Thought you might find this of interest .. submitted by one of our mailing list members 3 March 2003--7 pm EST House Bill 1540 was narrowly defeated in a vote in the Indiana House of Representatives this morning. 43 representatives voted in favor, 50 against, with 7 abstentions. A message from IGS President Betty Warren: Many thanks to all of you for your relentless support! We have gained a temporary reprieve. Now begins the challenging task of opening a dialog for compromise, because this issue will come up again, probably as soon as next year's legislative session. Genealogists must become fully informed of the possible options available and communicate our specific needs so that reasonable restrictions could be placed on our vital records. The integrity and safety of our own personal privacy must be a factor while consideration is made for preserving the integrity and safety of our vital records. The IGS Legislative Committee has already heard from several other states concerning this issue; however, an in-depth study of the other forty-nine states' access policies will need to be conducted. Input will be welcomed. Protect our records for future generations! .

Annie Moore was lucky. Because the 15-year-old Irish girl was the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island, on Jan. 1, 1892, she was treated more like a celebrity than one of the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" described on the nearby Statue of Liberty. Fresh off the boat from County Cork, Annie entered America bearing a $10 gold coin from the state immigration commissioner. The 12 million immigrants who came after her in the next 32 years enjoyed a less red-carpet introduction to America. Herded like animals, probed by doctors, interrogated, tested, sometimes separated from their families and even sent back where they'd come from, the "wretched refuse" of Europe's teeming shores came to think of Ellis Island as "island of hope, island of tears." But they made it, most of them, following Annie Moore to the promised land and remaking America in their image. Today, more than 100 million Americans have at least one ancestor who came through Ellis Island. Gauntlet to a New Land For your immigrant ancestors, having their name on a ship's manifest was the culmination of a dream — and often the beginning of a nightmare. A steerage ticket to America cost about $25, which might be two years' wages. That bought a crowded, 3,000-mile voyage of two weeks to a month as human cargo, suffering seasickness and unsanitary conditions on a diet of thin soup and bread. Harder still than the voyage was leaving behind everything and everyone you knew. Julia Gonipow, who emigrated from Lithuania in 1899, remembered, "The day I left home, my mother came with me to the railroad station. When we said goodbye, she said it was just like seeing me go into my casket. I never saw her again." But they said their goodbyes and endured the trip to reach, as one British cartoon put it, "the U.S. Ark of Refuge," where they'd find "free education, free land, free speech, free ballot, free lunch." They left behind joblessness and poverty, conscription and persecution. Though English, Irish Germans and Scandinavians had led the migration to America for most of the 19th century, by the time Ellis Island opened in 1892 immigrants from Italy, Russia and Austria-Hungary had joined the flood. By 1907, these three groups accounted for 75 percent of the traffic through Ellis Island. On arrival, first and second-class passengers were cleared onboard by immigration officials. Steerage passengers were hustled onto a ferry to Ellis Island. At its peak in 1907, Ellis Island was handling more than 11 000 immigrants a day. Wearing numbered tags that matched a page of the ship's manifest, the immigrants came up the steps from the pier into the ornate, red-brick and limestone, Beaux Arts main building. First stop was the Baggage Room. Here they could check their meager possessions, a sampling of which can be seen today in Ellis Island's Treasures from Home exhibit: wool gloves from Norway eyeglasses from Scotland, an apron from Romania, a ladies' fan from Italy, a battered teddy bear that came to America from Switzerland with Gertrude Schneider, age 10. >From the Baggage Room, the immigrants went up to the Registry Room, the great, two-story main hall with its vaulted, terra-cotta-tiled ceiling and American flags. Even as they mounted the stairs, Public Health Service doctors would be watching for signs of infirmity. In what became known as the six-second physical," the doctors scanned for ailments that might disqualify a newcomer. A chalk mark on the clothes identified those to be detained for further examination: "H" for heart problems, "L" for lameness, E" for eye disease — particularly the highly contagious trachoma, which doctors checked for by turning the eyelid inside-out with a buttonhook. Intelligence was tested, too. A typical question might be, "Would you wash stairs from the top down or from the bottom up?" — which once brought the sharp response, "I didn't come to America to wash stairs." At the far end of the Registry Room waited the legal inspectors. Working with an army of interpreters, they tried to weed out anarchists, polygamists and immigrants unable to support themselves in their new land ("S.I. – L.P.C ," these were coded: "special inquiry — likely to become a public charge"). About 