Thanks again for those who responded on the original question. My question, if all I mentioned is a name, no statistics-period on a living person, how can you get someone ID through identity theft? You can get more than that out of a phone book, name, address, phone no., etc., which is online also. Feel free to respond to the listserve so we all responses, Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

I would never submit any information on living relatives to the internet or anywhere else. I just replace their information with the word "Living". Identity theft is rampant and, believe it or not, genealogy sites are excellent sources. Don't be fooled into thinking that they wouldn't think of looking there! IMHO!! Linda Arthur Tejera Researching ARTHUR, BURGESS, HATCHER, McNEAL, GIBSON, WHITE, WALLACE, WOODS, McCORKLE, BURNS, TAYLOR & others "My relatives must all be in the witness protection program!"

I received a lot of advice and will either just put a Name with no statistics or Living Son/Daughter. Have a great weekend, Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

Mark, I would NEVER put a living person's name or info. on-line without permission. Most genealogy pages and files that I've seen do not include the names of or info.on living persons. Instead of a name, the word "living" or "living surname" is included. However, some people do choose to include names and birth dates of living persons. I guess they are not worried about predators or theft identity or any of the other reasons often cited for not including such info. A guy on another list lit into me one time; he said it was dumb to think that someone up to no-good would look at a genealogy webpage to find victims. Maybe; maybe not. What always surprises me are the many non-genealogy family webpages out there that include names, ages, addresses, hobbies, church affiliation, occupation, and even photos of the whole family, including the children. Gives new meaning to "just letting it all hang out." Herma What is the rule of thumb for creating Family Webpages for the internet? Do you include living persons? If so do you just leave off their birth date? Just put year? or nothing at all? Do you leave of anything else? If so what? (Other than the obvious like address, phone no, SSN) Thanks for any advice on this, Mark

I always try to get permission from living person. do not see a problem with putting birth date but not much else. For what it is worth, this is my opinion, Charlene God Bless America Moving on to new goals [email protected] http://cochiseability.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi > [Original Message] > From: Mark Meinhart <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 6/2/2004 5:07:09 AM > Subject: [KYBOYD] Creating Family Webpages for Internet > > What is the rule of thumb for creating Family Webpages for the internet? > > Do you include living persons? > > If so do you just leave off their birth date? Just put year? or nothing at all? > > Do you leave of anything else? If so what? (Other than the obvious like address, phone no, SSN) > > Thanks for any advice on this, > Mark > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > > ==== KYBOYD Mailing List ==== > Some guidelines for the use of this mailing list can be found on the list website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyboyd/maillist/ > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

What is the rule of thumb for creating Family Webpages for the internet? Do you include living persons? If so do you just leave off their birth date? Just put year? or nothing at all? Do you leave of anything else? If so what? (Other than the obvious like address, phone no, SSN) Thanks for any advice on this, Mark __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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--- Kay Spears <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:50:15 -0500 > From: "Kay Spears" <[email protected]> > Subject: Genealogy Gems: New from Fort Wayne, No. 3, May 31, 2004 > > ************************************************ > Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library > No. 3, May 31, 2004 > *********************************************** > In this issue: > > *New site added to Department's Online Resources > *Microtext Source: New Orleans slave manifests 1807-1860 > *Printed Source: Atlas of historical county boundaries > *And you think you love genealogy > *Hotel of the month > *Area calendar of events > *Librarians on Tour > *Driving directions to the library & parking > > ************************************************ > New Site Added to Department's Online Resources > Curt Witcher, Manager > ************************************************ > Advancing technologies continue to impact how genealogists and family > historians identify important information sources and conduct research. > Even a decade ago, few would have imagined that such significant > quantities of data would be readily available on the Internet. The > opportunities for networking and collaboration are truly remarkable. > For researchers who visit the Allen County Public Library, three major > subscription databases are available for use. Ancestry.com certainly > represents the largest data file on the web for