On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:46:45 -0800, "Steve Brown" <slsb1@sympatico.ca> wrote: > >In the history of ancestors in Boston area around 1650 I see many men >"Became a freeman on MMDDYYYY". >These guys were not slaves, what does the note refer too? > >Thanks Formerly indentured servants? Just a WAG. Henry F. Brownlee South Louisiana

On 03 Jan 2002 16:34:58 GMT in soc.genealogy.misc, davehinz@spamcop.net wrote: > Better cancel your newspaper subscription, your phone, your electricity, > and all those other companies which keep your agreement live unless told > otherwise then. > they send me bills. if i don't pay them, they cut off the service. none of them automatically bill my credit card. from what people say, ancestry.com does, whether people tell them they want to renew or not. you apparently don't understand these simple facts. i don't know how to explain it more simply, so you must just be a troll out to be contrary.

<davehinz@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:3c3386e6$0$1606$272ea4a1@news.execpc.com... > Dave Nixon <buzzandbeyond@aol.com> pressed random keys until the following was produced: > > Is anyone working on the Nixon name at all? > > Welcome to the group - it's usually pretty friendly, and we try to be > helpful. The Nixon surname should be fairly easy to research, as it's > not terribly common (Miller, for instance, is almost impossible to find > the right family). Also, if you know you're related to Richard M., I'd > be surprised if his tree isn't online somewhere. Google seems to work great if you input two married names (such as Waddle Pruitt). I've had my socks knocked off a couple times.

A man who was not indentured, was a member in good standing in the local Congreational church, could vote in town meetings and could become a representative in the Great and General Court. Ciao, Ack. SL>In the history of ancestors in Boston area around 1650 I see many men SL>"Became a freeman on MMDDYYYY". SL>These guys were not slaves, what does the note refer too? SL>Thanks SL>-- SL>Steve Brown SL>514-697-3464 SL>Cell 882-3479 SL>email slsb1@sympatico.ca --- þ SLMR 2.1a þ Did our ancestors ever have a bad heir day? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =-----

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, P Johnson wrote: >I am looking for information regarding the process of a legal name change >for a family. How is this done? Through what type of court? Would it affect >previous records? Any suggestions on how to research/get started on a family >name that has been changed would be greatly appreciated. I had a relative who legally changed his name. In California, the Superior Court for the county in which he lived is where the case/request was filed. [In my relative's case, he did not change the surname - only his given name - to his preferred nickname.]

In message <ya%Y7.35148$AS4.3041861@news20.bellglobal.com> "Steve Brown" <slsb1@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > In the history of ancestors in Boston area around 1650 I see many men > "Became a freeman on MMDDYYYY". > These guys were not slaves, what does the note refer too? > Probably indentured servants who had to work for an employer for a given period of time in return for their passage to the New World. Once their period of indenture was up they became freemen.. Five years appears to have been a common period. A system that lasted into the 19th century at least -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website: <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>

<<Times change and you cannot go by modern rules and laws but look at what was done then.Requirements, if any were not so strict and I don't think many people did a formal name change as you are describing; all most did was start using a new name.>> Legal requirements for name changes were just as strict in the 18th c. There's a 500-page book of such cases at NEHGS in which I found a long-lost ancestor who changed his name from his birth name to that of his benefactor in 1762. He had to go to court, publish in newspapers to advise the public of the fact, and wait a certain amount of time before using the "new" name. Each case has details of why the person needed to change - most fascinating! These cases were all in Mass and Conn. Jan Hall

