The following announcement was written by FamilyLink.com, Inc.: PROVO, UT, January 14, 2008 – A new year brings a new name to the world's fastest growing genealogical and family history corporation, World Vital Records, Inc. World Vital Records, Inc. has changed its name to FamilyLink com, Inc., a name which better reflects the company's mission of connecting families to one another through innovative online tools. "We marvel at the opportunity that the Internet provides to build web sites and social networking applications that can literally reach millions of users. FamilyLink.com will be our umbrella brand for a whole portfolio of web sites, widgets, and applications that all help families get connected to each other and to the past," said Paul Allen, CEO, FamilyLink.com. FamilyLink.com will continue to operate the WorldVitalRecords.com web site, with its 5,000 databases, nearly 1 billion records, and nearly 24,000 paying subscribers. "We will continue to add new US and international records to the site every business day," said Allen. "Our strong emphasis on aggregating vital records and other family history materials from around the world will continue, as will our use of the World Vital Records brand on our genealogical products. However, the company's official name will now be FamilyLink.com, Inc." The company said it will also continue to grow its FamilyLink.com social network that has attracted more than 47,000 customers and has doubled its site traffic already this year. It will also continue to operate the We're Related Facebook application, the #1 social application for families out of nearly 14,000 Facebook.com applications. We're Related has more than 2 million users and is growing at a rate of 6,000 users a day. More Facebook applications are in the works. "The FamilyLink.com name is more reflective of the broad mission of our company, which is to provide innovative tools to help families connect," said David Lifferth, President, FamilyLink.com. "WorldVitalRecords.com will continue to provide hundreds of millions of vital records that family historians love, but as a company we are also creating tools and content for family members of all ages and interests." "Our enthusiastic team of genealogists and IT professionals is excited to keep up the tradition we have had of delivering extremely high quality resources and tools to our users at a very low cost," said Lifferth.

It asks for a user name and password? ----- Original Message ----- From: "brenda parker" <fairplay1951@gmail.com> To: <GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:21 PM Subject: [GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES] heritage quest shortcut > When you go to that site and they ask for a library card # enter 12345. It > works believe it or not > > www.heritagequestonline.com > -- > Proud member of IBSSG > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.6/1230 - Release Date: 1/17/2008 > 4:59 PM > >

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This is from Rootsweb Review this week. SCAR Organization and Websites by Nancy Lindroth, Augusta, Georgia I was raised in New Jersey and most of what I knew about the American Revolution, I learned in History class--Lexington and Concord, Trenton, and Valley Forge. I don't recall learning anything about the "Southern Campaign." Many years later I moved to South Carolina and while working in the tourism industry, learned that there were more Revolutionary War battles and skirmishes fought in South Carolina than in any other state. (North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia also had their fair share.) While researching a soldier who had served in Maryland (Sergeant Hugh McMillan, wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs), I encountered a group of people collecting and disseminating published and unpublished information about the Southern Campaign. One of their projects is a website entitled "The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution" [SCAR], where they publish a quarterly magazine-type newsletter that includes scholarly articles about battles, leaders, pensions, ongoing research, and maps; letters to the editor; a calendar of events; and so forth. If your ancestor fought in the South during the American Revolution, you need to visit this site: http://www.southerncampaign.org In addition to the newsletters, you can access an amazing collection of information via their links. My two favorites are the following: 1. A pension site by Will Graves, who has transcribed and posted more than 2,000 Revolutionary War pensions: http://www.southerncampaign.org/pen/ 2. "Revolutionary War Gazetteer and Pensions," by John Robertson: http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/gaz/index.htm Will and John welcome submissions of your transcribed pensions if the soldier in any way participated in the Southern Campaign. John also welcomes additional information about the battles identified in his Gazetteer. Cornwallis may have surrendered at Yorktown on 19 October 1781, but many of the American troops did not leave Charlestown/Charleston/ James Island, South Carolina, until June and July of 1783. I have found very little in print about these troops. Your pension contributions may enable me and other Southern Campaign researchers to access thousands of valuable firsthand accounts so that the full Revolutionary War story can be told. Independence was won in the South by men from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and the mountains of what is now Tennessee and Kentucky. And what they endured was equal to or may have been worse than the winter at Valley Forge. Please share these sites with your genealogical organization and have them included in their newsletters so that as many people as possible know they exist. Who knows, perhaps I'll meet you on SCAR's upcoming cruise highlighting Revolutionary War activities in the Caribbean. * * * ***************************** Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

