The state of Florida did not keep birth records until 1917. Death record index begins in about 1877 - present. It has left out a number of persons. But is helpful.  Florida has a 1935 and 1945 state census that is available to the public now.  We have it in the Pensacola Library and would image most large Florida libraries will have it. Roselyn Shiver wrote: > Hello All:  I recently went to Jacksonville, to the vital statics > building  to get birth and death certificates for members of my family. > The clerk informed me to get a birth certificates I had to be child, > parent or spouse unless the death was over a hundred years ago.  The > death certs will be issued but cause would be blocked unless you have > court permission to obtain this info.  I have also found with different > clerks you get different info,  depending on the time of day and how > busy they are you may or may not get any info.   There apparently is one > computer you can use to search for dates yourself, but the wait can be a > long one.  Searching RAMSEY, RUSHING, ROWLEY, BOZEMAN. > Roselyn Shiver > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > To contact the GenTips list owner, use converse@alltel.net -- L. L. Scott's Virtual Office:  <http://www.geocities.com/~llscott/>http://www.geocities.com/~llscott/ Pensacola: 300 Years: <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3226/Pensacola/index.html>http: //www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3226/Pensacola/index.html BEAR/ BRANNAN/ BRICKER/ BRIDGE/ BACKUS/ BRAUN/ DOTY/ HARPER/ HATCH/ PLANK

Hi everyone, I found a great site that is developing.  They are working on transcribing all the Swedish Church records on line Heres the url <http://www.genline.se/eindex.htm>http://www.genline.se/eindex.htm hope some of you can use it Patrick

-----Original Message----- From: Allison Steele <nyc_ny@hotmail.com> To: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 4:40 PM Subject: [NYC] Space Planning at NARA >June 22, 1998 > >"Dear NARA Northeast Region Customer: > >The mission of the National Archives and Records Administration is to >provide ready access to essential evidence. As a user of our services, >you know first hand how important this mission is. In order for us to >make the correct decision regarding access and space issues critical to >our mission, we need your help. > >Please join us at a Public Meeting on Thursday, August 6, 1998, from >7:00pm to 9:00pm at the NARA Regional Records Services facility at 201 >Varick Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10014-4811. > >After introductory remarks, NARA staff members will listen to what you >have to say and document your suggestions regarding access and space. >All of the feedback gathered will be compiled and forwarded to NARA's >Space Planning Team. > >If you are unable to attend our meeting, you can monitor our progress on >the space planning initiative at > http://www.nara.gov/nara/spceplan.html > >If you would like to make comments or suggestions, they can be sent via >email to > space.plan@arch2.nara.gov > >or by regular mail to Space Planning Team, Room 4100 (NPOL), National >Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD >20740. > >So that we have enough chairs and coffee please RSVP to me at (781) >647-8745 or send an email to > diane.leblanc@waltham.nara.gov > >Diane P. Leblanc >Regional Administrator" > > > >from the enclosure: > >"NARA is beginning a planning effort that will analyze our current >configuration of facilities and determine what kinds of facilities we >should have and where they should be located to best serve all our >customers and protect the records." > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >==== NYC-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >USGENWEB - http://www.usgenweb.org/ >

Folks I just called a number in WA that was given to me by Leta [thank you so much Leta] and made contact with Letha Mae [Timken] Dashiell and should be able to get the obituaries of both Bill & Myrtle Timken from her. Thank you all so very much for your help. It was greatly appreciated. Now I can add many new family members to the Timken Genealogy. Just have Henry Herman to locate. Perhaps Mildred and Leta Mae Dashill [they married brothers] can help me a bit with Henry. Lois

Does anyone know the name of a newspaper in Ocala, FL where I could find an obit for my uncle, d: 7/1983? Many thanks Arlene

Hello All: I recently went to Jacksonville, to the vital statics building to get birth and death certificates for members of my family. The clerk informed me to get a birth certificates I had to be child, parent or spouse unless the death was over a hundred years ago. The death certs will be issued but cause would be blocked unless you have court permission to obtain this info. I have also found with different clerks you get different info, depending on the time of day and how busy they are you may or may not get any info. There apparently is one computer you can use to search for dates yourself, but the wait can be a long one. Searching RAMSEY, RUSHING, ROWLEY, BOZEMAN. Roselyn Shiver

Are there file available for individuals who were killed in the spanish american war? jack burke crescent city calif

