I saw this item for sale at eBay and thought that some of you might be interested. Title of item: 1800's Geneology wheel Seller: tmorris2@aol.com Starts: 06/06/98 18:38:17 PDT Ends: 06/13/98 18:38:17 PDT Price: Currently $5.00 To bid the item, go to: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=16599004 Item Description: Mid-1800's geneology wheel - Risbrough Hammett Tillerry is in the center born 1850 - outter listings date back to 1687. Other names from the center includeTaylor, Chapman, and Nicoll. 12" across in size, cardboard. This is a full circle (the scan cut off the edges and is in overall very good condition. Visit eBay, the world's largest personal trading community at http://www.ebay.com

On 5 Jun 98, at 20:53, RalphK@aol.com wrote: > My questions are, What did you request (exactly)? This is important > because they usually will not do research for you. Did you request the > information on one of their forms? Which one? I did send the request in on a form. I don't have a copy in front of me, but it is the one where you can choose either military records or pension application records. I chose the former. Sometime after the Civil War, he was killed "by Indians" while going out west. I have assumed, perhaps wrongly, that he never lived long enough to apply for a pension. > Secondly, military service records for the Civil War are contained in > several large categories. > > 1. Volenteers, troops raised by the states. > 2. Regulars, US military raised by the federal government. > 3. Some Navy records and some Marine records (these not often used). All I know is that he was in the Union Navy and, if memory serves correctly, was an Ass't Paymaster on a vessel that was involved in the Battle of Charleston[?]. > > I suspect that your previous researcher found your sailor in > "Indexes to Rendezvous Reports, Civil War, 1861-1865. T1099, 31 rolls." > This index is on film but the records to which they refer are not on > microfilm. These actual records are available at the National Archives in > Washington DC. So, if someone shows up in the index, it is likely that there *are* surviving records? > > I also suggest that you should also explore the possibility of a pension > application. These are indexed comprehensively. What kind of application? Pension? (see above) Maureen O'Brien

Does anyone remember the Lone Island Star? I know that it is no longer in business. I had an uncle who was a reporter on this newspaper. Does anyone know where all the copies of the newspapers have gone to? Please let me know. Thank you in advance for any help. -- Joanne Moore Researching: Eickert/Eickest, Franz, Gienau, Kestner, Kusher, Rieve, Waltens, and Urban, all from Brooklyn and Queens, New York Eickert/Eickest, Rieve, Gienau and Kusher, are also from Germany

Does anyone on these lists know if the Dallas Public Library have maps for Brooklyn and Queens, New York, for the years, around, 1920. Or does anyone have access to the Brooklyn and Queens maps for that year. I am willing to pay for the cost of copying and mailing the copies to me. Thank you all for all the help you have given me. I may not have said Thanks when it was due but I am now. I lurk a lot just reading the messages and sometimes I get suggestions on how to find something. You are all great people. I'm glad that I join these lists. If anyone lives in or close to Dallas, please let me hear from you. I am going to venture to the Dallas Public Library sometime next week. I've never been there so I don't know what to look for. Be good to have a friend here who can show me around the Genealogy Room there. Thanks, again, and have a great day. :) -- Joanne Moore Researching: Eickert/Eickest, Franz, Gienau, Kestner, Kusher, Rieve, Waltens, and Urban, all from Brooklyn and Queens, New York Eickert/Eickest, Rieve, Gienau and Kusher, are also from Germany

To anyone interested, I use Family Tree Maker, probably have 40 of their CD's. These are just great ! If you have the Family Finder Index, you can see if any of your connections are on the various CD's. If you buy one and don't find your relatives, you can return it for full refund. Can't beat it as far as I am concerned ! Searching for Counceller (and variants), Clark(Ky) Shelton(Ky), Decker(Oh), Bridgeford(Oh), Bradbury(Oh) Griner(Oh), Durham(DE), Dean(DE), Sisco(DE),Dunham(NJ) Good Luck, Chuck Counceller

Dear All: Here is an interesting URL for researching Canadian surnames...forgot to attach..sorry: http://www2.southwind.net/~walz/HTML/SURNAMES.html#K

Dear All; Here is an interesting URL for Candian research......

