Roots Webmaster <roots@bfn.org> wrote in <Gu9yHC.7nG@freenet.buffalo.edu>: > >There is an actual book on self-improvement in the afterlife. It goes >over how to tell if you are dead and how to contact deceased relatives. >This would really clear up a lot of things for genealogists. See: > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806929960/qid%3D1018017915/ref%3D >sr%5F11%5F0%5F1/103-3173406-3951024 > >Or just go to Amazon and search on ISBN 0806929960. > >-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- >Webmaster: Cynthia Van Ness, MLS -- roots@bfn.org >Roots: The Buffalo NY Genealogy Forum -- http://www.bfn.org/~roots >With obits, vital records, city directories & hundreds of local links > > When I began researching my family ancestry in 1974, an Aunt cautioned me "Be careful when looking at your family tree- you never know who you may find hanging there." Many years later I discovered what she was talking about, and it was only 1 generation above me. Some things are better taken to the grave, I think. Regards to all, Cap'n John

>On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:08:58 -0400, BlanketGHS wrote: > >> NARA regional office at Varick & Hudson Streets in Lower Manhattan is >> where you'll find it >> >> Reg Pitts >> BlanketGHS@aol.com > >That's Varick & HOUSTON Streets. > > well, got one street right--thanks

Eric Babula <ebabula@care2.com> wrote: >Hello - > >Just wondering if it's worth it to subscribe to Ancestry.com? No, I'm >not trolling (I know this is touchy to some people) - legitimate >question! > >Most of my family came to the US from Poland, through Ellis Island in >the 1880s and 1890s, and mostly settled in Wisconsin. > >Seems that the only thing that a subscription to Ancestry.com would get >me is the 1920 Census info (which, certainly is convenient, but I'm not >convinced it's worth the $$ - I could just go to the Family History >Library in town). > >Please, can someone tell me: What are The American Genealogical- >Biographical Index, the PERSI and Genealogical Library Master Catalog, >and what can they do for my situation, if anything? I don't see >anything else that could help me, since my family wasn't here between >1790 and 1870. > >Am I missing something? What else does the subscription have to offer? >I was going to try the Free 14-day trial subscription, but now that I >hear that it might be problematic to unsubscribe, I'm wondering whether >it's even worth the effort to do that. > >Guess I just don't know what I can get from a subscription to >Ancestry.com, that I don't already have access to, which could actually >help me find my ancestors. Can someone please help me? > >TIA, > >-- >Smile!! > >Eric Babula >Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA > >Names: BABULA, GUNIA, LAZAR, MISIALEK, LESNIAK, FRYMARK, PIOTRUSESKI, >CEMMIEKSKI >Places: Hawkins, Rusk Co., WI; Milwaukee, Milwauke Co., WI; Galacia, >Poland Eric, I don't know about Ancestry.com. I subscribed to familytreemaker.com AKA genealogy.com. Prior to subscibing, i searched their site for every lead I had, writing down the volume and tree number that had the data I needed. This took several months of research in itself. After I had my list of required info, I subscribed. Then I commenced downloading like the internet was being turned off tomorrow. I only subscribed for 1 month and compiled quite a bit of info with leads to branches of the family I didn't even know about. You may be able to do the same with ancestry.com. Watch for download limitations. I don't know if genealogy.com had any when i was subscribing, but it seemed as if they shut me off from time to time when i was hitting them pretty hard. Good luck. DocZ

Hello - Just wondering if it's worth it to subscribe to Ancestry.com? No, I'm not trolling (I know this is touchy to some people) - legitimate question! Most of my family came to the US from Poland, through Ellis Island in the 1880s and 1890s, and mostly settled in Wisconsin. Seems that the only thing that a subscription to Ancestry.com would get me is the 1920 Census info (which, certainly is convenient, but I'm not convinced it's worth the $$ - I could just go to the Family History Library in town). Please, can someone tell me: What are The American Genealogical- Biographical Index, the PERSI and Genealogical Library Master Catalog, and what can they do for my situation, if anything? I don't see anything else that could help me, since my family wasn't here between 1790 and 1870. Am I missing something? What else does the subscription have to offer? I was going to try the Free 14-day trial subscription, but now that I hear that it might be problematic to unsubscribe, I'm wondering whether it's even worth the effort to do that. Guess I just don't know what I can get from a subscription to Ancestry.com, that I don't already have access to, which could actually help me find my ancestors. Can someone please help me? TIA, -- Smile!! Eric Babula Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Names: BABULA, GUNIA, LAZAR, MISIALEK, LESNIAK, FRYMARK, PIOTRUSESKI, CEMMIEKSKI Places: Hawkins, Rusk Co., WI; Milwaukee, Milwauke Co., WI; Galacia, Poland

