Many of us have made progress on our family research due to the kindness of others in sharing information. On several lists recently have been discussions on information submitted to various large databases collected from many individuals whether it be Broderbund/FTM for their pedigree cds, LDS Ancestral File or some of the others. There are in addition other large databases such as those on www.ancestry.com, KindredKonnections, and GenServ. I believe none of these verify any of the material submitted, so it is up to the submitters to verify what they submit BEFORE they contribute it. I personally submit my pedigree information to GenServ at www.genserv.com. I particularly like this database because it is not for profit and does not allow downloading of someone's entire database file. One contributes a database and pays $12 per YEAR to continue use. Submitting is easily done with a gedcom file. The first month or two is free. One accesses the data by sending for an index report of a particular name. Then you can order by email reports, one of which is similar to a family group sheet. The report has on it the submitters name and address, email address and perhaps even a phone number. Usually people one contacts for further information respond. One gets the information by email usually in less than 5 minutes. One nice thing about using GenServ is that you can update your database every 6 months. That means that mistakes are not perpetuated on cdrom for perpetuity. I do believe that corrections can be made to the LDS ancestral file also, but probably not so easily. Although I primarily do my research from books in the library, census documents and vital records, I have found that some of these large databases provide some helpful clues now and then. Just make sure that what you find, you verify and when you submit information, that you send the sources also to help others in verifying your information. Also make sure NOT to include material of a personal nature for living individuals such as social security numbers. Margaret Scheffler

My Danish gr-grandfather belonged to these two societies while residing in the Chicago area between 1910 and 1923. I found this info on his obituary and haven't been able to find anything about either one. Anyone out there having information please contact me. Thanks to everyone who's helped with my search so far (especially Tim). I wouldn't be nearly as far without your help! Cynthia [email protected]

Hi gang, I know many of you will be happy to hear that you may again subscribe to GenTips in the list mode without being a RootsWeb Sponsor. To switch over, you will first need to unsubscribe to the Digest version. To do this please follow the directions below: Send an email message to [email protected] Type in the word: unsubscribe This will drop you from the digest list. Then, to subscribe to the list version of GenTips and receive individual messages again, send an email to: [email protected] In the email type: subscribe Please notice these email addresses are a little different and you will need to use them accordingly. Thank you, Tracey Tracey Converse AGS Board Member FREE Genealogy Forms Online!!! http://www.genrecords.com/ **************************************************** Listowner of the GRS E-Zine, GenTips, GenChat, GenSwap, Professional Researchers, Arkansas Genealogical Society Internet Mailing Lists ******************************************************

Well, I--for one--checked, for all of two seconds... You're right, it doesn't belong here. --Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:43 AM Subject: GenTips-D Digest V99 #240

Went to http://freebies.genealogy.com.....GREAT GREAT GREAT!!!! Be careful what you type for genealogy

A few weeks ago we announced the new search engine for the Emigrant Savings Bank project located at http://www.genexchange.com/esb/. Entering search text in the Surname field would pull records from our database where either a surname, a relatives surname, or a word in the notes field matched the text. Due to request we have further tuned the search engine for the Emigrant Savings Bank project so that an alphabetical list of records can be generated by entering a single letter in the Surname field. By entering a single letter in the Surname search field all records where the surname begins with that letter will be displayed. Entering any more than a single letter will generate a query based on the rule I quoted above. This change gives the researcher the best of both worlds, and should make it much easier to locate that long lost emigrant you may be looking for. Any question or comments should be sent directly to Monica Bennett (Emigrant Savings Bank Project Coordinator) at [email protected] Warmest Regards, ----- Anthony Abby Genealogy Exchange & Surname Registry - http://www.genexchange.com GenExchange FAQ page - http://www.genexchange.com/faq.cfm About the GenExchange - http://www.genexchange.com/volunteers.cfm How can I help? - http://www.genexchange.com/volunteering.cfm