Ja well no fine (quaint South African expression)...loosely translated means "okay"... A very easy way is to use IMSI's CD COPIER which creates virtual CD-ROMS which can be used by any program - no need to try to fool the software into thinking about psuedo networks. Real CDs can be stored on a hard drive as virtual CDs and then mounted, ejected etc just like real ones. (My teenager tells me there is something like this available on the net somewhere which he uses to save cracked CDs as virtuals, then uses a Playstation hack to play PS games on his PC). I paid ZAR 50 for CD COPIER, which at current rates is about US$4 or about UK pounds 3! Terry Turner in sunny South Africa "Graham" <graham@NOPSPAMwalter-family.org> wrote: >I know I saw this information somewhere (so I apologise if this has been >done to death...) but I cannot remember which newsgroup or web-site it was >on... > >I have just received my set of the 1881 British Census CDs and want to load >the entire set to my local hard disk - hopefully this will eliminate >'CD-changers Elbow'. Unfortunately I'm not sure of how to proceed. > >Any assistance would be appreciated > >================================ >Graham Walter >Genealogical research looking for: >DAVIS / ROWLAND - Abercarn, Wales >JUKES / BRADLEY - Dorchester, England >================================ > > > >

Interesting. Do you have a name or author for the book? Celia <Halltall@aol.com> wrote in message news:23.171183db.29665d98@aol.com... > <<Times change and you cannot go by modern rules and laws > but look at what was done then.Requirements, if any were not so strict and I > don't think many people did a > formal name change as you are describing; all most did was start using a new > name.>> > > Legal requirements for name changes were just as strict in the 18th c. > There's a 500-page book of such cases at NEHGS in which I found a long-lost > ancestor who changed his name from his birth name to that of his benefactor > in 1762. He had to go to court, publish in newspapers to advise the public of > the fact, and wait a certain amount of time before using the "new" name. > Each case has details of why the person needed to change - most fascinating! > These cases were all in Mass and Conn. > > Jan Hall >

All I needed to do was search the web a bit more!! http://www.family-tree.co.uk/why-walk.htm ================================ Graham Walter Genealogical research looking for: DAVIS / ROWLAND - Abercarn, Wales JUKES / BRADLEY - Dorchester, England ================================ "Graham" <graham@NOPSPAMwalter-family.org> wrote in message news:3c34b214_1@news2.prserv.net... > I know I saw this information somewhere (so I apologise if this has been > done to death...) but I cannot remember which newsgroup or web-site it was > on... > > I have just received my set of the 1881 British Census CDs and want to load > the entire set to my local hard disk - hopefully this will eliminate > 'CD-changers Elbow'. Unfortunately I'm not sure of how to proceed. > > Any assistance would be appreciated > > ================================ > Graham Walter > Genealogical research looking for: > DAVIS / ROWLAND - Abercarn, Wales > JUKES / BRADLEY - Dorchester, England > ================================ > > > >

I know I saw this information somewhere (so I apologise if this has been done to death...) but I cannot remember which newsgroup or web-site it was on... I have just received my set of the 1881 British Census CDs and want to load the entire set to my local hard disk - hopefully this will eliminate 'CD-changers Elbow'. Unfortunately I'm not sure of how to proceed. Any assistance would be appreciated ================================ Graham Walter Genealogical research looking for: DAVIS / ROWLAND - Abercarn, Wales JUKES / BRADLEY - Dorchester, England ================================

>Is anyone working on the Nixon ? The tree for Richard NIXON is in "Ancestors of American Presidents", by Gary Boyd Roberts, pub 1989, ISBN 0-936124-15-6 and any subsequent edition. There are also bibliographies for each of the family trees which could help extend the basic tree. The early NIXON ancestors of the president were Quakers and many Quaker records can be researched at the library in Swarthmore University... if you live near there. Otherwise you may get leads from the bibliographies mentioned above. Regards, Clifford Sayre in Silver Spring, MD

