"SkyNet News" <mick@skyweb.net> wrote in news:%ZBA8.44105$Ii2.3764184@bin2.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com: > > "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message > news:3CD2E00F.9883FB57@scs.uiuc.edu... >> >> >> elebourd wrote: >> > >> > I recently made an interesting discovery. Entering the name of a >> > person you are seeking as "spouse", "mother" or "father" with >> > the primary search window(s) blank will sometimes turn up >> > different results than if you just enter that person's name for a >> > simple primary search. As an example, searching for Anastasia <snip> >> > Eleanor >> >> >> Are you sure? I can't find a "spouse" or "father" at >> Rootsweb/Ancestry. >> >> Do you mean the Mormons? >> >> Doug McDonald >> > Global Search sure does have those fields > > MickG And, pray tell, where do you find "global search" on either of those sites??? Ancestry has an advanced search but that doesn't have mother/father either. Sherry

"Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message news:3CD2E00F.9883FB57@scs.uiuc.edu... > > > elebourd wrote: > > > > I recently made an interesting discovery. Entering the name of a person > > you are seeking as "spouse", "mother" or "father" with the primary > > search window(s) blank will sometimes turn up different results than if > > you just enter that person's name for a simple primary search. As an > > example, searching for Anastasia Connick as a primary search will turn > > up nothing. However, if you enter that name as "spouse", she will turn > > up as the wife of Michael Kennedy. Similarly, entering her name as > > "mother" will turn up some of their children. This can obviously result > > in vary large returns if the name sought is something common like 'Mary > > Smith", but knowing this may sometimes have useful results. > > > > Eleanor > > > Are you sure? I can't find a "spouse" or "father" at Rootsweb/Ancestry. > > Do you mean the Mormons? > > Doug McDonald > Global Search sure does have those fields MickG

On Thu, 2 May 2002, elebourd wrote: >I recently made an interesting discovery. Entering the name of a person >you are seeking as "spouse", "mother" or "father" with the primary >search window(s) blank will sometimes turn up different results than if >you just enter that person's name for a simple primary search. As an >example, searching for Anastasia Connick as a primary search will turn >up nothing. However, if you enter that name as "spouse", she will turn >up as the wife of Michael Kennedy. Similarly, entering her name as >"mother" will turn up some of their children. This can obviously result >in vary large returns if the name sought is something common like 'Mary >Smith", but knowing this may sometimes have useful results. Interesting. If that is in fact true, then they have a large "bug" in their search code.... Have you reported this to them via their help web page form?

Halltall@aol.com wrote in news:17a.7baf4f5.2a03fe52@aol.com: > I seem to have seen discussion on this topic before but frankly I > didn't pay attention as I thought I was OK with my FTM program. Now > I am trying The Master Genealogist. > > Has anyone switched from one to the other? Were there any bugs in > switching data? Are you happier with TMG? Any comments would be > appreciated. I am not a computer expert but I live with one; I > don't read instruction manuals very well but have managed to find > features on FTM just by experimenting. TMG seems to have more > features I can use. I haven't used TMG but when I switched from FTM to Legacy (which I absolutely love, BTW - and I'd NEVER go back to FTM!), I found that FTM didn't gedcom over everything in my database in spite of selecting the option to export everything. I had tags that Legacy couldn't recognize which ended up in notes (Legacy gives you the option to assign to another tag or put in notes). Because the versions of FTM I used had such lousy source citation features, I'm still trying to clean up the "junk" I was forced to put in the program just to get *something* in! Sherry

elebourd wrote: > > I recently made an interesting discovery. Entering the name of a person > you are seeking as "spouse", "mother" or "father" with the primary > search window(s) blank will sometimes turn up different results than if > you just enter that person's name for a simple primary search. As an > example, searching for Anastasia Connick as a primary search will turn > up nothing. However, if you enter that name as "spouse", she will turn > up as the wife of Michael Kennedy. Similarly, entering her name as > "mother" will turn up some of their children. This can obviously result > in vary large returns if the name sought is something common like 'Mary > Smith", but knowing this may sometimes have useful results. > > Eleanor Are you sure? I can't find a "spouse" or "father" at Rootsweb/Ancestry. Do you mean the Mormons? Doug McDonald

I seem to have seen discussion on this topic before but frankly I didn't pay attention as I thought I was OK with my FTM program. Now I am trying The Master Genealogist. Has anyone switched from one to the other? Were there any bugs in switching data? Are you happier with TMG? Any comments would be appreciated. I am not a computer expert but I live with one; I don't read instruction manuals very well but have managed to find features on FTM just by experimenting. TMG seems to have more features I can use. Jan Hall

