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Geneactes : Menu de Sensenruth Etat Civil http://users.skynet.be/mto/tables/communes/sen1/sen1menu.htm ************************************** 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"

'Gone But Not Forgotten'-Missouri Pioneers http://www.rootsweb.com/~mopionee/ ************************************** 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"

VetsofGuys http://www.angelfire.com/folk/guysboroughvets/Opening.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"

From another mailing list .. Thought it was “interesting.” [Nathaniel Clarke was the son of Thomas Clarke, who arrived at Plymouth aboard The Anne] From COURT RECORDS of Plymouth Township June 2, 1686 The humble petition of Dorathy Clarke "I am sorely afflicted that I have this sad occasion to petition to God & you, for in that Mr. Nathaniel Clarke hathe not performed the duty of a husband to me and is always unable to perform the act of generation. And therefore your petitioner humbly prayeth that I may be divorced from him for our lives are very uncomfortable in the sight of God soe I rest your humble petitioner." Dorathay Clarke ____________________________ At his Majesties Court of Assistants, Mrs. Dorathy Clarke complaining to the Court that Mr. Nathaniel Clarke her husband, (by reason of some deformity or infirmity of body, as she saith,) is incapable to perform the conjugal duty of an husband toward her, and petitioned to be divorced from him: but the said Nathaniel affirming to the contrary, the Court have ordered that his body be viewed by some persons skillful and judicious and therefore doe request Mr. John Cutler, Mr. Thomas Oakes and Mr. William Avery, phycisians, or any two of them, at the request and charges of the said Nathaniel, shewing himself unto them, and they would give their judgement of of him concerning that particular in writing, under their hands, to be the produced at the next Court. ____________________________ July 6, 1686 Mrs. Dorathy Clarke, appeared in Court & Prosecuted her petition & complaint on the other side mentioned, and the Court did not see cause to grant a divorce as she requested.

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GenSeeker - RootsWeb Site Search http://seeker.rootsweb.com/search.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"

Here is an interesting site. Nancy has done a wonderful job, you can tell she really loves what she's doing. http://www.thepastwhispers.com/index.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"

Over 1,132 news items from historical newspapers have been added in the past Two weeks at Newspaper Abstracts! See below for the areas updated. United States - 1,127 new articles (48,039 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=313 England - 4 new articles (120 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=3548 Norway - 1 new articles (36 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=3646 Alabama - 4 new articles (700 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=314 Arizona - 1 new articles (505 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=317 Arkansas - 1 new articles (135 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=318 California - 67 new articles (5,979 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=319 Colorado - 4 new articles (102 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=320 Connecticut - 8 new articles (258 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=321 Delaware - 20 new articles (758 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=322 District of Columbia (Washington DC) - 59 new articles (3,051 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Florida - 2 new articles (256 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=324 Georgia - 15 new articles (322 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=325 Idaho - 3 new articles (1,030 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=327 Illinois - 23 new articles (2,775 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=328 Indiana - 3 new articles (532 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=329 Iowa - 49 new articles (2,376 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=330 Kansas - 7 new articles (331 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=331 Kentucky - 20 new articles (533 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=332 Maine - 1 new articles (31 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=334 Maryland - 32 new articles (1021 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=335 Massachusetts - 141 new articles (618 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=336 Michigan - 9 new articles (366 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=337 Minnesota - 8 new article (616 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=338 Mississippi - 1 new articles (124 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=339 Missouri - 17 new articles (2,412 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=340 Montana - 3 new articles (53 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=341 Nebraska - 4 new articles (66 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=342 New Hampshire - 2 new articles (88 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=987 New Jersey - 16 new articles (210 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=345 New York - 65 new articles (6,389 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=347 North Carolina - 2 new articles (235 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=348 North Dakota - 1 new articles (210 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=349 Ohio - 9 new articles (1,365 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=350 Oklahoma - 2 new articles (102 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=351 Pennsylvania - 62 new articles (1,039 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=353 Rhode Island - 9 new articles (44 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=354 South Carolina - 1 new articles (91 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=355 South Dakota - 5 new articles (183 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=356 Tennessee - 6 new articles (361 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=357 Texas - 39 new articles (3,358 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=358 Vermont - 9 new articles (484 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=360 Virginia - 36 new articles (1,018 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=361 Washington - 2 new articles (449 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=362 West Virginia - 4 new articles (73 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=363 Wisconsin - 354 new articles (3,523 total) http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=364 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! 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GRHS Obituary Project http://www.grhs.com/data/obits/obits.html Also see: Obituaries from Volk Aug Dem Weg Den Toten gewidmet Index from Volk Aug Dem Weg http://feefhs.org/obits/g-r/ldr-obit.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"