10 percent of immigrants were held for a hearing; today, visitors to Ellis Island can relive this experience by serving as a mock hearing board, deciding an "immigrant's" fate in a reenactment. According to one of the most often-told tales about Ellis Island, the harried inspectors also changed immigrants' names, through misspelling or simplification. But Sharon Carmack, author of the forthcoming A Genealogist s Guide to Discovering Your Ethnic Ancestors (and a contributor to Family Tree Magazine), debunks this legend: "No evidence whatsoever exists to suggest this ever occurred, and I have challenged countless people who insist their ancestor's name was changed on Ellis Island to provide me with proof. So far, no one has been able to. … Inspectors compared the names the immigrants told them against what was recorded on the passenger lists. These lists were created at the ports of departure. There was no reason to record or change anyone's surname once they arrived. More likely, immigrants themselves changed their names after they settled in America to avoid prejudice and to blend more easily into American society." The average stay at Ellis Island was less than a day. Some, however, had to stay overnight in crowded dormitories, or were quarantined in the island's hospital. Families got separated, and anxious parents might wait weeks to be reunited with their children. More than 3,500 immigrants died on Ellis Island, and more than 350 babies were born. Ultimately, about two out of every hundred would-be new Americans were turned away. All immigrants' steamship tickets, in a nice little subsidy for the steamship companies, were required to be for a round trip. A heartbroken handful completed the ticketed journey. A Nation of Immigrants Most who came to Ellis Island, however, went down from the Registry Room to the railroad ticket office and the free ferries to New York and New Jersey, to begin a new life. Immigrants bound for Manhattan met their relatives – many of whom they'd never seen — at the "kissing post." Katherine Beychok, a Russian Jewish immigrant in 1910, remembered meeting her father for the first time: "I saw a man coming forward and he was so beautiful. … And I fell in love with him and he with me." Gaining entrance to America, another immigrant recalled, "was as if God's great promise had been fulfilled." Once beyond the gateway of Ellis Island, though, immigrants found that life could be every bit as hard as it had been back home. An old Italian story posted in today's Ellis Island museum puts it this way: "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things: First, the streets were not paved with gold. Second, they weren't paved at all. Third, I was expected to pave them." But pave them they did — and build our cities and make our laws and enrich our culture. Irving Berlin came through Ellis Island from Russia in 1893; Al Jolson, from Lithuania, in 1894. Knute Rockne arrived from Norway in 1893. Felix Frankfurter came from Austria in 1894, followed by Maria Von Trapp and family in 1938. Sol Hurok came from the Ukraine in 1906. Isaac Asimov came from Russia in 1923. They gave America their children, too. For example, among the 600,000 names inscribed on Ellis Island's American Immigrant Wall of Honor are the parents of one Francis Albert Sinatra. "It touches a human chord in the great spirit of adventure," says the foundation's Stephen Briganti, "how these people made it possible for us to be Americans. They are our history." Immigrants entered through other ports, too — San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore and more. But the greatest influx during the greatest human migration in history came through Ellis Island. In 1903, for instance, 706 113 of the 951,227 immigrants began their American life at the Port of New York. And today, Ellis Island is the only national monument dedicated to the immigrant experience shared by so many of our ancestors. In 1990, the Ellis Island Immigrant Museum opened in the former main building, restored at a cost of $170 million. You can retrace your ancestor s footsteps and see how Ellis Island and U.S. immigration changed over the years. You can also hear more than 1,700 oral-history interviews of immigrants and former Ellis Island employees. Soon, as part of the American Family Immigration History Center, you'll be able to add your own memories and family treasures to Ellis Island. In phase two of the project, the Living Family Archive, visitors (both in person and via Internet) will be invited to contribute scanned copies of family documents, records and photos. These files will be stored for posterity along with the newly computerized ship passenger lists. It's all part of discovering and preserving our roots, which for so many of us run through this "island of hope, island of tears." Like 15-year-old Annie Moore, who's immortalized in a statue in Ellis Island's museum, our ancestors sailed under the Statue of Liberty's lamp and to this "golden door " Most weren't as lucky as Annie, and it was a long time before many of them would see a $10 gold piece. But we're all lucky that they came. ******************* About the Author David A. Fryxell is editorial director of Family Tree Magazine, America's most popular magazine on discovering, preserving and celebrating your family history, where this article first appeared. Copyright 1999 F&W Publications Inc. All rights reserved. .

Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck http://www.genealogy.com/24_land_print.html A land bounty is a grant of land from a government as a reward to repay citizens for the risks and hardships they endured in the service of their country, usually in a military related capacity. By the time of the Revolutionary War, the practice of awarding bounty land as an inducement for enlisting in the military forces had been a long-standing practice in the British Empire in North America. Besides imperial bounty land grants, both colonial and municipal governments had routinely compensated participants in and victims of military conflicts with land. Land was a commodity in generous supply, and governments seized upon its availability for accomplishing their goals. In their colonial tradition, the Revolutionary governments patterned their struggle for independence from Great Britain on the principle of bounty lands. They generally offered free lands in exchange for military service, but they strategically did so on the presumption that they would be victorious in their struggle. They would not actually award the lands until the war had been concluded and the British defeated. Such a policy not only imposed no financial constraints on the war effort but also insured a degree of support for the Revolutionary cause. The Revolutionary governments were cognizant that to the victor belonged the spoils and that defeat brought no reward. Bounty lands were an effective propaganda technique for enrolling support for the war among the citizenry and preventing them from lapsing into the British fold when the tide of battle ebbed. Those colonies with unseated lands used their advantage to enlist support for the cause with the offer of free lands. Unfortunately, some of the Original Thirteen enjoyed no such advantage. There was no bounty land policy in Delaware, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont. Those states lacked enough vacant land to support such a policy. Bounty lands were a feature, however, in Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Administratively, these nine states selected reserves in their western domains for the location of bounty lands. Such a choice was seemingly quite logical. By placing veterans on the frontier, the states would be able to rely upon a military force which in turn would be able to protect the settlements from Indian incursions. These state governments also realized that they had to encourage the ex-soldiers to occupy their newly awarded bounty lands, so they granted exemptions from taxation ranging from a few years to life to those veterans who would locate on their respective bounty lands. Such a policy also had the effect of retarding the exodus of a state s population. Since most of the Indian nations had supported the British during the Revolutionary War, the Thirteen States were cautious in approaching their former enemies. Populating the frontier with citizens skilled in defense offered the best prospect in enticing other settlers to join them. Veterans were knowledgeable in the use of firearms and in military strategy. Knowing that they would be defended if the need arose was reassuring to many settlers. The state governments also realized that the revenue derived from the sale of vacant lands in the west was badly needed. The extension of settlements on the frontier would, in time, also increase the tax rolls and contribute to the reduction of their Revolutionary War debts. In the aftermath of the war, the states with transappalachian claims ceded some of those claims to the federal government, but not until they had the assurance of being able to fulfill their bounty land commitments. Accordingly, the issue of bounty lands has far wider geographical implications than the area encompassed by the nine state governments which instituted the practice. Besides the original states of Connecticut, Georgia Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia, the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee were directly affected by the bounty land system. While the administrative records were, with one exception, the purview of the former nine, the bounty land reserves involved the five transappalachian states. The states of Georgia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina either had no claims to transappalachian territory or relinquished their claims to the national government. Accordingly, their reserves for bounty lands lay within their own western borders. In the cases of Georgia and New York, these reserves were to be situated on the definition of their western borders as they existed in 1783. The bounty land reserves in those two states today would be described as being centrally located. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts allotted its bounty lands in the then District of Maine, which in 1820 achieved statehood status. While most of the states awarded bounty lands for military service, there were two exceptions. Connecticut compensated its citizenry with lands in Ohio if their homes, outbuildings, and businesses were destroyed by the British. The Nutmeg State seemingly awarded no bounty land for military service per se. Georgia also issued lands to its civilian population who had remained loyal, or at the very least neutral, to the Revolutionary cause after the British restored royal control. There were no Revolutionary War bounty land grants within the current borders of the southern states of North Carolina and Virginia. The former issued its bounty lands in its western lands which became Tennessee. The latter selected reserves for its bounty lands in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio before ceding its claims to the federal government. It is important to emphasize that the Continental Congress also made use of the policy of bounty lands. The index to those claims appears in the Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1976). The federal bounty land records are included in the National Archives micropublication, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, Series M804, 2,670 rolls. Abstracts of these files appear in the four-volume work of Virgil D. White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files (Waynesboro, Tenn.: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1990-1992). The federal government likewise selected a reserve in the Northwest Territory where bounty land warrants could be used to locate land. The U.S. Military Tract in Ohio encompassed portions or all of the counties of Coshochton, Delaware, Franklin, Guernsey, Holmes, Knox, Licking, Marion, Morrow, Muskingum, Noble, and Tuscarawas. These records appear in the micropublications U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty-Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Related Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, 1806), Series M829, 16 rolls, and in Register of Army Land Warrants Issued under the Act of 1788 for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio, Series T1008, 1 roll. Since the federal land grants are readily accessible via these sources, they are not included in this work. With the exception of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the other states permitted qualified veterans and/or their dependents to receive bounty lands from both the federal and the respective state governments. Accordingly, there may be relevant bounty land files for soldiers in the Continental Line at both the federal and state levels. While New York made some adjustments, double dipping was the norm in the other states. Following the American victory at Yorktown in 1781, the various governments sought to implement their bounty land programs. The delay in establishing a governmental agency to fulfill the bounty land pledge holds dual benefits genealogically. Firstly, it increases the likelihood of the survival of a paper trail for proving Revolutionary War participation for many individuals who may not be mentioned in any other record. Secondly, because the benefits were still being processed as late as the 1870s in some jurisdictions, there may be a wealth of information pertaining to heirs in bounty land files. Not only do the records locate the veteran in time and place him in a given locality during the Revolutionary War, they also do so for him and/or his dependents in the years following independence when internal migrations within the nation complicate the identification of specific individuals in their various removals. The appearance of an individual or family in the west after 1783 offers considerable challenge in learning the former domicile or in establishing filiation. A master index to the bounty land grants of the relevant state governments seemed to offer expeditious access to the records holding the potential solution to such a dilemma. While access to the federal records has long since been available in a master index, and while many localities have been treated individually by others works of varying quality, the absence of an overall index has impeded effective use of these significant records. About the Author Lloyd Dewitt Bockstruck, a native of Vandalia, Illinois, is the supervisor of the Genealogy Section of the Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas. In addition, he serves as instructor in genealogy at Southern Methodist University and since 1974 has been a faculty member of the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds an A.B. cum laude from Greenville College, an M.A. from Southern Illinois University, and an M.S. from the University of Illinois. Active in numerous hereditary organizations, he has been the Librarian General of the National Society Sons of the American Revolution and the Registrar of both the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry and the Order of Founders and Patriots of America. A sought-after public speaker on a number of topics, Mr. Bockstruck is widely recognized as one of our leading authorities on the genealogical sources of the American Revolution. In 1983 the National Genealogical Society recognized him with its Award of Merit and in 1989 the Daughters of the American Revolution gave him the History Award. His other publications include Virginia's Colonial Soldiers and Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants, from which this article is excerpted. 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 .

