*HI GANG: Below are 4 posts from the GENEALOGY4DUMMIES list at onelist.com......anyone can subscribe to it and receive the posts..... The FIRST ONE, FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS ONLINE, is the one I'm mainly wanting to send, in case you might be interested. I think it came up in our class last sun., so I will print that part out and bring to class (copies of) if anyone is interested..... (so, read or cut & paste/keep what you want,,, and Delete the rest! You might be interested in some of the other stuff too.... Have fun!) Tina --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- http://www.onelist.com There are 4 messages in this issue. Topics in today's digest: 1. Fraternal Organizations online From: Glaze <glaze@moment.net> 2. Burr List From: genealogy98@juno.com 3. [Fwd: 1782 Richmond City Census] From: Day <raime@visuallink.com> 4. [Fwd: New this week at Christine's Genealogy Websites] From: Day <raime@visuallink.com> ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:36:50 -0500 From: Glaze <glaze@moment.net> Subject: Fraternal Organizations online Thought some of you may find this informative. Deanna FAMILY TREE FINDERS Monday - 19 July 1999 Fraternal Organizations Online I suspect that many of you are like me. When you have a question or are interested in a new locality or record type or period in history, you turn to the Internet to see what is available. More and more the information that we, as genealogists, are in need of is showing up. Recently I answered a reader's question in regards to the fraternal organization known as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In answering the question, I included the URL for the I.O.O.F. Of course, that has prompted some other questions about web sites and information on other fraternal organizations. Before supplying the URLs for some of the many fraternal organizations, let's look first at what they do and whether or not they can be of help to genealogists. Fraternal organizations will not be able to supply you with information on the genealogy of your ancestor. What they will be able to help you with though is a glimpse into your ancestor's involvement in the society. Many of the fraternal organizations that exist are benevolent in purpose. They did much to help each other and their selected charities. When looking into the history of these societies, you will find evidence that many of the secret signs were their way of identifying each other when traveling and in need of aid. Today many of them have insurance to help their members and raise major funds to help various present day charities. However, for the members, their involvement in the organization goes much further. Most of them offer a series of rights or levels of progression. And this information was of course recorded in their organization records. This is the type of information you are likely to discover when contacting them. You will want to keep this in mind as you write to the appropriate lodge or repository. While most of the fraternal organizations have a central, national lodge, the Masons seem only to have their state Grand Lodges. Below are some useful links for some of the still active fraternal organizations. Just as the Masons have no national address to write to, it is not surprising that they also don't have a single web site. Those included below are being done so, as they include useful information. MASONS -- Masonic Service Association of North America (http://www.msana.com/) -- The Grand Lodge F&AM of Ohio (http://www.freemason.com/) -- The Grand Lodges of the United States of America (http://thelonious.mit.edu/Masonry/GLs/) KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS -- Knights of Columbus Web Page (http://www.kofc-supreme-council.org/index.html) KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS -- The Order of Knights of Pythias (http://www.pythias.org/index.html) THE GRANGE -- The Grange Connection (http://www.grange.org/) Rhonda R. McClure rhondam@sodamail.com If you know someone who is interested in genealogy, please forward this entire message to them! ___________________________________________________________ SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION TO SUBSCRIBE: send an e-mail to: join-family-tree-finders@gt.sodamail.com TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Don't hit 'Reply', instead send a new e-mail from your subscription address: glaze@moment.net to: leave-family-tree-finders@gt.sodamail.com At the site you can change your address, cancel or join: http://207.153.204.247/cgi-bin/gt/login.html Difficulties? email:help@sodamail.com ___________________________________________________________ Copyright 1998 by SodaMail. All rights reserved. http://www.sodamail.com ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:30:16 -0400 From: genealogy98@juno.com Subject: Burr List HOW WONDERFUL THAT YOU FOUND YOUR GENEALOGY DATA!!! Thanks for sharing! Lila of VA - -------------------------------------- > I did have some good luck though, I found my files! My son had > placed them in another group of files and showed me where it was > when he got up this afternoon. (He works nights). -------------------------- SEARCHING THESE SURNAMES: DOLINGER/PENNINGTON/HARDY/OLIVER/ EPPS/SMALLMAN/SULLIVAN/SEXTON ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:21:58 -0400 From: Day <raime@visuallink.com> Subject: [Fwd: 1782 Richmond City Census] Forwarded by Flo. