"Along Those Lines" 4/18/2003 Strategies for Accessing Sites Whose Addresses May Have Changed – George G. Morgan (reprinted with prior permission of Juliana Smith, Editor of Ancestry Daily News) In the course of your online research, you are certain to encounter websites with a message that says, "File not found," or something similar. Some of the sites may have been discontinued, some may have moved, and still others may have restructured their websites and changed the organization (and Web page names) of some or all of their resources. Typically your browser will display an error of some sort. These may include: HTTP 404 - File not found Error 404 - File not found The page cannot be found You are not authorized to view this page Access denied Don't despair! All is not quite lost. In this week's "Along Those Lines . . " column, let's discuss some strategies to help you locate and access websites which may have 'gone missing.' Strategy 1: Websites Whose Addresses Have Changed A responsible Webmaster will usually make certain to leave a trail behind if their website moves to a completely new address. This would be similar to leaving a forwarding order with the post office when you move. However, in the event that the Web page author has not been so accommodating, you may have to search a bit. In some cases, however, a Web address may simply have changed. This is especially applicable in cases where there is a lengthy URL, which may include a directory and/or a Web page document name in its address. In that case, there's a simple methodology you can employ to try to locate the desired content again for yourself. Let's say that we are looking for a recipe for an apple pie cheesecake in a ginger crust that we found at http://www.thatsmyhome.com/cheesecake/applepie html at the "That's My Home Web" site at one time. When you head to that website today, you'll find that it's not a valid URL. Now, we could certainly use Strategy 2 below, but if we didn't remember the right text to search, another approach may work better for us. There are several options available to use. 1. Try typing the URL again, and delete the letter 'l' in .html. The Webmaster may have simply changed his/her filename extension naming conventions for the site. In this case, (URL might be 2-Lines) http://www.thatsmyhome.com/cheesecake/applepie.htm now locates the recipe page. 2. If that didn't work, start subtracting portions of the Web address, gradually heading back to the root URL. For example, by entering the URL www.thatsmyhome.com/cheesecake/, that takes us to the cheesecake directory of the "That's My Home" Website. Here we find many other recipes for cheesecakes. 3. If option #2 didn't work, subtract the directory name of /cheesecake/ and go to the Website's root URL at: www.thatsmyhome.com, which is their site's home page. If going to the home page itself at thatsmyhome.com didn't quite do it, remember that all Websites' main page are titled index.htm or index.html. You could try entering either http://www.thatsmyhome.com/index.htm or alternately enter http://www.thatsmyhome.com/index.html and see if that gives you a viable link. Strategy 2: Discontinued Sites If you think a site has been discontinued or moved without leaving a forwarding address, you may use a search engine to try to locate it. However let's say for now that you can use a search engine to locate a website by entering the title of the page. What you need to understand is that, in conducting searches with a search engine, the engine itself is using its own self-compiled, mechanized index. There are three areas used by all search engines in compiling their index: 1. The Title of the Web page (the text that is seen in the blue title bar at the top of your browser); 2. The invisible keyword text that a Web page author may embed in his or her Web page that is known as Meta-tags; and 3. The text that appears anywhere in the body of the Web page (and this includes file names of graphics, sounds, and other files in the page). Therefore, when you enter a single word for a search, it may be located anywhere within these areas of the Web pages. The Advanced Search facility of many search engines may allow you to specify where in the Web page the word or phrase is to be sought. This might be included in the Page Title, which is that text which appears in the blue title bar at the top of your browser window. Perhaps you want to locate the text within the body of the Web page. Perhaps there is a word that appears as part of the Web address itself, or in the text used as a hotlink to this page. Whatever you can remember about your 'lost' website may be the vital information you need. However, for now, let's just say that you will use the Simple Search facility of any Web search engine to locate information that might have been in the Web page you are seeking. Let's use one of the currently popular search engines called Google, which can be located at www.google.com. For purposes of searching, you will enter either a single word/keyword in the search box of the search engine. To enter a word, simply type it in the box in all lower case letters. (Never use upper case or mixed case. Also, never use a plural if you can avoid it. We'll discuss this in the next lesson. However, both of these rules of thumb can help increase your chances of successfully locating more search results) To enter an exact phrase (two or more words which must be contiguous to one another in the precise order you have typed them), enclose them in the double quotation marks as follows. "beauregard olivier smith" For our example, let's say we are searching for a Web page about genealogy for the WILSON surname that may have moved. In this case, we will enter an exact phrase as follows: "wilson genealogy web page" In google.com, this search produced two results: Wilson Lineage Storme's Genealogy Page You may use the Find function of your browser on the menu bar under Edit/Find to rapidly locate the text in question.