Interesting article. -------Original Message------- From: Jean Snow Date: 01/14/2008 2:35:21 PM To: CA-SCGS-D@rootsweb.com Subject: [CA-SCGS] Tombstone Reading Linda Rees sent me this article yesterday from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A scientist uses high tech to recover low-tech data - a small scanner and digital cameras to retrieve tombstone info erased by 243 yrs of harsh weather... says the technology might be made available to amateurs in about two years! This is exciting for us, isn't it? Full article here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08011/848345-115.stm# Jean Snow - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * The dates are set for Jamboree! Be there - June 27-29, 2008. http://www.scgsgenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CA-SCGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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BRIDES http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/coconino/vitals/marriages/brides.txt Examples: EMMERTON Claude C. ADAMS Laura B. July 12, 1899 WALLACE William Frances ANDERSON Ethelwyn Foot June 16, 1904 GROOMS http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/coconino/vitals/marriages/grooms1 txt Examples: ACKER, Saxton S. WIRTS Charlotte Jun 1, 1893 ANDERSON Daniel WEBSTER Isabelle Bailey Jan 25, 1870

The year was 1786 and the American Revolution had been over for three years, but the new country was still on shaky legs. High land taxes, the return of war veterans to neglected farms with little or no money, and heavy debt left the fledgling nation in an economic depression. In New England, farmers, tired of seeing the property of family and friends sold off for fractions of their worth to pay off creditors and legal fees, were rebellious and civil war threatened the northeastern states. In Massachusetts, the rebels, or "Regulators" as they called themselves, rallied around a thirty-nine-year-old farmer named Daniel Shays. A Revolutionary War hero, Shays and other veterans organized sympathizers into military units that were to march on the debtors' courts, shutting them down Politicians and merchants saw these actions as a threat to society and formed their own troops to stop Shays' men and an early 1787 march on the government arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, marked the beginning of the end of the rebellion. While 200 rebels were eventually indicted on charges of treason, nearly all of them were reprieved. Shays Rebellion was a significant point of discussion at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and led to support of the Virginia Plan of Union, which did a better job of balancing state and federal power, as well as power among the states. In other political news, the Virginia legislature passed a piece of legislation called the Ordinance of Religious Freedom. Written by Thomas Jefferson, this legislation banned discrimination based on choice of religion and stated that no one could be forced to attend or support a church. The Ordinance of Religious Freedom would form the basis of the First Amendment to the Constitution. In Pennsylvania, October saw several days of heavy rain that flooded the Susquehanna in what became known as the "The Great Pumpkin Flood." The floodwaters carried a great number of pumpkins from upstream, hence the name On the Pacific coast, Franciscan missionaries from Spain had begun establishing a series of missions along the coastline, beginning in 1769. In 1786, the tenth mission at Santa Barbara was founded and it would be the only California mission from the era that remains in Franciscan control to the present. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

I don't know how accurate this site is but!!!!! was very interesting. It also has several other famous and infamous people. www.doctorzebra.com/prez/index.htm -- Proud member of IBSSG

Kentucky: Secretary of State - Database Searches Home Page http://sos.ky.gov/land/search/ Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

The following web sites for German immigration research: http://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html http://immigrantships.net/ http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/palship16.shtml http://www.netmender.net/genelogy/passlist.html http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pagermanpioneers/ http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/ http://members.aol.com/ntgen/taylor/palatine.html http://members.cox.net/hessen/ http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/edatbase.htm

