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    1. Found Family Heirlooms
    2. ABRYETX
    3. Do you remember Surname Heirlooms? The great website that had hundreds of found family heirlooms listed? It's back. The new shop is located at http://stores.ebay.com/mrsbrye A free database search is available to see if your family heirlooms has been located.

    03/03/2007 10:41:21
    1. Investigation Resources & Public Records In Nearly Every Country & State
    2. Find out the truth about anyone you want to know about by doing a Background Check today! You too can have instant access to investigate practically anyone including family history , job applicants, potential dates, neighbors, relatives, and even friends. Plus find out what others can know about YOU. http://psearchvi.blogspot.com/#

    03/01/2007 07:46:29
    1. MI5 Persecution: Troubling Censorship Issues 20/8/95 (3336)
    2. Fred Read (postmaster@foxhouse.demon.co.uk) wrote: : He posts this drivel every week or so to a number of groups that : I subscribe to and nothing seems to stop him. *ALL* of his posts : are off topic and unwelcome to the groups he posts to. : We have complained about him to his postmaster on at least four : previous occasions and he still posts the same crap. As his SP : seem unwilling, or unable, to do anything about him, we were : windering if there was anything you could do? If he is not actively using tactics to avoid or sabotage killfiles (posting from various systems, forging, massive crossposting to create cross-newsgroup flame wars) then it should be quite easy to killfile him. It does seem that the frequency and the size of his posts are approaching net abuse. However, IMHO, they aren't quite there yet. If his postmaster were to act in this instance, it would raise troubling censorship issues. -- Karen Lofstrom lofstrom@lava.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Adventures for those of the inadmissable kind, with no follow through." --- a flaming bonzo beckwithian idiot 3336

    02/27/2007 11:09:58
    1. Keeping Up with New Web Sites for Genealogy & Family History
    2. V. Chris and Tom Tinney, Sr.
    3. Keeping Up with New Web Sites for Genealogy & FH Webmaster - Webmasters: Domain Names Registration Keeping Up with New Web Sites can currently be done online at What's New in Genealogy & Family History Resources? http://www.academic-genealogy.com/whatsnewingenealogyfamilyhistory.htm What's New in Family History, Genealogy & Local History Books? http://www.academic-genealogy.com/whatsnewbooks.htm shows samples of new book publications forthcoming to A.D. 2010. Currently, it is fashionable to check two particular sites for genealogy submissions to the Internet; namely: What's New on Cyndi's List? What's Really New in WWW Genealogy Pages? Various other organizations have disparate collaboration lists, or specialized membership connected groupings. Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory, a scholarly mega site map of World Wide Internet Resources, lists another methodology at Domain Names: http://www.academic-genealogy.com/genealogywebmasters.htm#domain In particular, the Domain Directory Wiki - AboutUs is "a website about websites that you can edit". It includes "Family History" and "Genealogy" searches, and has currently listed, approximately 4,957 indexed domain names in the Category:Genealogy sections, http://www.aboutus.org/Category:Genealogy as well as related Categories. " AboutUs is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other related data. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day." http://www.aboutus.org/AboutUs . . . "Having a great AboutUs page will help expose your site to people surfing the internet and major search engines, making it easier for people browsing the web to find you. In addition to maximizing exposure, AboutUs itself can also be another source of additional traffic." http://www.aboutus.org/Welcome Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory http://www.academic-genealogy.com/

    02/22/2007 05:13:05
    1. Italian,USA,Britain,surname genealogy & heraldry
    2. Ozzy
    3. 11.352 individual 484 family's surnames www.tipestory.it www.tipestory.it/genealogica/default.htm Hi. Pellegrini,Tiblandi,Danesi,Caprioli,D'Agostini,Giorgi,Lori,Cipriani,Lelli,,Rossi,Maranci, Donati,Giorgi,Fratangeli,Maura,Greci,Valeriani,Mancini,Colapietro, Amendola,Andreozzi,Astolfi,Atti,Caldaroni,Cappello, Casalese,Cianchetti, Colapietro,Colò,Comandi,Coratti,Costantini,Del Brocco,Del Rosario Diaz, Di Giovanni,Di Lorenzo,Di Mario,Di Mattei,Di Pietra,Di Tullio,Donati,Ferrara, Foresi,Francati,Fratangeli,Giordano

