A great Genealogy resource - as www.iMortuary.com is the most comprehensive directory of funeral homes (and thus redundant burial records) on the Internet!. http://www.iMortuary.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"

This is from RootsWeb Review this week and has good information about how best to scan and save photos. Tips on Scanning Photos By Louise Power power_louise@hotmail.com I would like to add some information to the article by Cathy Herrin, Wasilla, Alaska, on scanning family photos. As a desktop publisher, I find that the most important thing is to scan photos at a high resolution. The preferred resolution for publications is 300 dpi (dots per inch). It will take up more room on your CDs, but it will make your photo much better in any publication. You may not be planning a publication at this point, but someone in your family may in the future. You can always reduce the size of a copy of the photo to 72 dpi for Web publication. If you understand the principle behind this, you'll see why it's important. Photos are not made up of solid color or black and white masses. They're made up of thousands of pixels (short for picture element) or pieces of information. If you scan a photo of a certain size at 72 dpi, a common resolution for Web photos, it will look fine on a website even if you make it smaller. If you try to enlarge the picture for, say, publication, you end up enlarging each pixel giving the photo a fuzzy look. Just remember, you can always take information out of a photo by resaving it at a lower resolution, but once that's done, you can't put information back into the picture. In 2001, Texas A&M University's Agricultural Communications Dept. published some guidelines for photos used in publications. They said, in part: "Avoid saving images as JPEGs. JPEG is a compressed image format. Saving an image as a JPEG reduces the size of the file, which is convenient in terms of storage space. However, compressing also degrades the image. The more times you open a JPEG, make changes, and resave it as a JPEG, the more the image deteriorates. If you must use the JPEG file type, take photos at the highest possible resolution and then do not open your images or manipulate them in any way. Simply copy them to your computer (or a disk or CD) and then forward the files to the editor of your publication. The preferred file type for publication is TIF. A TIF file can be edited without losing data. Uncompressed PICT files and EPS files also are acceptable. "A 72 ppi image is fine for viewing on a computer monitor; 300 ppi is the resolution required if an image is headed for a printing press. "Another way to understand resolution is in its relationship to image size. If a 72 ppi image is 17.7 x 14.2 inches on your monitor, it will be just 4.3 x 3.4 inches when sized for printing at 300 ppi. So, if you submit a 72 ppi image to use in a publication, the largest size at which it can be printed will be about one-fourth of its original size." And I say, always assume that at some point your photos will be used in a publication, so make them the best that you can. Another thing is never work on your original scan. When you open it up, immediately save it as a copy and work on the copy. Then, if you mess it up, you can always go back to the original. As I said above, you can always take information out of a photo by resaving it at a lower resolution, but once that's done, you can't put information back into a picture. If you work on a copy, however, you'll always have the original to go back to. On your CD, you may want to make two folders, one for the original, high resolution photos and one for the lower resolution copies. You can name each one the same except use HR or LR to denote the different resolutions. Lastly, for longevity, I recommend investigating gold CDs which many institutions now use for archiving electronic media since gold does not deteriorate. ***************************** 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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RUSSELL COUNTY, ALABAMA LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES And SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held in Russell County, Alabama, in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. It is possible to locate a free person on the Russell County, Alabama census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published indexes Almost always do not include the slave census. Those who have found a free ancestor on the 1860 Russell County, Alabama census can check this list to learn if their ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the County. If the ancestor is not on this list, the 1860 slave census microfilm can be viewed to find out whether the ancestor was a holder of a fewer number of slaves or not a slaveholder at all. Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral County, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. An ancestor not shown to hold slaves on the 1860 slave census could have held slaves on an earlier census, so those films can be checked also. In 1850, the slave census was also separate from the free census, but in earlier years it was a part of the free census. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/alrussell.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"