Somerset PAGenWeb Archives - WPA Transcription Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/wpa/toc.html Somerset County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/ Article Daily American Online Your one stop spot for News, Sports and Entertainment http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2008/01/11/news/news352.txt Library helps with genealogy requests By VICKI ROCK Daily American Staff Writer Friday, January 11, 2008 12:31 AM EST The Workers Progress Administration (WPA) did an inventory of 550 cemeteries in the 1930s, Mason said. The Somerset County Planning Commission did an inventory in the 1970s, based on the earlier work, and found that more than 150 could not be physically located. Many of the cemeteries were for only one family. Some had only one grave. The library contracted with Carolyn McKinney, Pocahontas, to try to find each cemetery and to provide photographs and GPS coordinates for each. In the past two years, she has worked in the southern end of the county. If another grant is awarded for this year, she will continue to travel north. Barry Christie, Meyersdale, has scanned the WPA inventory onto CDs and is adding McKinney’s information. The information is available online at www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/somerset/wpa/toc.html The cemeteries’ coordinates are also being plotted on maps. Christie has also done an inventory for the Union Cemetery of people buried there, which will go online. In addition to the cemetery project, volunteers at Meyersdale library are continuing to clip obituaries from local newspapers. They have done this since the 1970s. The obituaries are being scanned to CDs and are available online. Peter Petenbrink, a library volunteer, is collecting information about people from Somerset County who served in the Civil War. He has collected 4,926 names so far. That information will also go online. The daughter and granddaughter of the late Marguerite Cockley, who was the library’s director for many years, donated issues of the Meyersdale Commercial from 1913 to 1918 to the library. ************** Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

The National Archives | Search the archives | Equity Pleadings Database | Search by persons http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/equity/person_srch.asp Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

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The following announcement was written by ebrary: PALO ALTO, Calif.--Families and individuals throughout the world will soon have greater online access to information about their ancestors and family histories. ebrary®, a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that Brigham Young University (BYU) has licensed its technology to locally host portions of the university library’s digital collections including genealogical records and art materials. BYU is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which maintains the world’s largest repository of genealogical resources, with approximately 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries. BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries. “By licensing the ebrary platform, we will be able to enhance university library patron access and use of the library’s digital resources, and for individuals doing genealogical work, the intent is to further improve the family research process,” said Robert Murdoch, Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development and Technical Services for Brigham Young University. “ebrary’s technology will make it easy for us to submit a variety of documents and objects and instantly turn them into a database that is searchable and integrates with multiple online resources. ebrary’s platform also features many research-oriented capabilities such as bookshelves, highlighting and annotating, automatic citations, and InfoTools which enables contextual online searching across multiple sources.” “ebrary is pleased to extend our relationship with Brigham Young University, and we are very honored to work with them on such a fulfilling and important project,” said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. “It is very rewarding to know that our electronic publishing software, the system that we have developed over the last nine years, will be used to help disseminate the historic documents that BYU has collected and digitized. This will help families all over the world better connect with and learn more about their ancestry.” Under terms of the agreement, BYU will be among the first customers for ebrary’s standalone licensed product – code named ISIS – that is hosted on the customers’ servers, behind their firewalls. ISIS is currently under its last phase of development and is slated to ship in 2008. In addition to providing customers with complete control over their own digitized collections, ISIS will offer the same rich functionality as ebrary’s current hosted solution, as follows: * Full text searching and indexing * Easy PDF submission * ebrary InfoTools™ provide contextual linking across multiple online resources * The ebrary Reader™ streams pages online, eliminating cumbersome document downloads * Personal bookshelves * Highlighting and annotating * Multiple search options * Copying and printing with an automatic citation and URL hyperlink back to the source * Reporting tools and usage statistics Additional ebrary Platform Announcements In separate press releases issued today, ebrary announced that the University of Toronto and Informa Healthcare have also licensed its platform to distribute their own digitized materials online. The press releases are available at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newsReleases.jsp. About BYU Brigham Young University seeks to develop students of faith, intellect and character who have the skills and the desire to continue learning and to serve others throughout their lives. Established in 1875, the university provides an outstanding education in an atmosphere consistent with the ideals and principles of its sponsor, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. BYU offers courses in 11 colleges, in Continuing Education and Graduate Studies and in three general undergraduate areas of study. Many academic and professional programs are augmented by internships and career-related summer jobs. For fall semester 2006, bachelor's degrees were offered in 188 academic programs, master's degrees in 66, doctorates in 25 and juris doctorates in one. In the 2005-2006 academic school year, BYU awarded 8,261 undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Harold B. Lee Library provides services, collections, and computers for more than 15,000 BYU students every day. The library contains over 8 million items including 3.3 million books, 27,000 journal titles, 250,000 maps, 3 million microfilms, and more than 1 million photographs and prints. An extensive selection of manuscripts, diaries, photographs, family histories, scholarly publications, books, and art images have been digitized and are available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection at www.lib.byu edu. About ebrary (www.ebrary.com) ebrary® is a leading provider of e-content services and technology. The company helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations disseminate valuable information to end users, while improving their research and document interaction. The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities: ebrary customers may purchase or subscribe to e-books and other content under a variety of pricing and access models, and they may license the ebrary platform to distribute, sell, and market their own content online. All options are delivered using a customizable interface and include the ebrary Reader™ with InfoTools™ software, which enable integration with other resources to provide an economical and efficient way to utilize information. ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 120,000 e-books and other titles from more than 285 leading publishers and aggregators. Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