In June 1946, the US War Department published a list of soldiers who died in World War II. This publication is available from the National Archives NAIL website. However, it can be very difficult for people to find this on their website so I have put the information online at my home page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eborreson/ Scroll down almost to the bottom of the page. Select the link for "Wisconsin World War II Casualties". This will take you to a page that has a county by county listing. I hope this helps, Eric

Lesley Robertson wrote: > > "Bob Roberts" <bobnotbob@byu.edu> wrote in message > news:c4e6b17d.0204102009.53a985e3@posting.google.com... > > I want to scan old family pictures for archival. Does anybody have > > any suggestions or tips? I am especially wondering about: > > 1) What would be a good scanner to buy to do this with? > > Depends where you are (they have different models in different places, > amazingly) and how much you plan to do. I bought HP because we have them at > work and they're solid enough to survive students... > > > 2) What resolution should I use? > > Again, depends what you want to do with them and the quality of your > printer. For photo-quality copying I use 300 dpi or more, but this can give > huge files. For web use, lower resolution is good enough. > > > 3) What file format (etc. jpeg, png, tiff) should I use? > > jpeg gives smaller files. > > > 4) What is some good and affordable software to use after scanning? > > I use PhotoShop, but wait and see what software is delivered with your > scanner. > > One extra note, when you print them, it's amazing how much difference the > paper quality makes. For special stuff, it's well worth getting the > photo-quality glossy stuff. > Lesley Robertson I agree with Leslie, mostle. I use HP because I've been using them for some 50 years now, starting with their industrial instrumentation equipment and then into computers. More solid than a Chevy and their manuals are written for humans to understand from the ground up. You'll hear that JPG is lossey, well by scientific standards it is, especially if you are constantly opening, changing, saving. But I don't know many people that do that. It is a compressed format that's some 10 times smaller than the "non lossey" formats. As for editor, I use Paint Shop Pro. For $100 you can do 99% of what Adobe Photoshop's $650 editor will do unless you are an expert(*). http://www.jasc.com . There's an excellent (friendly) News Group and tutorals to be had for free, comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro (*)See comparison: http://cws.internet.com/image.html Don

"Bob Roberts" <bobnotbob@byu.edu> wrote in message news:c4e6b17d.0204102009.53a985e3@posting.google.com... > I want to scan old family pictures for archival. Does anybody have > any suggestions or tips? I am especially wondering about: > 1) What would be a good scanner to buy to do this with? Depends where you are (they have different models in different places, amazingly) and how much you plan to do. I bought HP because we have them at work and they're solid enough to survive students... > 2) What resolution should I use? Again, depends what you want to do with them and the quality of your printer. For photo-quality copying I use 300 dpi or more, but this can give huge files. For web use, lower resolution is good enough. > 3) What file format (etc. jpeg, png, tiff) should I use? jpeg gives smaller files. > 4) What is some good and affordable software to use after scanning? I use PhotoShop, but wait and see what software is delivered with your scanner. One extra note, when you print them, it's amazing how much difference the paper quality makes. For special stuff, it's well worth getting the photo-quality glossy stuff. Lesley Robertson

bobnotbob@byu.edu (Bob Roberts) wrote in news:c4e6b17d.0204102009.53a985e3@posting.google.com: > I want to scan old family pictures for archival. Does anybody have > any suggestions or tips? I am especially wondering about: > 1) What would be a good scanner to buy to do this with? > 2) What resolution should I use? > 3) What file format (etc. jpeg, png, tiff) should I use? > 4) What is some good and affordable software to use after scanning? > Check out http://www.scantips.com for some fantastic information about scanning! Sherry

On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 10:36:53 -0400, Drew Hershkowitz wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the 1930 census can be found at any location on > Long Island, NY? Or is the nearest location NYC? (If so, is it at the > NYPL or just at NARA?) They'll be available at FHCs and many libraries. However since the microfilms could not by law be shipped from NARA until April 1st, it'll be a while before they are received, catalogged, duplicated, and ready for user access - probably 3 or 4 months.