Paul Moynagh wrote: > In article <3CD0920A.F0E01391@ntlworld.com>, Renia <renia.s@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > > > > There is a Pomeroy one-name study which is a member of the Guild of > > One-Name Studies (GOONS): > > > > Name: Mr Tony Pomeroy > > The Keep, 3 Stokehouse St, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 3GP > > > > E-mail: pomeroy@one-name.org > > > > Renia > > > > Anteater wrote: > > > > > Thomas Of Dorset POMEROY > > > DOB: (Bef 1328) > > > > > > Married > > > > > > Joan CHEDLEIGH > > > DOB: (1330) > > > > > > -------- > > > > > > I am trying to find out who the parents of Thomas Of Dorset Pomeroy > > > was, and trace that chute back as far as I can. > > > > > > If anyone can help me . . . > > > > > > Jkeagle13@aol.com > > Or post your query to < soc.genealogy.medieval > newsgroup- it should be > right up their street. There are some very knowledgable people there, some > of whom may very well be able to answer you. Best to give them all the > details you know. > That's where I'm replying from. Renia > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Paul Moynagh > pmoynagh@argonet.co.uk > >

In article <3CD0920A.F0E01391@ntlworld.com>, Renia <renia.s@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > There is a Pomeroy one-name study which is a member of the Guild of > One-Name Studies (GOONS): > > Name: Mr Tony Pomeroy > The Keep, 3 Stokehouse St, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 3GP > > E-mail: pomeroy@one-name.org > > Renia > > Anteater wrote: > > > Thomas Of Dorset POMEROY > > DOB: (Bef 1328) > > > > Married > > > > Joan CHEDLEIGH > > DOB: (1330) > > > > -------- > > > > I am trying to find out who the parents of Thomas Of Dorset Pomeroy > > was, and trace that chute back as far as I can. > > > > If anyone can help me . . . > > > > Jkeagle13@aol.com Or post your query to < soc.genealogy.medieval > newsgroup- it should be right up their street. There are some very knowledgable people there, some of whom may very well be able to answer you. Best to give them all the details you know. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Moynagh pmoynagh@argonet.co.uk

Ray Scanlon wrote: > Thanks for cluing me in on the time frame; I was wondering how much > newspaper reading I was in for (I have one trip allegedly taking 230 (G) Do yerself a favor: find a weekly newspaper. (g) There're only 51 of 'em a year, since most don't publish for one week around Christmas. days). > I suppose that the California trip was a Gold Rush deal, and it just > occurred to me that his family, or at least his wife, might have gone with > him, and therefore knew that date of death. The newspaper seems like a good > bet for getting a more complete story. > > The Civil War case has become interesting - I assumed from the printed > genealogy I was starting from that the "lost at sea" occurred while he was > in the service. I've had a look at his service record (as abstracted by > Ancestry.com), and it turns out he deserted in 1862, two years before his > son was adopted by his brother. He enlisted Dec 1861 at age 30, at which > time he already had two children; a third was born sometime in 1862. A > pension looks possible, but what does desertion do for your qualifications? > Scuttled 'em. Unless, of course, he enlisted a few months later in another unit. Dunno enough about Union research to have an opinion on the likelihood there; the Confederates did it all the time. Cheryl

I recently made an interesting discovery. Entering the name of a person you are seeking as "spouse", "mother" or "father" with the primary search window(s) blank will sometimes turn up different results than if you just enter that person's name for a simple primary search. As an example, searching for Anastasia Connick as a primary search will turn up nothing. However, if you enter that name as "spouse", she will turn up as the wife of Michael Kennedy. Similarly, entering her name as "mother" will turn up some of their children. This can obviously result in vary large returns if the name sought is something common like 'Mary Smith", but knowing this may sometimes have useful results. Eleanor

Ahnenforschung in der Eifel Es gibt eine interessante Mailing Liste unter Rootsweb.com. Die URL hierzu lautet: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/DEU-EIFEL.html In dieser Mailing Liste sind weit über 150 "Ahnenforscher" mit aktivem Interesse an Familienforschung im Gebiet der Eifel. Etwa die Hälfte dieser Ahnenforscher sind Nachkommen früherer Auswanderer und sie leben heute in den U.S.A. dl3ke --- Ancestor research in the Eifel / Germany It gives an interesting Mailing list under Rootsweb.com. The URL moreover is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/DEU-EIFEL.html In this Mailing list are more than 150 "ancestor's researchers" with active interest in genealogy in the area the Eifel. (The Eifel: Area in the western part of Germany. This area is between the cities Koblenz, Trier, Aachen and Cologne) Possibly the half of these ancestor's researchers are descendants of earlier emigrants and today they live in the U.S.A. dl3ke

There is a Pomeroy one-name study which is a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS): Name: Mr Tony Pomeroy The Keep, 3 Stokehouse St, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 3GP E-mail: pomeroy@one-name.org Renia Anteater wrote: > Thomas Of Dorset POMEROY > DOB: (Bef 1328) > > Married > > Joan CHEDLEIGH > DOB: (1330) > > -------- > > I am trying to find out who the parents of Thomas Of Dorset Pomeroy > was, and trace that chute back as far as I can. > > If anyone can help me . . . > > Jkeagle13@aol.com