The genealogical records of Madison County will be available online soon. The Edwardsville Public Library has received a $6,200 digitization grant from the Illinois State Library to make the records of the Madison County Genealogical Society available online. The materials cannot be checked out, so putting them online will allow more people to research their family trees You cab read more about this future online offering in the Belleville News-Democrat web site at http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/224869.html.

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Blog Readers Await WWI Soldier's Letters Posted by Diane A British war Blog is getting a lot of attention lately. What’s unusual is that it’s from World War I—in a way. On WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier, http://wwar1.blogspot.com/, blogger Bill Lamin is posting letters his grandfather William Henry "Harry" Bonser Lamin wrote from the trenches in France, Italy and elsewhere in Europe during World War I. Each letter appears 90 years to the day after it s dated. Readers don’t know whether a letter is Harry’s last, just as Harry’s family—sisters Kate and Annie; brother, Jack; wife, Ethel; son Willie; and niece, Connie (whom Harry and Ethel cared for)—didn’t know. The letters, which Lamin found in his parents’ home, are filled with battle descriptions, complaints about tight quarters and spare rations, thanks for parcels from home, and requests for more missives from family. Harry dated this letter July 14, 1917: I’m in good health but we have had a rough time this last week or two going on working parties at night digging trenches and one thing and another. One night we were between our lines and the Germans but we all came out all right. It’s a bit rough but it might be worse. Lamin supplements the letters with photos, updates from genealogical research on the family, and details from the battalion’s official war diary, which you also can read in a separate Blog. (Learn more about British battalion and unit war diaries here.) http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/tomspage21.html If you want to find out more about an American WWI soldier, see the WWI research guide in the November 2007 Family Tree Magazine, http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nov07.asp, and use the WWI resource toolkit on www.FamilyTreeMagazine.com. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 Index of Georgia death certificates with links to digital images. http://content.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/gadeaths.php =~=~=~= Vital Research Records Search Selection... West Virginia Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search the records and view scanned images of the original records. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx

West Virginia Cemetery Preservation Association, Inc. ~~ WVCPA is dedicated to the documentation and preservation of historic family cemeteries in West Virginia, providing online resources to the family researcher and local historian towards accomplishing those goals. They maintain an extensive online database of cemetery readings and tombstone photos from across the state, all done on a volunteer basis and provided free of charge to the online research community. http://www.wvcpaweb.org