genealogists. This site > contains many large sets of data including the U. S. census indices and > images, a significant U. K. collection, historical newspapers, and the > Social Security Death Index. Clicking on "list all databases" can be > quite a pleasant and eye-opening experience! > HeritageQuestOnline.com provides researchers with a growing collection > of full-text family and local histories. More than twenty-five thousand > titles are available to scan and download appropriate sections. In > addition to its virtual library of genealogies and histories, > HeritageQuest also provides U. S. census indices and images, and the > most current version of the "Periodical Source Index." It is truly like > a library within our department. > In 2004, we started an institutional subscription to > NewEnglandAncestors.org. This is the web site of the New England > Historic Genealogical Society, the oldest genealogical society in the > country. For those researching New England ancestors, this is an > amazing site to explore. There are hundreds of data files organized > into roughly two dozen subject categories. An overall "Master Search" > is also available for searching across all their databases. It's a > must-look if you are doing New England research. > To these licensed data files, we have added our own affiliate website, > http://www.FriendsOfAllenCounty.org, which makes available data from > Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana, as well as from other regions, in > a searchable format. At present, all the databases on the site are > searchable from anywhere. Currently, the modest collection of Allen > County data files includes indices to late 20th century burial permits, > 20th century servicemen and servicewomen, the first fifty years of > county death records, and late 19th century annual reports for the city > of Fort Wayne. Look for the number of data files to steadily grow. A > link will be added from our department's main web page in the near > future. In the meantime, feel free to stop by "FriendsOfAllenCounty" > and take a look around. > To complement our deep and rich collection of books and > microtext, look for the department to sport a growing collection of > searchable files. > > ************************************************ > United States Customs Service Records, Port of New Orleans, Louisiana > Inward (to New Orleans) slave manifests; Rolls 1 � 12 Date Range > 1807 � 1860 > Outward (departing Port of New Orleans) slave manifests; Rolls 1 � 12 > Date Range 1812 - 1860 > Roberta Ridley > ************************************************ > The Inward/Outward Slave Manifests for the Port of New Orleans, > Louisiana is an unassuming and informative source that may help to track > movement of slaves, as well as the slave owners. The domestic slave > trade transplanted approximately one million slaves during the period of > 1808 through 1865 (prior to the end of Civil War). The relocation was > from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, and > North Carolina, to Alabama, Mississippi, Western Georgia, Louisiana, > Texas, and Arkansas. > In 1808 the United States abolished the importation of slaves > and from that time through 1865, there was an aggressive migration and > settlement of the southern frontier. Slaves were transported overland > and by coastal waterways. Coastal transportation was from as far north > as Boston along the Eastern Seaboard, all the way to New Orleans. Many > Africans and African Americans were sold south or transplanted south > with their owners. > The manifest documentation provides the following kinds of > ownership that could have existed for any one of the slaves being > shipped to New Orleans: > A) Owner is a planter moving via sea his whole plantation (slave, > equipment, etc.) to the Port of New Orleans. Occasionally the place of > relocation is provided. > B) Owner is a slave trader who has bona fide papers showing that he is > the owner and that he is consigning a lot of slaves to either his agent > or his slave trading house in New Orleans > C) An agent or consignee is shipping slaves to be sold in the New > Orleans market individually or as a group. > The list provides the owner/shipper name, consignee and agent, ship > name, embarkation port, and of course the port of arrival. > If a slave's speech, mannerism, or description was suspect, they > could be held back upon arrival for investigation, and the manifest so > noted. The manifest contains the name, age, description of the slave, > and sometimes a female slave will have her children's names listed with > her entry. Currently we do not have a complete index for this > collection, but the records are well organized by ports and dates. > Though some effort is required, they can be easily searched. > This record source is greatly underutilized for both African > American genealogy and slave owner migration research in the Old > Southwest. We invite you to discover this source! > > ****************************************** > Atlas of Historical County Boundaries > Elaine M. Kuhn > ****************************************** > Identifying the locations where one's ancestors resided can often prove > challenging to researchers; this task becomes even more daunting when > the