Maybe one of the things we need to do VERY STRONGLY is to encourage the government to microfilm these original records if they are going to move them all to one repository. We know that too many important records (1890 census, many military records from WWI, etc) have been destroyed because of fires, etc. in government repositories. By not having ones' eggs in one basket, one doesn't lose everything if the building goes up in flames. If they feel that they need to do it for cost cutting, then they also need to ensure that it isn't going to prevent access to those records by John Q Public either because they're harder to get to--OR--because they get wiped out in a disaster. Karen Karen

I guess you all know by now that I do goof from time to time and this one is a Big one. It should have read William Cord Timken, the Herman belonged to the other brother. I should be more careful about reading everything several times before putting it out on the internet. It is hard to concentrate when you are constantly being interrupted. My apologies. Lois

Now that I at least have part of the information of William Cord Timken and need to look for his brother Henry Herman Timken. What I need to know is what is the great register that I have heard mention? Should I start looking there All I have is that he was born May 31, 1877, died February 27, 1911 I believe in OK, but not sure possibly KS. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Lois

Hi Lila, Yes, I too had the problem of not being able to open some of my messages all day yesterday. I finally gave up. They were still there today and "available". It was about every 3 or 4 messages that I was told "were not available at this time." It had nothing to do with them being outdated because they were all yesterdays messages. Must be something new AOL is throwing at us. June

A friend used the Source Guide to translate a letter from English to German...so it can be a very useful CD. Karen

I have a friend who ordered a War of 1812 pension file and got one set of papers. A cousin who she met several years later had gotten another set of papers on the same ancestor. It is a good idea to request all papers from a pension file, but be prepared that some may cost an arm & a leg if very large. This is still better than having some clerk (who may not know anything about genealogy & what you want in the way of information) pick & choose what to send you. BTW, the NGS has a project, trying to raise money to get the War of 1812 & Civil War colored troop records microfilmed. At the present time, only the index is microfilmed. They are accepting donations for the project. Karen

The Family History Source Guide was just recently published by the LDS Church on CD It is a great source to plan your research before you got to any library, archives or whatever. There are How-To guides that include all the State and country research guides that link to microfilm numbers,e tc. A Word Meanings section to help with any terms you don't know, and a Catalog Helper for navigating the Family History Library Catalog. I'm not selling it but have found it a very valuable planning source for only $20. There is a review of it in Dick Eastman's newsletter sometime in late April and those are in the archives at Ancestry.com. Pam J ---------- From: Joanne Moore[SMTP:jlmoore@airmail.net] Sent: Friday, June 26, 1998 12:00 AM To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Correction I must have missed that posting. What is "Source Guide". Can someone explain it to me? Thanks. -- Joanne Moore Researching: Eickert/Eickest, Franz, Gienau, Hausch, Kestner, Kusher, Rieve, Waltens, and Urban, all from Brooklyn and Queens, New York Eickert/Eickest, Rieve, Gienau Hausch, and Kusher, are also from Germany or Austria. ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== Support online research! Donate to the RootsWeb Genealogical Project! See more information at: http://www.rootsweb.com

I would like this information as well. Deborah Donegan info@buyersmarketplace.com -----Original Message----- From: by way of Genealogy Records Service <info@genrecords.com> <JLuna93420@aol.com> To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com <GenTips-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 26, 1998 5:55 AM Subject: Website? >Have been trying to locate website of The Tennessee State Archives. >Have not had any luck, need help! >Where did it go? >joyce > >______________________________

Have been trying to locate website of The Tennessee State Archives. Have not had any luck, need help! Where did it go? joyce