Where Was the First Thanksgiving? Where was the first Thanksgiving held in North America? If you guessed Plymouth, Massachusetts, guess again. In fact, that probably was not even the second or third Thanksgiving. On April 30, 1598, Spanish nobleman Don Juan de Oñate and a group of settlers traveling northward from Zacatecas, Nueva España (now Mexico), reached the banks of El Rio Bravo (Rio Grande). The first recorded act of thanksgiving by colonizing Europeans on this continent occurred on that April day in 1598 in Nuevo Mexico, about 25 miles south of what is now El Paso, Texas. After having begun their northward trek in March of that same year, the entire caravan was gathered at this point. The 400-person expedition included soldiers, families, servants, personal belongings, and livestock. Two thirds of the colonizers were from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands). There was even one from Greece and another from Flanders. The rest were Mexican Indians and mestizos (mixed bloods). Pauline Chavez Bent has written an interesting account of this first Thanksgiving, which you can read on the New Mexico Genealogical Society's Web site at: http://www.nmgs.org/art1stThanks.htm Many Americans mistakenly believe that the Pilgrims were the first to settle in this new land. However, the following all preceded the Pilgrims of 1620: ~~ Several settlements and temporary villages were established by the Vikings and possibly by the Irish more than 1,000 years ago. None of the settlements survived. In 1559, Tristan de Luna y Arellano led an attempt by Europeans to colonize Florida. He established a settlement at Pensacola Bay, but a series of misfortunes caused his efforts to be abandoned after two years. ~~Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived in 1565 at a place he called San Augustín (St. Augustine, Florida) and established the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States. ~~Spanish settlers mentioned earlier settled in what is now the western tip of Texas and New Mexico in the 1590s. ~~ In 1604, Samuel de Champlain, along with Sieur de Mont, established what is now known as the first Acadian settlement on the North American continent on the Isle-of-St.-Croix, at St. Croix River near Calais, Maine. After experiencing a harsh winter and extreme cold on this small island, they moved their settlement into the rich agricultural area of the Bay of Fundy, which subsequently became known as Acadia. The permanent French colony of Port Royal was established in 1605. ~~ The islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon were colonized by France in 1604. The colony survived and still exists today on these tiny islands ten miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The islands still belong to France. Many people today are unaware that France still has territory in North America. ~~ In 1607, some 100 men and boys sailed from England and landed in present-day Virginia and founded Jamestown. They found a hostile environment that probably would have destroyed the colony but for the resourcefulness of Captain John Smith, who managed to organize and motivate the settlers and save them from starvation. ~~ In 1608 Samuel de Champlain established what is now known as Quebec City. With several colonies already established prior to the Pilgrims' later arrival in 1620, one can assume that others also celebrated an occasional thanksgiving feast. The only surviving record of such a feast, however, is the one in 1598 by Don Juan de Oñate and his group of Spanish settlers. 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"

Australia's Electoral Rolls Online Australia's electoral rolls between 1901 and 1936 which are now available online at www.ancestry.com.au. The rolls can be used to track the location of ancestors and find out interesting facts about their electoral histories. Nearly 42 million names appear on the rolls. Managing director of Ancestry.com.au, Josh Hanna, said the rolls provide a vital source for people trying to track their family history. "Given that no census records for this period are available due to privacy law restrictions the rolls are an important source for family history researchers seeking to bridge the historical record gap and trace the lives of their ancestors living in the first part of the 20th century," Mr Hanna said in a statement. The rolls can be found on http://www.ancestry.com.au. You must be a (paid) subscriber of ancestry.com.au or of Ancestry.com's "Word Deluxe Membership" to access the Australian Electoral Rolls. 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"

To view your eCard, choose from the options below. Click on the following link: http://www.bluemountain.com/view.pd?i=176208301&m=2440&rr=y&source=bma999 For your security, if you'd prefer not to click on links within this email: 1. Type http://www.bluemountain.com/?source=bma999&rr=y into your web browser 2. Locate the eCard pickup button in the upper left-hand area of the page 3. Enter the following code --> 1762083012440 Please do not reply to this email. To help resolve your issue or question, go to: http://www.bluemountain.com/help/index.pd We have an extensive help center that may answer your questions, or you can choose to email us from there. Sally "A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart" sallypavia2001@yahoo.com

[Thought this was a good one for all of us to consider. Sally] The man that hath not anything to boast but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato: the only good belonging to him is underground. - Thomas Overbury, 1581-1613

Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854 http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/misc/deych.htm ************************************** 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"

[Subscribers will know that this surname is also the name of one of the 26 male passengers on the 1620 "Mayflower" who is known to have descendants living today.] That season of the year encumbered by myth is upon us again and it is good to know the difference between myth and fact. In his office in the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, Holland, former 1627 Plimoth Plantation curator and present director of this Leiden museum, the noted Pilgrim scholar Dr. Jeremy D. Bangs has done much to set things straight. He has written two major articles debunking centuries old myths: “Thanksgiving on the Net: Roast Bull with Cranberry Sauce” and “1621: A Historian Looks Anew at Thanksgiving,” the latter dealing with publications. Both of these articles may be read on the PA Mayflower Society’s Website www.Sail1620.org “Discover History” page (Featured Articles – browse all). Among other works of Dr. Bangs posted there are the first two chapters of his forthcoming book “Pilgrims, Leiden , and the Early Years of Plymouth Plantation.” You can visit his museum at http://www.pilgrimhall.org/LeidenMuseum.htm. Of course Leiden is where the Pilgrims settled in 1609 after fleeing persecution by the Church of England and from whence they departed to begin their 1620 voyage, via England , to North America. Actual Pilgrim artifacts may be seen in the on-line collections of this nation’s oldest museum in continuous use (since 1824), Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth , MA (http://www.pilgrimhall.org). Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. Former Governor PA Mayflower Society _____________________________________________________________________________ ______ 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"

