National Hall of Records .. A leading resource for online obituaries and death notices. http://www.nhor.org 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"

Another good site from Pam. Check out this site, http://www.namethesaurus.com/Thesaurus/ Pam in IN. 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"

Lost the wonderful email you sent re the events of 7 Dec 1941. Would you please resend it to me??? 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"

www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us.archives.asp -- Proud member of IBSSG

Lots of maps taken by balloon and site is searchable by state or country http://historicmapworks.com -- Proud member of IBSSG

Another wonderful site from Brenda .. Sally Http://digitalgallery.nypl.org 1000's and 1000's of photos paintings Etc. Spent 5 hours and just scratched the surface Brenda 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"

Thanks, Brenda. Another great site from one of our members. http://earlyamericanimages.com Has ton of stuff from revolutionary war Found this one while exploring on the site Brenda sent. http://www.earlyamerica.com/ .. Archiving Early America 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"

<< Wonderbase comes from the Quintin Publications Collection. The Wonderbase contains 215 titles, 100 will be launched today, and the remainder will be launched throughout the rest of the week. The Wonderbase will be free to access until December 20, 2007>> Even the site says it is free until Dec 20, 2007, but I can't get it to give me any information without a membership. Bettye **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)

Footnote.com has recently released the largest collection of World War II photos online. Footnote is a subscription website, but you can view Sample World War II photos and documents here: www.footnote.com/wwii.php 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"

Just tried the site, http://tinyurl.com/28gcy6, and was able to use one of the free sites OK. Not sure what the problem was. Why don't you give it another try. Sally Wonderbase comes from the Quintin Publications Collection. The Wonderbase contains 215 titles, 100 will be launched today, and the remainder will be launched throughout the rest of the week. The Wonderbase will be free to access until December 20, 2007>> Even the site says it is free until Dec 20, 2007, but I can't get it to give me any information without a membership. Bettye 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"

Maryland Government - Historical Information & Biographical Information http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/html/bioinfo.html _________________________________________________________________ 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"

Small Town Newspaper-A newspaper directory featuring small town newspapers and articles. http://www.smalltownpapers.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"

[I went last year with several other members of West Valley Genealogical Society and we had a GREAT time. There were so many classes to pick from and the Vendors were unbelievable. If you have the opportunity, try and make the 'Jamboree,' you won't be sorry. .. Sally] 39th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree Friday-Sunday, June 27-29, 2008 Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank California Three days with several concurrent presentations. Lectures by genealogy's most respected and knowledgeable speakers. Popular presentations repeated. Variety of topics and skill levels. One on One consultation from our regional and ethnic specialists to help plug the holes in your research. Book Nook authors and Tech zone expanded to include consultations and demos. Top notch commercial and society vendors with the latest products and resources. Discounts for SCGS members and early registration. Lots of opportunities for networking and socializing Reduced Hotel & Parking rates. For more information, contact SCGS or visit the website at: www.scgsgenealogy.com 417 Irving Drive Burbank CA 91504 818-843-7247 jamboree@scgsgenealogy.com "As a member of SCGS, I just have to tell you this is one of the best gathering's around. Very organized, fun and the learning never quits." Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Vicki Hilb ajvlh@cox.net