The following is an index to convicts in New south Wales who were Granted Pardons, Certificates of Freedom or Tickets-of-Leave in the Year 1827. It is not necessarily a complete list of all certificates issued Only for those some 1800 men and women listed in the Sydney Gazette For this year. Example: Surname: Abbott Name: Henry Ship: Adamant Convict Tickets and Certificates 1827 www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/scons27b.htm ************************************** Ballarat & District Genealogical Society : Ballarat history, genealogy, Family history, goldfields, Victoria, Australia http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/index.html ************************************** Society of Australian Genealogists - Databases http://tinyurl.com/2gpyo5 ************************************** Superior Courts of New South Wales (pre-1900) Case Notes http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/NSWSupC/ ************************************** Civil War Veterans Buried in Australia and New Zealand http://users.bigpond.com/bcrompton/Ausdied.htm ************************************** State Records New South Wales - 1834-1903 Index to Naturalization http://tinyurl.com/ysxtvg ************************************** Jamestown South Australia - 1873-2000 Cemetery Index http://tinyurl.com/2dujgp ************************************** Passengers Arriving In Western Australia - SUCCESS 22 Mar 1843 http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/success.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"

http://www.witness-to-war.org/content/index.html The Witness to War Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the stories and unique experiences of combat veterans. It was founded in an attempt to answer the unanswerable: What was it like to be there? These are the stories of scared 18 and 19 year olds thrust into circumstances of such intensity and violence, that they became the defining moments of their lives. Over 100 veterans, primarily from World War II, share their stories, most of which have never been told before. 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"