    02/18/2007 03:02:31
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Arnold O.Kn.
    3. thank you for your explanation. >From now of on, i'll stop with my frequently posted messages. My sorry to you all. It was not my intention to disturb the visitors of the newsgroup. Maybe the first next time to send my message about my genealogical site, will be about one month. Kind regards arnold "Dennis Lee Bieber" <bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:YLHBh.2693$_73.2423@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:44:44 -0500, singhals <singhals@erols.com> > declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.misc: > >> I hate to "pile on", but Robert has said what some of us > > And I'll piggy-back on your post... > >> >> Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >> >> > The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that >> > not >> > everyone did >> > read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. >> > However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) > > Most ISPs keep newsgroup messages active for a few weeks -- it > depends upon how much activity the group gets and the storage space > available to the ISP. For text-only groups, I can reset my newsreader > and fetch messages all the way back to January 2006 from Earthlink > (Mindspring [Netcom]). Typically, binary groups get faster expirations > (at one time, Netcom was expiring binary message groups at ~24 hours) > due to the size of binary messages (UUencode or Base64 image files). > > People don't have to check a group daily -- if the ISP has a 30 day > expiration policy, one could check the group only on the day of a full > moon (~every 29 days) and still get ALL messages posted in that period. > > -- > bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber > HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

    02/17/2007 06:04:22
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Arnold O.Kn.
    3. It's ok, I do understand your means. thanks for reply. Arnold "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote in message news:HP2dnXNgF9lgrUrYnZ2dnUVZ_rCsnZ2d@rcn.net... >I hate to "pile on", but Robert has said what some of us have been thinking >for weeks. Once a month, on s.g.misc, is one thing; but almost daily on 3 >or 4 different groups is too much. If nothing else, it will SERIOUSLY >annoy those using a search engine in the archives of the group to get so >many duplicate hits. > > Cheryl [who in the days of fidonet shot herself painfully in the foot with > her surname lists!] > > Arnold O.Kn. wrote: > >> Dear Robert, >> Thank you for your opinion. >> My sorry, if my same messages gives you the though that i should be a >> spammer. >> Because it's not my intention to be this. >> The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that not >> everyone did >> read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. >> However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) >> regards >> arnold >> >> "Robert Melson" <melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net> wrote in message >> news:2KoBh.2807$Jl.607@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net... >> >>>In article <45d5f9fa$0$4154$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl>, >>>"Arnold O.Kn." <arthar@wanadoo.nl> writes: >>> >>>>The Knipscheer Family Website. >>> >>><snip>> >>> >>>Arnold, >>> >>>One posting, maybe two or three, would have been enough. To >>>continually post the same message makes it look like you >>>might be a spammer. If people haven't gotten your message >>>by this time, they never will or just are not interested. >>> >>>Bob Melson >>> >>>-- >>>Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas >>>----- >>>"People unfit for freedom---who cannot do much with it---are >>>hungry for power." ---Eric Hoffer >>> >> >> >> >

    02/17/2007 05:52:45
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Hugh Watkins
    3. Dave Hinz wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:59:08 +0100, Arnold O.Kn. <arthar@wanadoo.nl> wrote: > > >>The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that not >>everyone did >>read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. >>However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) > > > Once a month is certainly reasonable both for a post, and for someone > searching posts. They'll be using google to find it, almost certainly, > and google seems never to forget. the best way is to contribute to the discussion and add a signature http://wc.rootsweb.com/ worldconnect trees on rootsweb are another powerful way to get your site and data known (see side bar to my blogs fo mine) from KNIPSCHEER, 1863 travis1 Census Has no children Father: Hermanus KNIPSCHEER Mother: Margaretha Hermanna Elizabeth ROELOFSZ KNIPSCHEER, Gerard Jan 26 JUL 1664 1726 Oud Gastel, Nordbrabant, NL ggrs_sehrbundt to hit number 65 Knipscheer, William Walter 2 JUN 1864 Lewistown, Fulton Co., Illinois 18 MAR 1935 BTW canada.ca has a three day freebie just now Hugh W -- a wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

    02/17/2007 09:07:55
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. singhals
    3. I hate to "pile on", but Robert has said what some of us have been thinking for weeks. Once a month, on s.g.misc, is one thing; but almost daily on 3 or 4 different groups is too much. If nothing else, it will SERIOUSLY annoy those using a search engine in the archives of the group to get so many duplicate hits. Cheryl [who in the days of fidonet shot herself painfully in the foot with her surname lists!] Arnold O.Kn. wrote: > Dear Robert, > Thank you for your opinion. > My sorry, if my same messages gives you the though that i should be a > spammer. > Because it's not my intention to be this. > The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that not > everyone did > read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. > However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) > regards > arnold > > "Robert Melson" <melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net> wrote in message > news:2KoBh.2807$Jl.607@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net... > >>In article <45d5f9fa$0$4154$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl>, >>"Arnold O.Kn." <arthar@wanadoo.nl> writes: >> >>>The Knipscheer Family Website. >> >><snip>> >> >>Arnold, >> >>One posting, maybe two or three, would have been enough. To >>continually post the same message makes it look like you >>might be a spammer. If people haven't gotten your message >>by this time, they never will or just are not interested. >> >>Bob Melson >> >>-- >>Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas >>----- >>"People unfit for freedom---who cannot do much with it---are >>hungry for power." ---Eric Hoffer >> > > >