place changes county affiliations. Further, since counties are often > the entities responsible for collecting and maintaining records ranging > from taxes to wills, knowing which county was responsible for an area > can save much time and frustration. To aid fellow researchers in their > quest for information, Editor John Long and his staff began in 1993 the > multi-volume series, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, detailing > the creation and boundary changes of every county in the United States. > The series finds its origins in the five-volume set, Historical Atlas > and Chronology of County Boundaries, 1788-1980, also edited by John Long > (ACPL call no. 973 H615), but is broader in scope and documents county > formations from colonial times through 1990. Volumes covering > twenty-four states and the District of Columbia are published so far (to > identify which states' volumes ACPL owns, search the ACPL catalog for > the words, "Atlas of Historical County Boundaries"). > Each volume begins with a table of county creation dates, source > citations and, where applicable, a listing of counties that had made it > through the preliminary steps of creation, but for a variety of reasons > never became full-fledged counties. An individual chronology of each > county's evolution follows along with an illustration of the county > within its state, a map of the county as it was during a specific time > period superimposed onto a map of its current form, and a brief > description of the event that caused the change in boundaries. Maps are > based on those created by the U.S. Geological Survey, showing much more > detail than what is provided in William Thorndale's excellent Map Guide > to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (call no. 973.003 T39MA). > Readers will also find outline maps for all of a state's censuses � be > they territorial, federal, or state � and descriptions of the > information available for each census. Every volume contains a > bibliography of sources for further research and most of the volumes > include modern-day indexes of places. Some volumes also provide a > chronology and set of maps showing the state during territorial > organization. Genealogists, historians, and even those with a passing > interest in geography will find a wealth of information within this > series of books. > > ***************************************** > And you think you love genealogy! > ***************************************** > Working at ACPL, we get many, many visitors from all corners of the > country, and even some from foreign lands. Most visit for a couple of > days or a week. The lucky ones have family that live in Fort Wayne, and > can then camp on the couch for an extended visit. > Not many pick up and move to Fort Wayne for their love of genealogy. > Well, meet Helen. Helen is a South Dakota native who has MOVED to Fort > Wayne to work on her genealogy. A mother of 3 adults, she put her > belongings in storage in South Dakota, found an apartment on the > Internet near the library, took a bus to Fort Wayne, signed a year > lease, and made a beeline for the library. > "Living in South Dakota, it's hard to get genealogical materials. Of > course we have the LDS Family History Center, but I had to send for > everything. I talked to the kids, told them I was moving here. They > were excited for me. I just love it here, all the resources right at my > fingertips! I might stay another year!" She adds "The staff here is > very customer service oriented. From the pages to the librarians, they > are friendly, helpful and make researching a great experience" > Now I call that a hardcore genealogist! > > ****************************************** > Hotel of the Month > ****************************************** > Each issue we will feature a local hotel, for visitors from > out-of-town. > > Lee's Inn > 5707 Challenger Parkway, Fort Wayne 46818 > Phone: 260-489-8888 or reserve toll free at 1-800-733-5337 > > The Lee's Inn comes recommended by some recent genealogy department > visitors. They come for a week at a time, and have a list of > requirements for their hotel. Lee's Inn passed the test. > It has 73 rooms, including a hot breakfast, free local calls and > newspaper. Internet access is possible through the telephone plug. > Whirpool rooms are available. There are both indoor and outdoor pools. > It is conveniently visible from I-69, in a circle of other hotels. There > is a Cracker Barrel Restaurant next door. > It is located at exit 111B (Lima Road) on I-69. Getting to the library > from Lee's Inn is an easy fifteen-minute drive. Rate for genealogists: > $59. > > ******************************************* > Area Calendar of Events > ******************************************* > Allen County Public Library > 3rd floor atrium display area > Passages: Immigration > > Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana (ACGSI) > http://www.ipfw.edu/ipfwhist/historgs/acgsi.htm > > Annual Dinner > June 9th, 2004 > 330 Entrance Drive > American Legion, New Haven, IN > 6:00pm reservations required > contact Judy Bunn 747-7019 > > Computer Users Group > No meetings until September 2004 > > Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) > First Wednesday of each month in the