I got my latest edition of the Heritage Quest Bulletin yesterday and want to share their news with those who are not members. This is the old AGLL company (the microfilm lending library). This company is in the process of digitizing ALL of the original National Archives silver master microfilms of EACH and EVERY CENSUS microfilm. In some cases they are enhancing by increasing or decreasing brightness to make them more readable. These will be issued in CDs as they are ready, along with a couple of pieces of software to enable browsing and other things. You can read these on your own computer and retrieve items and paste them into your own documents. They claim to have completed 1790, 1900, 1910 and 1920. They project completion of all census by Sept. 1999. They also project a price of 19.95 ea... retail, 12.95 for members. Each CD will be the equivalent of an individual role of microfilm and have the original NARA numbers. This has blown my mind. If they sell them in the quantities I would expect, then the military records and pensions files will surely follow. Cooperatives to swap will spring up on the internet, along with a secondary resale market. The next millenium WILL bring a whole new world. IN ADDITION ---- They advertised the Ultimate Family CDs, which included Isle of Wight Wills, 1647-1800--- containing approx.. 30,915 abstracts of wills. They do not reference the source of these. This sounds, off hand, like a great many more than are in Boddie's book. That book has been my only resource so far. This CD is 29.95. Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

If there is an Isle of Wight disk available I would be interested. CL

There is a Samuel H. Edwards b 29 Jul 1889 d. 05 May 1972 wife Annie L. Edwards. Annie was born 06 Sept 1891 and died 08 Dec 1969. Both are buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery located at the N end of Railroad Street about .1 mi N of North Street in Elm City. Jo

Jo, I was told that he was buried in or near Elm City. Victor Edwards.

I am researching subject referenced above. He was b. abt 1874 and she was b abt 1874. They were married 7 Dec 1893 at bride's house at Wilson. Her father was Ched Barnes and her mother was Margarett (nee:Artis). They had at least one son: Frank Washington b. 25 March 1910. They were African American they were both probably born in Wilson. Any information would be greatly appreciated.l Vanessa [email protected]

Where was he buried? Jo

Can anyone doe a look up on a Sam (Samuel) & Annie Edwards in the 1920 Wilson County census or an obituary for Sam who died in the 1960s or could look up a cemetary record so I can request a death certificate. I would really appreciated it. Victor Edwards.

Copied from Va History Roots list. I thought some of you might find this interesting. From: John Kneebone <jkneebon> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: African American Genealogy Message-ID: <[email protected]> Clayton Cramer and others have referred to the research problems posed by the absence of surnames for slaves. In fact, I have concluded that the majority of slaves did have surnames, usually different from those of their masters, and that the masters (and conventions of the slaveholding culture) hid those surnames. The minute books of the First African Baptist Church, Richmond, 1841-1860, contain thousands of names of slaves who were baptised, had their church membership transferred, or required discipline for transgressions. The names of their masters are also given. The vast majority of slave surnames--upwards of 80%--differ from those of the master. Only a tiny fraction of the slaves listed in the church minute books have only a given name. The Library of Virginia is preparing to publish a biography of Henry Box Brown (see the spring 1999 issue of Virginia Cavalcade for his escape from Richmond in a box). Henry Brown was born at the Louisa County plantation of John Barret, and went to William Barret, a son and Richmond tobacco manufacturer, by inheritance. He married a slave woman named Nancy, who appears in the First African Baptist Church minutes as Nancy Brown, identified also as the slave of Mr. Cottrell, a detail confirmed in Brown's 1851 Narrative. Thus, it appears that when slaves married, women could take the surname of their husband and be known by that name. But, if whites did know the full names of their slaves, conventions prevented them from identifying them that way. I have compared the accounts of fugitive slaves from Virginia given in William Still's Underground Railroad with reports and advertisments in the newspapers. More often than not, Still identifies the fugitives with both given names and surnames, while the advertisements placed by the fugitives' masters identify them by given name only. In Charles Dew's excellent book, Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge, there is the story of a slave, a master ironworker, whose name in the records over the years goes from just the given name to a a full name, with identity through the surname for his family, too. Dew rightly sees this as evidence of assertion, of a successful claim to personality, and even a political act. On the other hand, the denial of full names in the records and the newspapers seems to me to fit the sociologist Orlando Patterson's explanation of slavery as "social death." Most of all, my earlier assumptions that slaves had no surnames, unless they took that of a master, has been replaced by awareness of a far more complicated situation, both back then and for researchers studying the records today. John -- John T. Kneebone [email protected] Director, Publications and Educational Services Library of Virginia http://leo.vsla.edu Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Rootsweb news update.... Please consider making a contribution this year! ...... the load on our servers jumped immediately after Christmas. For example, mailing list traffic we handle jumped from about 119 million deliveries in November to about 154 million pieces in January. That's almost a 30% leap. Although we haven't run the Web statistics for January yet, we suspect Web traffic jumped a similar amount. Since December, to handle the load, RootsWeb has brought online: o A new and much faster main Web server. o A new FTP server. o A new and much faster GenConnect server. o A new and much faster Surname Helper server. o A new and much faster RootsWeb Surname List (RSL) and Obituary Daily Times server. o A new server for the FreeBMD British records project. o A new server for providing personalized search engines for the Webmasters of genealogical sites. It has been a Herculean task to bring all those machines online in just a few weeks, and we aren't through yet. In the next few weeks we need to: o Upgrade the "lists2" listserver's processor and memory (costs $2,000). o Build a new "lists3" listserver (costs $4,000). o Build a faster server to carry most of the load currently being handled by the "searches" search engine server (costs $12,000). o Add a fast "RAID" disk array to the GenConnect server (costs $6,000). We mention the costs because these needed upgrades and new servers currently are not funded. By making a financial contribution to RootsWeb, you can help us provide more mailing lists, more searchable data files, and more GenConnect boards for the whole community to use. For details about support levels/benefits and payment options, visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> or send e-mail to: <[email protected]>. RootsWeb's address is: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative, P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798. (Please include your e-mail address on all correspondence and checks.) Virginia