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:08:58 -0400, BlanketGHS wrote: > NARA regional office at Varick & Hudson Streets in Lower Manhattan is > where you'll find it > > Reg Pitts > BlanketGHS@aol.com That's Varick & HOUSTON Streets.

NARA regional office at Varick & Hudson Streets in Lower Manhattan is where you'll find it Reg Pitts BlanketGHS@aol.com

"Linda Scheimann" <uscholds@yahoo.com> wrote in message: > > To this day, I don't think it's "law" to record marriages in the sense that > a minister does not need a license to perform a religious ceremony. In New Jersey if a clergyman performs a wedding without a license it is a misdemeanor. You can even get a license for a religious ceremony when there has been a previous civil ceremony, or when the two will be conducted at about the same time. Chuck Wolfram

I want to scan old family pictures for archival. Does anybody have any suggestions or tips? I am especially wondering about: 1) What would be a good scanner to buy to do this with? 2) What resolution should I use? 3) What file format (etc. jpeg, png, tiff) should I use? 4) What is some good and affordable software to use after scanning?

Thanks Jan. Maybe I can get someone in the family who still lives in NY to do me this favor. NY is a very difficult state from which to obtain records. Having lived in FL for the past 25 years, I find this hard to understand. FL has what is called Sunshine Laws and ALL public information is open to anyone. That is what caused so much controversy after Dale Earnhardt's death.

I > <<I wrote to NYC Archives and they could not find a record of my > grandparents' > marriage in 1911. I too would like to know when it became law to record > marriages.>> Just because they "could not find it" doesn't mean it isn't there. I tried for years to get my great grandfather's death certificate from a county in Indiana where I was not allowed to search (although one could search the marriages and births). I had his death date from his gravestone. Three times I went there (not counting the times I wrote or called), 1,000 miles from my home, and the clerk never found it. After her retirement, not a moment too soon, the new person on duty found it right away. Let's face it, a clerk doesn't have the burning desire to find our ancestors that we do! If this is a vital piece of information it would be worth it to pay someone to do this for you. Someone with experience in NYC records could do this in, as they say, a "New York minute." Jan Hall

A look up in the Connecticut Death Index would be very much appreciated in order to determine if an entry exists recording the death in Connecticut, probably in Bridgeport, of Edward OGDEN, born in England on 16th February 1882. With thanks, John Ashworth

He has only two children that I know of. My father Roger Dale Godwin b. September 24, 1951 and his sister Terry Lee Godwin b September 24, 1954 and d. December 23, 1971. If any one can help, I would appriciate it. Thanks, Angie

Whatever the law says, remember that there were (usually) no major consequences to ignoring it. And at the turn of the 20th century, many people felt this was none of the government's business. There will be a 10 to 25 year period of varying compliance levels before it reaches 95%. I read somewhere a few months back, officials believe there is a roughly 2% to 5% non-compliance rate even today. An analysis I did on one county in WV for one year indicated that when the county records were compared to the two local newspapers, not every death mentioned in the paper made it to the records; some deaths were in all three; some were in only one. Which of course raised the issue of how many were in *none*. This was 26 years after the first law requiring deaths be reported. Cheryl Rob Stieglitz wrote: > > Does anyone know what year the law required marriage registration with the > city? I have a marriage record from the church but would like more > information that a city marriage certificate would supply. The couple > married in the year 1907 in what is now the Bronx. Would the New York > Municipal Archives have this certificate? > > Rob

Brian, Thank for the info, but does that mean it was required by law in 1907? Rob Brian Wickham <bwickham@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message news:3cb25cf6.49831742@news-server.nyc.rr.com... > On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 00:10:44 GMT, "Rob Stieglitz" > <rstieglitz@prodigy.net> wrote: > > >Does anyone know what year the law required marriage registration with the > >city? I have a marriage record from the church but would like more > >information that a city marriage certificate would supply. The couple > >married in the year 1907 in what is now the Bronx. Would the New York > >Municipal Archives have this certificate? > > > >Rob > > > > > Yes they would. Go to: > > http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doris/html/index.html > > for an application form. > > Brian Wickham

I wrote to NYC Archives and they could not find a record of my grandparents' marriage in 1911. I too would like to know when it became law to record marriages. Pat