Genealogy Department. > June 2, 2004 9am � 3pm > Expert help from members of the DAR in becoming a member of that > organization > > Federation of Genealogical Societies > www.fgs.org > September 8 � 11, 2004 > Austin, Texas / Austin Convention Center > "Legends Live Forever: Researching the Past for Future Generations" > http://www.fgs.org/2004conf/FGS-2004.htm > > > *************************************** > ACPL Librarians on Tour > *************************************** > Sue Kaufman > September 8 � 11 Austin, TX: Federation of Genealogical Societies > www.fgs.org > > Steve Myers > August 27-28 Minneapolis, MN: Irish Genealogical Society > International > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/ > October 24-30 Research Academy in Salt Lake City: Irish Research > www.genealogicalstudies.com/SLC.htm > > Ryan Taylor > September 25 Waterloo, ON: Waterloo Region Branch OGS workshop > September 26 Brampton, ON: Halton-Peel Branch OGS branch meeting > September 27 Toronto, ON: Toronto Branch OGS branch meeting > October 2 Barrie, ON: Simcoe County Branch OGS workshop > October 24-30 National Institute for Genealogical Studies > Research Academy in Salt Lake City: English Research > www.genealogicalstudies.com/SLC.htm > > Curt Witcher > June 11 Plainfield, IN: School of Library & Information > Science Presentation > June 22-23 Mansfield, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society Summer Camp > July 12 Indianapolis, IN: Church & Synagogue Library > Association Conference > August 27-28 St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Public Library Genealogy > Seminar > September 18 Farmington Hills, MI: Farmington Genealogical Society > Program > October 9 Lancaster, OH: Fairfield County Genealogical Society > Seminar > October 30 Elkhart, IN: Elkhart County Genealogical Society Fall > Seminar > November 13 Cincinnati, OH: Hamilton County Genealogical Society > Program > September 8 � 11 Austin, TX: Federation of Genealogical Societies > www.fgs.org > > ********************************************* > Driving Directions to the Library > ******************************************** > Wondering how to get to the library? Our exciting temporary location > is 200 E. Berry, Fort Wayne, Indiana. We will be at this location until > late 2006. We would enjoy having you visit the Genealogy Department. > > To get directions from your exact location to 200 E. Berry, Fort Wayne, > Indiana, visit this link at MapQuest: > http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=250&addtohistory=&searchtab=address&searchtype=address&address=200+E+Berry+St&city=Fort+Wayne&state=IN&zipcode=46802-2706&search=++Search++&finditform=1 > > > From the South > Exit Interstate 69 at exit 102. Come east on Jefferson Blvd. into > downtown. Turn left on Barr St. to Berry St. The library is located on > the corner of Berry and Barr streets. > > From the North > Exit Interstate 69 at exit 112, coming south on Coldwater Rd. Follow > this south, taking a left turn onto Clinton St. Continue south on > Clinton, the library will be on your left when you cross Berry St. > > From the West > Using US 30: > Drive into town on US 30. US 30 turns into Goshen Rd. Coming up to an > angled street (State St.) make an angled left turn. Turn right on Wells > St. Go south on Wells to Wayne St. Left on Wayne. When you cross > Clinton, the library will be on your left on Wayne St. > > Using US 24: > After crossing under Interstate 69, follow the same directions as from > the South. > > From the East > Follow US 30 into and through New Haven, under an overpass into > downtown Fort Wayne. You will be on Washington St. when you get into > downtown. Turn right on Barr St. Turn left on Berry St. The library > is on your left on Berry St. > > ***************************************** > Parking at the Library > ***************************************** > Lot in front of the library, east side > Available for short-term library parking. Limited to one hour. > > Tippman Parking Garage > Clinton and Wayne streets. Across from the library, however the > skybridge is NOT accessible. Hourly parking, $1.25 per hour up to a > maximum of $5.00 per day. > > Park Place Lot > Covered parking on Barr St. at Main St., this lot is one block away > from the library. Hourly parking Monday through Friday, 9am to 6pm. > > Street (metered) parking on Wayne St. and Berry St. > On the street you plug the meters 8am � 5pm, weekdays only. It is > free to park on the street after 5pm and on the weekends. > > Visitor center/Grand Wayne center > Covered parking at Washington and Clinton streets. This is the Hilton > Hotel parking lot that also serves as a day parking garage. For hourly > parking, 7am � 11 pm, charges are .50 for the first 45 minutes, then > $1.00 per hour. There is a flat $2.00 fee between 5pm and 11pm. > > ********************************************* > Publishing Note: This electronic newsletter is published by the Allen > County Public Library's Historical Genealogy Department, and is intended > to enlighten readers about genealogical research methods, as well as > inform them about the vast resources of the Allen County Public Library. > We welcome the wide distribution of this newsletter and encourage > readers to forward it to their friends and societies. All precautions > have been taken to avoid errors. However, the publisher does not assume > any liability to any party for any loss or damage caused by errors or > omissions, no matter the cause. If you do not want to receive this > e-zine, please send an email to [email protected] with "unsubscribe > e-zine" in the subject line. > > Sue Kaufman, editor > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XAB.2ACI/2377.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Sue, Here is the link to the index: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyboyd/general/BigSandyValley/BSVI1.htm Good luck in your research. Best, Ramona