At 01:42 AM 2/5/1999 EST, you wrote: >is this Shirley? Yes, Her name is at the top of the article I sent the list. I did accidently cut off her name at the bottom. Shirley Hornbeck - [email protected] My Home Page: <http://www.s-hornbeck.com/home.htm> HORNBECK SURNAME RESOURCE CENTER: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/hsrc/home.htm> THIS & THAT GENEALOGY TIPS: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck> Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Finally, the DAR Card catalogue for their fantastic library is on line. This is the 2nd best library I have ever used...the first being the big one in Salt Lake City. Try it... http://dar.library.net Carol Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

I am interested in purchasing a copy of the above book if anyone has one. I would also be interested in renting a copy for two weeks if anyone has one. Thanks very much. C Lucas

is this Shirley?

Shirley Hornbeck <[email protected]> Subject: This and That Genealogy Tips on GEDCOMs GEDCOM was originally designed by the LDS Church for their PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Program. It is the international language that allows my Personal Ancestral File to talk to your Family Tree Maker, Family Origins, Roots, or Brother's Keeper. Most genealogy programs have the capability of making a gedcom, and when created it always ends in .ged extension (i.e. hornbeck.ged). Actually all you have to know to be able to use a GEDCOM is how to upload it, how to download it and if in a compressed state how to uncompress it and if in some format other than .ged, how to convert it. If you are going to receive these via e-mail , the person sending must send in the same format that you use - for instance IBM-compatible PCs use MIME while Macintosh use Bin-Hex. Explanations on loading and downloading should be in the manual for your program. When you receive a gedcom, whether on a floppy or from a download, the main thing is that it ends with the file extension .ged. If it arrives as a .txt file, it can be renamed as a .ged in File Manager, but you should cut everything before 0 HEAD and everything after 0 TRLR be fore you rename it to .ged. I just open and read the .txt file in File Manager, cut out the necessary garbaaaage, then rename it as a .ged file. You can do this same thing with your word processor. And there have been times when I have not "cut" at all and it still worked out OK. I then create a sub-directory in my PAF directory called, for instance, "hornbeck" and move the file into this directory. Your manual or menus should then give you instructions on how to make family records from this Gedcom. I NEVER add it to my existing family records until I have first had a chance to look it over. It's best to put it in it's own family records file while you do this. Personally, what I like to do is to make a "booklet" from the file by using GED-BOOK or some similar application, then print it out to view it and work with it. To create a gedcom, open your genealogy program and look in the menus for GEDCOM, GIE, EXPORT or SAVE AS or FILE - SAVE AS. You should have an option to make and export/save a GED or Gedcom file. You will also have an option to select the drive you want it placed in, the directory you want it placed in, and an opportunity to give it a different name. GEDCOM EMBEDDED IN THE MESSAGE: If you receive a gedcom file embedded in the text of an e-mail message, here is what has to be done: 1. save message as a text file to a floppy or to another directory.<> 2. click on it in file manager or use a text editor to open it. 3. get rid of everything before HEAD. 4. get rid of everything after the TRLR. 5. Now save file as a .ged file or rename it to .ged. 6. Import the file into whatever your favorite genealogy program is and work with it from there to convert to a family records file. GEDCOM SPLIT INTO TWO FILES: If you receive a GEDCOM file that is split between two floppy disks, one with GED as the extension and the other has the rest of the file has another extension: Open the file without the .ged extension in Notepad, select all the text, except the header (if any) and press Ctrl C, close the file and then open the .GED file; move the cursor to the end of the file, and press Ctrl V. This should paste the first file into the .GED file and save it. Another way (which I have not tried): (a). Go to a DOS prompt in a "Temp" sub directory-- assuming, of course that you have an IBM pc and are using DOS. (b). Copy the two files from their floppies into that "Temp" sub directory. (c). Using a text editor or word processor, look at each of the files at the beginning and end. Cut everything before 0 HEAD and everything after 0 TRLR and save the edited file in ASCII format. (d). At the DOS prompt, enter the following command: File#!.ext + File#2.ext File#3.GED File#3.GED is now a new file formed from the two separate files. If you put the files in the right order in the DOS command, the file will begin with the line "0 HEAD." Your genealogy software should be able to import such a file. More This and That Genealogy Tips at my webpage: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck> Shirley Hornbeck - [email protected] My Home Page: <http://www.s-hornbeck.com/home.htm> HORNBECK SURNAME RESOURCE CENTER: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/hsrc/home.htm> THIS & THAT GENEALOGY TIPS: <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck> Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

