Thanks to all who took Latin or had access to some way to interpret the name. It confirmed what I thought. In high school, people would ask me what foreign language I took. My reply "English." Invariably, they would say "That's not a foreign language!" My retort "It is to me!" I probably still have some participles dangling out there somewhere out there. LOL Sent from Xfinity Mobile

How many answers to this have you gotten <G> it is Enumeration District which changed with each census (or has for all of mine) it can be fun (NOT) finding them <G> ELiz On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Jackie & Al Fritsch <ajfritsch@excel.net> wrote: > Hello, Joseph > > I have a question. I am new to all of this and excited about being > able to use the 1940 census. My question is: what is an E.D.? I don't > understand what you mean by paging through images to find my family E.D. >> >> >> All the 1940 census will be available on April 2. The scanned census >> images >> will be provided on several web sites. >> >> BUT, you will need to know the E.D. where your families lived. Then >> you >> page through the images to that E.D. And then you need to read the >> entire >> E.D. to find your folks. A little cumbersome but doable. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Okay all you latin scholars, can someone interpret Jacobus. Now before you say that's Jacob, I know that much. However, I recall a discussion about Jacob being a form of James. I have dilemma. I have been finding a few of my lost Kerr kids through the church baptismal records at Family Search. I have found an Elizabeth, supposedly married a Jacobus Birmingham and it is all in Latin. The date in the entry coincides with a marriage to a sister born a few years later. It might be the same person, but I have to investigate it further. The more I find out about my Kerr line, the more questions I have. Sent from Xfinity Mobile

Gf Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Kathleen Craine" <kac522@aol.com> Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2012 5:14 pm Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] A little OT: SSDI Access To: <cook-co-il@rootsweb.com> I received this message from another list. The House Ways & Means Committee will be reviewing public access to the SSDI. Kathleen Craine Chicago -------------------------------- I feel the need to sidestep our usual communications and make sure that all of you are aware of the issues we are facing about our right to access the SSDI - Social Security Death Index. As genealogists, I'm guessing our 2 most often used tools are the census and the SSDI. Due to concerns about identity theft, our government now thinks that a key way to fix this problem is to deny the public's access to the SSDI. Many of us first became aware of this when we read an article by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak "Are We Going To Lose The SSDI?" http://megansmolenyak.posterous.com/are-we-going-to-lose-the-social-security-deat We've now learned that the Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing on the SSDI this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=276834 NO genealogists are being allowed to be witnesses and testify at this meeting! http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.jewish/2012-01/msg00346.html#.TyVbv31zUsc.twitter It is VERY important that we all start writing letters and submit them to the Ways and Means Committee! In the link above about their meeting, if you go down the page, you will find an area about how to submit your letters to them. Follow the directions to the letter! After you've submitted your letter to the above committee, please also figure out who your Senator(s) are and send them a copy of your letter http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm and do the same with your Representative(s) http://www.house.gov/representatives/ . The Senator and Representative websites have searches on the top right to help you figure out who represents you. (If possible, please send a letter or a fax. A pile of papers on a politicians desk is going to have a greater impact than a bunch of e-mails in their inbox. E-mailing is better than doing nothing at all, but if possible, don't have it be your first choice.) If you need some ideas for things you can put in your letter, check out this list from RPAC http://www.fgs.org/rpac/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/talking-points-on-why-genealogists-need-social-security-death-index-final.pdf If you need ideas on how to compose a letter, the CAFG is working on sample letters and will post them here: http://www.forensicgenealogists.com/Resources.html Judy Russell who is very well versed in the legal areas that affect genealogy has posted a great blog post here: www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/01/29/ssdi-call-to-action/http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/01/29/ssdi-call-to-action/ It will give you some great info to get you started. To stay informed of this issue, you can check out Occupy Genealogy on facebook https://www.facebook.com/occupygenealogy or on their website http://www.occupygenealogy.com/action-center---your-help-needed.html Remember the old saying "The squeaky wheel gets the oil"? Now is the time to start squeaking! Please be sure your voice is heard and get those letters submitted ASAP! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello, Joseph I have a question. I am new to all of this and excited about being able to use the 1940 census. My question is: what is an E.D.? I don't understand what you mean by paging through images to find my family E.D. > > > All the 1940 census will be available on April 2. The scanned census > images > will be provided on several web sites. > > BUT, you will need to know the E.D. where your families lived. Then > you > page through the images to that E.D. And then you need to read the > entire > E.D. to find your folks. A little cumbersome but doable.

