Hello, I've recently subscribed to this list but have seen no postings yet. To make sure I am on the right list, I thought I would post what I am interested in. We are in the process of forming a Genealogical Society in my community. There is also discussion of publishing a Gen. Bulletin. I am interested in learning from other editors what type information is usually published and if there are certain guidelines (or laws) which govern what information MAY be published. (For example, on birth records). Any information you would be willing to share would be appreciated. Sincerely, Alicia Brown

If you are researching relatives in the UK, we would like to invite you to join us on the IIGS IRC. We will be meeting every Tuesday from 20:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-UKgen. This meeting is intended as a get together for people researching UK ancestors, both from in the UK and from outside the UK. The intention is to have more regular communication between people.. e.g. If you are having a discussion on the UK and Ireland newsgroup then bring it with you and have an interactive discussion about it. Bring your surnames and see if anyone else is researching in your area. Bring your books with you and see if you can help others. We are hoping that this meeting will become a regular place for people to meet and discuss UK genealogy. If you want to use our server for your own genealogy meetings.. just do it !! e.g. County meetings, One name study meetings, or just having an interactive chat with someone you have been talking to on the Newsgroups or via e-mail. The more YOU want to do the better the session will be. Even if you just pop in to see what's happening please give it a go... The IIGS IRC service is the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. Brand new, do not despair if there aren't many people online, stay for a while, or try again later. To access this service, direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667 or 7000. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. Three regular general genealogy meetings have been scheduled to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 ALSO USmil-genealogy. We will be meeting every Sunday between 19:00 and 22:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-USMil. We will be researching the United States military genealogy from the Revolutionary war through to Desert Storm, concentrating on methods for finding our relatives who served in these wars and what they did. AND Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg. Meeting on Sunday 27th July at 18:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-BNL. If you are researching in these areas, or indeed in Europe, you will be very welcome. For conversions to your time zone, see http://www.admin.uow.edu.au/iigs/time_chart.html We hope to meet you at IIGS IRC. Best wishes Camilla

Please send catalog. If that's snail mail, send to: D. M. Ross, 9333 Buckhart Road, Rochester, IL 62563 I have a Minolta EP 2151. Do you have anything for color copiers? (Canon Color Lazer Copier) THanks.

If you are researching relatives in the UK, we would like to invite you to join us on the IIGS IRC. We will be meeting every Tuesday from 20:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-UKgen. This meeting is intended as a get together for people researching UK ancestors, both from in the UK and from outside the UK. The intention is to have more regular communication between people.. e.g. If you are having a discussion on the UK and Ireland newsgroup then bring it with you and have an interactive discussion about it. Bring your surnames and see if anyone else is researching in your area. Bring your books with you and see if you can help others. We are hoping that this meeting will become a regular place for people to meet and discuss UK genealogy. If you want to use our server for your own genealogy meetings.. just do it !! e.g. County meetings, One name study meetings, or just having an interactive chat with someone you have been talking to on the Newsgroups or via e-mail. The more YOU want to do the better the session will be. Even if you just pop in to see what's happening please give it a go... The IIGS IRC service is the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. Brand new, do not despair if there aren't many people online, stay for a while, or try again later. To access this service, direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667 or 7000. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. Three regular general genealogy meetings have been scheduled to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 ALSO USmil-genealogy. We will be meeting every Sunday between 19:00 and 22:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-USMil. We will be researching the United States military genealogy from the Revolutionary war through to Desert Storm, concentrating on methods for finding our relatives who served in these wars and what they did. AND Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg. Meeting on Sunday 27th July at 18:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-BNL. If you are researching in these areas, or indeed in Europe, you will be very welcome. For conversions to your time zone, see http://www.admin.uow.edu.au/iigs/time_chart.html We hope to meet you at IIGS IRC. Best wishes Camilla

Rootsweb hosts IRC at the International Internet Genealogical Society (IIGS). Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . The IIGS IRC service is the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. To access this service, direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667 or 7000. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. Three regular general genealogy meetings have been scheduled to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 THEMED SESSIONS. USmil-genealogy. Meet every Sunday between 19:00 and 22:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-USMil. We will be researching the United States military genealogy from the Revolutionary war through to Desert Storm, concentrating on methods for finding our relatives who served in these wars and what they did. UK-genealogy. Meet every Tuesday from 20:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-UKgen. Anyone researching in the UK is welcome to attend. This meeting is intended as a get together for people researching UK ancestors, both from in the UK and from outside the UK. The intention is to have more regular communication between people.. e.g. If you are having a discussion on the UK and Ireland newsgroup then bring it with you and have an interactive discussion about it. Bring your surnames and see if anyone else is researching in your area. Bring your books with you and see if you can help others. NEW This week on Sunday 20th July, at 18:00 GMT, we launch the first Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg chat on channel #IIGS-BNL Bring your surnames to IIGS IRC and join us in discussing research in these areas. For conversions to your time zone, a useful Web site is http://www.admin.uow.edu.au/iigs/time_chart.html Best wishes Camilla