This is exciting news about the future availability of records on line. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ The Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is working to make genealogical files accessible from a family history Web site. Elaine Hasleton, a public affairs representative from the Family History Center in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, said the Web site is in its developmental stages. The project is underway, however Hasleton said no set completion date has been given. The ancestral files of the LDS Church will most likely be accessible from the site, said Craig Foster, a spokesman for the family history center's public affairs projects. Foster said the details of what other files and information will be accessible from the site is not final. 'We are all excited about the future for family history,' said Jana Darrington, 21, a senior from Mesa, Ariz., majoring in family history. 'Making a Web site for family history seems like a logical thing for the LDS Church to do ... It would be a dream to be able to work out of my home. I can work for as long as I want, whenever I want.' -- Lynda Cameron, Provo, regular HBLL Family History Center patron . As the department assistant for the Harold B. Lee Library's family history department, Darrington said many people have asked about the possibility of family history files going online. 'This will make things much more available for the patrons and make genealogy work widely known,' she said. Darrington expects the number of people going to family history centers to naturally decline once the files become available from home. 'But I'm sure the elderly who don't feel comfortable using the Internet will still make use of the facilities,' Darrington said. Lynda Cameron of Provo visits the HBLL Family History Center at least once a week, sometimes more. 'Making a Web site for family history seems like a logical thing for the LDS Church to do,' Cameron said. Cameron is originally from Australia, where her father, Keith Williams, still resides. She said they are both working on genealogy for their family continents apart. 'This will really open information up for my father and make things more available for everyone,' Cameron said. 'It would be a dream to be able to work out of my home. I can work for as long as I want, whenever I want.' Darrington also mentioned that this new project with family history will introduce many non-members to the LDS Church. 'There are many people who work on family history that are not Mormon,' she said. Many of them already use LDS family history departments, and with the future Web site many more will become familiar with the LDS Church, Darrington said. This story is copyrighted by http://newsnet.byu.edu and Brigham Young University. http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm?number=8836 Carol P. Martoccia 903 East Fifth Street Greenville, NC 27858 Pridgen Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6297 Pridgen Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

James William Lucas age 80 died April 26, 1988 -lived Rt. 2 Nashville, NC wife was Lizzie Daniel Lucas who died Jan 07, 1961 James William worked with the NC Highway Dept. daughters Geraldine Lucas Griffin, and Mrs. Frank Garres of Rocky Mount sons: James, Daniel, William, Shelton, Kermit James William is buried in the Oakdale Cemetery in Spring Hope, NC ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// John Henry Lucas Feb 13, 1878- April 27, 1938 wife Annie Whitley Lucas May 03, 1889- October 10, 1948 Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Edwin Coyle Lucas March 29, 1870 -- May 20, 1938 wife Laura Herbert Nov 10, 1867- Dec 29, 1930 Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount ///////////////////////////////////////////// Zachariah Parrish June 18, 1876- June 15, 1948 Mary Lucas Parrish March 12, 1875- November 09, 1936 Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount ///////////////////////////////////// Wright Lucas 1804-October 08, 1881 wife Tempy Lucas 1814- December 24, 1878 Calvary Church Yard- Episcopal- Tarboro, NC ///////////////////////////////////////// Any information regarding the above greatly appreciated. C Lucas

