Genealogy Today April 2002 Updates # New Navigational Menus # Get Your Kids Involved in Your Family History # Looking at Our Ancestors # Newspapers Dating Back Over 150 Years! # Jeffersons Offer Hemings Proposal # Wayne County is storehouse of Indiana's early history # Check data carefully to avoid errors # Marching to Pretoria & beyond # Donations needed for Henderson Cemetery # Chinese group wants surnames standardised # Newly Released CDs from Genealogy.com! # Search new databases at Ancestry.com! Forwarding of this message to your genealogy friends is encouraged. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NEW NAVIGATIONAL MENUS http://www.genealogytoday.com/ By Illya D'Addezio Last weekend Genealogy Today re-published all of its content with a new easy-to-use interface designed to simplify access to the growing collection of information. Improvements include a new navigation bar and enhanced search tools. The new design was created to help the user discover the helpful information hosted at Genealogy Today. The new organization breaks the site into six primary sections: News, My Family, Help Center, Contribute, People and Search. There is an additional section called Hot Topics, which filters content for the most popular topics in genealogy. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ GET YOUR KIDS INVOLVED IN YOUR FAMILY HISTORY http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=306&s=RN By Bob Brooke Everyday Genealogy - 22/Apr/2002 Genealogy isn't just for older folks. Through genealogy, kids can gain a better appreciation for their heritage. And while an older person might keep the historic records, family history is just that-a history of the family. So get your kids and grandkids involved. While you may spend countless hours searching through old records, scanning photographs, and creating your family tree, your kids will find that boring. But they may find researching occupations of their ancestors fun. Children like-indeed, they need-hands on activities ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ LOOKING AT OUR ANCESTORS http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=311&s=RN By Ruby Coleman Tracing Lines - 23/Apr/2002 Everybody has photographs, most of which are unidentified. They open doors to our research and put faces on our ancestors. Look closely at the photograph and on a paper jot down your ideas. The following are guides for what to look for in old photographs. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NEWSPAPERS DATING BACK OVER 150 YEARS! http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=305&s=RN Periodicals and newspapers are the diaries of local communities. They are excellent sources of family history details — often recorded nowhere else. Look for obituaries, marriages, legal notices, and more. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ JEFFERSONS OFFER HEMINGS PROPOSAL http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=319&s=RN By Allen G. Breed The Washington Post - 19/Apr/2002 Thomas Jefferson's heirs are proposing the creation of a separate cemetery on the grounds of Monticello for the descendants of slave Sally Hemings, but aren't ready to let her offspring into the family association. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ WAYNE COUNTY IS STOREHOUSE OF INDIANA'S EARLY HISTORY http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=309&s=RN By Marjorie Blocher Kinsey Evansville Courier & Press - 21/Apr/2002 A recent trip to Richmond, Ind., helped me find some genealogy resources that are new to me and may be helpful to others. Wayne County, Ind., was one of the first places settled by those who moved out of Ohio after early treaties with Native Americans opened up parts of southeastern Indiana. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHECK DATA CAREFULLY TO AVOID ERRORS http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=307&s=RN By Beverly Smith Vorpahl Spokesman-Review - 22/Apr/2002 We were discussing "given names" a while back, with a mention of my aunt, who would have happily given her name back if only she could. I even speculated that maybe she didn't know she had been named for her paternal grandmother, Julia Elvina Hadlock Wing. Turns out I was probably right. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ MARCHING TO PRETORIA & BEYOND http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=321&s=RN By Schelly Talalay Dardashti The Jerusalem Post - 24/Apr/2002 South Africans preserving Jewish history and records... 'THE 100-year wonder," is what former South African Beryl Baleson called the Jewish history of Southern Africa ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DONATIONS NEEDED FOR HENDERSON CEMETERY Glasgow Daily Times - 24/Apr/2002 Donations are needed for the upkeep of the Henderson Cemetery. Donations may be sent to Kenneth Nuckols, 70 Little Work Acres, Glasgow, Ky. 42141. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHINESE GROUP WANTS SURNAMES STANDARDISED http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=318&s=RN By Lam Li The Star Online - 26/Apr/2002 While Muslims and non-Malays are debating the proposal to use surnames and dropping the bin and binti or a/l and a/p in their identity cards, the Chinese have a different set of problems involving surnames. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NEWLY RELEASED CDS FROM GENEALOGY.COM! http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=304&s=RN West Virginia, 1863-1900 Marriage Index Ontario, Canada, 1858-1869 Marriage Index ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ SEARCH NEW DATABASES AT ANCESTRY.COM! http://www.gentod.com/go.mv?to=303&s=RN Biddeford and Saco, Maine City Directory, 1849 Taunton, Massachusetts City Directory, 1869 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ HOW TO CONTRIBUTE We are always looking for helpful articles on various research techniques, historical perspectives, family tales, genealogy book and software reviews and details of recent conferences, meetings or seminars. If you are interested in contributing, join Team Roots for more information. http://www.teamroots.com/ http://www.genealogytoday.com/roots/team/ (c) 1999 - 2002 Software Wonders of NJ http://www.genealogytoday.com/ Materials presented here are copyright by the respective publishers.

