FYI gf ---------------------- Hi, folks -- We're pleased to announce that GenConnect Surname Boards are now available to any RootsWeb Sponsor or Member! Read the following announcement from Nancy Trice, one of our GenConnect staffers: -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades ------- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:18:11 -0600 From: Nancy Trice <trice@vci.net> Subject: GenConnect Surname boards To: listowners-L@rootsweb.com To all surname listowners... GenConnect and RootsWeb is proud to announce that GenConnect now offers surname boards to RootsWeb sponsors. This is a wonderful way to compliment your surname lists. (Please note... Surname boards are granted on a first-come/first-serve basis to RootsWeb sponsors. We cannot reserve a surname for anyone.) If you are interested in one of these boards please visit http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/sponsors.html where you will find information on how to request a board for your surname(s). If you are not familiar with GenConnect, spend some time visiting some of our pages. Homepage: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index.html Surname index: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/indx/FamAssoc.html Thanks, Nancy Trice GenConnect SysAdmin

Is anyone researching the family of William Lee Arnett, who married Mary Matilda Delong on April 12, 1857? I'm interested in children and finding out when Mary and William died. There are no ARNETTS in the Calhoun County cemetery book. Thanks Claire in Denver

Hi Gloria, Loved your note! Are you researching the Dennis Foiles family? If so I would love to hear from you! I am primarily researching the DELONG family, Dennis' wife was Winnie Esther DELONG. My maiden name was SMITH, my Calhoun connection is the William Wesley SMITH family, he was pastor of the Oasis Methodist Church until he died in 1881. His mother was Mary Elvira DELONG. I have a little information on the children of Winnie Delong and Dennis Foiles. Have a good day, Claire Smith Edrich

Hi Gloria: Nice to hear from you on 11/10. It is an even more important to me than Veteran's day. The reason - My mother's birthday and my husband was a 4th Division Marine - four beach landings in 13 months - Roi Namur, Siapan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Both of them have now passed away, so I put flowers on graves a day earlier than most. I am proud to be an American - and during WWII I worked for the Army Air Corp, AAFCTTC (Army Air Force Central Technical Training Command) as a PFC (Poor Foolish Civilian). Do You live in Calhoun? I'm in California now - But as a kid, spent my winters going to school in St. Louis and my summers with my grandparents, Tom and Susan Ansell, at their farm on Fox Creek. My grandmother was Susan Elizabeth Blackorby, mother of twelve children - all of whom lived to be adults. I went to the farm and was delited to see the house so nicely up-dated. There was a Foiles living there, but think they sold the property while I was back there. The house was built by my Grandfather (with the help of friends and neighbors) in the latter half of the 1800's. I enjoyed visiting the Calhoun Historical Society and got there Cemetary and Marriage Books. Also got a copy of an article on Dr. Southworth. He married three Blackorby women (sisters of my grandmother's mother) and he raised my grandmother after her father and her mother remarried to a David. I'm having goodluck in finding my Foiles, Cloniger, Seiver, etc. and think I may have made a good follow-up contact for the Blackorby. I visited all the cemetaries. Summit Grove has the most of my Ansell Family members, but one of my aunts is buried in the City(?) cemetary in Kampsville and, of couse, some in Fox Creek cemetary. If you have any info on my families I would love to hear from you. And if I have any info you would like to know about, I would be pleased to share. And thanks for note. Gloria PS: Would you believe that I,m Gloria because I was born on the 4th of July?

Proud to be a Navy Veteran and even prouder of the Victor Hickens who served on the Normandy Beaches - on the FRONT. Remembering those cadence songs...... If your proud, lets hear it!! Gloria Frazier USN ETN3