This week’s Wonderbase comes from the Quintin Publications Collection. The Wonderbase contains 215 titles, 100 will be launched today, and the remainder will be launched throughout the rest of the week. The Wonderbase will be free to access until December 20, 2007. Click here, http://worldvitalrecords com/contentlisting.aspx?cat=quintin, [short version is: http://tinyurl.com/28gcy6] to access the Quintin Publications Collection. The majority of the databases that comprise the Wonderbase are family histories written about families with surnames beginning with U, V, W or Z. Because of the nature of languages, two of these letters, V and Z have linguistic commonalities. For instance, many of the V genealogies deal with surnames with the prefix “Van,” which means that most of the surnames are of Dutch origin. Among the V surnames are Van Deursen, Van Gelder, Van Brunt, Van Voorhees, Van Horne, and many others. The Z surnames tend to be of German and Eastern European origin. Some examples include Zink, Zabriskie, Ziegler, and Zimmerman. Unlike the two other letters highlighted today, the W Y surnames don’t have a distinct ethnic pattern, but there are many of them. Some W surnames include Willard, Winters, Willis, Winslow, Weikert and Woodruff. A few Y names include Yale, Yeardly, Yandes and Yerkes. As you navigate your way through these 215 titles, it is important to remember that even if the surname in the title is not one that is in your tree, one of your ancestors may be mentioned in the volume anyway. As always, these Quintin databases are completely indexed and searchable, which means that if your ancestor is in one of these volumes, you are likely to find him with a few simple clicks. 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 year was 1809 and Europe was embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1809 a major campaign was fought against Austria, which had rebelled against French control. Major battles at Aspern-Essling and Wagram involved Napoleon moving his force of more than 60,000 troops across the Danube via hastily constructed bridges. British troops were also fighting French troops in Spain and Portugal in the Peninsular War, which had begun the prior year. Prior to 1809, Finland had been under Swedish control, but with the Porvoo Diet in 1809, Finland established itself the nation, Grand Duchy of Finland, under the protection of Russia. In the U.S., the Embargo Act of 1807 was lifted and replaced by the Non-.... .... Act of 1809. (Unfortunately, I can't actually include the name of this legislation or many of you will find this newsletter deleted by overly-vigilant spam filters.) The Embargo Act prohibited the export of U.S. Goods and kept American ships from visiting foreign ports. The 1809 legislation softened it by limiting the embargo to England and France. Like the Embargo Act, this legislation hurt the U.S. More than the intended targets. In the U.S., westward expansion was picking up, and in 1809, Illinois Territory was split off of Indiana Territory. It encompassed the current state of Illinois, Wisconsin, parts of Michigan's upper peninsula, and Minnesota. Expansion would be further aided by Robert Fulton, who after making improvements to a steamboat patented by James Watts, filed a patent and began steamboat service between New York City and Albany along the Hudson River. As this mode of transportation became more popular, it became easier to travel to the interior of the U.S. Via the Great Lakes and other waterways. ..... From Ancestry Weekly Journal, dated Dec 9, 2007

Check out your zip code. You will not believe the information you will find there This is quite interesting. http://zipskinny.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"

[VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE .. Sally] DNA Kits: Secrets of Your Past or Scientific Scam? By Meredith F. Small, LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist Posted: 07 December 2007 08:05 am ET www.livescience.com/history/071207-hn-dna-kits.html One of the by-products of human consciousness is self-consciousness, that is knowing deeply that you are alive. Part of self-consciousness is also wondering where we came from; it's clearly human nature to seek one's roots. For some people, that task is relatively easy because there are oral legends or written words that go back at least several generations (assuming family history is passed down accurately). But for most people, the path backwards is rocky, cluttered with confusing detour signs, or simply blank. For Americans, citizens of the quintessential melting pot, the quest for identity often propels older people (it's interesting that we often search for our dead relatives while looking death square in the face) to the lists of immigrants into Ellis Island or other ports of entry into the United States and to the repository of genealogy in Salt Lake City. It also leads unwary seekers of the past right into the hands of scam artists who claim they can trace anyone's DNA back to its source. Anyone with a spare $100 to $900 can buy a "DNA ancestry kit." Self-collection of DNA requires only a quick swab of the inside of the mouth to gather cheek cells. Mail that smear back and the company will then compare your DNA to various other samples. But claims that this analysis will tell you much about where you came from are downright fraudulent, anthropologist Deborah Bolnick of the University of Texas at Austin and 14 co-authors recently reported. Instead of tracing our genetic past, what we get is a scientific scam. "It sure looks like science," says anthropologist Jonathan Marks of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, one of the authors of the study. Well, it is science. It’s done by scientists, and it’s done on DNA samples. And it produces real data." But, Marks points out, these companies are preying on the public because they simply don’t have enough comparative information to pinpoint a gene on a world map. They might match your DNA to some group on some continent, but what they don’t tell you is that you would probably also match the group next door if only they had some of those samples as well. More insidious, these companies pretend to trace your unique ancestry through mitochondrial DNA, but that’s simply not possible. A few hundred years, a few generations, and every person's history is a genetic mishmash. One little gene isn't going to inform anybody about anything. As Marks puts it, "That’s the beauty of this scam. The companies aren’t scamming you. They’re not giving you fraudulent information. They are giving you data, real data, and allowing you to scam yourself." Humans have, in fact, turned the whole world into one large genetic melting pot. We have always been a species that crossed mountains, continents and oceans; we have always loved to mate outside our ancestral group. If you want to know who you are, look in the mirror. Written on your face is countless generations that have survived to reproduce, and the only thing you can realistically do at this point is thank them and then move forward. Meredith F. Small is an anthropologist at Cornell University. She is also the author of "Our Babies, Ourselves; How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent" (link) and "The Culture of Our Discontent; Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness

December 7: General Interest 1941 : Pearl Harbor bombed At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in a ferocious assault. The surprise attack struck a critical blow against the U.S. Pacific fleet and drew the United States irrevocably into World War II. With diplomatic negotiations with Japan breaking down, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers knew that an imminent Japanese attack was probable, but nothing had been done to increase security at the important naval base at Pearl Harbor. It was Sunday morning, and many military personnel had been given passes to attend religious services off base. At 7:02 a.m., two radio operators spotted large groups of aircraft in flight toward the island from the north, but, with a flight of B-17s expected from the United States at the time, they were told to sound no alarm. Thus, the Japanese air assault came as a devastating surprise to the naval base. Much of the Pacific fleet was rendered useless: Five of eight battleships, three destroyers, and seven other ships were sunk or severely damaged, and more than 200 aircraft were destroyed. A total of 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,200 were wounded, many while valiantly attempting to repulse the attack. Japan's losses were some 30 planes, five midget submarines, and fewer than 100 men. Fortunately for the United States, all three Pacific fleet carriers were out at sea on training maneuvers. These giant aircraft carriers would have their revenge against Japan six months later at the Battle of Midway, reversing the tide against the previously invincible Japanese navy in a spectacular victory. The day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Roosevelt appeared before a joint session of Congress and declared, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." After a brief and forceful speech, he asked Congress to approve a resolution recognizing the state of war between the United States and Japan. The Senate voted for war against Japan by 82 to 0, and the House of Representatives approved the resolution by a vote of 388 to 1. The sole dissenter was Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a devout pacifist who had also cast a dissenting vote against the U.S. entrance into World War I. Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war against the United States, and the U.S. government responded in kind. The American contribution to the successful Allied war effort spanned four long years and cost more than 400,000 American lives.

American Civil War. This list defines words as they are used in relation to the Civil War. http://www.civilwarexplorer.org/glossary.asp Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com