(A shortcut to the Find function can be done on your keyboard by pressing and holding the CTRL key and simultaneously pressing the F key.) Search both of these Web pages for the text we used above (wilson genealogy web page). (Don't include the quotation marks this time in the Find box or you won't find anything.) In the first Web page, the text appears at the bottom of the page. In the second Web page, you will find a link to the Matt Wilson Genealogy Web Page and it is a scanned image of an obituary. (Notice the text we used is part of this link's title.) If the text for which we were searching was only included in an otherwise invisible' Meta-tag in the Web page code, we could perform a Find function on the Web page and would not locate that text anywhere in the Web page. This is the reason why sometimes, when you use a search engine, there appears to be no reason why a certain Web page is included in the search results list. To see where the 'invisible' text is located, you can go to your browser's menu bar, and select View and then Source. Your computer will open another window (either another browser window or a word processor such as Notepad). The HTML code used to create and format the Web page will be displayed. By using pressing the CTRL and F keys, and entering the text you re seeking in the Find window, you can locate and view that 'invisible' text if you are so inclined. Summary Both of these strategies can be used in any situation where you have a URL and the Web page isn't coming up. If the search engine you use 'suggests' another Website or URL, you can always try that as well. There certainly will be Web pages which, as I often say, are "Here today, and gone this afternoon." That seems to be the nature of the Web. However, if you're sure the page once existed and may simply have moved or undergone a name or address change, you may be able to locate it after all. Happy hunting! George Editor's Note: Occasionally when you search for a page and locate it using a search engine, the page may have been taken offline between the time it was indexed and the time of your search. You will get one of those same dreaded error messages when you try to access the page. If you are using a search engine that maintains a cache you may still be able to view the page as it looked when it was indexed. Google.com keeps a cache and you can access the cached version of the webpage by simply clicking on the little gray link following the URL and page size that says "Cached." George will be teaching several online classes at MyFamily.com in upcoming weeks. For details, see today's Fast Fact. George G. Morgan would like to hear from you but, due to the volume of e-mail received, he is unable to answer every message. Please note that he cannot assist you with your individual research. Visit George's website at www.ahaseminars.com/atl for information about speaking engagements. Copyright 2003, MyFamily.com Inc. All rights reserved. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Googling Genealogy Style Twelve Google Search Tips for Genealogists by Kimberly Powell Check out http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekly/aa052902a.htm for the remainder of the article. In just three short years, Google has become the search engine of choice for millions of savvy Internet searchers. It is a special favorite among many of the genealogists due to its ability to return relevant search results for genealogy and surname queries. Google is much more than just a tool for finding Web sites, however, and most people surfing for information on their ancestors barely scratch the surface of its full potential. If you know what you are doing, you can use Google to search within Web sites, locate photos of your ancestors, bring back dead sites, and track down missing relatives. Learn how to Google as you've never Googled before: 1) Search With a Focus Google has four important ground rules that you need to know for focused results: Use a plus sign before words which are absolutely critical to your search. Use a minus sign before words that you want to be excluded from the search. This is especially useful when searching for a surname with a common usage such as rice or one which is shared with a famous celebrity such as Harrison Ford (i.e. you would enter your search as ford -harrison to exclude results with the word 'harrison'). Use quotation marks around any two word or greater phrase to find results where the words appear together exactly as you have entered them. This is especially useful when searching for proper names (i.e. a search for thomas jefferson will bring up pages with thomas smith and bill jefferson, while searching for "thomas jefferson" will only bring up pages with the name thomas jefferson included as a phrase. Use OR to retrieve search results that match any one of a number of words. The default operation for Google is to return results that match ALL search terms, so by linking your terms with OR you can achieve a bit more flexibility (ie smith genealogy OR geneology OR cemetery) To get really fancy you can combine these options together to achieve truly focused search results. For example, crisp +surname -apple genealogy OR geneology OR +will OR "family tree" will return sites with the terms smith AND surname, combined with either genealogy, geneology, will, or the phrase family tree. Plus you won't retrieve any pages talking about "apple crisp!" I only recommend limiting your searches to this extent for common surnames, however. Otherwise you may just find yourself missing some good sites! 2) Search Without Stops Stop words are small, common words that many search engines ignore, or don't stop for, when searching for documents that match your query. This is because these words are either too common to generate meaningful results (i e. where, how, about... or are parts of speech like conjunctions, prepositions and adverbs (i.e. and, if, be, the...). Google tells you when it's ignoring a stop word by displaying details on the results page below the search box (i.e. "about" is a very common word and was not included in your search). There are times when searching that you will not want Google to exclude these stop words. For example, will is considered a stop word by Google, which can mess up your search results if you are searching for the will of a specific ancestor. To get around this you can either force Google to include a stop word in your search by putting a "+" sign in front of it or by enclosing your phrase of two or more words in quotation marks (i.e. "about genealogy" or "will rogers"). Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

