This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: GregCraig1 Surnames: Miller, Dyer Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1107/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am about the become the owner of a house at 82 Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA. This house was known at the Miller or Dyer house. It was home to George Fillmore Miller and Ada (Dyer) Miller. Am seeking any history or photos or other source info about the house. Greg Craig [email protected] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: GregCraig1 Surnames: Doane Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/347.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi: I happend to own and summer in Elijah Doane's house (and his store is part of house too). Would be interested in any information anyone has on Elijah Doane. His house and store were originally located on Long Point in Provincetown, MA and now are combined into one house at 3 Nickerson Street in Provincetown, MA. Greg Craig Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I have just registered the internet domain MA-VitalRecords.org. Probably over the next six monts, or thereabouts, I will migrate the Vital Records project, http://www.rootsweb.com/~maessex/VitalRecords to the new domain. This will NOT change anything except the URL. I will pay for the domain and hosting out of my own pocket and the vital records will remain FREE to everyone. I have been giving this consideration for some time. I am not in any way dissatisfied with Rootsweb. I am very appreciative of their providing free space that is advertising free. However, Rootsweb has a drawback, the lack of ability to set up databases to facilitate searching. I can't use .asp, ..php, .xhtml or anything to make the searches of the vital records easier for you. It will take at least a couple months before anything is ready to begin migrating. In the meantime, everything remains the same. When I do move things, the basic look will remain the same. There will still be the transcribed files accessible by town or by surname index. I am very interested in your ideas of what you'd like to see. What arrangement. For instance, would you like a set of buttons with town names, rather than conventional hyperlinks as it curretly is. Separate pages for countes? What kinds of parameters would you like to use in your searches? For instance, limit the results by parent's name(s), range of years, a given county, etc. On another issue, I'll be paying for this. I would be willing to put genealogically related advertising on the site to help offset the cost. If you know of such, let me know. I know Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com have associate programs. There are also publishers that specialize in reprints, such as Higginson Books and Picton Press. Please, no "What ever is easiest for you." The vital records are for all of YOU. I just oversee the project. Agains, as always, I can not express how much I appreciate the work the the transcribers do. John In loving memory of our son, Brennan. 11/10/88-5/31/01. http://john-slaughter.rootsweb.com/Brennan.html MA-Bay-Colony & MAMiddle list moderator USGenWeb County Coordinator Essex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~maessex Middlesex County, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamiddle USGenWeb Town Coordinator Ipswich, Essex, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macipswi _________________________________________________________________ Booking a flight? Know when to buy with airfare predictions on MSN Travel. http://travel.msn.com/Articles/aboutfarecast.aspx&ocid=T001MSN25A07001

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mikewhite314 Surnames: schlee Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1106/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Could someone with access to the Cape Cod Times archive send me a copy of the August 31, 2001 obituary for Herbert J. Schlee? http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/CT?ext_docid=0F88D96C8D8A2EF0&ext_hed=Obituaries&ext_theme=ct&pubcode=CT Thanks, Michael White Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: nelinks Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/347.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Joanne. I would be interested in your lineage from Asa down. I too descend from Dr David through his daughter Hannah who married 2nd. Elisha Higgins. Lee [email protected] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lylelady66 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/347.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Sue, I, as well, am a descendant of Deacon John Doane, Lineage Deacon John/John/David/Eleazer/Asa/Duncan/James/Willard/John Willard/John Willard (who is My Father, was not considered a Jr, or II)..If you havent located this site yet, its very helpful as far as pictures. www.doanefamilyassociation.org/dfadeaconphotos.html Please correspond and share what you have! Thanks! Sincerely, Joanne Doane Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Greetings, I'm focusing in on a subject I made some reference to three years ago on this list. I am examining the role of the Great Awakening on my Falmouth church. In 1742 [New Style] sixty-four people were received into our Falmouth church, an exceptionally large number of admissions compared to the usual number of new members in our church in that period, which was about 4-5 persons a year. I now have a new question related to this: Does anyone know if the ADMISSION RECORDS of any of the other Cape churches during the 1740's have been PUBLISHED? I'm less interested in the names, than in the number of people who joined each year. I'm interested in those figures for comparison purposes. A 19th century newspaper article I found said that the first New Light evangelist minister to tour the Cape didn't do so until 1744. Also, a dramatic revival took place in Plymouth in February 1743. So far, I am at a loss to know exactly what triggered that great jump in our church's membership records in 1742 which was limited to only that one year. Also, more than half of the people propounded for membership that year, were propounded in the March to June period, which makes me think they may have been responding to some particular faith event they were exposed to that winter/spring on Cape or off Cape. I know that Barnstable church admission records were published in some of the first fifty volumes of the NEHGS Register, but they only cover the 17th century, as I recall. Thanks for any help, Rev. Dr. Doug Showalter .