FamilySearch www.familysearch.org This popular free Web site from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) features several major databases: Census Records .. FamilySearch's census database covers 50 million names in the 1880 US census, 4.3 million names in the 1881 Canadian census and 30 million names in the 1881 British census. Each transcribed individual record links to the next person on the census schedule and a whole-household entry; you also get the roll number for the microfilmed original records, which you can order from the LDS' Family History Library. International Genealogical Index (IGI) .. Access millions of worldwide birth and marriage records spanning 1500 to 1885. Many—but not all—IGI entries are extracts of actual vital records; the rest come from submissions by LDS members. US Social Security Death Index .. Search 64 million records. Vital Records Index .. Tap indexes to Mexican and Scandinavian births, christenings and marriages. The Mexico database contains about 2 million index records; Scandinavia's boasts 4.6 million. 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 .. ==== GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES Mailing List ==== Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, Arizona [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 .

FamilySearch www.familysearch.org This popular free Web site from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) features several major databases: Census Records .. FamilySearch's census database covers 50 million names in the 1880 US census, 4.3 million names in the 1881 Canadian census and 30 million names in the 1881 British census. Each transcribed individual record links to the next person on the census schedule and a whole-household entry; you also get the roll number for the microfilmed original records, which you can order from the LDS' Family History Library. International Genealogical Index (IGI) .. Access millions of worldwide birth and marriage records spanning 1500 to 1885. Many—but not all—IGI entries are extracts of actual vital records; the rest come from submissions by LDS members. US Social Security Death Index .. Search 64 million records. Vital Records Index .. Tap indexes to Mexican and Scandinavian births, christenings and marriages. The Mexico database contains about 2 million index records; Scandinavia's boasts 4.6 million. 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 .