The Association of Daughters of Early American Witches, http://www.adeaw.us/ has a partial list of "approved ancestors" which can be found at: http://www.adeaw.us/ancestors.htm. It does not include Indians accused or punished or killed as witches and not sure if it includes African-Americans. The Indians and Africans were the two largest groups hung as witches but are usually ignored. Also, Quakers were regularly accused of being witches. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Looking for pictures of ships try http://ruby.ils.unc.edu/maritime and http://archives.ubalt.edu/steamship/photo.htm Biographies of New Zealanders http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/ GenLookups http://www.genlookups.com Obituary Central http://www.obitcentral.com Obituary Links Page http://www.obitlinkspage.com GenDirectory.com http://www.gendirectory.com Texas Marriages Index http://www.genlookups.com/texas_marriages/ New York Marriages Search http://www.genlookups.com/ny_marriages/ Georgia Marriages Search http://www.genlookups.com/ga_marriages/ Virginia Marriages Search http://www.genlookups.com/va_marriages/ Arkansas Marriages Search http://www.genlookups.com/ar_marriages/ Massachusetts Marriages Search http://www.genlookups.com/ma_marriages/ Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

TEXAS VITAL RECORDS-—BIRTH RECORDS. Free full name birth records index searches (1903-1952). http://www.texasvitalrecords.com/birth.htm TEXAS VITAL RECORDS--DEATH RECORDS. Free full name death records index searches (1903-1955). http://www.texasvitalrecords.com/death.htm Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002

If you research in St. Louis, this might be of interest. If you research in Missouri check out the State Archives page - the link is below. Patricia Walls Stamm, CGRS just announced that there is a project to digitize the St. Louis City Probate Records. It will eventually cover the years 1802 - 1900. It is a continuing project but the index is online at http://www.sos.state.mo.us/archives/resources/resources.asp Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Frightening Earthquake Hits New England November 18, 1755 One of the most significant earthquakes in the northeastern region occurred off Cape Ann. At Boston walls and chimneys were thrown down and stone fences were knocked down. Some descriptions mentioned violent movement of the ground, like waves of the sea, making it necessary to cling to something to prevent being thrown to the ground. At Pembroke and Scituate small chasms opened in the earth through which fine sand reached the surface. Large numbers of fish were killed and many people on vessels felt shocks as if the ships were striking bottom. This earthquake was felt from Lake George, New York, to a point at sea 200 miles east of Cape Ann, and from Chesapeake Bay to the Annapolis River, Nova Scotia, about 300,000 square miles. Nineteen earthquakes have centered in Massachusetts. A number of other earthquakes were centered off the coast of Massachusetts and affected the eastern portion of the State. Strong earthquakes in the St. Lawrence Valley in 1638, 1661, 1663, and 1732 were felt in Massachusetts. The 1638 and 1663 shocks damaged chimneys at Plymouth, Salem, and Lynn. On June 11, 1643, Newbury, Massachusetts, was strongly shaken. Again in 1727 (November 9) an earthquake described as tremendous" in one report and "violent" in another caused much damage at Newbury. The shock was felt from the Keenbec to the Delaware River and from ships at sea to the extreme western settlements. Several strong aftershocks were reported from the area through February 1728. Eastern Massachusetts was shaken moderately on February 17, 1737, and June 24, 1741. Then on June 14, 1744, large numbers of bricks were shaken from tops of chimneys at Boston and other towns and stone walls were shaken down. Many persons in Newbury and Ipswich were alarmed. The earthquake was reported felt severely at Falmouth, Maine. Source: The Earth Resources Laboratory, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA United States Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