In article <3CCF253D.F498F9F8@erols.com>, singhals@erols.com wrote: > Jim Elbrecht wrote: > > > > rscanlon@naisp.net (Ray Scanlon) wrote: > > > > -snip- > > >Right, two men. Up 'til now captain's logs haven't been part of my > > >experience but I had hoped that report might have made it back to the > > >hometown for the death on the way to California. The other, Civil War > > >death, clearly requires a look at his service record. > > > > Since you don't know the ship yet, the captain's log is out. > > Newspapers on both ends might hold a clue. The probate is definitely > > worth looking for. [along with more probing into the source of the > > information on the exact date] > > > > Yes, but once more, the local newspaper (particularly if Ray is > in the area where the man lived!) might pay off handsomely in > both instances. > For the en route to California death, check the newspapers > beginning a month BEFORE the death date looking for a mention > that he sailed aboard the SS Minnow or whatever and keep reading > until roughly 4 months after the deathdate for mention of the > death aboard the SS Whale or whatever. > > > > If the soldier/sailor was married, or sole support of his parents or > > sister, I'd skip right over the record and ask for a pension. > > Wouldn't his age play there? An 18-yr-old wouldn't be likely to > be sole-support in the days of large families (i.e., 1860s). > > Cheryl Thanks for cluing me in on the time frame; I was wondering how much newspaper reading I was in for (I have one trip allegedly taking 230 days). I suppose that the California trip was a Gold Rush deal, and it just occurred to me that his family, or at least his wife, might have gone with him, and therefore knew that date of death. The newspaper seems like a good bet for getting a more complete story. The Civil War case has become interesting - I assumed from the printed genealogy I was starting from that the "lost at sea" occurred while he was in the service. I've had a look at his service record (as abstracted by Ancestry.com), and it turns out he deserted in 1862, two years before his son was adopted by his brother. He enlisted Dec 1861 at age 30, at which time he already had two children; a third was born sometime in 1862. A pension looks possible, but what does desertion do for your qualifications? Thanks again to all who've contributed their time and info. Ray Scanlon rscanlon@naisp.net

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. The number of tips will certainly aid my researching efforts! "Jennie Shingfield" <jennie@put+my+surname+here.com> wrote in message news:lf%w8.10588$z%3.2194305@monolith.news.easynet.net... > Hi > > I couldn't find anything in the faqs about this, so apologies if this is a > newbie question. > > I'm attempting to locate all people with the Shingfield surname that are > currently living. I've already used the UK Info CD (trial version) to find > all 64 families in England from telephone and electoral role details. > > Looking at USA and Australian 'phone book' websites, there appears to only > be 2 people in the US called Shingfield! I find this hard to believe and was > wondering if anyone had any suggestion on finding more detailed searches. > > I've also tried the variations Shinkfield and Shinfield, but to no avail. > > Can anyone help! :) > > > Jennie Shingfield > jennie@put+my+surname+here.com > > > > > >

>> If the soldier/sailor was married, or sole support of his parents or >> sister, I'd skip right over the record and ask for a pension. > >Wouldn't his age play there? An 18-yr-old wouldn't be likely to >be sole-support in the days of large families (i.e., 1860s). > not necessarily--I have the pension records for a Mrs. Dorcas Hood Elliot of Amherst NH and Salem MA, who collected a pension due to the death in service of one of her sons from her first marriage, James Blanchard, Co. C, 10th New Hampshire Inf. James was one of eleven, with seven surviving to adulthood and all doing pretty well; but as Mrs. Elliot's sisters-in-law wrote "that before he entered the service he contributed regularly to her support and [we] have often heard his mother say that she depended wholly upon her son after he entered the service"--and no one checked to find that Dorcas was living with one of her daughters at the time, with three of her other sons living near by. I would bet that (true or not) you could probably find more instances like that Reg Pitts BlanketGHS@aol.com

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Thomas Of Dorset POMEROY DOB: (Bef 1328) Married Joan CHEDLEIGH DOB: (1330) -------- I am trying to find out who the parents of Thomas Of Dorset Pomeroy was, and trace that chute back as far as I can. If anyone can help me . . . Jkeagle13@aol.com

The Havemann Family History Center has been updated and now boasts a newly-expanded collection of family group sheets. (And it only took a few years to get a round tuit. ;) The most prevalent of the 80-odd surnames are: Bartholomew, Bauer, Behrens, Beresford, Conklin, Frame, Hartung, Havemann, Head, Musterer, Willock Most of them came from the UK and Germany and ended up primarily in New York and New Jersey. I also have some other items of general interest, including a tutorial on writing blind inquiry letters, a flapper's dictionary, an 1860 slang dictionary, and other ephemera (with more to come as I find time to add it). Enjoy! -- Paul Havemann (paul@havemann.com) Havemann Family History: http://www.havemann.com/