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jillaine_Smith Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks, Dale! The CD rom looks worth the investment. And your index or compilation is phenomenal; I have downloaded it. Thanks! -- Jillaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DaleHCook Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I own a set of the 1965 limited edition reprint of Frederick Freeman's "History of Cape Cod." You can get it from Google Books by searching for the title. Freeman's work is generally reliable, although the genealogical details are often sketchy as it is primarily an historical work. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DaleHCook Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Mayflower Descendant is the major journal of Mayflower research, published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. It was originally published as a quarterly from 1899 to 1937 (volumes 1-34). Publication was resumed in 1985 as a semi-annual and continues today. Because the contents of MD are primarily transcriptions and abstracts of contemporary records from towns in southeastern Massachusetts it is extremely useful to, and cited by, researchers investigating non-Mayflower families in that area. The first 34 volumes are often found in bound sets in libraries holding major genealogical collections. Volumes published since 1985 can be purchased from the Massachusetts Society. I own the first 46 volumes on CD-ROM and the balance on paper. It is one of my most-used references works. For a listing of MD's contents through 2005 see: http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/periodicals.shtml#md Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jillaine_Smith Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dale (and others), Another question for you. What is your sense of the reliability of "The history of Cape Cod : annals of thirteen towns of Barnstable County, Volume II"? Many thanks! -- Jillaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jillaine_Smith Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dale, thanks. Yes, Hawes looks good. Another related question. He frequently cites volume 15 of the Mayflower Descendant. You'll probably shudder at this next (I said I was new...), but um, I'm not familiar with this publication. (While my husband is descended of MANY of Winthrop's Fleet, I have found no evidence that he's Mayflower-descended.) Dale, since you are members of both NEHGS and the Mayflower Society, I bet you know a great deal about this publication, its reliability and its availability. Thanks. -- Jillaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DaleHCook Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am not otherwise familiar with Hawes, but the rest of the CCL pamphlets which he wrote (31, 34, 37, 43, 89, 90, 91 and 92) are similarly documented. The fact that such documentation appears in works published between 1912 and 1917 is unusual, and such diligence leads me to expect that his work is reliable. Since the author of pamphlet 75 is unknown, there is no way a priori to evaluate his reliability. One must, therefore, attempt to verify as much as possible, by reference to contemporary records or their published transcriptions and abstracts, in order to form an evaluation. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jillaine_Smith Surnames: Taylor Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dale, Thank you for your swift answer. And thanks, too, for the marvelous work you do coordinating lists, boards and managing those portions of US GenWeb that you do. Nice work. I am curious about James W. Hawes, author of at least #48 (Richard Taylor, tailor, and some of his descendants). I believe I've seen reference to Hawes writing a number of other LCC pamphlets. He cites many other sources throughout #48. I'm also curious about the author (?) of #75, The Taylor Family of Yarmouth, which names no author, just lists C.W. Swift as publisher (I believe he published all of them, didn't he?). #75 lists NO sources. I am relatively new to researching Cape Cod, this particular period, and Barnstable County more specifically, but have thrown myself in to the curious and mysterious "two Richard Taylors" of early Yarmouth. The data about them is horrendously confusing-- many people have mixed them up badly; even more people seem to be relying on conjecture or even blind faith about who they were, who they were married to and which children they fathered. And the more I dig into what records do exist about them, the more confusing it gets. I would very much like to be corresponding with serious researchers of these two, but I have yet to find such folks. (I have found some very wonderful people familiar with the region and time period, though! You know who you are; thank you!) Anyway, I'm compiling what I can, but have yet to find a good format for sharing it yet. In the meantime, I'm posting pieces of the challenges on the Taylor board. Thanks! -- Jillaine Smith Washington DC NEHGS Member http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Dale_H_Cook Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: You have noted the variable completeness of documentation in these pamphlets. Many of them are undated, and most of the dated ones were published either before