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/impercty.htm Tehama Co: http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/tehamcty.htm Siskiyou Co: http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/siskicty.htm COGenWeb CC -- Logan County, CO Logan Co: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cologan/index.htm MOGenWeb CC -- Pemiscot County, MO Pemiscot Co: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mopemis2/pemiscot.htm OKGenWeb Co-CC: -- Grant County, OK Grant Co: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgrant/okgrant.htm GenConnect Surnames: Hobson, McMains [also following Park/Parke, Patterson, & Hawkins] Surnames: PARK [NC,TN,AR,OK], HOBSON [VA,NC,IN,OH,IL,KS,MO,CA], HOLTZHAUSER [NY,HOL,GER], GILMORE [TN,AR,OK], WATSON [TN,AR], PATTERSON [MO,KS], WALKER [IL,MO,KS], HAWKINS [KS,WV,VA], MCMAINS [IN,KY,KS], ILOTTI [NY.NJ,ITA] ============================================================ --------------B73A85376F126C4F003F4540 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by toucan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA08001; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA29758; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: "Sherryl Barger" <[email protected]> Old-To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 22:32:24 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [MOGEN-L] Gold Rush Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1105 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hello Everyone, You may want to pass this on to your researchers. I was informed by one of my listmembers that the St. Joseph, Missouri museum is doing a research project on the gold rush days. If you had an ancestor that went through St. Joseph on their way to California during those days, the museum would like to hear from you. They are doing this until July. If you have any information for the museum or questions about the project, you can contact them at: St. Joseph Museum P.O. Box 128 St. Joseph, MO 64502-0128 Telephone: (816) 232-8471 Email: [email protected] -Sherryl ==== MOGEN Mailing List ==== MOGenWeb has its own public list: [email protected] --------------B73A85376F126C4F003F4540--

New obit boards are available for the following counties. I hope you will post obits you might have so that others will have access to the information. Sacramento County http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/SacramentoObits Tuolumne County http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/TuolumneObits Merced County http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/MercedObits Colleen Norby

HISTORICAL TOUR - A car tour of Johnson's Ranchero and the Camp Far West Cemetery is scheduled for May 1st by the Yuba County Historical Society, beginning at 9am in Wheatland. It is being led by Jack Steed, author of "The Donner Party Rescue Site: Johnson's Ranch on the Bear River." For costs, registration and directions, call 530-741-0509. Happy Touring! Patricia <[email protected]> CAGenWeb Coordinator for Yuba County et al

HISTORICAL TOUR - A car tour of Johnson's Ranchero and the Camp Far West Cemetery is scheduled for May 1st by the Yuba County Historical Society, beginning at 9am in Wheatland. It is being led by Jack Steed, author of "The Donner Party Rescue Site: Johnson's Ranch on the Bear River." For costs, registration and directions, call 530-741-0509. Happy Touring! Patricia <[email protected]> CAGenWeb Coordinator for Yuba County et al

Just to let you know that Laura Taylor has volunteered to help with cemetery information for Marysville City Cemetery and the Catholic Cemetery, Marysville CA. There will be links posted to the Yuba County CAGenWeb pages to reach her by e-mail. <http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/yubacty.htm> Please read about restrictions/limitations before writing to Laura, i.e., replies will only be by e-mail, and no copies of information will be mailed, in accordance with USGenWeb Project policies. Please give the updated web pages a few days to be posted, in order that you can find where Laura will be listed. Thank you, Patricia <[email protected]> Rootsweb Sponsor Yuba Co CAGenWeb Coordinator et al

Hi, Listers: Just a note to let you know I have passed ownership of this genealogy list to Edward Black, <[email protected]>. Edward has graciously accepted responsibilities for the work behind the list, and I hope you all gain the information you seek. Keep posting your queries...! Bye for now, Patricia <[email protected]> Rootsweb Sponsor, et al

I am researching the following families: Reynolds, Van Dorn, Ashley, Gordon from the Yuba area. Geri

I am posting this to warn others about problems with ; Census Microfilm Expeditors 476 E. South Temple , Suite 4 Salt Lake City , UT 84111 website ; www.censusmicrofilm.com e-mail ; [email protected] and ; [email protected] I was lured to order several microfilm copies from this company with "guarantees" of "speedy delivery" and "low price" . My order was placed in October of 1998 and as of this posting I have not received the order or a refund after numerous contacts with Steven Jensen at this firm . In his occasional replies he repeatedly gave false information to me as to the status of the order and cashed the check when mentioned stopping payment on it .I have copies of all documents and correspondences for those interested . Complaints have been filed with the Better Business Bureau and the United States Postal Inspectors , they have informed me that even they can't order this company to give a refund , but may seek criminal charges . I guess small claims court is next . If you are seeking genealogy resources......consider my experiences with this "Firm". Thank you , Kenneth Sartin researching ; Sartin , Sartain , Sarton , Sarten , Sardin etc. etc.