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XAB.2ACI/2377.1.1.1 Message Board Post: It is under GENERAL. I have the whole book now up in PDF Format. Mark

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XAB.2ACI/2377.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm trying to but which one of those numbered things has the index?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XAB.2ACI/2377.1 Message Board Post: I went ahead and loaded the whole book in PDF Format for now. I will break it down during the summer into .jpg format. I also have a link to get a PDF Reader in case your computer does not have one yet. Enjoy, Mark

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XAB.2ACI/2377 Message Board Post: Every once in a while I like to promote the Webpage for Boyd County. If you haven't been there in a while check it out. I have around 1000 photos, census information, more that I can describe in this email. The Big News is I have the index for The Big Sandy Valley Book by William Ely. To back it up I have the whole book scanned and during the next few weeks/months I will upload the whole book, around 500 pages. If you see a page in the book you want a copy on simply ask. This book was published in 1887 and contains numerous family histories that cover the Big Sandy area. Enjoy the site, Mark Meinhart (Boyd Cty C.C.) http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyboyd/

The USGenWeb Project N E W S Volume 1, Number 4 May 2004 EDITOR NEEDED! Isaiah Harrison When I took on the production of this newsletter, it was a temporary assignment. I intended to edit the newsletter only long enough to get it off the ground. That has happened and it's time to find a more permanent editor. The editor is responsible for soliciting articles of interest to USGenWeb Project members and combining them into a brief newsletter each month. Writing, editing, layout and leadership skills are all necessary. Circulation is handled by the Election Committee via the project membership list. Applicants may contact the editor. FROM THE ELECTION COMMITTEE Ellen Pack, Chair Important reminder: The USGenWeb National Election is right around the corner. The nomination period will be June 1-14, 2004, and the voting period will be July 1-31, 2004. In order to vote in this election you must be Registered with the Election Committee no later than May 31, 2004. New registrations will not be accepted after May 31 until the end of the election period. Please visit the EC WebSite for more information, particularly the National 2004 Election Pages. If you have a question, please take a few moments to read the Election FAQ. The EC encourages everyone to Register and Vote! YEARBOOKS, QUICK & SIMPLE Darilee Bednar, owner of the largest yearbook collection west of the Mississippi Eighteen years ago I used to buy 20 to 50 high school or college yearbooks a month from a big thrift store in Seattle, WA at 98 cents each. The store was happy I was purchasing the books because for years they were throwing them away. Yep, throwing away the single best way to locate a portrait picture of a young grandparent born around the turn of the century outside of raiding an attic. OK, so the pictures are small but those pictures can be scanned. If done correctly and with a little luck luck, you can have a photo ready to be framed. A little history of yearbooks. School yearbooks have been published in the US since 1806 when Yale College put out a book. These early books were usually biographical sketches of alumni instead of pictures. In 1845 the first high school yearbook was published for Waterville NY. In the 1880�s halftone printing and letterhead presses made affordable yearbooks with pictures possible. Around the turn of the century there were two types of yearbooks besides the alumni directories. These yearbooks were the consolidated one and the quarterly magazine type. These books covered most of the same material with an emphasis on sports, an alumni list, and the graduating Seniors. Senior calendar, Senior activities, and Senior prophecies. I mentioned two important items in the above paragraph: 1. The Alumni Lists were very common up to the 1930�s. The list usually gave the current residence and occupation of the alumni and the women�s maiden and married names. These lists also covered the pre-yearbook period. 