Tanya, Well I dont really know where to have you start.. My father is quarter choctaw and his father was half choctaw.. and my grand fathers father was full choctaw ect ect.. Right now Philip Martin is the chief of the Mississippi band of choctaw.. I have done some searching on my choctaw side .. The thing is to start you have to know if the choctaw relatives in your family came from Oklahoma or M <A HREF="http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/choctaw.shtml">i</A>ssissippi. I am sending you a few links.. These might help you.. If not.. I have some address you can get from me and they will help you out.. I wish you luck in your search. <A HREF="http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/choctaw.shtml">@GRASSROOTS.ORG/Mississipp i Band of Choctaw Indians </A> <A HREF="http://www.toners.com/choctaw/gene.htm">Tracing Choctaw Lines</A> <A HREF="http://www.choctaw.org/index.html">Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians </A> <A HREF="http://nmgs.org/linkna.htm">Genealogy Links -- Native American History and Genealogy </A> <A HREF="http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/amerindians/indians.html">Ame rican Indian Records on Microfilm </A> <A HREF="http://www.choctaw.com/">Choctaw Home Page</A> <A HREF="http://www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/amerindians/indians.html">Ame rican Indian Records on Microfilm </A> <A HREF="http://www.choctaw.com/">Choctaw Home Page</A> <A HREF="http://www.cowboy.net/native/index.html">Native American Resources </A> <A HREF="http://www.nativeweb.org/top5.php">NativeWeb Home</A> <A HREF="http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/choctaw.shtml">@GRASSROOTS.ORG/Mississipp i Band of Choctaw Indians </A> <A HREF="http://members.tripod.com/bin/roadmap?932531932680">Choctaw Genealogy </A><A HREF="http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/choctaw/">Choctaw Online</A> <A HREF="http://info.pitt.edu/~lmitten/aila.html">American Indian Library Association Home Page </A> Best wishes. Jennifer S. Irwin

Nina, I found this site one day and maybe it can help you.. Take a look and see.. It will tell you the meaning of your surname or where it originated from.. Good luck. <A HREF="http://www.infokey.com/hall/welcome.htm">Hall of Names, Surname Family Histories of all nationalities 25 years of resear </A> http://www.infokey.com/hall/welcome.htm Put the address below the link just in case the link didn't work.. Jennifer S. Irwin

To Copy part of a digest. click on start click on programs, click on accessorite click on wordpad. minimize your wordpad come back to the digest that has your message in it. Highlight only the part you want to copy click on edit click on copy go back to wordpad click on file click on paste. this puts it in a document that you can save as a filem print, add to or what ever you want to do. Hope this helps Judy

Corinne, I do not know how to do that either. But I sure would like to learn. If someone answers, I hope you or that person will also let me know. Carolyn B

Now, that I've gotten the little one off to school, I'll try to do a little research and find out who owns the site. I guess those spammers are getting much better. This looks like an aliased site. Meaning, you type in the genealogy site and it forwards you to the porno site. I've forwarded it on to the guys at Rootsweb so hopefully, this won't happen again. Tracey At 08:21 AM 7/29/99 , Janice Hancock wrote: >I second the motion, but if you will notice the URL is no where close to the >one submitted. I wonder if it is a bad link? I know I have accessed one for >free genealogy products, just found the mistake. The one listed is spelled >with an 'o' after the 'a' maybe type it in as ------/freebies.genealogy.--- >and maybe you will get the right one. Hopefully. >----- Original Message ----- >From: G. Garafalo <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:18 AM >Subject: CHECK Freebies > > >You had better check out the site: http://freebies.geneaology.com that came >across on your site....It's not appropriate. Also check out the person that >sent it. This will give your site a bad name. > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >Family Workings: http://www.familyworkings.com > >A site to help researchers break through those brickwalls. Lots of links, >subcatagorized, ancestor queries, tips, and cemetary research. Looking for >research donations of: Cemetaries, obits, volunteer researchers, and >anything else that may be of interest to other researchers. Submit links, >ancestor queries and tips. Check it out > > > > > > > > > Tracey Converse AGS Board Member FREE Genealogy Forms Online!!! http://www.genrecords.com/ **************************************************** Listowner of the GRS E-Zine, GenTips, GenChat, GenSwap, Professional Researchers, Arkansas Genealogical Society Internet Mailing Lists ******************************************************