Surgery was moved up to Tuesday so this will be the last email to the list for a bit. http://www.britsinamerica.com Brits In America =~=~=~= http://www.deadfred.com/results2.php?sPhotographer=chowan 1915 Chowan College Murfreesboro , NC Student & Facultys .. Names & Images ..all Searchable. =~=~=~= http://www.Jewish-funerals.org Hundreds of pages of information and links to Jewish and other resources on death, funeral practice, tahara, burial, cemeteries, mourning and healing, suicide, organ donation, consumer rights and the death care industry. =~=~=~= http://www.sos.state.mo.us/archives/ww1/ .. found my great-uncle on this list World War I Service Cards for Missouri This is a state link for Missouri which lists over 160,000 cards for Missouri service men and women. =~=~=~= http://nemsms.org/ The National EMS Memorial Service Honors EMS Providers who have Died in the Line of Duty in the United States. =~=~=~= http://home.earthlink.net/~tvgidus/shipwreck.index.html Florida Shipwrecks and Historic Shipwreck Recovery. =~=~=~= http://www.idreamof.com/cemetery/al.html Alabama Cemetery Records Largest collection of Alabama cemeteries and links on the Web! Updated regularly along with over 50,000 other genealogy databases from around the world. 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 .

This was sent from another list. Wagon trail arrivals in Council Bluffs in 1849 and 1850. Lots of names. Wagons were heading West, some to California, some were Mormon wagons.Worth checking out. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5660/wagntran.htm 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

Remains Thought to be Jamestown Leader By JUSTIN BERGMAN Associated Press Writer Published February 12, 2003 Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the skeleton of the man considered to be the main force behind the first permanent English settlement in America. He also is an ancestor to thousands of present-day Americans. Archeologists digging inside the location of the 17th-century Jamestown fort uncovered the skeleton a few weeks ago. Given its placement and the ceremonial artifacts found alongside the body, researchers believe that it is the skeleton of Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold. Using modern-day high-tech techniques, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities hopes to prove or disprove that assumption. The association, which began excavating the fort area in 1994, is arranging DNA tests to compare the remains to the DNA of Gosnold's descendants. A native of Suffolk, England, Gosnold pushed the English to send out another group of explorers and settlers after the disappearance of the Roanoke colony sometime around 1587 in what is now North Carolina's Outer Banks. In 1602, Gosnold led an expedition to the Maine and Massachusetts coasts, where he discovered and named Cape Cod for the fish found there, and Martha s Vineyard, for his infant daughter. As commander of the "Godspeed," he was second-in-command in the three-ship fleet that landed the 107 Virginia Company settlers at Jamestown in May of 1607. He helped design the triangular fort where they lived. Capt. John Smith, credited with leading and ultimately saving the colony, described Gosnold as "the prime mover behind the settlement." Gosnold died in August of 1607 after three weeks of illness. About two-thirds of the settlers died that summer. 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 .

The “Australian Imperial Force,” the AIF, was raised for service overseas in the war against Germany. The 1st Infantry Division and the 1st Light Horse Brigade were to be enlisted, readied and dispatched overseas in approximately six weeks from the time war was declared. Raised by voluntary enlistment; the AIF was to remain the only army on either side throughout the war that did not conscript. Recruiting began on 10 August, and was regionally based. This policy of drawing units from particular states, and often from particular regions or districts within a state was also to be a feature of the AIF throughout the war. www.worldwar1.com/sfanzac.htm The American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP), an unincorporated not-for-profit network of independent sites devoted to History & Genealogy, and covering North American Countries and Territories. www.ahgp.org/ Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES/ "Without genealogy, the study of history is lifeless." All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus 2002 .

Due to back surgery, this coming Friday, won't be sending out any new goodies' until after I'm back home. However, will be sending things out through Thursday, Feb 20. Also, will include the site to view the archives of the mailing list in the next email later in the day. 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

Myths and Facts Every country has its own myths and legends. In America, we have many. For example, George Washington cutting down a cherry tree as a boy and when asked about this transgression stating that 'I cannot tell a lie." Another cherished myth deals with one Betsy Ross. Seamstress patriot, stuff of legend. But, alas, most probably not the person responsible for creating the first American flag. According to the legend, George Washington himself approached Elizabeth Ross in 1777 and asked her to create a flag from a sketch he drew. She then sewed this first flag for the new country. However, the story resides on shaky ground. For one thing, there is no record of this incident discussed in any official or anecdotal documents of the time. In fact, the story was not told until 94 years after the event took place by one of Betsy Ross' grandson, William J. Canby. Interested, check out the following site for more information: http://americanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa040202a.htm 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 .