2. The School Calendars reflected school and home life. In an 1896 Duluth, MN high school yearbook there is a Memorium for 5 students who died during the year. The calendar includes a reference to the Scarlet Fever Club for all those students who lost hair during their battle with the disease. Around the 1930�s most schools were including group pictures of underclassmen. Some of these pictures actually identified the students by surnames. Club pictures are available with identifying surnames. The magazine type yearbooks with their paper covers had generally been replaced by the single hard cover. Around the 1950�s schools began including identified portrait pictures of all students in alphabetical order by class. These books were still in black and white. Colored glamor shots for the Seniors started to appear in the late 1960�s. Where to find yearbooks. Usually yearbooks come on the market because of some catastrophic event such as a death, move, or loss of a storage shed. Very few people intentionally give away these books. Thrift and antique stores are still my main shopping area although I do buy occasionally online at auction. In 18 years I have only bought 4 books at a yard sale. I can no longer buy a book for a buck. What to do with them. Scan them and put them on-line. I had started a project a few years ago to put older yearbooks online. I intended to scan 1920 and earlier books so I wouldn�t have to worry about copyright issues although I hold to the belief that yearbooks for public schools are paid for with public funds and should not be copyrightable. Of course, I ran into problems with scanning these pages. I am not going to pretend I�m a professional or a techie so my explanation is going to be a 101 level. The halftone printing process requires that the surface of a glossy picture be broken up into dots by a screen so when scanned the yearbook picture looks blocky or has a moire pattern.. The producers of scanners know this and created software to deal with the problem. For example, in advanced mode my scanner has a "descreen" option. I�m very untechish, so I use the default setting. When I tell my scanner I�m scanning an "Art Magazine" and it will automatically descreen the picture for me. Descreening is a process to use nearby color tones to fill in the blanks. Online viewing only requires 72 dpi (dots per inch) These jpgs are manageable in size but they don�t print out well. To get printable pages I needed to scan about 300 dpi, which gave me huge files�often times into mgs�not counting the fact that online these pictures were huge also. I did discover a program by XAT that allows me to resize, crop, and optimize my jpgs into manageable files. When I am scanning a small individual picture, I crop to the shot and then I use a dpi setting up to 1200 dpi and then pray the �screening� process didn�t take out something important. Website formating. This is truly a matter of taste.The way I like is using thumbnails and a clickable index. Thumbnails with a clickable link allow the reseacher a quick view of the pages and an index page allows search engines to locate the name of the student and book. All my pages are jpgs and I�ve been asked about pdfs and the answer is I understand jpgs better then I understand pdfs. I recently did a talk for the Whatcom Genealogical Society and that talk with illustrations is available here. ONE WORLD TREE Greta Thompson Perhaps because USGenWeb is committed to making genealogical records available to everyone at no cost, we are sensitive to any project that charges fees for access to those records. Sometimes our bias against fee-based services can even lead us to suspect the worst of them. That has happened recently in response to a new project from Ancestry.com called OneWorldTree (OWT). OWT is a tool for searching family history records beginning with the huge Ancestry World Tree database made up of files submitted by family historians like you and me. These family trees are in the form we submitted them. We can add, change, or delete sections or even the entire file, but Ancestry.com does not edit the contents of files (except to remove data about any individuals they consider to be living). Many files have no sources listed for the information in them. Many contain errors and guesses ranging from educated to wild. Many incorporate copies, not always accurate and always with permission, of other people's research. In other words, these family trees provide preliminary information that has to be carefully verified before it's accepted as true. An analogous product is WorldConnect, developed by RootsWeb, "the oldest and largest FREE genealogy site," which is now financed by Ancestry.com. Both Ancestry World Tree and RW's World Connect have been available to everyone to search without a fee. Some GenWeb participants fear that what was free may not continue to be free for long and to object that information submitted in the belief that it would always be freely accessible should not be used to make a profit. They are urging everyone who submitted family trees to delete them. In response to these concerns and rapidly-spreading rumors Ancestry.com assures everyone that OWT is only "an exciting new tool that searches across our site to find and combine records on individuals making your family history work faster and more rewarding." Everyone can continue to search both Ancestry World Tree and World Connect for free, and modify, delete, or comment on them (with Post-ems). In addition, with a paid subscription people will now be able to use