Does anyone know how to START an automated list such as this one for a surname? I heard you can get one free, but I don't know how to get one. Also, I am publishing a biography on an ancestor, and will appreciate any advice anyone can give. I have photos, and I was planning to use the book function in the new Family Tree Maker version 4.0. If you have any suggestions please send them along. I might have overlooked something obvious or put something stupid in it, I am not sure... Lori Bills Paintball at http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/2453/ Lori's Genealogy in the Virignia's at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1968 Lori's site at Family Tree Maker http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/a/m/Lori--Samples/

Rootsweb hosts IRC at the International Internet Genealogical Society (IIGS). Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . The IIGS IRC service is the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. Brand new, do not despair if there don't seem to be many people online, stay for a while, or try again later. To access this service, direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667 or 7000. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. Three regular general genealogy meetings have been scheduled to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 ALSO announcing the first of our themed sessions. USmil-genealogy. We will be meeting every Sunday between 19:00 and 22:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-USMil. We will be researching the United States military genealogy from the Revolutionary war through to Desert Storm, concentrating on methods for finding our relatives who served in these wars and what they did. UK-genealogy. We will be meeting every Tuesday from 20:00 GMT on channel #IIGS-UKgen. Anyone researching in the UK is welcome to attend. For conversions to your time zone, a useful Web site is http://http://www.admin.uow.edu.au/iigs/time_chart.html Best wishes Camilla

Hello! I am looking for information on a Charles Rigg who came to America from England around 1750. He married Mary Townley while aboard the ship bound for the Colonies. They later had at least 2 children...Townley was born around 1754 and another son Charles. Can you help me? gospeltime@wworld.com

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"The International Internet Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the IIGS web site and the publication of the first monthly newsletter. IIGS was started just one month ago. On May 16, 1997 Dr. Brian Leverich issued the statement that resulted in the formation of the "International Internet Genealogical Society." Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . IIGS IRC hosted at Rootsweb Also announcing the IIGS IRC service, the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. Brand new, do not despair if there don't seem to be many people online, stay for a while, or try again later. To access this service,direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. After the success of our meetings last weekend, the start of regular IIGS meetings on IRC, we have adjusted the times of our three meetiings to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 UK -- Sat 21:00 Sun 02:00 Sun 12:00 CET -- Sat 22:00 Sun 03:00 Sun 13:00 US East Coast ------------- Sat 16:00 Sat 21:00 Sun 07:00 US West Coast ------------- Sat 13:00 Sat 18:00 Sun 04:00 Ausstralia --------- Sun 06:00 Sun 11:00 Sun 21:00 Camilla .......................................................... Camilla von Massenbach IIGS Member camilla@algroup.co.uk http://www.iigs.org/ http://www.links.org/surnames.htm

"The International Internet Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the IIGS web site and the publication of the first monthly newsletter. IIGS was started just one month ago. On May 16, 1997 Dr. Brian Leverich issued the statement that resulted in the formation of the "International Internet Genealogical Society." Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . IIGS IRC hosted at Rootsweb Also announcing the IIGS IRC service, the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. Brand new, do not despair if there don't seem to be many people online, stay for a while, or try again later. To access this service,direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Graham Hart graham_hart@ibm.net, Wendy Garner scooby@marsweb.com, Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net> or Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net. After the success of our meetings last weekend, the start of regular IIGS meetings on IRC, we have adjusted the times of our three meetiings to accommodate the various time zones. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. Meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat 20:00 Sun 01:00 Sun 11:00 UK -- Sat 21:00 Sun 02:00 Sun 12:00 CET -- Sat 22:00 Sun 03:00 Sun 13:00 US East Coast ------------- Sat 16:00 Sat 21:00 Sun 07:00 US West Coast ------------- Sat 13:00 Sat 18:00 Sun 04:00 Ausstralia --------- Sun 06:00 Sun 11:00 Sun 21:00 Camilla .......................................................... Camilla von Massenbach IIGS Member camilla@algroup.co.uk http://www.iigs.org/ http://www.links.org/surnames.htm --------------------------------------------- URL: http://www.links.org/surnames.htm