'Forwarded by one of our members.' You can pass this message on to anyone you think might be interested, and if you find an ancestor on any of my projects please let me know! Lorine McGinnis Schulze at: [email protected] Passport records online on NaturalizationRecords.com http://NaturalizationRecords.com/usa/ Passport applications are often a valuable source of genealogical information. NARA has passport applications from October 1795-March 1925. The U. S. Department of State has passport applications from April 1925 to the present. Some immigrants applied for passports to return home to visit family or friends. These records usually give a place of birth or at: least the destination (which is often the home town) The first passport issued in USA was dated July 1796. My first new database is an Index to Special Passports 1829- 1887. This is for all states. http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports1829-87a.shtml Next is an Index to the Register of Passport Applications 1809- 1817 for all states, found at: http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports1809.shtml At present 1809 and 1810 are online, the remaining years will follow as quickly as Cindy G and I get them transcribed. I have also added new surnames beginning with G, H and L to the existing Register of Passports 1834-1843 at: http://naturalizationrecords com/usa/passports1834_a.shtml (URL is 2-lines) These are for all states. “G” Surnames are at: http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports1834_g.shtml “H” Surnames are at: http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports1834_h.shtml “L” Surnames are at: http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports1834_l.shtml Surnames A to F were already online, and the rest will follow as quickly as they are transcribed. All records on NaturalizationRecords.com are FREE to use, please let each page load completely then scroll down to find the names. The index to Passport Records and an explanation of Passport Records as a research tool is at:: http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/passports.shtml * The Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * USA Genealogy www.rootsweb.com/~ote/usa_genealogy/ Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

SCOTLAND. FRIENDS OF DUNDEE CITY ARCHIVES. Free searchable databases: Methodist Baptisms--Wesleyan register of baptisms, Dundee 1785-1898; The Howff File--Burial records for the Howff, Dundee City's cemetery; Vehicle Registrations--County vehicle registration records for Perthshire (1909-1911) and Kinross-shire (1904-1952); Index of Poor Registers--Liff & Benvie Register of Poor (1854-1865) and Dundee East Poorhouse Register (1856-1878). http://www.fdca.org.uk/ SCOTLAND, COUNTY OF KINROSS, FIFE. 1841 CENSUS Transcriptions and Indexes to the 1841 census of the County of Kinross, Scotland--Arngask, Cleish, Forgandenny, Fossoway and Tulliebole parishes; Portmoak Parish; and 1841 census of Fife—- Scoonie Parish. http://member.melbpc.org.au/~andes/scotland.html Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