Mar Garsh, this is November, isn't it? Somehow it managed to stay in my inbox. I have searched the NAIL system. They are adding more all the time. But they are adding my Adcock criminals. Well, maybe that was one criminal listed a few times. http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html Then there are some of my Adcock Indians. Well, you know how Mom or someone said there is Indian blood in our line and she wouldn't give me a clue besides "look at that picture, you can tell there is Indian in her/him." Then all of the relatives ask you if you have heard that there was Cherokee, or some other 5 tribes in our bloodline..... and you don't even know how to start to find them........None of my squaws had last names. Good luck with your searches. gf >Reply-To: <cindyldq@midwest.net> >From: "cindy leonard" <cindyldq@midwest.net> >To: <smckenzi@midwest.net> >Cc: <glofra@townsqr.com> >Subject: FYI - #1 >Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:15:12 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 > >From "The Family Tree" by The Odom Library, P.O. Box 2828, Moultrie, GA >31776-2828 > >DAWES ROLLS ARE ON THE INTERNET! The American Indians who were accepted on >the final rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes as members of the Cherokee, >Seminole and Creek tribes - those 50,000 more or less people - can now be >searched on the Internet. The records of the Choctaw and Chickasaw have >not been entered, but it is reported that they will be completed soon. >The record was produced for members of the Dawes Commission from 1898 to >1914 in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). It was required that each person >applying had to prove their ancestry and their tribal affiliation. The >evidentiary documents are included in the case files of all those who did >apply which is a wonderful source of information for today's genealogists. >The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has a NARA Archival >Information Locator (NAIL), which is an interactive database on a wide >variety of NARA's holdings. This source is updated weekly. >http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html >

One solution I recd for GeoCities popup ads is that they can be made permanent at the top of the page; they won't popup; they just stay. Here is another one I recd: Quote: "I wrote a note on our opening page to help people deal with them. The key is to NOT "hit the X." If you minimize the pop-up or simply click on the web page you won't have to look at it AND when you go to other pages on the site another pop-up will not, uh, pop up. Don't close the ad (by hitting the X) until you leave GeoCities. Hope this helps." Another solution would be to have an email address where we could write GeoCities our distaste in really wanting to read good material and the popup ads keep us so frustrated that we just leave. Thanks for the ideas. Gloria

Some days I am quiet and some days I can't keep my finger off the send key.<g> I do agree with those ads you can't get rid of to read a web page, tho. All I can see is banging on the stupid X. gf ------------- Copy:::: << I do dread go visiting any site located at Geocities because every time I do - my computer will freeze up because of ^&*( ad popups plus midi/wav built in. Geocities is only one that I know of that have ad pop up on EVERY page unless you pay them not to. >> To me who spends darn near every waking moment on-line because apart from GenWeb I do make my living on the puter, those ads & consoles are absolutely irritating. I think the only ones on this list that have said otherwise are in fact ones that 1. Have their pages there 2. Don't spend a lot of time on the web I cannot even close or get off these sites til the blasted first pop-up has finished loading & they are slow! No matter how many times I hammer on the X. And yes... freeze up is another major problem!!!! PS. I also would not think it would be out of line to have some guidlelines as to where pages are located. ------ End Copy

FYI - Be Warned with Free sites. ------------------- >This isn't the first time this has happened. > >GeoCities has been cheerfully selling its information about its >members to whoever wanted to buy it for as long as I can remember. >They were sufficiently blatant about it that the FTC finally sat on >them just a few months ago. > >Most of the other "free" sites probably do the same thing. > >The thing that really worries me is the feeling that the information >we gather with our query systems and such at sites like GeoCities >will eventually be sold to marketeers. > >I don't think it's a matter of "if" -- I think it's a matter of >"when". The Board and the SCs probably ought to be thinking about >how they are going to regain the confidence of the community after >some site like GeoCities sells some business like Broderbund a list >of e-mail addresses that appear on genealogical Websites they host. > >At risk of patting ourselves on the back, this is one problem will >never arise at RootsWeb. First of all, we think this is a *really* >slimey practice and can't imagine anyone with more moral fiber than >an earthworm selling information to marketeers. Apart from that, we >couldn't sell information even if we were slimey devils; RootsWeb is >funded by voluntary contributions, and those contributions would dry >up in a heartbeat and we'd die eventually if we were ever anything >other than squeaky-clean in the way we operate. > >Cheers, B. > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/