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"The International Internet Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the IIGS web site and the publication of the first monthly newsletter. IIGS was started just one month ago. On May 16, 1997 Dr. Brian Leverich issued the statement that resulted in the formation of the "International Internet Genealogical Society." Visit our web site at http://www.iigs.org/ . We are particularly looking for translators so we can spread our membership far and wide. IIGS IRC hosted at Rootsweb Also announcing the IIGS IRC service, the IIGS's first tool for genealogists, hosted by Rootsweb. Set up exclusively for genealogy, the IIGS IRC is open 24 hours per day so genealogists around the world can meet. Brand new, do not despair if there don't seem to be many people online, stay for a while, or try again later. To access this service,direct your IRC client to irc.IIGS.org, or irc.rootsweb.com, port 6667. For help with using the IIGS IRC service email Holly Fee-Timm <hollyft@bright.net>, or Laura Cook <orphans1@mc.net>. Also announcing the start of regular IIGS meetings, on IRC. In order to accommodate the various time zones, we will actually have three meetings, once a week. All are welcome to attend any or all of them. The first meetings will be held on the IIGS IRC server on the channel #IIGS-meet, at the following times: GMT --- Sat Jun 21 18:00 Sun Jun 22 01:00 Sun Jun 22 10:00 UK -- Sat Jun 21 19:00 Sun Jun 22 02:00 Sun Jun 22 11:00 CET -- Sat Jun 21 20:00 Sun Jun 22 03:00 Sun Jun 22 12:00 US East Coast ------------- Sat Jun 21 14:00 Sat Jun 21 21:00 Sun Jun 22 06:00 US West Coast ------------- Sat Jun 21 11:00 Sat Jun 21 18:00 Sun Jun 22 03:00 Australia --------- Sun Jun 22 04:00 Sun Jun 22 11:00 Sun Jun 22 20:00 Camilla .......................................................... Camilla von Massenbach IIGS Member camilla@algroup.co.uk http://www.iigs/ http://www.links.org/surnames.htm ---------------------------------------------

The International Internet Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the IIGS web site and the publication of the first monthly newsletter. IIGS was started just one month ago. On May 16, 1997 Dr. Brian Leverich issued the statement that resulted in the formation of the "International Internet Genealogical Society." The main focus of IIGS is: To assist in the creation and maintenance of genealogical resources on the Internet; to represent the interests of genealogists using the Internet; to promote the development of standards, protocols, and software, and to provide a common social organization for genealogists using the Internet, regardless of their specific interests. Membership in IIGS is free, with the goal of enrolling virtually all 100,000+ Internet genealogists as members. Current benefits of membership include the monthly newsletter, a quarterly journal, and classes through the IIGS university, all available on-line. More information on membership and volunteering can be found at the IIGS web-site at http://www.iigs.org Come check us out.

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Hi Pam, Who wrote the book? I will probably order it -- it sounds great! I have a question for the group. I'm working on my first book. It is an early group of tax lists for a Virginia county. I have high hopes because it's an important list, never before published or microfilmed. I would really like to hear everybody's thoughts on whether to publish and sell this myself or to sell the mss. to Gen Pub, Iberian or another publisher. Has anyone had experience doing either? Libbie

Greetings to all, A brand new genealogy organization has been formed at Rootsweb! This organization is called the International Internet Genealogical Society or IIGS and membership is open to all who are interested in genealogy worldwide. We hope to link together genealogists and genealogy resources all over the world through this organization. Details about the organization and its mission may be viewed on our web page at....... http://www.rootsweb.com/~iigs We are a totally volunteer organization and would like to extend an invitation to any and all interested "rooters" to come and join us at IIGS!!! You may sign up for the IIGS Mailing List direct from our web page. We have several teams of volunteers working together to make this organization a success worldwide and we need many more of you to help. There are places for all types of talent that are needed ASAP. If you would like to volunteer to help out, whether it is just a little or a lot, or whether you have tons of experience or not, we really want to hear from you!! Some positions which need to be filled as soon as possible are as follows: teachers (for online genealogy classes), translators (all languages), Unix sys administrators, and Global Village Representatives to represent their respective countries throughout the world. There are several teams at IIGS and you may volunteer for any of them. A listing of these teams can be viewed on our web page. Volunteers may send an e-mail with their name, e-mail address, any area(s) for which they would like to volunteer, and any special skills or talents they may possess (although not required), to the following address. tazzycat@earthlink.net Please put Volunteer as the subject of your e-mail to help speed things along! Hope to see you there!!!! Thank you for your time! Karen Costelli IIGS Talent Scout tazzycat@earthlink.net

A couple of days ago, I received a book ordered from Willow Bend Books ( http://www.mediasoft.net/ScottC ) called The What Shall I Write Handbook For Editors of Family and Genealogy Society Newsletters. I had ordered the book more out of curiousity than all else and it turned out to be a wonderful surprize. It was like receiving a well-written copy of an editors free-writing or sounding board. All kinds of ideas for articles or subjects and so forth. As a rather new editor/publisher, I am always trying to keep my eyes out for a 'fresh look' into article ideas and other things to include to make my newsletter more interesting and beneficial for the subscribers. I found this book wonderful because it really is full of ideas. It was only $16 plus postage and is available from Willow Bend Books 39475 Tollhouse Road Lovettsville, VA 20180-9703 willowbend@mediasoft.net or call (540)822-5292 If any of you are like me and don't have a file cabinet full of articles ready for print ahead of time (or would like to) this $16 (plus postage) is a pretty good deal. Pamela G. Hurak ResearchVA@juno.com Editor/Publisher of THE SOUTHSIDE RESEARCHER Note: The newsletter that I publish is a regional genealogical newsletter. I'd really like to hear from an editor who works with a family or surname newsletter and know if this handbook was as interesting for someone writing from that view. Did any one else order this book?

My grandfather emmigrated to USA in march 17th, 1881 in New York. Looking for name of ship or passenger list or aqny relevant info. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Ed Qualters.