"History Detectives" is a new PBS series about the discovery, documentation and preservation of historic American buildings, artifacts, heirlooms. We are looking for "undiscovered treasures" - Historic homes and other buildings whose rich past may not fully be known by an owner. - Family heirlooms with an unknown, or only partially known past - artifacts discovered in the attic whose history is unclear If you, a friend or neighbor have a home, building, or object that you think fits this description, please contact Jorge Aguirre at Lion Television: [email protected] Many thanks, Jorge Aguirre 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 .

The following site will find on-line census material for the U.S., the U.K., Canada, plus various European countries. The material available is very uneven, but you might get lucky in following the links. http://www.censusfinder.com/ 14,012 links to free census online. We have compiled this directory of census links to help you locate free census records online. This is an ongoing project. Enjoy your visit! 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 .

Article on Cemeteries Submitted by: HOST GFS [email protected] (downloaded from: http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb com/gfnews/february03/theme40203.htm) Our SIG chat recently had a presentation on Preserving Old Cemeteries Through Surveys. So often now, especially in localities which are spreading outward toward what used to be considered rural areas, we hear belatedly of old cemeteries which are being bulldozed and paved over. Make Way for Progress! While we do need new malls, housing developments, golf courses, highways and the like, they should not be created at the expense of our heritage. More than we would like, we even hear of desecration and vandalism Whew! What ever happened to respect and tolerance? While we may not be able to prevent their actual destruction and save the grounds of these old cemeteries, we CAN preserve the fact of their existence and knowledge about those who were buried there. A Cemetery Survey requires planning and work, but will save our old cemeteries in a DOCUMENTARY way. It is up to us as "The Keepers" to be the caretakers of our history, to preserve the information that can be obtained from old cemeteries, and to disseminate it for others to learn from about us. Regardless of your ethnic background, many old cemeteries are/were the property of now inactive churches. All the old families may have died out, or moved away once they prospered a bit. In the case of African American churches, many of these were established at the end of slavery. My old home church (with its cemetery) was formally established in 1875, although members met in a brush arbor there before that. I am fortunate in that my church is still very active, but the city has grown outward and now surrounds us. This has caused the tax base to move steadily upward, and new laws on making property improvements, which is scary. There are many small family cemeteries on land that different families owned Often this land passed to a series of heirs, before eventually being sold to persons outside the family. Most of these cemeteries are now abandoned. This is also true of African American landowners, although we were sometimes also buried on the land of our slave owners, or beside them in their church or family plots. Another type of large cemetery is very common for African Americans, especially in the Southeast, called the Colored City Cemetery. In my town there are three of these, two of which were filled before integration occurred. Most early Catholics who were African American in my town were buried in 'blessed ground' in one of these, as well as those people who didn t belong to a specific church. Many areas sponsor a Cemetery Survey through either the State Archive, County Historical Society, or local Cemetery Department. These will already have a Form for your use in describing the cemetery and another type for recording the stones/markers. Check to see if there is a Survey set up for your locality. If not, you can easily create your own forms. Cemetery Surveys require you make a grid of the cemetery (just like any good archeological project), and then systematically record each and every stone/marker, or indentation where a grave seems to be. Try to get some help with this from the local scout troop, church group, or whomever you can interest in the project … and for goodness sake, stay out of the poison ivy or oak! Write down exact directions to the cemetery from a known landmark or crossroad. If you have access to a GPS receiver, find the longitude and latitude from the center of the cemetery; include it in your description. Take photos of the entrance, the general layout, and the markers. You may even be able to get National Historic Landmark status for it, if your cemetery meets their qualifications. Then disseminate the data by donating it to the local library, State Archive, County Historical Society, and LDS, and by publishing it at a 'virtual' Cemetery Project on the Internet. Download our Chat Log from the Genealogy Forum Library for more details and tips (currently in New Uploads), and make plans to Save a Cemetery. Article on Cemeteries - Feb 03 HOST GFS Alva Sat Eve Afro-Am SIG Chat (Permission is hereby granted for you to reprint my article on Cemeteries, which appeared in the Feb Genealogy Forum Newsletter.) 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 .