150 Years of Scottish Social History Launches Online >From ancestry.co.UK: Perth and Fife newspaper indexes made available online for the first time by Ancestry.co.UK Scots can tap into 150 years of local history with the online launch today by Ancestry.co.UK of the Fife Newspaper Index Cards, 1833-1987 and the Perth Newspaper Index Cards 1809-1990. Key name and event information chosen from millions of pages of 22 local papers across Perthshire and Fifeshire will allow family history researchers to delve into the history of the two areas at the touch of a button. Perth’s collection dates from 1809 to 1990 and includes details from the Perthshire Advertiser, the Perthshire Courier and Strathearn Herald, all indexed by the AK Bell Library in Perth. The Fifeshire collection, indexed by the Cupar Library in Fife, consists of more than 200,000 records taken from newspapers including the Dundee Courier and the Fife Herald News, dating from 1833 to 1987. Both libraries have painstakingly scoured their historical newspaper collections over several decades to compile a variety of interesting, relevant and historically important information. The result is two collections rich with details of births, deaths, retirals, wedding anniversaries, personal achievements and personal tragedies, as well as a wealth of information on historical events, probate and legal notices, business advertisements and local news. Historical events of note include the Cholera epidemic that gripped Perth in the 1830s, and death of the botanist and local hero Sir Patrick Geddes in 1985, both of which appear in the Perthshire collection, while in the Fifeshire collection are details of the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879 when a gale caused the bridge to collapse, taking with it 6 train carriages and killing 75 people. These ‘filtered’ collections are searchable by a person’s name, event type, event place, and date of newspaper, including the page number. This information can be used to order back copies of the relevant papers from the libraries or to arrange a visit to view them on microfilm. Ancestry.co.UK Managing Director Simon Harper comments: “Newspapers contain a vast wealth of information useful to those researching family history and Ancestry.co.UK is thrilled to be able to offer Scottish history enthusiasts online access to these two collections as they have been extensively organised so that only key information is included and all information is searchable.” (Sara Ann Kelly, Local Studies Librarian at the AK Bell Library, comments: “These records are a vital resource for anyone with an interest in Perth’s local history, giving details of everything from bankruptcy and job adverts to the births and deaths of many of Perth’s ordinary citizens, as well as local heroes such as Sir Patrick Geddes.”)

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[From another mailing list. My apologies also for passing along the original email without checking further. Sally] I believe this was for last year. ~~~~~~ You are 100% right. It WAS for last year. My mistake And my apologies. I received the link to the announcement in a 'business- Type email. When I went to the announcement I never Looked at the date. You'd think I'd know by now never to Do things when I'm tired...but I'm obviously not learning My lesson. Again, my apologies. ******************************* 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"

{Got this off my Legacy Newsletter; didn't know this could even be done. DUH!!!} How to "colorize" a black/white photo I've been told that when my grandfather was my age we looked very similar. I wanted to see this for myself so I found an old photo of him. Our pictures looked nothing alike - his were black and white while mine were in full color! :) Nothing breathes life into an old photo like adding color to it. Using my photo editing software, it took about ten minutes to transfer history into colorful history. I used Adobe PhotoShop Elements 6.0, but other software can likely do the same. Follow these steps to add color to a black and white photo: Make sure that the picture is in RGB mode. Look in the picture’s title bar. If it says RGB, all is well. If it says Gray, click on Image > Mode > RGB Color. Let’s first “colorize” the skin. Click on the Create a New Layer icon at the top of the Layers palette. Rename the layer to “Skin”. Open another color photo that has a person in it. Click on the Eyedropper tool and click once on the skin. The Foreground color is now the color of the skin. Close the color photo. Click on the Skin layer to make sure it is the active layer. Type “B” or click on the Brush tool and select a smaller soft-edged brush. In the Layers palette, change the layer’s blend mode from Normal to Color. Set the layer’s opacity to around 55% to reduce the intensity, or adjust it to look realistic. Now start painting the skin. If the color appears to light to easily see the changes, change the layer’s blend mode back to normal, paint all of the skin areas, and when you are done, change it back to color. Let’s add the hair color now. Click on the Create a New Layer icon, and rename the layer to “hair”. Open another color photo that has the color of hair that you want to use. Using the Eyedropper tool, set the Foreground color to the desired hair color. Follow steps 4-6 again, but for the hair layer. Repeat steps 2-6 for all areas of the photo that need color.