SLAVE SUBSISTENCE Much of what we know about slave foodways comes from archeological evidence, primary accounts (journals, letters, travel notes), and literature. Many traditional foods and recipes were brought from West Africa. People cook what they know. Additional foods and cooking methods were adopted from European and Native American cuisines. The amount and type of foods consumed by slaves depended upon many factors. Master's practices, age, job, ingenuity, and season all played vital roles. What did the slaves eat on board ships heading for the New World? "Slave ship cargoes brought crops directly from Africa to North America for enslaved Africans to consume during their passage to the New World under the transatlantic slave trade. These crops included several basic starches central to the African diet, for instance rice, okra, tania, black-eyed peas, cassava, yams, and kidney and lima beans. Other crops brought from Africa included peanuts (originally from South America), millet, sorghum, guinea melon, liquorice, watermelon, and sesame (benne). Over time, these foods found their way into American footways and became a basic component of southern cuisine. Without question, yams were the most common African staple fed to enslaved Africans on board ships bound for the Americas. The slave merchant John Barbot, for example, noted that "a ship that takes in 500 slaves, must provide above 100,000 yams," or roughly 200 per person. The ship logs of the slave vessel Elizabeth, bound for Rhode Island in 1754, listed provisions of "yams, plantain, bread [cornbread], fish and rice." In another example, the account books of the slave ship Othello (1768-69) listed hundreds of baskets of yams taken on board as provisions along with lesser quantities of plantains, limes, pepper, palm oil, and gobbagobs (goobers or peanuts). One enslaved African told a free black in Charleston about the food eaten on the slave ship that brought him to America: "We had nothing to eat but yams, which were thrown amongst us at random--and of those we had scarcely enough to support life. More than a third of us died on the passage, and when we arrived at Charleston, I was not able to stand." The African yam, which is similar to the American "sweet potato," remained a popular food among slaves and whites alike. To this day roasted and sugared yams and "sweet potato pie" are favourite southern delicacies--both having their origins in African slavery. Black-eyed peas, which are actually beans, also were used as food on the slave voyages, and enslaved Africans in the Caribbean thereafter consumed these easily cultivated beans as a basic food." ---African Crops and Slave Cuisine, Joseph E. Holloway, Ph.D.,California State University Northridge "Although some European foods were acceptable, experience taught slave traders that Africans did better when they were fed foods that they were accustomed to eating. The Henrietta Marie may have stopped for yams, as they were thought to be the most suitable food for people from the Calabar region. Some 50,000 yams would have been necessary to feed the 200 slaves aboard the Henrietta Marie, and it would have taken about one week to fully provision her for the voyage. Africans were usually fed twice daily. Two cook stoves were found aboard the Henrietta Marie, one large one which was probably used to feed sailors and slaves, and this smaller one, possibly used in the officer's quarters." ---Henrietta Marie slave ship (primary source material) "...The diet of the Negroes while on board, consists chiefly of horse beans boiled to the consistency of a pulp; of boiled yams and rice and sometimes a small quantity of beef or pork. The latter are frequently taken from the provisions laid in for the sailors. They sometimes make use of a sauce composed of palm-oil mixed with flour, water and pepper, which the sailors call slabber-sauce. Yams are the favorite food of the Eboe or Bight Negroes, and rice or corn of those from the Gold or Windward Coast; each preferring the produce of their native soil...Upon the Negroes refusing to take sustenance, I have seen coals of fire, glowing hot, put on a shovel and placed so near their lips as to scorch and burn them. And this has been accompanied with threats of forcing them to swallow the coals if they any longer persisted in refusing to eat. These means have generally had the desired effect. I have also been credibly informed that a certain captain in the slave-trade, poured melted lead on such of his Negroes as obstinately refused their food...." ---Alexander Falconbridge's account of the slave trade (primary source material, 1788) What did the slaves eat while in America? "It is difficult to assess the abundance or the quality of average Southern food in the absence of an average Southerner--that is, a member of the middle class, for there was not much middle class to occupy the wide gap between the plantation owner and the poor white, a group which already existed in those times and could hardly expect to rise to any comfortable standards of living in competition with the unpaid labor of slaves. The famous "hog and hominy" diet was at least rendered a little less unhealthy by the prevalence on the Southern menu of greens, often ignored by food writers, perhaps as a food so lowly as to be unworthy of their attention, but providers of vitamins all the same. A significant passage in Frederick Law Olmsted's Seabord Slave States, a product of his travels of the 1850s, suggests that slaves may have enjoyed a diet better balanced than that of may whites. Olmsted remarked that the more modest Southern planters lived on bacon (sometimes cooked with turnip greens), corn pone, coffee sweetened with molasses, and not much else, while their slaves had corn meal and salt pork, plus sweet potatoes of their own raising in the winter. Some owners encouraged the Negroes to grow vegetables for themselves also, because thy discovered that "negroes fed on three-quarters of a pound of bread and bacon are more prone to disease than if with less meat but with vegetables." It did not occur to the masters to draw any conclusions from this empirical observation for their own benefit." ---Eating in America: A History, Waverly Root & Richard de Rochemont [William Morrow and Company:New York] 1976 (p. 145) Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com