NORWAY. Hadeland Lag of America. An organization of descendants of emigrants from the Hadeland area of Oppland County, Norway in the United States and Canada. The Lag provides genealogical assistance and seeks to preserve the historical traditions of and strengthen bonds with its home district in 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 their heritage on to successive American generations. First generation Hadelandings created our Lag in 1910 and it has continued to bring their descendants together for over 90 years. History, resources, message board, chat room, links. Searchable site. http://www.hadelandlag.org/ 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

Great sites from Brenda Faye Parker, one of our list members. Thanks for sending these sites, Brenda. Three places have found that astonished me www.seacoastnh.com/arts/please112402.html am not saying why, but check it out www.bitsofblueandgray.com great civil war site www.earlyamerica.com lots of diaries, portraits, and history 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

The 7 C’s of Correspondence Effective communication can be a decisive factor in whether you obtain the results that you want with your research. As in days past, we still communicate through letters with friends, family and other researchers. However, often the letters of today are of the electronic form. Here are seven ideas to keep in mind when writing your letters: Clean – Keep your letters neat and legible. This is just as important if you are using e-mail. There are font styles that are very difficult to read. For electronic media, try keeping the width of your letter at approximately 80 characters. Correct – Be as accurate as possible in your spelling, punctuation and grammar. Be as accurate as possible with the details of your question when it comes to names, dates and places. Clear – Be clear about your purpose, so the reader does not wonder about the purpose of the letter. Courteous – Always be courteous in your dealings with others. And, always respond promptly to every reply you receive. Considerate – Remember that the other person will spend an equal amount of time responding to your letter. However, they may spend much more time looking for information. Don’t demand every piece of information they have, but offer to share any information that you have, as well. Concise – Keep it short and to the point. Complete – Tell what you know about the family and provide the necessary background. If you follow these simple ideas, you will have more success with your own family correspondence. 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 .

A site with thousands of online books, many of them history books, that you might find interesting. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html Speaking of books, if you want a particular title try www.bibliofind.com It will list all the dealers who have the book for sale and their price. Some dealers seem to think every title is worth a small fortune, while others are glad to unload the publication. 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

The Canadian government has just agreed Friday after a 5 year court battle to release the "1906 Census of Canada." This is a major breakthrough for genealogists as these records and all records subsequent to these had been sealed and were to be sealed forever. *************** Subsequent to the announcement of Ministers Rock and Copps regarding the immediate release of the 1906 Census of the Western Provinces, Ian Wilson - National Archivist, has announced that those records are now accessible online. They can be viewed at: English http://www.archives.ca/02/020153_e.html French http://www.archives.ca/02/020153_f.html *************** For those interested, News Releases relating to this issue from Ministers Allan Rock and Sheila Copps, Senator Lorna Milne, MP Murray Calder, and National Archivist Ian Wilson have been posted on the Post 1901 Census Project website at http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census Further information is available in a recent e-column at: http://globalgazette.net/gazce/gazce89.htm .

Use the Phone Book Genealogists have long considered phone books as an excellent source of help when they look for previously unknown relatives. Many family historians routinely go through the phone book of each community they visit, seeking local residents who share their rare surname. It has proven to be a good tactic, as long as the surname is rare and your approach is sensitive. But, a phone book can be helpful in other aspects of genealogical research, too. You can use both white and yellow pages, and those blue "government" pages, too, to help you locate other information about your family. For example, do you need to know who might have custody of the records of the church where your ancestors worshipped? One way to find out is to call the local congregation of that church to ask who normally keeps those records, and how you should approach them. Or, you can call your county recorder or county clerk to learn who usually cares for old land records or probate proceedings, and how to access them. Or, you can look up the address of the local library, then visit it often to use its holdings, and to order books from other libraries via inter-library loan. When you do make a call, remember your manners. Be considerate of the time and effort you are asking of the person on the other end of the line. Don’t demand their cooperation, rather, thank them for their help and consider that they have other duties, too. Make your requests simple and short. And be the soul of politeness. Like any other reference book a phone book isn’t likely to contain all of the information you need, but it can point you in the right direction and get you started on your way. There are many online sources for phone numbers today. Also, you may find publications that have a "group" of numbers for contact information. Listed below are some links to some of the best resources for contacts. www.anywho.com - One of the top phone directories. www.switchboard.com - One of the top phone directories. www.qwestdex.com - Searches by communities. 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 .