I second the motion, but if you will notice the URL is no where close to the one submitted. I wonder if it is a bad link? I know I have accessed one for free genealogy products, just found the mistake. The one listed is spelled with an 'o' after the 'a' maybe type it in as ------/freebies.genealogy.--- and maybe you will get the right one. Hopefully. ----- Original Message ----- From: G. Garafalo <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:18 AM Subject: CHECK Freebies You had better check out the site: http://freebies.geneaology.com that came across on your site....It's not appropriate. Also check out the person that sent it. This will give your site a bad name. ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== Family Workings: http://www.familyworkings.com A site to help researchers break through those brickwalls. Lots of links, subcatagorized, ancestor queries, tips, and cemetary research. Looking for research donations of: Cemetaries, obits, volunteer researchers, and anything else that may be of interest to other researchers. Submit links, ancestor queries and tips. Check it out

Whoops! Gang, sorry about this one. I'll send the post and the email to Rootsweb. This seemingly innocent site actually links to a pornographic site. Thank you for letting us know. Again, sorry! Tracey At 07:18 AM 7/29/99 , G. Garafalo wrote: >You had better check out the site: http://freebies.geneaology.com that >came across on your site....It's not appropriate. Also check out the >person that sent it. This will give your site a bad name. > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >Family Workings: http://www.familyworkings.com > >A site to help researchers break through those brickwalls. Lots of links, >subcatagorized, ancestor queries, tips, and cemetary research. Looking for >research donations of: Cemetaries, obits, volunteer researchers, and >anything else that may be of interest to other researchers. Submit links, >ancestor queries and tips. Check it out > > > > > > > Tracey Converse AGS Board Member FREE Genealogy Forms Online!!! http://www.genrecords.com/ **************************************************** Listowner of the GRS E-Zine, GenTips, GenChat, GenSwap, Professional Researchers, Arkansas Genealogical Society Internet Mailing Lists ******************************************************

Your'e are right this site is filthy. Everyone save yourself some trouble and don't go to it. It is a shame someone would have the nerve to post this kind of trash to a genealogy site. I hope the culprit is found and barred from the list.

You had better check out the site: http://freebies.geneaology.com that came across on your site....It's not appropriate. Also check out the person that sent it. This will give your site a bad name.

Boy, do I feel stuped. I just notice in somewhat bold letters on the front that it says "SEE OTHER SIDE." Mother's information is listed. I just received my husband's birth certificate. He was born in Portsmough, New Hampshire. His Father is listed but not his Mother. In fact, there is no place for a mother's information. I am use to dealing with mostly Texas documents. Is this "normal" for New Hampshire. The date of birth was 1943. Thanks for your response.

I just received my husband's birth certificate. He was born in Portsmough, New Hampshire. His Father is listed but not his Mother. In fact, there is no place for a mother's information. I am use to dealing with mostly Texas documents. Is this "normal" for New Hampshire. The date of birth was 1943. Thanks for your response.

Hi - Would it be possible for one of the computer-savy listers to e-mail me privately with the instructions for copying just a part of the digests? I would really appreciate the help. If there is something I want, I have to copy the entire thing and I am wasting a ton of paper ! Please make it simple - as I am not real computer-literate. Thanks so much Corinne <[email protected]> _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

The earliest federal census in the United States was 1790. However, it covered the states that were in existence at the time. Regards, Grace

I am looking for information about A. L. Sumner. Born about 1831, died before census of 1880. A.L. was in Sullivan Co., TN fffor the 1870 census but not the 1860. He was suppposedly born in VA, a blacksmith by trade. Teh L. may possibly stand for LeeRoy or Lyle. A. L.'s wife was Susan Ann Wood, born in VA. Thank you! Celia