>>The following is from this weeks Eastman letter. >> >>- Genealogy Web Site Sells Your Name and E-mail Address >> >>It's a tough world. Lots of businesses sell their customer lists >>these days. The result is that you get junk mail and marketing >>phone calls from all sorts of companies trying to sell you >>something you probably don't want. The newest twist is "spam >>mail", unwanted e-mails that advertise all sorts of junk. Now a >>well-known genealogy Web site is contributing to the spam mail >>that you receive and apparently is profiting from personal >>information that they obtain from you under the guise of helping >>you do genealogy research. In fact, the Web site apparently is a >>"front", as the main purpose seems to be gathering personal >>information about you and then selling that information. >> >>The Family Tree House Web site at http://www.usaafter.com claims >>that it is "the Association for FamilyTree Enrollment and >>Registry." The home page says, "This site offers free family tree >>software and links to key genealogy sites. The software is >>available on-line. You can build your FamilyTree House in real >>time, no downloading is required." >> >>They also say, "...you can create and register your own on-line >>FamilyTree. And because it is on-line, you can enlist the help of >>other family members by giving them your personal access code to >>allow them to fill in the missing branches--it's a project the >>whole family can participate in no matter where they live." On >>another page the site advises, "When requesting information, >>please make sure you include your name, mailing address and the >>information you would like." >> >>After they collect all the personal information from you and your >>other family members, the owners of Family Tree House apparently >>package the information and sell it to other companies that send >>junk mail or spam e-mails. On a different Web site, the owners of >>Family Tree House offer "a file of 33,600 last-12-month >>registrants of the Family Tree House, an association that offers >>Web site members free software and links to genealogy sites." The >>file they sell reportedly contains information about each person's >>date of birth, gender, e-mail address, state and ZIP code. The Web >>advertisement says that the file contains listings for 33,600 >>people who have left personal information on the Family Tree House >>site. >> >>To check for yourself, first look at http://www.usaafter.com and >>then look at: >>http://www.mediacentral.com/Magazines/DirectNewsline/Archive/19981 00910.htm

>From: Gerald Gieger <giegerg@HOTMAIL.COM> >To: DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU ><DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU> >Date: 29 October, 1998 12:37 PM >I am passing this along to the list. Even though it is Halloween time >lets not treat them!! > >I recently received a mailing about how my family had been in the Civil >War,and that there was now a book about them. >Buyer Beware when ordering these Civil War family history books. > >Halbert's are back to their old tricks again! > >Halbert's of Bath, Ohio, has come up with a new gimic. They are now using an >address from Washington, DC, to try and peddle their wares. > >Halbert's is now using the name: >"US Information Burueau NUMA" (note the spelling of Bureau) >3220 N. St, NW Ste 1400 >Washington D.C. (no zip code given)" > >They are advertising a book regarding all the people with your family's >surname in the Civil War. Don't be fooled. This is the same poor >craftmanship and outdated generic information in a new cover. >This time they want $49.95+ shipping and handling. > >Be very, very careful!!! Don't believe their money back guarantee. >They are a real hassle to deal with.

My grgrgrandparents were Theodorus PECK and Lucinda CRAWFORD SILKWOOD HEWITT who lived at Farmer's Ridge in Calhoun Co. They were married 14 May 1843 in Calhoun. I have Lucinda as being born 9 Apr 1817 in KY dau of James CRAWFORD. Does anyone know of the CRAWFORD family? Do they appear on the 1840 or 1850 census of Calhoun? Lucinda married Thomas SILKWOOD 8 Feb 1838 and Wade HEWITT 18 Jun 1840 - both in Calhoun. She had a daughter Sarah Jane with Wade HEWITT. "Whatever happened to Sarah Jane???" Theodorus and Lucinda had one son Lewis Benjamin PECK 15 Dec 1845. He married Laura BORROWMAN in Calhoun. There is a record of Lucinda's burial in McConnell Cemetery in Calhoun. Theodorus ran for coroner 23 Oct 1838 and Lucinda is listed as a "widow" on the 1850 census. Did he die (as the oral family history says) or did he "run away"??? He had left a family in OH before he came to IL. Any help on this family would be greatly appreciated! Betty Peck Doremus