1775: British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston The new commander in chief of the British army, Major General Sir William Howe, issues a proclamation to the residents of Boston on this day in 1775. Speaking from British headquarters in Boston, Howe forbade any person from leaving the city and ordered citizens to organize into military companies in order to "contribute all in his power for the preservation of order and good government within the town of Boston." Almost four months earlier, on July 3, 1775, George Washington had formally taken command of the Continental Army. Washington, a prominent Virginia planter and veteran of the French and Indian War, had been appointed commander in chief by the Continental Congress two weeks before in an attempt to turn the impromptu siege of Boston, instigated by New Englanders enraged by the Battle of Lexington and Concord the previous April into a congressionally organized inter-colonial revolt against parliamentary oppression. The ad hoc siege of Boston enjoyed it greatest moment when New Englanders under the command of Israel Putnam and William Prescott managed to kill 226 and wound 838 members of the world-famous British army before withdrawing their rag-tag force from Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. The newly minted General Washington was unimpressed upon meeting his supposed army outside Boston a few weeks after their momentous success. Just as the British had during the French and Indian War, he saw "stupidity" among the enlisted men, who were used to the easy familiarity of being commanded by neighbors in local militias with elected officers. Washington promptly insisted that the officers behave with decorum and the enlisted men with deference. Although he enjoyed some success with this original army, the New Englanders went home to their farms at the end of 1775, and Washington had to start fresh with new recruits in 1776. The British did not leave Boston until March 27, 1776, after Washington’s successful occupation of Dorchester Heights 13 days earlier, during which he had turned the cannon captured from the British at Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775 upon the British-held city. More afraid of their own cannon than Patriot soldiers, the British departed, thus allowing Bostonians to move freely in and out of their own city for the first time in six months. 1864: Second Battle of Fair Oaks concludes Union forces withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond. The assault was actually a diversion to draw attention from a larger Union offensive around Petersburg. The scene of one of the Seven Days' Battles in June 1862, Fair Oaks was located on the defensive perimeter around the Confederate capital of Richmond. General Robert E. Lee's army constructed five lines of trenches that stretched 25 miles south to Petersburg. For five months, Lee's troops had been under siege by the forces of Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The monotony of the siege was broken only periodically by a Union attempt to break Lee's lines. One such attack came at Hatcher's Run, southwest of Petersburg, on October 27. At the same time, Grant ordered an attack at Fair Oaks, about 24 miles from the assault at Hatcher's Run. The Richmond defenses were formidable, so any direct assault was unlikely to succeed. By attacking at Fair Oaks, Grant hoped to prevent Lee from shifting any troops along the Richmond-Petersburg line to reinforce the lines at Hatcher's Run. Troops from General Benjamin Butler's Tenth Corps moved north of the James River and conducted a two-pronged offensive against Richmond on October 27. Confederate General James Longstreet, in charge of the Richmond section of the Confederate defenses, skillfully positioned troops to thwart the Yankees. Union General Godfrey Weitzel, commander of part of the attack, enjoyed some initial success but could not significantly penetrate the Rebel trenches. On October 2, he determined that he had accomplished all that he could, and he withdrew his troops. Some 1100 Union men were killed, wounded, or captured during the attack, while the Confederates lost just 450. The planned diversion did not work--at the far end of the defenses, the Yankees failed to move around the end of the Confederate line at Hatcher's Run. 1886: Grover Cleveland dedicates Statue of Liberty On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The statue’s full name was Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. It had been a gift from French citizens to their American friends in recognition of the two countries’ commitment to liberty and democracy and their alliance during the American Revolutionary War, which had begun 110 years earlier. The 151-foot copper statue was built in France and shipped to New York in 350 separate parts. It arrived in the city on June 17, 1886, and over the next several months was reassembled while electricians worked to wire the torch to light up at night. As President Cleveland accepted the statue on behalf of American citizens, he declared "we will not forget that liberty here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." The statue quickly became a symbol of America’s humanitarianism and willingness to take in the world’s "tired, poor and huddled masses"--in the words of the poem by Emma Lazarus inscribed on the monument’s pedestal--who yearned for freedom and a better life. "Lady Liberty" was originally intended to work as a functional lighthouse and, from 1886 to 1901, the statue was operated by the United States Lighthouse Board. In 1901, the War Department took over its operation and maintenance. The statue and the island on which it stands, now known as Liberty Island, were together proclaimed a national monument by President Calvin Coolidge on October 15, 1924, and, in 1933, the National Park Service assumed oversight of the monument. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan established a commission tasked with restoring the deteriorating Lady Liberty in time for a centennial celebration in 1986. A joint French-American preservation and rehabilitation group cleaned the statue and replaced the glass and metal torch with gold leaf. The original torch is on display in the statue’s lobby. Today, the Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction, hosting as many as 5 million people every year. Although access to the statue’s crown was restricted following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, tourists can still visit Liberty Island, and the statue’s pedestal observation deck and museum. 1918: German sailors begin to mutiny On this day in 1918, sailors in the German High Seas Fleet steadfastly refuse to obey an order from the German Admiralty to go to sea to launch one final attack on the mighty British navy, echoing the frustrated, despondent mood of many on the side of the Central Powers during the last days of World War I. By the last week of October 1918, three of the Central Powers—Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire—were at least in talks with the Allies about reaching an armistice, while the fourth, Bulgaria, had already concluded one at the end of September. With the end of the war seemingly in sight, the German naval command—led by the Admiralty’s chief of staff, Reinhardt Scheer—decided to launch a last-ditch effort against the British in the North Sea in a desperate attempt to restore the German navy’s prestige. In the words of Reinhardt Scheer, chief of staff of the German Admiralty, "An honorable battle by the fleet—even if it should be a fight to the death—will sow the seed of a new German fleet of the future. There can be no future for a fleet fettered by a dishonorable peace." Choosing not to inform the chancellor, Max von Baden, of its plans, the German Admiralty issued the order to leave port on October 28. The sailors themselves, however, believing the attack to be a suicide mission, would have none of it. Though the order was given five times, each time they resisted. In total, 1,000 mutineers were arrested, leaving the Imperial Fleet immobilized. By October 30, the resistance had engulfed the German naval base at Kiel, where sailors and industrial workers alike took part in the rebellion; within a week, it had spread across the country, with revolts in Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck on November 4 and 5 and in Munich two days later. This widespread discontent led Socialist members of the German Reichstag, or parliament, to declare the country a republic on November 9, followed swiftly by Kaiser Wilhelm’s abdication and finally, on November 11, by the end of the First World War. 1940: Italy invades Greece On this day in 1940, Mussolini's army, already occupying Albania, invades Greece in what will prove to be a disastrous military campaign for the Duce's forces. Mussolini surprised everyone with this move against Greece; even his ally, Adolf Hitler, was caught off-guard, especially since the Duce had led Hitler to believe he had no such intention. Hitler denounced the move as a major strategic blunder. According to Hitler, Mussolini should have concentrated on North Africa, continuing the advance into Egypt. Even Mussolini's own chief of army staff found out about the invasion only after the fact. But despite being warned off an invasion of Greece by his own generals, despite the lack of preparedness on the part of his military, despite that it would mean getting bogged down in a mountainous country during the rainy season against an army willing to fight tooth and nail to defend its autonomy, Mussolini moved ahead out of sheer hubris, convinced he could defeat the Greeks in a matter of days. He also knew a secret, that millions of lire had been put aside to bribe Greek politicians and generals not to resist the Italian invasion. Whether the money ever made it past the Italian fascist agents delegated with the responsibility is unclear; if it did, it clearly made no difference whatsoever-the Greeks succeeded in pushing the Italian invaders back into Albania after just one week, and the Axis power spent the next three months fighting for its life in a defensive battle. To make matters worse, virtually half the Italian fleet at Taranto had been crippled by a British carrier-based attack. Mussolini had been humiliated.