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 1782 Richmond City Census Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:10:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Brent Tarter Organization: RelayNet(tm) : BBSWORLD (#1279)Tulsa,OK - NewsAdmin@iga-net.org To: ALL Newsgroups: rime.virginia_gen [snip] Because the manuscript census forms for the first United States Census of Virginia are virtually all lost (and there was no Census as we know it in 1782), it is necessary for students to be very careful about what they find in the replacements that have since been cobbled together. For a very informative discussion of these replacements, see the Va-Notes entitled "1790 Virginia Census" in the Library of Virginia's online Va-Notes: http://www.lva.lib.va.us/pubserv/vanotes/index.htm Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia btarter@vsla.edu Visit the Library of Virginia's new web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ --- RIMEGate(tm)/ListProc V4.28 at BBSWORLD * Info@bbsworld.com ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:50:56 -0400 From: Day <raime@visuallink.com> Subject: [Fwd: New this week at Christine's Genealogy Websites] Forwarded by Flo. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: New this week at Christine's Genealogy Websites Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:59:59 -0400 From: "Dick Tracy" <roxie@domo.com> Organization: Ameritech.Net www.ameritech.net Complaints: abuse@ameritech.net Newsgroups: alt.genealogy New this week at the Freedmen's Bureau Online http://www.freedmensbureau.com : Index to 1865 indentures of Colored Apprentices in North Carolina List of Colored Apprentices for Cleveland County, North Carolina Underaged children who were not or could not be supported by their parents or were orphans were apprenticed by Freedmen's Bureau officals to persons who would be responsible for their upbringing and welfare. The records include the apprentice's name and age, the name of the person they were apprenticed to (sometimes referred to as "Master"), and the county where the indenture was recorded. Updated this week at Christine's Genealogy Website http://ccharity.com : Papers relating to crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 1869 - 1879 Cases include: Deposition of Dean Reynolds . . . "I saw the blows coming and raised my right arm to defend my head, and the blows broke my arm above the wrist and my head was cut by the blow. I hollowed "murder" then they hollowed out "kill him, kill him." Case of George Moore and Robert Roundtree . . . "they tuck out George and gave him some wher from 25 to 30 lashes and one came into the bed where she and the a neighbor woman was sleeping and wanted in bed with them and they refused him but he said if they girl that was not in bed with Reaner did not submit to him he would shoot her . . " Report of the skirmish between whites and blacks at Wild Goat Cove . . . Willis Stevens a white man had a company of about 34 colored men, that he had a skirmish with some white men who call themselves K. K. K. . . . N. F. Gallagher, Bvt. Capt. U. S. Army reports result of visit to Greene County, Ala. in accordance with instructions from comd'g officer Post of Huntsville . . . "The majority of these outrages are perpetrated upon the few industrious and intelligent freedmen of the county, and evince a determination to prevent the prosperity of this race, and eventually crush out entirely this class, in order that the larger number of ignorant freedmen may be made completely controlled by the whites. . . George Cornelous makes affidavit in regard to Ku Klux Klan taking guns from Plantation on which he is working. Daniel Vin makes affidavit in regard to attack of his house by certain disguised men July 10, 1869. Deposition of James Landford . . . "the next morning a black man came to my house and told me that William Campbell had been killed that night by a band of disguised men . . " E. M. Mulligan, school teacher, makes affidavit in regard to violence of "Ku Klux Klan" near New Market, Madison Co., Ala. Affidavit of Mary Campbell . . ."I saw that my husband had been shot in the left side. I saw the blood runnin' out of his side, it ran on my clothes, he cried out "Oh Lord". . . ." Report of Joseph Lee, Deputy Sheriff, Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama . . "There has been three colored prisoners taken out of our County Jail, two executed and one set at liberty by a party of disguised men, the one set free made an attempt to murder one of the most Loyal Citizens and one who took an active part in President's election." James Miller, Lt. 2nd Inf. submits statement and documents in continuation and completion of his report of the 29th inst. in regard to the late election. Affidavit of Isham Henry . . "He states that bodies of men, armed and masked, have passed and repassed his house very frequently during the past two weeks, and that their object was to intimidate colored people from voting . . ." Samuel Mastin makes affidavit in regard to Ku Klux Klan taking his guns July 1869 and other property from other persons on Plantation of Mr. Mastin 3 miles from Huntsville. Robert W. Peevy, A. Whited, J. W. Grayson, D. W. Parker & 30 others, citizens of Vienna vicinity petition for troops to be sent to Vienna to protect the people and property &c. W. R. Hunnicutt, Judge of Probate, J. A. Wheeler and eleven others request that the U. S. Troops stationed at Edwardsville, Ala. be ordered to Cross Plains in Calhoun Co., Ala. &c. John Leslie makes affidavit in regard to preaching being broken up by disguised men on 12th Sept. 1869, and he being shot at Sept. 13/69 and his home entered forcibly, his wife struck and his son whipped &c. P. H. Flood 1st Lieut. 2nd Infty. U. S. Army, reports in reference to disturbance in the neighborhood of Stephenson, Ala. that upon investigation he finds the chief cause to be a Negro living with a white woman, but thinks it only a pretext for the disturbance. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Christine Charity Christine's Genealogy Website http://ccharity.com The Freedmen's Bureau Online http://freedmensbureau.com Censuslinks on the Internet http://censuslinks.com ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ____________________________________________________________________________ ___