"Mick Gurling" <mickg@toto.com> wrote in message news:<3TSw8.84999$XV5.7627306@bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>... > I understand an ancestor was probably born in the 1850's or 1860's in a > british military establishment in Dublin. > Anyone offer help on where I would search for records of this birth? I > should have the date to search and the name as recorded on a child's birth > certificate within a week. > > -- > MickG A Mr. James Quinton lived in 14 Meath Street Dublin according to the Dublin Pictorial Guide and Directory of 1850.

Robert Jerin <rjerin@adelphia.net> says: : Link to genealogy forums by Jan. This forum is fairly new but very nice. : http://www.willowweb-design.com/genforum/index.php Not Found The requested URL /genforum/index.php was not found on this server. Backing up to the directory, one finds: These forums are being moved. Please check back here for further updates :) We recently acquired our own domain!! www.FindYourGenes.com is coming soon!!!!!!!!! -- Paul Havemann (paul@havemann.com) Havemann Family History: http://www.havemann.com/

In alt.genealogy Jennie Shingfield <jennie@put+my+surname+here.com> says: : 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. Google.com and Vivisimo.com are good search engines to try. If you're into phonebook searches, I've set up a page here: http://www.havemann.com/fonebooksearch.html -- Paul Havemann (paul@havemann.com) Havemann Family History: http://www.havemann.com/

Go to US Vital Records information http://vitalrec.com for information on how and where to get copies of birth, death, marriage and divorce records from any state or county in the United States.

Great Gramps-in-law. The Cranky Genee On 25 Apr 2002 13:49:37 GMT, penlin304@aol.com (Penlin304) wrote: >This was fround in an 1837 newspaper,. >(Morgantown Republican newspaper). > If your mothers' mother was my mother's sister's aunt, what relation >would your grandfather's uncle's nephew be to my elder brother's first >cousins son-in-law? > >Penny Linder >penlin304@aol.com >http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jmlinder609

I'm My Own Grandpa ( Lonzo & Oscar ) It sounds funny, I know, But it really is so, Oh, I'm my own grandpa. I'm my own grandpa. I'm my own grandpa. It sounds funny, I know, But it really is so, Oh, I'm my own grandpa. Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three, I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be. This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red. My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed. This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life, My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife. To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy. My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad, And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad. For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother. Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run, And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son. My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue, Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too. Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild, And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild, For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa! I'm my own grandpa. I'm my own grandpa. It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so, Oh, I'm my own grandpa. -- ******************************************** Stephen Barnes www.blackthorndrive.co.uk ******************************************** "Penlin304" <penlin304@aol.com> wrote in message news:20020425094937.19022.00006229@mb-fm.aol.com... > This was fround in an 1837 newspaper,. > (Morgantown Republican newspaper). > If your mothers' mother was my mother's sister's aunt, what relation > would your grandfather's uncle's nephew be to my elder brother's first > cousins son-in-law? > > Penny Linder > penlin304@aol.com > http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jmlinder609

This was fround in an 1837 newspaper,. (Morgantown Republican newspaper). If your mothers' mother was my mother's sister's aunt, what relation would your grandfather's uncle's nephew be to my elder brother's first cousins son-in-law? Penny Linder penlin304@aol.com http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jmlinder609

I have an almost brand new boxed ( set of "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom." Extant, Extinct or Dormant, 13v. by G. E. Cokayne, et al. (London: St. Catherine's Press, 1910-1959). This is a complete biographical & genealogical dictionary of every peer in England from the rank of Lord to members of the Royal Family with information on their spouse(s) and parents. This is a reprint, printed in 2000, reducing 4-1 the pages of the original 13 volumes into 6 volumes. The original was published between 1910 and 1938, so this set does not include information more recent then 1938. Vol. XIV, published in 1998, to complete the information. This set lists for $495.00 USD, but I have seen it for $346.50 at www.amazon.com. I would be willing to sell it for $280 plus shipping from the continental United States.