INDEX TO THE 1901 CENSUS OF CANADA Project to index the 1901 census of Canada using the online images from the National Archives. Hundreds of thousands of records already transcribed; several thousand records added daily. Users can volunteer to help transcribe Access is free http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html NATURALIZATION INDEXES. Searchable online indexes. http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/naturalization.html NORWAY. HADELAND LAG OF AMERICA. Organization of descendants of immigrants to the United States and Canada from the Hadeland area of Oppland County, Norway. In the first decade of the 20th century, immigrants and their descendants from specific areas of Norway began organizing into "lags" (lodges). Annual "stevner" (meetings) brought them together to renew acquaintances, catch up on news from the "Old Country," and pass along their heritage to successive American generations. http://www.hadelandlag.org/ Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Database to locate information about Indiana men and women who served in World War II who were mentioned in one of the three major Indianapolis daily newspapers (NEWS, STAR, and TIMES) from 1942 through early 1946. Approximately 26,000 names are included (notices of asualties, missing military personnel, prisoners, and decorations of Indiana servicemen and women; also notices of civilians taken prisoner overseas during the war). Fields in the database include name, date and location of the article, what happened to the person, branch of military service, & hometown. Are you a veteran of World War II? Do you have letters, diaries, or recorded memoirs from your years in service? If so, please consider donating them to the Indiana State Library. Professional staff with training in the care of historic documents will make your donated materials available to the students and historians of today, and take care of them so that they are available to the scholars of the future. If you would like to discuss donating your World War II era materials to the Indiana State Library, please contact our Manuscript Librarian, Jill Costill, at 317-232-3671. http://199.8.200.90:591/wwii.html Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002

Rootsweb newsletter contained several website URLs with California records http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~npmelton This site has some marriages and deaths, passenger lists and lists of companies coming overland to CA. It takes a while to search it because you need to click on the county and then click on each separate database but this has a lot of information. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

The Death of Amos Humiston re Battle of Gettysburg Mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, Union soldier Amos Humiston died clutching the only clue to his identity: an ambrotype of his three small children. by Mark H. Dunkelman Of all the fallen heroes of the epic, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, this Union soldier was unique. He had not led a charge, nor captured an enemy flag, nor rescued a comrade under fire. Instead, his fame rested on his dying act of devotion and love; his death pose made his story special. Want to read the entire story? You'll find it at: www.thehistorynet.com/acw/blmysterydeathhumiston/ (URL 'might' be 2-Lines) Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

ELECTRONIC RECORDS GALORE Research your family history and discover more about your ancestors from the comfort of your home. The National Archives and Records Adminstration (NARA) http://www.archives.gov/, recently made 50 million historical records available online. The new Access to Archival Databases (AAD) http://www archives.gov/aad/ System allows researchers to obtain electronic records with the click of a mouse. Records cover a variety of topics including the Civil War, battlefields, historic sites, immigration, necrology, space flight, naval history and much more. The electronic holdings in the database contain material from more than 30 archival series. These series pertain to specific persons, geographic areas, organizations or dates. NARA helps put the information in context by providing you with code lists, explanatory notes from NARA archivists, and for some series or files, related documents. To search AAD, select a series of electronic records. Choose a specific data file within a series and enter search criteria to access relevant records. Once you have records that match your research interests, print them or save them as an electronic file. You won't find paper records here, however. The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/ features NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC, area, its regional archives and presidential libraries. Visit NARA's Web site to learn more about AAD and ARC. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Some of today's familiar words had different meanings during colonial times in the USA and earlier times in other parts of the world. The change in meaning often happened in words referring to social relationships. As examples: 1. "cousin" often meant niece or nephew 2. "Mrs." could show high social status, not marital status 3. "niece" and "nephew" spring from Latin words which meant "granddaughter" and 4. "grandson," so you may find them used in that context. 5. When we use the words "junior" and "senior," we normally think of a father and son relationship. However, in the past, these words were used more liberally and could refer to an uncle and nephew, or to two people with the same name who were unrelated. 6. "brother" and "sister" also were used in different ways. Members of the same church often referred to each other as brothers and sisters, and a married couple would refer to their brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law just as brothers and sisters. 7. "in-law" in the past could be either step relationships or the regular in-law relationship that we think of today. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

http://www.searchsystems.net/index.php Search data base by nation, state, territories, Canada and Canada per providence, world wide and <<G>> outer space! and much more.. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002