    02/17/2007 04:44:44
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Dave Hinz
    3. On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:59:08 +0100, Arnold O.Kn. <arthar@wanadoo.nl> wrote: > The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that not > everyone did > read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. > However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) Once a month is certainly reasonable both for a post, and for someone searching posts. They'll be using google to find it, almost certainly, and google seems never to forget.

    02/16/2007 06:01:06
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Arnold O.Kn.
    3. Dear Robert, Thank you for your opinion. My sorry, if my same messages gives you the though that i should be a spammer. Because it's not my intention to be this. The reason for the continually posts is, that it can be possible that not everyone did read my message, because not everyone is watching this newsplace daily. However, maybe i am wrong in my thinking. (sorry for my bad english) regards arnold "Robert Melson" <melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net> wrote in message news:2KoBh.2807$Jl.607@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net... > In article <45d5f9fa$0$4154$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl>, > "Arnold O.Kn." <arthar@wanadoo.nl> writes: >> The Knipscheer Family Website. > <snip>> >> > Arnold, > > One posting, maybe two or three, would have been enough. To > continually post the same message makes it look like you > might be a spammer. If people haven't gotten your message > by this time, they never will or just are not interested. > > Bob Melson > > -- > Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas > ----- > "People unfit for freedom---who cannot do much with it---are > hungry for power." ---Eric Hoffer >

    02/16/2007 05:59:08
    1. Re: Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Robert Melson
    3. In article <45d5f9fa$0$4154$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl>, "Arnold O.Kn." <arthar@wanadoo.nl> writes: > The Knipscheer Family Website. <snip>> > Arnold, One posting, maybe two or three, would have been enough. To continually post the same message makes it look like you might be a spammer. If people haven't gotten your message by this time, they never will or just are not interested. Bob Melson -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- "People unfit for freedom---who cannot do much with it---are hungry for power." ---Eric Hoffer

    02/16/2007 01:45:50
    1. Internet site for the "Knipscheer" surnames
    2. Arnold O.Kn.
    3. The Knipscheer Family Website. The address (url) of this website is: http://home.planet.nl/~frede313 This internet site contents a lot of pages, including genealogical. Take a look and find your Dutch or German ancestors Regards Arnold

    02/16/2007 12:37:42
    1. Re: Not using RootsMagic3 any more?
    2. Dave Mayall
    3. "R00tsMagic" <sellyours2me@cox.net> wrote in message news:eOSqh.91240$lD5.38604@newsfe14.phx... > R00tsMagic wrote: >> Hugh Watkins wrote: >> >>> AND FUCK OFF OUT OF THIS GROUP TOO >> >> Forwarded with all headers to news@individual.net and >> abuse@individual.net > > Dear Sender, > > thank you for your message to the Abuse Response Team of Freie Universität > Berlin, Germany. Your complaint will be investigated as soon as possible > and dealt with appropriately. i.e. thrown in the bin! We can add newsgroup abuse to the list of things you don't understand. abuse relates to abuse of news, not abuse on news. news.individual.net will not take action based upon the words that someone uses.

    02/15/2007 09:09:50
    1. #IRC channel for genealogy ?
    2. Meghan Breen
    3. or more specifically jewish genealogy ? -- Meghan Breen http://www.rtdos.com

    02/13/2007 02:39:06
    1. Re: How can I find out how someone died?
    2. Lesley Robertson
    3. "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:53au7qF1rphapU1@mid.individual.net... > > My father was lost at sea in 1942 presumed dead > so I don't know where he will be registered > There's a register for UK Deaths at Sea. I think it's in NA. Lesley Robertson

    02/12/2007 01:17:22
    1. Re: How can I find out how someone died?
    2. Hugh Watkins
    3. Lesley Robertson wrote: > "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> schreef in bericht > news:53au7qF1rphapU1@mid.individual.net... > >>My father was lost at sea in 1942 presumed dead >>so I don't know where he will be registered >> > > > There's a register for UK Deaths at Sea. I think it's in NA. > Lesley Robertson thank you Lesley yes I know but I found the original note from the Admiralty amongst my mother's papers when she died so I never needed to look and I put it online here - on mybirthday last year http://hughw36.blogspot.com/2006/01/missing-in-action.html also the family wills so far http://hughw36.blogspot.com/2006/07/monmouthshire-wills.html enjoy Hugh W -- a wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