I would like to know if anyone would have any relatives who attended Liberty School in southern calhoun co, in the 1915-1932 years and would have a school picture. I a, also interested in a 1945 Fruitland school picture Fruitland was in south calhoun by Golden Eagle ferry. I have seen the records and picures of the historical Society and there arenone for these years. Joseph Meyer

My surnames in calhoun county are these, ADAMS DEPPER KELLER KORTE GRIESHAMMER MACKER MEYER PLANER SHANDROW ZUMDICK Joseph Meyer

Hey, we can stand a whole lot of that! Won't bother you with anymore of these as they come in but just thought I would let you know that rootsweb is trying to keep the spam out. gf >Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:19:46 -0700 (PDT) >From: abuse@rootsweb.com >Subject: we blocked some spam from your list. >To: ILCALHOU-D-request@rootsweb.com >X-Spam-Type: authenticated-sender > >Hi -- > >This is an automated notice from the RootsWeb list server. >Someone recently sent this message to your list. It looks >suspiciously like spam, so it was NOT distributed to your list. >However, we're sending you a copy just in case the spam detector >made a mistake. >>>snip<<<<

FYI gf ----------- From: "Terasa" <pcuser@horizon.hit.net> Subject: [ILGEN-L] Down to 3 To: ILGEN-L@rootsweb.com I need your help! In the Illinois Archives all counties have files stored in the appropriate counties except 3. I am asking for submissions from Boone, Carroll, and Grundy County! My goal is to have submissions in the Archives for all Illinois Counties!! Remember copyright laws. Articles from printed resources need to be over 72 years old or you need to have the author's permission. Please search through your research articles and see if you have any possible submissions for the archives. I will also take items for any other counties! Terasa Illinois Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm Hancock County Illinois: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/Hancock.html Perry County Illinois: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilperry/ Rogers County Oklahoma: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okrogers/index.html

Hello to all, I am looking for family information on the following. I am trying to go back as far as possible and if this makes sense to anyone please let me know. Gerrett TAYLOR Calhoun County, Illinois Daughter Matilda TAYLOR bn:Feb. 1858 Died: October 24, 1915 She married William WHITE and their Daughter was my Grandmother. Sarah Jeanette WHITE Bn: March 17, 1879 When Sarah married Charles Bostwick they lived in Chester Illinois. I am looking for information on earlier family members such as Matilda and Williams family. If this rings a bell with any one please let me know. Thanks Take Care Jack

Hi Debbie, There are no Seidlers in my book. It sounds like the book might have been published a little too early for your family. It was published in 1891. Claire

Dear Claire, I am cutting this close to your end date but if you have the opportunity I am looking for information on a Seidler(Siedler) Family. Fathers name was Henry, wife Martha or Mary; children would be Mary, Frank?, James?. I know Mary was born in 1886 but I know nothing of anyone else. If it helps the mothers madien name was either Hasson or Havson? Mary was my Maternal Grandmother. Appreciate any info. Thanks . Debbie Crites -----Original Message----- From: Claire Edrich <jaedrich@rmi.net> To: ILCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com <ILCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 7:10 PM Subject: [ILCALHOU-L] Calhoun County Biography >Hi everyone! > >I just received via inter-library loan a copy of the book "Portrait and >Biographical Album of Calhoun and Pike counties". I will only have the >book until Spet 28, then I have to take it back. In the mean time, if >you have an ancestor you are researching in Calhoun county, I'd be glad >to see if they are in the book. > >The book was published in 1890. > >Regards, >Claire Edrich > >

If anyone might be interested in transcribing the 1850 Calhoun Census for the Calhoun County IL USGenWeb Census Archives Project, read about how to do at this site: http://www.usgenweb.org/census/location.htm S-K Publications will provide a free copy of any census they have available to subscribers for the USGenWeb Project. http://www.skpub.com/genie/ I noticed the 1850 Calhoun County Census Book is available. If you decide to transcribe the 1850 for USGenWeb Census Project, signup here: http://www.usgenweb.org/census/signup.htm and mention the S-K 1850 Calhoun Co Census free copy of the book which you will need to transcribe the 1850 census. Otherwise, USGenWeb does not provide copies of the census for transcription. Everyone has to provide their own copy other than the S-K offer. Gloria