Could I please have a look up for Mary Martin died 24 july 1915 Warren Martin died 29 april 1995 John Martin died 232 June 1938 Emma Martin died 12 May 1937 Thank YOu...

Bill, All the baptisms that I have found for my family that were in Latin as Jacobus were for James. Beth --- On Tue, 1/31/12, wm.karr@comcast.net <wm.karr@comcast.net> wrote: > From: wm.karr@comcast.net <wm.karr@comcast.net> > Subject: [IRISH-IN-CHICAGO] latin > To: IRISH-IN-CHICAGO@rootsweb.com, COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com > Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 3:17 PM > Okay all you latin scholars, can > someone interpret Jacobus. Now before you say that's Jacob, > I know that much. However, I recall a discussion about Jacob > being a form of James. > > >

This link (http://comp.uark.edu/~mreynold/recint7.htm#J)  concurs with the discussion you cited with Jacobus indeed translating to Jacob or James.   ________________________________ From: "wm.karr@comcast.net" <wm.karr@comcast.net> To: IRISH-IN-CHICAGO@rootsweb.com; COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:17 PM Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] latin Okay all you latin scholars, can someone interpret Jacobus. Now before you say that's Jacob, I know that much. However, I recall a discussion about Jacob being a form of James. I have dilemma. I have been finding a few of my lost Kerr kids through the church baptismal records at Family Search. I have found an Elizabeth, supposedly married a Jacobus Birmingham and it is all in Latin. The date in the entry coincides with a marriage to a sister born a few years later. It might be the same person, but I have to investigate it further. The more I find out about my Kerr line, the more questions I have. Sent from Xfinity Mobile ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I received this message from another list. The House Ways & Means Committee will be reviewing public access to the SSDI. Kathleen Craine Chicago -------------------------------- I feel the need to sidestep our usual communications and make sure that all of you are aware of the issues we are facing about our right to access the SSDI - Social Security Death Index. As genealogists, I'm guessing our 2 most often used tools are the census and the SSDI. Due to concerns about identity theft, our government now thinks that a key way to fix this problem is to deny the public's access to the SSDI. Many of us first became aware of this when we read an article by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak "Are We Going To Lose The SSDI?" http://megansmolenyak.posterous.com/are-we-going-to-lose-the-social-security-deat We've now learned that the Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing on the SSDI this Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=276834 NO genealogists are being allowed to be witnesses and testify at this meeting! http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.jewish/2012-01/msg00346.html#.TyVbv31zUsc.twitter It is VERY important that we all start writing letters and submit them to the Ways and Means Committee! In the link above about their meeting, if you go down the page, you will find an area about how to submit your letters to them. Follow the directions to the letter! After you've submitted your letter to the above committee, please also figure out who your Senator(s) are and send them a copy of your letter http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm and do the same with your Representative(s) http://www.house.gov/representatives/ . The Senator and Representative websites have searches on the top right to help you figure out who represents you. (If possible, please send a letter or a fax. A pile of papers on a politicians desk is going to have a greater impact than a bunch of e-mails in their inbox. E-mailing is better than doing nothing at all, but if possible, don't have it be your first choice.) If you need some ideas for things you can put in your letter, check out this list from RPAC http://www.fgs.org/rpac/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/talking-points-on-why-genealogists-need-social-security-death-index-final.pdf If you need ideas on how to compose a letter, the CAFG is working on sample letters and will post them here: http://www.forensicgenealogists.com/Resources.html Judy Russell who is very well versed in the legal areas that affect genealogy has posted a great blog post here: www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/01/29/ssdi-call-to-action/http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2012/01/29/ssdi-call-to-action/ It will give you some great info to get you started. To stay informed of this issue, you can check out Occupy Genealogy on facebook https://www.facebook.com/occupygenealogy or on their website http://www.occupygenealogy.com/action-center---your-help-needed.html Remember the old saying "The squeaky wheel gets the oil"? Now is the time to start squeaking! Please be sure your voice is heard and get those letters submitted ASAP!