World War I or between the wars. The practice of thorough documentation did not begin to gain traction until the '20s and '30s, and did not become the norm until after World War II. Since the pamphlets were written by a number of authors, one would need to be familiar with the body of work of a given author in order to judge the reliability of his pamphlet(s). My major standard for judging the reliability of an author is based on what portion of his undocumented assertions have been disproved. Amos Otis, author (or original author, revised by the editor) of pamphlets 18, 27, 45, 46, 47, and 54 (the correspondence in 60, 61 and 62 was to Otis, not by him) was a thorough researcher whose work is generally reliable. Joseph Paine, author of pamphlets 32, 33, 35, 52, 55, 63 and 93, was for many years Harwich Town Clerk and town historian. His work is also generally reliable. Although there are undocumented and unproved assertions in his work, I am not aware of any disproved assertions in his work. If you have questions about particular authors or particular assertions, feel free to ask here, as there may be those reading this board (or subbing the gatewayed mailing list as I do) who can answer your questions. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Jillaine_Smith Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/1105/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It seems like a LOT of people are relying on the 1912 and 1914 work of Swift and Hawes (Cape Cod Library pubs...) as sources for some of the earliest records of Cape Cod towns. Some of those pamphlets seem to do a better job of citing more original sources than others. #48, for example (Hawes on Richard Taylor, tailor, and some of his descendants) cites many sources, but others, such as #75 (Swift? on Taylor Family of Yarmouth) cites none except a few at the end. I'm seeking opinions of experienced researchers on the quality of the content of this Cape Cod series. Thoughts? Thanks! -- Jillaine Smith Washington DC Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: emilyhopkins24 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.counties.barnstable/37.56/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I do not have any information to help you with the specific things you are looking for but wanted to let you know that I am also descended from Moses- through George C. I don't know how much I can be of assistance but just putting myself out there as I am interested in the family also. Stephen 1581 Giles 1609 Stephen 1642 Samuel 1681 Moses 1720 Edward 1748 Moses 1783 George Crocker 1828 George Wing 1851 Walter Freeman 1876 Richard Henry 1906 Stephen 1954 Emily (me) 1982 ~Emily Hopkins, Trenton, NJ. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

As this poster herself states, this is off topic for this and all of the other lists it has been posted on. If anyone chooses to reply to it, please do so privately OFF LIST. Thank you for your cooperation. David E. Cann [email protected] Admin of the Barnstable County, Massachusetts mailing list and message board on RootsWeb List Information: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/barnstable.html -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Barnstable Co MA] Vista OS and Genealogy Software (OT for somelists) <snip>

Several lists have had messages about the "Vista" version of FTM and other software. Vista is the operating system, and programs are a separate thing, so to speak. However, there are some compatibility problems, so if you have pre-Vista software and install the Vista OS, you may have to look for updates, etc. For instance, my old Search&ReseaRch Massachusetts Vital Records software didn't work with Vista, so I had to call the software company and buy an update. Also, my old Norton System Works, ditto. Eeeek! And it was a little bit of a struggle to get the Mass VRs to work the way I want them to. I don't want to have to insert each CD in order to use the VRs, but rather use them from my hard drive. So I'm hoping I can spare some of you from having the same experience. I did this years ago when I was still working at West Point as a computer specialist, and everyone seemed to be happy to get the info, so here I go again. First, copy the contents of all of the CDs to your hard drive; I used a master folder named Mass VR and subfolders named after each CD, but that's just a suggestion. Next, from the folder on your HD, you MUST install the Essex VR first, using setup.exe, because it has the most recent version of the Folio software. And then you MUST install the software, ditto as above, according to the directions which are enclosed with the CDs. Any CD which has a copyright date of 2002 has to been installed in a different directory from the default directory, so watch what you're doing. These instructions are in the CD set, but easy to miss. Lastly, I found that I had to create "shortcuts" from each separate VR as it launched from the installation. You can do this under FILE/CREATE SHORTCUT. Then I put these shortcuts into a folder on my desktop for my convenience. I'm not sure I've got all the wrinkles worked out (I'm not talking about my face, thank you), but I hope this will help a few of you. Please, if you have suggestions, let me know -- but don't flame me. I'm not wearing my fire-proof suit. Best wishes, Karen