There are ways to prevent this: If you use your mail preferences you can automatically retain a copy of all your mail in your personal filing cabinet (which resides on your hard drive), likewise you can choose to retain a copy of all mail you send the same way.  The only limit is the size you have allocated to your PFC, which is something you can choose under your preferences.  One warning though -AOL4 is nicer in that it permits you to 'save' a folder from your PFC as a file with an extension of PFC this way it keeps your PFC smaller and faster.  I don't think AOL3 as this option. Also you can change how long AOL will keep your read mail in the old mail section of the server - just remember that if you exceed your 500 message limit the previously read mail will be the first to be deleted. Gloria North GNorth@columbus.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Maddox [<mailto:elainetm@worldnet.att.net%5D>mailto:elainetm@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 7:05 PM To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: not available You are unable to read a message (although it may still be listed in your mailbox) after X-number of days on AOL.  AOL is firm about it and the messages are not available for retrieval.  They are gone.  You may want to ask the AOL techs how many days you have to read the messages.  If it is important to you, I suggest you save it to a file.  Because it will disappear.  This does not happen in Netscape with an ISP.  Good luck. Elaine LMiller865@aol.com wrote: > I have been trying to read msg. from baymin@yahoo.com   re: townships. > I keep getting  " that mail is not currently available"  Does anyone know why > and has anyone else experienced this? > > Researching >  Gilman >  Dodson >  Coffman >  Doebler > All from Williamsport Pa. early 1900s > > lila > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Support online research! Donate to the RootsWeb Genealogical Project! See more information at: > <http://www.rootsweb.com/>http://www.rootsweb.com ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== Support online research! Donate to the RootsWeb Genealogical Project! See more information at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/>http://www.rootsweb.com

I have an ancestor who is listed as being a "RUST SOLDIER" in the Revolutionary War.  He lived in Maryland.  Just what was a rust soldier? Joyce at davisjc@traveller.com

from:  steve bratt, master mason, 32* scottish rite Chris Powles (by way of Genealogy Records Service ) wrote: > > Masie, dont be dishearted , there are a few things this guy possible didn't > tell > you  This is the busiest time of the year for both the masons and the Eastern > Star > they have council soon  but in a few weeks if you haven't recieved help you might try contacting the master of the lodge see who he knows that might be the historian of the lodge or keeps the kind of information you are looking for.   this is a position in the lodge "historian". sometimes used sometimes not.   eastern star contact worthy matron or worthy patron.  both the lodge and chapter put out a yearbook. sometime you will see pictures and positions and advertisements. >Call > the > Grand Lodge of the State not Local ask to speak to the grand Sect. tell him if > you > have Proof. what kind and do they do research they use to but I have fond that > they are a little short handed- in my dealing with grand lodges they feel they are not paid to research so therefore dont do it.  in alabama i will gladly research the archives or you can hire anyone from montgomery to research. >if you can confirm the conection also call > the > Eastern Star Grand Lodge eastern star grand chapters > because if he was a mason ,his wife may have been > invited > to join and remember that they are a ""seceret Society"" this is a misnomer.  you can go the library of congress and find anything you would want to know about this "secret society" you have to remember this is fraternity.  not everyone gets to join everything they want to.   the Shrine and Scottishrite donate and over l.2 million a day to free healthcare and make no secret about it. and they plan to keep it > that > way and have manged to since Charles the First   they will help to a certain > point > only. then they have to be mute. Paula > every chapter or lodge is intensely independant in conducting business. the one you called might not have time, etc while the next one across town is extremely courtesy and will give you almost anything you ask. in the late 1890's to early 1960's masons did a lot pr in the papers. you will see a picture when they have new elections, put on a benefit, death notices, etc.   and you still get lucky in some places today. > MaisieAnn@aol.com wrote: > > > Several months ago, after reading about searching Masonic records (used a > > little book that I cannot put my hands on at the moment), I wrote on > DECEMBER > > 7, 1997, to a lodge secretary in a large city. Never got a reply. So two > days > > ago, I decided to follow up with a phone call (used Switchboard computer > > directory)...found his name listed and called. He was very nice, but told me > > that after a year and a half in his post as secretary, the records were > still > > with the former secretary who lives very far away. He hopes to have records > > transported to is home SOON, whatever that is. He said he is very busy, > works > > long hours, etc. etc. etc. > > > > At this point, all I know is that there is potential here but getting > someone > > to actually look at the records is the stumbling block. I plan to wait about > 6 > > weeks then call again. He told me he had two requests pending. On the next > > call, if he does not have the records in his possession, I will ask for > phone > > number of former secretary, who might do the lookup. Has anyone else been > > successful in actually getting the records from various lodges? > > MaisieAnn@aol.com Hudson, OH > > > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > > Family Workings: > <<http://www.familyworkings.com/>http://www.familyworkings.com/><http://www. familyworkings.com/>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 > > ==== GenTips Mailing List ==== > Family Workings: <http://www.familyworkings.com/>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

This site and scroll to other reseach helps will get you to the archives <A HREF="http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~kizzer/genehist/mainpage.htm"> Tennessee Genealogy & History Website</A>