The following is taken from Dick Eastman’s newsletter:  “On Thursday of this coming week (February 2, 2012), the Subcommittee on Social Security of the House Ways & Means Committee in Washington, D.C., will hold hearings that have the capacity to drastically affect the access of genealogists to the Social Security Death Index (“SSDI”) and related underlying information.” Further information can be found at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/ssdi-call-to-action-for-genealogists.html  Sandi __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___

Folks, This is serious. If this Bill passes, all public access to SSDI will be lost. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/ssdi-call-to-action-for-genealogists.html Please write your letter and pass this on to others you know. Joseph Martin Romeoville, Illinois -- People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.

Couldn't find a Trib obit. You might request Chicago Daily News film for that period through interlibrary loan. Diane

Hello Listers, Can someone with Chicago Trib obit access please look for an obit for Antoinette GETZELMAN(N), b. 20 Dec 1880, d. 1 Jan 1964 in Chicago60611? Her late husband spelled the surname as above, but the rest of the family spelled it GOETZELMANN. Also, Antoinette may have used the given names Nettie or Birdie. Maiden name or previous married name was Evans. I have her husband Royal Getzelman's obit & the SSDI info on both as well as their marriage info (1920). Just need the obit if there was one. Thanks in advance. Judy Anchorage AK

I was looking for something else yesterday and came across the Draft Registrations for WW2   They are called     Old Men or Old Man  Draft Registration for WW2   Ann Moro

What fun <G> as for the 1930 <G> a neighbor may have answered the question <G> Eliz On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Barb Pardol <barbp1220@att.net> wrote: > A million thanks to Ruth Susmarski - she has solved the Joseph & Theresa Kornatowski mystery for me!!!  She found an obit for one of Joe's brothers-in-law with Theresa Konackee listed.  So, Joe did change his last name - why he said his parents were born in Canada in the 1930 census will remain a mystery to us.  Ruth also found Joe and Theresa buried in the Royal Palm cemetery in Pinellas County, FL. > > Doing the genealogy "happy dance." > > Barb P. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Such souvenir glassware was not uncommon, so may not mean much. Do you recall if you had a clear, unobstructed view of the lake from the hotel? If so, it was probably the Edgewater Beach, rather than one of the downtown hotels. Another clue would be where your relatives lived. If north siders, another point in favor of the Edgewater Beach. Diane

When my husband and I were engaged in 1961, Chicago relatives (we lived in New Jersey and were visiting) took us out to celebrate the event at the Edgewater Beach Hotel (I think). A souvenir of the occasion is a champagne coupe (or cocktail glass) with a floral design pressed or etched onto the glass. I am hoping that someone remembers such glassware and can confirm that the dinner was in the Marine Room (or other restaurant) at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Any information about the glassware and/or the manufacturer would be appreciated. Thanks. Daryl Hiller

Hi Toni, All the 1940 census will be available on April 2. The scanned census images will be provided on several web sites. BUT, you will need to know the E.D. where your families lived. Then you page through the images to that E.D. And then you need to read the entire E.D. to find your folks. A little cumbersome but doable. Ancestry and Family Search (at least) will start working on indexes with volunteers who offer to help. But it will take some months before an index for the entire U.S. will be available. Joseph Martin Romeoville, Illinois On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Little Bird <polkadot1950@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > I wonder how much of it will be available that quickly, or if they'll go by > certain states/counties first... > > Toni > > > > ----------------------------- > Listers, > > > > FYI - I just logged into Ancestry and it indicated 68 days to the 1940 > census. > Yeah!!! > > > > > Bill > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.

I wonder how much of it will be available that quickly, or if they'll go by certain states/counties first... Toni ----------------------------- Listers, FYI - I just logged into Ancestry and it indicated 68 days to the 1940 census. Yeah!!! Bill ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Listers, FYI - I just logged into Ancestry and it indicated 68 days to the 1940 census. Yeah!!! Bill