this new tool (OWT) that will link records that appear to be related. Over time the records to be searched will include others, such as census records and birth, marriage, and death records. According to Joan Young, who administers a number of mail lists and has multiple ties with RootsWeb, "what is being sold is CONVENIENCE and not the trees." For a family tree to be included in the new OWT it must meet some conditions: it must include at least three generations; it cannot contain loops; and it should not have a large percentage of entries with no names nor dates. The deadline for submitting changes to your family tree or for deleting it if you do not want it included in OWT was set tentatively for May 21. Instructions for submitting and deleting trees will be found on the Ancestry.com page. KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED A new webMaster and assistant webMaster have been chosen and are hard at work revamping the Project's website. Keep checking--a visually and technically-improved site will be on-line shortly. 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Isham Brown had a son by the name of Charles W. born Aug 20, 1867 (died June 23, 1926). He married Sarah J. (surname not known) They had a daughter Ada who was born in March 1894 but I don't have anything else on her. She may be the one you are looking for who married the MONEY. Hope this helps you some. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

This email was sent to the KyCasey-L. I found my uncle...John Ross who was from Catlettsburg. He was a prisoner of war in Germany during WWII. Thought others might be interested. Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:56:05 -0400 (EDT) To: [email protected] Subject: [KYCASEY-L] Good Data Base...WW II Army including Army Air Corps Resent-From: [email protected] Resent-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:56:14 -0600 Copied from the Surry NC mail list....... WWII Army Database Now Online    - notice  ARMY (which does include the Army Air Corps, the precursor to the air force...)US National Archives has a new database of 9 million people who enlisted in the Army in World War II, though it is not complete. World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File. http://aad.archives.gov/aad/title_list.jsp When you get click the RED SEARCH BUTTON then click the pull down menu next tot he query box, then scroll to the (bottom?) "World War 1939-1945," then click submit. check this to know about what you are looking at http://www.archives.gov/aad/whats_new.html then when you are done (can that be?) go back and check the OTHER databases...! this is a g-r-e-a-t way to back into where you should  be looking for 1930 census records because it tell you where they enlisted.... and it includes living people not just those who have passed...but remember, not complete! amazing, 9 million and still not complete... THERE IS NOT an all database search...it would be too much of a hog to most systems to do that so as a researcher, you must click each data base and do your searches... I suggest that you be methodical...make a list or print out the data bases and then make a list of all the names that you will check and be sure, when you find something (and I know you will) that you get those full citings.... ==== KYCASEY Mailing List ==== To send a message to the list, Send your message to [email protected] ------ End of Forwarded Message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alley/Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XAB.2ACI/70.419.443.1 Message Board Post: I know it been almost five years since you wrote about the Alley's.. I am wondering if you know anything about Louisa Alley that married Isham Brown around 1855, if so I would love to hear from you. I am their great granddaughter Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown/Alley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XAB.2ACI/1159.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I am the great granddaughter of Isham Brown and Louisa Mahala Alley. From my underatanding Isham must have married Mary E. after Louisa. I was wondering if you knew of a Ada Brown some how related to Frank, she married someone by the last name of Money. Any information is greatly appreciated. Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown/Riggs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XAB.2ACI/1656.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for a link to a Brown/Riggs marriage in Boyd Co. Ky. in the late 1800's. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RENFROE/MENSHOUSE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XAB.2ACI/338.1.1 Message Board Post: Ella (RENFROE) MENSHOUSE was my first cousin, once removed. In fact a tape that she made for RENFROE family members, after a RENFROE Family reunion, was part of what inspired me to begin my genealogical quest. I have some information on her descendants but no information at all on Joe. I have correspondended with, her great-niece, Amanda Grace while she was in college in Washington but do not think she still monitors the boards. I haven't heard from her myself for awhile. I will be happy to give you what information that I have if you are interested. Sue Willey <[email protected]>