A great big thank's to everyone for the loacation of the St Croix River. I found it. Joan

I have 4 of the marriage CDs. I bought them before they had a bundle. There are for selected counties and selected years. Do not expect to get every marriage in Indiana from early to 1850 on CD #228. I also have World Family Tree Vol 1 - 12. They are good if you luck out and fine someone who is researching your family tree or part of it. I have some information on a couple who may possibly be my gggrandparents. Enough to do more research to see if they fit. I also have two of the census Index CD's. 1607-1789 and 1860. These only show the head of household and where to find the info on the original census--county, state and page number. A census index is just that an index. If you are looking for a John Carter and don't know where he was for that census you will not be able to identify him. I understand there are CDs available that are actually transcriptions of the actual census pages. I have not actually seen one. The FTM CD's are easy to use with the Family Tree Maker software. Since I have some of the older CDs and also have the GRS DOS program I prefer to use that to access information from those older CDs. I don't think you can use GRS on the World Family Tree CDs. I hope I have answered some of the questions you wanted answered. Toni Gorman rockall@aol.com

Can somebody help out with a couple of questions? On a census, what does the term "At House" or "At Home" actually mean? On a marriage index, what does the title "M.G." of the one officiating the marriage mean? thanks! Barry Bunn

Good GRIEF, Marcia ,lets just hope they aren t your family!!!I contact people whenI m really desparate. I worry about responses like that but so far no one has been upset.I think they feel sorry for me<g> Gail OTEE

At 11:37 AM 6/7/98 -0700, [JOAN BELL wrote: >Does anyone know where the St Kroats River is? What state? It may be >spelled with a "C". Maybe in Iowa or Missouri or any state east of the >Rockies, U.S.A. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you. Joan >Bell > > >==== GenTips Mailing List ==== >Support online research! Donate to the RootsWeb Genealogical Project! See more information at: >http://www.rootsweb.com > Possibly the St Croix river that borders between WI and MN? Thanks, Peggy Perry pegmar@mhtc.net Moderator for The Obituary Daily Times the email newspaper of obituaries from around the world! To subscribe: send a message to: GEN-OBIT-Request@apple.rootsweb.com with the message: subscribe WI GenWeb coordinator for Iowa County - visit us at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiiowa President - Iowa County Wisconsin Genealogical Society http://www.friendsnfamily.net/wiiowagensoc/index.html Co-Owner of the GENMSC mailing list. To subscribe: send a message to: GENMSC-l-request@apple.rootsweb.com with the message: subscribe

Hello. A while back I saw a question posted to GenTips asking for help in locating "land that ancestors may have owned in Poland". Were there any responses to that question? Did I miss them? Thanks...........Mary

When doing data entry on the PAF 2.3 for MAC, how does one put in diacritical markings like umlauts? The Key Cap technique used for data processing does not work. thank you

Hi to all, I wanted to pass on a little information about Powell Co. Ky., and why , at times I will write born in, POWELL CO. KY., or surrounding counties. Powell Co. Kentucky, was formed in 1852 from CLARK, ESTILL, and MONTGOMERY Counties. STANTON, the seat of POWELL COUNTY, was first known as BEAVER POND. The BEAVER POND post office was opened in 1849 and was renamed STANTON in 1852. The courthouse and records burned in the spring of 1863. The jail and other records were burned again in 1864, destroying most records. Here is a list of POWELL COUNTY'S neighbors and counties that USED POWELL CO. in their formation. CLARK CO., KY ESTILL CO., KY LEE CO., KY MEMIFEE CO., KY MONTGOMERY CO., KY WOLFE CO., KY Smile, Judith

Hi, I haven't needed to use diacriticical marks but the book says you can use them. It just doesn't say how. Perhaps you need to go to preferences and temporarily change your font to one that will give you the umlaut or whatever you need and then try KeyCaps. This sounds like a good question for the PAF users list which just started. <Here's the subscribing info.: <I have two new mailing list for PAF users. If you are using either Version 2.31 or 3, you can subscribe by sending the word subscribe to either: PAF-2.31-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com or PAF-2.31-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest version. or PAF-3-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com or PAF-3-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest version.> Edith You wrote <When doing data entry on the PAF 2.3 for MAC, how does one put in diacritical markings like umlauts? The Key Cap technique used for data processing does not work.>