An alphabetical listing of the Acadian Exiles who sailed from France to Louisiana in 1785. http://www.acadian-home.org/louisiana-alpha-listing.html Example: LA VILLE ARCHANGEL - Sailed from France August 12, 1785 arriving in Louisiana December 3, 1785. This ship left St-Malo, France and upon reacing Balize, an outpost at the mouth of the Mississippi River, ran aground on November 4. This, and the fact that they had already had run out of food, caused a number of passengers to get sick. Finally the ship made it to New Orleans on December 3, 1785. There were sixty families totalling two hundred and ninety-nine people onboard. Fifteen people died and two deserted. Seven marriages took place, eleven more adults joined the group and there were two more births. Fifty-three families totalling two hundred and seventy-on individuals went to Bayou Des Écores which is located north of Baton Rouge near Thompson Creek. One family of seven remained in New Orleans while another six families totalling twenty-one people went to Lafourche. A decade later, following a hurricane, man of the Bayou Des Écores families moved south where other Acadian families had settled along Lafourche. 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"

1659: Quakers executed for religious beliefs William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs. The two had violated a law passed by the Massachusetts General Court the year before, banning Quakers from the Colony under penalty of death. The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are commonly known as Quakers, was a Christian movement founded by George Fox in England during the early 1650s. Quakers opposed central church authority, preferring to seek spiritual insight and consensus through egalitarian Quaker meetings. They advocated sexual equality and became some of the most outspoken opponents of slavery in early America. Robinson and Stevenson, who were hanged from an elm tree on Boston Common in Boston, were the first Quakers to be executed in America. Quakers found solace in Rhode Island and other Colonies, and Massachusetts' anti-Quaker laws were later repealed. In the mid 18th century, John Woolman, an abolitionist Quaker, traveled the American colonies, preaching and advancing the anti-slavery cause. He organized boycotts of products made by slave labor and was responsible for convincing many Quaker communities to publicly denounce slavery. Another of many important abolitionist Quakers was Lucretia Mott, who worked on the Underground Railroad in the 19th century, helping lead fugitive slaves to freedom in the Northern states and Canada. In later years, Mott was a leader In the movement for women's rights. 1864: Battle of Hatcher's Run (Burgess Mill) Union troops are turned back when they try to cut the last railroad Supplying the Confederate force in Petersburg, Virginia. Since June, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had laid siege to Petersburg, just 25 miles south of the Confederate capital at Richmond. Confederate General Robert E. Lee's dwindling forces were stretched thin along miles of trenches, but the fortifications magnified the actual strength of his troops Hatcher's Run was one of several attempts made by Grant in the summer and Fall of 1864 to pry the Rebels from their positions. With winter approaching, Grant decided to make one last attempt to capture the Southside Railroad that supplied Petersburg from the west. He instructed the Army of the Potomac's commander, General George Meade, to direct the operation. He ordered parts of three army corps, commanded by Generals Winfield Hancock, Gouverneur K. Warren, and John Parke, to advance in the early morning rain of October 23. The target was the Confederate trenches along Hatcher's Run, seven miles southwest of Petersburg. The plan called for Parke's and Warren's forces to make an assault, if possible, while Hancock's troops moved west around the end of the Confederate lines. They were to turn north and cut the railroad. The effort would involve 40,000 Yankee troops and 3,000 cavalry troopers. Parke's and Warren's men found the trenches much more heavily defended than expected. They continued to maneuver to draw attention away from Hancock's advance, but an uneven advance created a gap in the Union lines. Meade slowed the advance to close the gap. By late afternoon, Confederate counterattacks threw Hancock's Second Corps into disarray. The fighting continued after dark, but when it ended no territory had changed hands, and The siege continued. About 1,700 Yankee men were killed, wounded, and captured. Confederate losses were not reported but were thought to be less than 1,000, most of them captured. The battle was a disaster for the Union and caused the Lincoln administration embarrassment just a week before the presidential election. However, recent Yankee military successes in the Shenandoah Valley around Atlanta and in Mobile, Alabama, were enough to secure Lincoln's Reelection. Also on this day: CSS Albemarle sinks The Albemarle sinks at Plymouth, North Carolina. It was the only Confederate ironclad to be destroyed by the Union during the war. 1954: Disneyland debuts Disneyland, Walt Disney's first television series, premieres on ABC. The one-hour show, introduced by Tinkerbell, presented a rotating selection of cartoons, dramas, movies, and other entertainment. The show ran for 34 years under various names, including Walt Disney Presents and The Wonderful World of Disney. The program was the longest-running prime-time series on network TV.

The memorial commemorates both World Wars and the Korean War. http://www.glosgen.co.uk/gloucester/glosterwm.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"

Right now New England Historic Genealogical Society and Ancestry have established a new partnership. They have a really good deal on membership in both organizations. If you are not already a member this is about half the price that it usually is. For more information: NEHGS and Ancestry.com Partnership NEHGS and www.Ancestry.com are collaborating to bring new benefits To our members, including discounts on Ancestry story products and subscriptions to Ancestry.com. For more details Visit www.NewEnglandAncestors.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"

This is very interesting!! http://www.peterussell.com:80/Odds/WorldClock.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"

My main interests are families from New York and Vermont. I would also like anything else that has to do with genealogy. Thanks! Bonnie Schneiderman Have a great day! Bonnie

NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just released by the NARA Public Affairs office. Please address all inquiries to Public.Affairs@nara.gov or contact Bryan McGraw, Director of Archival Programs at NPRC, at 314-801-9132. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2007 National Personnel Records Center Opens more than Six Million New Military Personnel Files St. Louis, MO * The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) will open for the first time all of the individual Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) of Army, Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard military personnel who served and were discharged, retired or died while in the service, prior to 1946. Collectively, these files comprise more than six million records. This is the second step in the progressive opening of the entire paper and microfiche OMPF collection of over 57 million individual files. Additional military personnel records will be made available to the public each year through 2067 until the entire collection is opened. These archived files are treasured by family members, historians, researchers, and genealogists. Contained in a typical OMPF are documents outlining all elements of military service, including assignments, evaluations, awards and decorations, education and training, demographic information, some medical information and documented disciplinary actions. Some records also contain photographs of the individual and official correspondence concerning military service. To view an original record, individuals may visit the NPRC Archival Research Room in St. Louis, MO. Telephone is 314-801-0850. Research room hours are10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Central Time Tuesday through Friday. Visitors are strongly encouraged to call ahead to make reservations. * To obtain copies of records, customers may write to NPRC at 9700Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63132, fax a request to 314-801-9195, or submit a request through http://vetrecs.archives.gov or on a Standard Form 180. Information about records available at NPRC is also posted on the National Personnel Records Center Homepage at http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/index.html. Archived, public records are subject to the National Archives and Records Administration's published fee schedule. Copy fees for archived OMPFs are waived for veterans or primary next-of-kin (surviving spouse or children of the veteran) if the records are needed to validate a benefit or entitlement. The fee schedule for OMPFs is as follows: 1. OMPFs 5 pages or less: $15 2. OMPFs 6 pages or more: $50 (most OMPFs fall in this category) 3. OMPFs of Persons of Exceptional Prominence (PEP): $.75 per page *(PEP records include the OMPFs of famous individuals such as former Presidents, famous military leaders, decorated military heroes, celebrities, entertainers, and professional athletes who left military service and have been deceased for at least 10 years). Archived records are subject to a limited privacy exemption under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. As such, all records are reviewed prior to release and social security numbers are redacted. For more information, contact Bryan McGraw, Director of Archival Programs at NPRC, at 314-801-9132. 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"