Your talking about modern times and the question was about immigrants changing their names.Times change and you cannot go by modern rules and laws but look at what was done then. Requirements, if any were not so strict and I don't think many people did a formal name change as you are describing; all most did was start using a new name. Celia "Genee" <sorourke@monmouth.com> wrote in message news:3c34784a.13381534@news.monmouth.com... > > Last year I had my name changed back to my maiden name. This was not > the simple get divorced and assume your maiden name. I would think a > family change is about the same. You need a lawyer who will ask you > some questions, run an ad in the local newspaper before and after. > Then a court date is arranged and the judge will ask you why the > change, are you trying to escape creditors etc.. Time in court was > about 10 minutes, but after she granted the name change I still had to > wait a month before I could use it. It was Superior Court in my > county. I am in NJ, other states may vary. > > The Cranky Genee > > On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:10:36 GMT, "P Johnson" > <jones-pj@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > > >I am looking for information regarding the process of a legal name change > >for a family. How is this done? Through what type of court? Would it affect > >previous records? Any suggestions on how to research/get started on a family > >name that has been changed would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Thanx for any help! > > > > > > >

Dennis P. Harris <NO_SPAM_TO_dpharris@gci.net> pressed random keys until the following was produced: > On 02 Jan 2002 17:04:45 GMT in soc.genealogy.misc, > davehinz@spamcop.net wrote: >> It's a subscription service, and as such, auto-renews just like every other >> subscription service that I use. > I don't know of ANY magazine that renews automatically, and I > believe that it's against the law. Really? That's contrary to my experience. > But I won't deal with Ancestry.com since they're such > sleazeballs. I will never, never, never, give my credit card > number to any company that uses this kind of auto renewal. > Never. Better cancel your newspaper subscription, your phone, your electricity, and all those other companies which keep your agreement live unless told otherwise then. Why do I get the impression that, if suddenly they stopped your account from being active because you didn't renew, you'd be complaining about *that*, too? Dave Hinz

Dave Nixon wrote: > > Is anyone working on the Nixon name at all? Do we have a crest or > emblem or something You might want to check out the Frederick co VA and Hampshire co WV Genweb pages www.usgenweb.org/va or www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh Cheryl (WVHampsh webmaster)

PS. It was very expensive! On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 15:34:03 GMT, sorourke@monmouth.com (Genee) wrote: > >Last year I had my name changed back to my maiden name. This was not >the simple get divorced and assume your maiden name. I would think a >family change is about the same. You need a lawyer who will ask you >some questions, run an ad in the local newspaper before and after. >Then a court date is arranged and the judge will ask you why the >change, are you trying to escape creditors etc.. Time in court was >about 10 minutes, but after she granted the name change I still had to >wait a month before I could use it. It was Superior Court in my >county. I am in NJ, other states may vary. > >The Cranky Genee > >On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:10:36 GMT, "P Johnson" ><jones-pj@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > >>I am looking for information regarding the process of a legal name change >>for a family. How is this done? Through what type of court? Would it affect >>previous records? Any suggestions on how to research/get started on a family >>name that has been changed would be greatly appreciated. >> >>Thanx for any help! >> >> >> >

Last year I had my name changed back to my maiden name. This was not the simple get divorced and assume your maiden name. I would think a family change is about the same. You need a lawyer who will ask you some questions, run an ad in the local newspaper before and after. Then a court date is arranged and the judge will ask you why the change, are you trying to escape creditors etc.. Time in court was about 10 minutes, but after she granted the name change I still had to wait a month before I could use it. It was Superior Court in my county. I am in NJ, other states may vary. The Cranky Genee On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:10:36 GMT, "P Johnson" <jones-pj@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >I am looking for information regarding the process of a legal name change >for a family. How is this done? Through what type of court? Would it affect >previous records? Any suggestions on how to research/get started on a family >name that has been changed would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanx for any help! > > >

I am looking for information regarding the process of a legal name change for a family. How is this done? Through what type of court? Would it affect previous records? Any suggestions on how to research/get started on a family name that has been changed would be greatly appreciated. Thanx for any help!

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In the history of ancestors in Boston area around 1650 I see many men "Became a freeman on MMDDYYYY". These guys were not slaves, what does the note refer too? Thanks -- Steve Brown 514-697-3464 Cell 882-3479 email slsb1@sympatico.ca