Marcia, My heart aches for you! I wish I knew an answer, but alas, I don't! Is there any such thing as internet police? Maybe a real stupid question, but you shouldn't feel threatened. I thought I had it bad with a relative who harasses me (and anyone she learns gives me information about the family tree!) It's sad that there are such disturbed people in the world! I hope you're able to get it solved soon! Good luck! Sincerely, Donna

Does anyone know where the St Kroats River is? What state? It may be spelled with a "C". Maybe in Iowa or Missouri or any state east of the Rockies, U.S.A. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you. Joan Bell

Thanks Dean, I had tried that before. But I went back to try again. Hey both boxes were not checked....maybe...Ah! It worked! You are sooo smart. Thank you. I had about given up hope of ever having this picture so I could print or display. Ready for another question? On some attached files on attempting to open I get this message; Could not open (FileName).jpg because an unexpected end-of-file was encountered. Any suggestions?? Nancy At 01:57 AM 6/5/98 -0400, you wrote: >After you get the photo look one the left side of your screen and you have >a button labeled "ADVANCED", click on that button. Then click on "SIZE" >then on "PHOTO SIZE". A dialog box will appear, at the bottom of this box >there are two check boxes, make sure both are checked (if they are both >checked and you enter a value for width the other two values will change >automatically to match the value you are changing). Then click inside the >width box and delete the value that is in it, now enter the size the you >want for the width, after you are done click OK. Your picture has been >resized. If you want to save the picture you can use the send to command >under the file menu to save it in a different format and when you save the >picture it saves it with the values that you set for the height and width >so you don't have to go back and change them all the time. I hope that >this helps you out and I hope that I didn't just repeat something that you >already did :). > >Dean L. Solomon >dsolomon@mail.microserve.net >Williamsport, PA > > >-----Original Message----- >From: by way of Genealogy Records Service <info@genrecords.com> >[SMTP:ncook@jps.net] >Sent: Thursday, June 04, 1998 9:29 AM >To: GenTips-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Opening Attached photos > >Some one sent me a photo as an e-mail attachment. The original photo is >approx 14 inches by 7 inches. But when I open it in my Adobe Photo >program, the size reads as 416 inches square. He has re-sent the photo >twice now but it still comes through in the enlarged size. > >The photo is readable on the screen, but when trying to change the >measurements it goes to a pin-point size. Is there anything that can be >done to enable me to print it? I am very new at this so if you answer >please don't be too technical. > >I am using Windows 95, IE 4, and Adobe photo deluxe 2.0 > >Thank you, >Nancy >ncook@jps.net >Researching surnames: BRAND, BALDWIN, COOK, COPELAND, GHENT, GIYER, HART, >HICKMAN, LANE, MORRIS, NOTT, OVERSTREET, PEABODY, RUSSEL, SHAW, TYREE,

I too loved the poem, and it came at a time when I am trying to figure out what to do here. This is genealogy related thus: I searched for BUSSELL on an e-mail address search. I sent out 18 letters , all to different address. I was careful NOT to send the letter of introduction to to address' that looked similar, as I know some people have several different e-mails! but these were all posted on the e-mail page! Most of the letters came back as user unknown, as they no longer had the same provider ect. HOWEVER>! One person wrote back , SCREAMING, and I will paste here, At 12:00 PM -0700 6/6/98, marcia Collins wrote: >Hello, I am researching my family BUSSELL. Don't EVER try this type of spamming again! It is rude, rude, RUDE to take up people's time with unsolicited junk like this. I wrote back 1 time, apologizing, and defending the fact that I had NO SPAMMED! I explained what I was doing, and where I had gotten the Address . I CANNOT paste the remaing 13!!!! letters that are flying into my mail box...They are full of the f -word, and if you can believe it worse! I went to the inbox assistant and blocked that address....guess what, She is now using hot mail, yahoo, you name it, she sends it on different mail address's I do not KNOW until I open it that they are from this INSANE person from Hawaii. I wrote back ONE additional time, demanding she stop the language ect. as I have children who use this e-mail. I told her I would contact her ISP and make a complaint.....it just continues! WHAT can I do? This is so bizarre. I feel like I am being stalked, or harassed by phone. SO I shot a query into cyberspace it came back and slapped my face I never meant to harm a sole I wish she'd fall in a big black hole! HELP!!! Thank you Marcia Moore Collins mcollins@sfths.sft434.k12.ks.us researching BUSSELL and varied spellings researching Moore, Bussell, Arkansas,East Texas and New Mexico