    02/12/2007 01:00:00
    1. Re: Quickly and Efficiently search and locate public records online
    2. Dave Hinz
    3. On 12 Feb 2007 03:23:35 -0800, ohccahpcrxgh@yahoo.com <ohccahpcrxgh@yahoo.com> wrote: > Government Registry is your official public records destination. > Effortlessly lookup different reports in many records categories Your spam is unwelcome on this discussion group.

    02/12/2007 05:55:26
    1. Re: How can I find out how someone died?
    2. Hugh Watkins
    3. Jan wrote: > On Feb 11, 11:14 pm, Gerry <every...@sunrise.net> wrote: > >>In article <1171252215.669298.23...@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>, >> >> "Jan" <c3derp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>This is all I have to go on: >> >>>Name: PENNY PORTWOOD >>>DOB: 20 Jan 1954 >>>Died: Jul 1985 >>>Last residence: N. Hollywood, CA >>>SSN: 276-54-9424 >>>SSN Issued in: Ohio >> >>>Thanks so much for a clue on how to get started. Google was no help at >>>all. >> >>>Jan >> >>I searched the California Death Index and did not find any record of >>Penny Portwood's death, so likely she died somewhere other than >>California. >> >>I searched for all female Portwoods who were born in 1954 and died in >>1985 no one was found. I even tried all females born in 1954 Ohio (my >>guess on birthplace due to state where SS number was issued), and died >>in 1985 in case she died under another surname, nothing found here >>either. >> >>If you do know where she died you can write to the county clerk where >>the death occurred, and request a copy of the death certificate, you may >>want to check to see how much that county charges for their copies. > > > Thanks Gerry. > > It is possible I suppose that she moved. The SSDI did not list her > place of death, I added my last known address from memory. It is > curious Zabasearch shows a Penny S Portwood still in North Hollywood, > but I don't trust Zaba because Anywho does not have any record of her > being in North Hollywood. Zaba connects to a place where you can pay > money for more info so I sent them an email telling them the info I > already have and I have not heard back from them. Thanks for your > ideas. Maybe I can get a newspaper librarian to run a check for me if > their records are computerized that far back. > > I do believe I remember Sue was her middle name. I also remember she > hung out with young Malibu celeb/actor types when she first got to > California. She said Kathy Cronkite was among the bunch. I looked for > contact info on Kathy Cronkite and note she quit acting in 1985, the > same year Penny died. Kathy went through a period of depression, wrote > a book about it, and is now on the mental health lecture circuit. She > probably wouldn't write me even if I found her email address but I am > going to try to track her down. Maybe she and Penny stayed friends for > some time. Maybe Penny's young death contributed to her depression. > Just idle speculation but thats all I have to go on. I do remember > Penny said her father lived in Ohio but I don't know his name. > > Thank you for your help. I appreciate your ideas and your efforts very > much. I went looking for my aunty's grave I knew where she lived in her final years and she was not buried in the parish church yard but itturend out that her death was registered in the next big town probably in a major hospital and she may well have been cremated at a third palce. If Penny die for example in a traffic accident or a hotel her death will be registered where it occured even another state or country My father was lost at sea in 1942 presumed dead so I don't know where he will be registered Hugh W -- a wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

    02/12/2007 03:35:38
    1. Re: How can I find out how someone died?
    2. Gerry
    3. In article <1171252215.669298.23720@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>, "Jan" <c3derp0nd@gmail.com> wrote: > This is all I have to go on: > > Name: PENNY PORTWOOD > DOB: 20 Jan 1954 > Died: Jul 1985 > Last residence: N. Hollywood, CA > SSN: 276-54-9424 > SSN Issued in: Ohio > > Thanks so much for a clue on how to get started. Google was no help at > all. > > Jan I searched the California Death Index and did not find any record of Penny Portwood's death, so likely she died somewhere other than California. I searched for all female Portwoods who were born in 1954 and died in 1985 no one was found. I even tried all females born in 1954 Ohio (my guess on birthplace due to state where SS number was issued), and died in 1985 in case she died under another surname, nothing found here either. If you do know where she died you can write to the county clerk where the death occurred, and request a copy of the death certificate, you may want to check to see how much that county charges for their copies.

    02/11/2007 09:14:16