Written by Branden Hart Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Lynne Cheney said in an MSNBC interview that, while researching her husband s genealogy for her new book, she discovered that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama have at least one thing in common: an ancestor. This isn't the first time Obama's ancestry has been in the news: the Chicago Sun-Times stated last September that he shares an ancestor with President Bush as well. This won't change whether Mrs. Cheney plans on supporting Obama in his presidential bid, according to the linked CNN article. Question for you CNN: why would it? Why would anyone think that some revelation about an 18th century relation would change the voting allegiance of the woman married to one of the most influential Republicans in the past century? Family unity is important, but is such a remote connection going to change the vote? I don't think so. [Reuters, CNN] Branden Hart, a TheSequitur.com assistant managing editor, is a supervising editor at Educational Testing Service.

>From one of our mailing list members. Thanks, Vicki. Wow. The genealogy blogs have been buzzing this week with the announcement that The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com and the sponsor of Rootsweb.com and producer of Family Tree Maker software, has been sold to a private investment firm. There have been many many announcements about the sale; the best article I've seen appears on Dick Eastman's blog. You can read the entire article, which summarizes a call Dick had with Tim Sullivan, the CEO of The Generations Network. Several reader comments follow the article. Dick has other articles on the topic on his blog. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/10/a-talk-with-the.html The URL is long; Use this TinyURL if the link is broken: http://tinyurl.com/25pbkz 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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Hello. My name is Bonnie Seech-Dailey. I live in Western Pennsylvania. I am working on my family tree. Anna Cmar Born April 27, 1888 in Zamutov' Came to Pennsylvania at the age of 16 to her Brother Mihaly/Mike Cmar. Married George Seech -Born Jamuary 7, 1874. Unsure of his village. Do not have their marriage date. Annas parents: Mihaly Czmar -Roman Catholic-Born February 23, 1849 from Rudlov. Erzebeth Dubravszki-Greek Cathholic-Born March 11, 1858 from Zamutov' They married January 29, 1877 in Zamutov'. On Anns Birth/Christening it listed Godparents: Janos Hardony and Erzsebet Szabol, and Mrs. Gyorgyne Demcsak. I do not know who any of these people are, or any info about them at all. Erzebeth Dubravski parents: Andreas Dubravski from Rudlov and Anna Mlinar Mihaly Czmar Parents: Mihaly Czmar and Anna Marczinko. No info on all of these parents either. I know Anna Cmar, Erzebeth (Elizabeth) Cmar and George Seech are all burried at St. Michaels Byzantine Cemetery, Hermitage, Pennsylvania. I do not know where anyone else is burried. And i do not know if Anna had any other Siblings. Annas husband George Seech. Unsure of his village name, because i am still unsure of the proper spelling of his name in Czeckoslovakia. Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou, Bonnie panther7775@yahoo.com Bonnie A. Dailey --------------------------------- Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.

This is cute- A site for the genealogist. ( pun intended ) http://jking71.googlepages.com/mcgenie 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"