Ancestry.com & Genealogy.com to Merge Apr 8 2003 MyFamily.com, Inc., a leading online subscription business and the leading network for connecting families, and A&E Television Networks (AETN announced today that MyFamily has acquired Genealogy.com, producer of the award-winning family tree software, Family Tree Maker, and provider of extensive online genealogy resources. In addition, MyFamily will receive promotion on AETN television properties. Genealogy.com joins the MyFamily network of websites -- Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, and RootsWeb.com -- giving customers a full complement of Internet services focused on connecting families with their histories and one another. Combined, the network of websites receives over 10 million unique visitors each month and has more than one million paid subscriptions. "We're excited to bring these two strong companies together to better serve consumers and the genealogy community," said Tom Stockham, President & CEO of MyFamily.com. "It's a great strategic fit and underscores an opportunity to serve the growing market for family history products. By providing customers with a broad set of tools to discover the information that makes their family history come to life, we help customers answer the questions, Who am I?', 'Where do I come from?' and 'How am I connected?'" "AETN is excited to see these two important family history companies come together, increasing the positive experience of consumers embarking on family research," said Nick Davatzes, President & CEO, A&E Television Networks. "We believe this agreement makes good sense for the businesses and for the consumer. AETN looks forward to a long-term strategic partnership with MyFamily." Genealogy.com will continue to offer its wide variety of products and services, including Family Tree Makera, and its dynamic roster of online subscription products. MyFamily will continue to improve upon the products and services Genealogy.com currently offers, enhancing the family history research experience. In addition, Genealogy.com will continue to host GenForum message boards, a widely used free genealogy community resource, with more than six million messages posted. MyFamily serves the fast-growing market of people with an interest in family history. As reported in a recent study, family history is one of the fastest-growing hobbies in the U.S., with over 60% of Americans interested in researching their family history. The addition of Genealogy.com's strong product line to MyFamily's network of websites, family tree software, databases on CD-ROM, message boards, books, and magazines, is a natural expansion, providing researchers valuable tools to quickly and easily explore their family history, saving them time and money. SOURCE MyFamily.com, Inc. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Common Nicknames Please don't limit yourself to this source for nicknames; there are lots of sites out there with additional nicknames. http://www.usgenweb.com/researchers/nicknames.html [URL might be 2-lines] Here is a sample of the nicknames you can find on this site: MALE GIVEN NAMES Aaron .. Erin, Ron, Ronnie Abel .. Ab, Abe, Eb, Ebbie Abiah/Abijah .. A.B., Ab, Biah Abiel .. Biel, Ab Abraham/Abram .. Abe Abner .. Ab FEMALE GIVEN NAMES Abigail .. Abby, Nabby, Gail Adaline/Adeline .. Ada, Addy, Dell, Delia, Lena Adelaide .. Addy, Adele, Dell, Della, Heidi Adelphia .. Adele, Addy, Dell, Delphia, Philly Agatha .. Aggy Agnes .. Aggy, Inez, Nessa Aileen .. Allie, Lena Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Today is tomorrow's history." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002

For a really good online tutorial on restoring old photos, visit this website. http://www.screengenes.com ========== Some might want to check out the Republic of Texas claims. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/repclaims/index.html "The records comprise four groups of payments made for services rendered during the period 1835-1846: Audited Claims, Republic Pensions, Public Debt Claims, and Unpaid Claims. This Online Database provides the Reel and Frame location of more than 48,500 indexed names. The microfilm reels are available through interlibrary loan and, to view in person, at the Genealogy Collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission." ========== Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] "Without genealogy, the study of history is lifeless." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002

Saturday, April 5, 2003 Posted: 9:53 AM EST (1453 GMT) WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Researchers, genealogists and the plain curious can now use the Internet to check more than 50 million historical records at the National Archives, from Civil War battles to family immigration files. Before the system became available, people had to either visit the Archives and spend hours combing through documents or request the files by phone and pay to have them mailed. "Now, people can pull these electronic records at their own convenience," said Michael Carlson, electronic and special media records director for the archives. "It's totally self-service from your desktop." Interested in more info? http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/04/05/online.archive.ap/index.html