Hello everyone, My website has many beautiful old mystery photos that need to be identified. Come visit: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PAST http://photographsfromthepast.com/index.html You can do a surname or place search with my search engine if you don't have time to look through all the offerings. If you have a mystery photo that needs identification and would like to add it to this site, please e-mail me at the address below. It is always fascinating to wonder who these people were..... and how they lived. Kind regards, Mary Ann Allen ------------ Mary Ann Allen wallen@pipeline.com The Gathering Place http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4400/gathering.html

Thomas Jefferson Sloan born ca 1825 Indiana, married Lucy Ann Heckart ca 1867 Ralls Co,MO. any information would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

looking for anything prior to 1838 for: Thomas L. Clark, Galvanized Yankee Born ca 1838 NC, Confederate wounded and captured at Gettysburg. Married Mary Jane Thomas ca 1867 NC. Thanks!

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Someone who looks an awful lot like Halltall@aol.com wrote: > Yes, you ARE mistaken, I'm sitting in one of the Rhode Island counties right > now. We ARE small, but we do have counties, and two senators, and a > governor, and everything. A friend of mine used to say "Sure, it's a small state, but you wouldn't want to paint it". Dave

drew@furrfu.com (Drew Lawson) wrote: >In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204231913040.24627-100000@exp.bde-arc.ampr.org> > kd6lvw@att.net writes: > > >You are mostly right. >Unless I am mistaken, Rhode Island does not have counties. >I thought there was another state that doesn't have counties, >but that may have been the county/parish thing. Rhode Island has the counties of: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington. Connecticut de-organized its counties in 1960. (This is according to AniMap). Richard Damon -- rdamon@beltronicsInc.com

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G.H.O.S.T. is being extensively updated (a Genealogist's Help with Old Scottish Terms), and can be found at: www.genealogylinks.org This glossary is under constant revision. All contributions of archaic, middle, or more contemporary Scots terms (but no longer in common use), that may help with genealogical research, are welcome. I'm particularly interested in receiving details of out of print editions of old publications with their own content-specific glossaries, should anyone know of any. Many thanks, Peter

Singhals wrote: > > D. Stussy wrote: > > > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Don Nickell wrote: > > >"Barbara A. Brown" wrote: > > >> Don Nickell wrote: > > >> > > > >> > I checked the Internet for "independant city" and came up with a lot of them. > > >> > > >> and how many hits for the correct spelling "independent city" ? <g> > > > > > >What's in a name? Potatoe, potato; programmer, programer. ;-P > > > > Only for the illiterate. > > > > Louisiana: The parishes ARE counties, just under a different name! > > > > Within the Continential U.S., I stand by my comment that Washington, DC is the > > only city not located physically (not jurisdictionally, but that's true too > > for it) within a county. The "District" is equivalent to a territory, not a > > county. > > However true that may be to an observer, the city, county, and > state officials involved in Virginia's Independent Cities > disagree. County officials point out they have NOTHING to do the > the City, which isn't part of the county, even if it is > geographically _in_ the county. City officials have been known to > argue that the city isn't within the geographic county, but is a > separate entity surrounded by a different separate entity. > > As I've said privately, I don't understand it, and I don't > approve, but it DOES seem to exist officially. > > And you'll play hob trying to find records about people in the > City of Baltimore by looking the records for Baltimore County. > They do NOT overlap. > In New York State, incorporated villages are part of the town they are located in, but cities are not (and cities and towns are both part of the county they are located in, except of course New York City, which _contains_ 5 counties.)

"magus kent" <m8e@invalid.org> wrote in message news:Xns91F953080781Dme8invalidnet@64.79.64.9... > Massive snippage of several articles. > > I wish I had followed this thread from the start, but when I bumped into it > things had become somewhat 'odd'. > It strikes me that "wounded" would be an injury caused by enemy action, > i.e. bullet/bayonet/bomb. > "Injury" on the other hand would be considered as to be caused by something > other than by enemy action. I'm thinking of injury causes like "Cut > himself while shaving" and "Fell into latrine pit while drunk"...(g)...m if you shot yourself in the foot it was a "self inflicted injury" chargable offence too Hugh W

Snip << Unless I am mistaken, Rhode Island does not have counties. I thought there was another state that doesn't have counties, but that may have been the county/parish thing. >> Snip Yes, you ARE mistaken, I'm sitting in one of the Rhode Island counties right now. We ARE small, but we do have counties, and two senators, and a governor, and everything. JHall