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter A Weekly Summary of Events and Topics of Interest to Online Genealogists Vol. 4 No. 5 - January 30, 1999 This newsletter is sponsored by Ancestry Publishing, a leader in providing print and electronic research information to genealogists. To learn about Ancestry's state-of-the-art online genealogy databases and other fine products, visit the Ancestry HomeTown at: http://www.ancestry.com Past issues of this Newsletter are available at: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/index.htm ========================================================== Copyright (C) 1999 by Richard W. Eastman and Ancestry, Inc. All rights reserved. ============================================================ - Heritage Quest to Computerize the Entire U.S. Federal Census One of the major announcements coming out of GENTECH99 was from Heritage Quest. Heritage Quest announced a project that uses digital imaging to capture the entire U.S. Federal Census Schedules, 1790-1920. Quoting from the information supplied by Heritage Quest: Digital Microfilm is a relatively new concept to genealogy. One that has provided great interest to Heritage Quest, with its collection of 250,000 titles of genealogy-rich microfilm. Now the company is announcing the beginning of a new era--one of convenience, speed and highly-improved document viewing. Heritage Quest has now imaged the complete 1790, 1900, and 1920 federal census schedules with remaining census years projected to completion by September 1999. This new product line--Family Quest Archives(tm) Digital Microfilm-will be produced on CD-ROM on a roll-by-roll basis (one CD-ROM equivalent to one roll of microfilm) with all the familiar NARA microfilm numbers you've been accustomed to using. Heritage Quest has taken National Archives silver master census films and digitized each and every image. The process has taken time, highly-skilled human resources and the best digital imaging equipment on the market today. But, looking at the features and benefits, the wait and enormous startup expenditures have been worth it. Heritage Quest was showing late beta test versions of their first such CD-ROM disks at the GENTECH99 conference. The software was fun to use. The images could quickly and easily be enlarged, switched to negative or enhanced in a number of ways. I suspect that some pages that are difficult to read on a standard microfilm reader will be easier to view and understand on a computer that is running this new software. The software also allows any page from the census to be printed locally on a laser or inkjet printer. Heritage Quest expects to start shipping the first CD-ROM disks to customers within a very few weeks. Project completion is expected around September 1999. For details, look at: http://www.heritagequest.com/genealogy/CD-ROM/ ============================================================ - Kindred Konnections' New Additions Kindred Konnections has had an online Web site for some time now. They have been best known for their database of relationships, much of which was created from GEDCOM files submitted to them. Their database presently contains more than 24 million names and is available on a subscription basis. The folks at Kindred Konnections haven't been idle, however. At GENTECH99 they introduced several new services. Kindred Konnections says that they are now indexing all the genealogy-related Web pages on the Internet. The server at Kindred Konnections looks for other Web pages that contain GEDCOM files, text files in certain formats, plus several other file formats. On the day I was writing this article, their Web pages report that 2,652,450 names from other pedigree-linked Internet sites have been indexed, and that number is growing daily. With the new software on Kindred Konnections' server, you can upload a GEDCOM file, which will automatically be compared to the 24 million names in the internal database as well as compared against several million more names on other Internet sites. You will then be notified of all the possible matches. The company also demonstrated some new genealogy software called My-Tree On-Line that actually runs on their Web server. You view it through Netscape or Internet Explorer on your PC or Macintosh. It even works on WebTV, unlike many other sophisticated Web services. My-Tree On-Line allows you to store your data on Kindred Konnections' server. All software executes on that server; you simply view it through your computer's Web browser. There are several advantages to this. First of all, both Macintosh and Windows 3.1 users can use this program since it runs on the Internet. Even people who subscribe to WebTV and do not own a computer capable of running genealogy software can use all the power built into My-Tree On-Line, thereby equaling the capabilities of many other genealogy programs. Next, any new software updates that the producer provides are automatically available to everyone instantly, with no installation required. My-Tree On-Line stores both data and images. One thing that really excited me was the fact that the data is stored in Unicode, not ASCII. This means that it operates well with non-European written languages as well as all the languages handled by other genealogy software. The folks in the Kindred Konnections' booth were demonstrating genealogy data in Hebrew, Thai, Japanese and Russian. The Hebrew version even inserted data from right to left! As I entered a Hebrew character, it always went to the left-most position and then shifted previously-entered characters to the right. Kindred Konnections expects to handle Chinese and several other languages as soon as they can find native speakers of those languages to help in the effort. Kindred Konnections has added many more features to their site, including the 1871 Cornwall (United Kingdom) census, a list of thousands of libraries with genealogy content, and a list of many professional genealogy researchers. I hope to write more about these services soon. In the meantime, you can view them at: http://www.kindredkonnections.com ============================================================ - GenRef's Pennsylvania Archives CD-ROMs GenRef is a small Utah producer of genealogy CD-ROM disks. The company announced a new series of disks at the GENTECH99 conference. This series will fill eight CD-ROM disks when completed and will contain scanned images of the following Pennsylvania records: * Officers and soldiers in the Service of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1744-1765 * Indian Traders, 1743-1775 * Ships' registers, 1753-1761 * Muster Rolls of the Pennsylvania Navy, 1776-1779 * Numerous Muster Rolls, 1775-1779 * History and Rosters of Pennsylvania Military Units and Continental Line, 1776-1783 * Depreciation Pay * Abstracts of Pension Applications * Letters of Marque, 1762-1776, 1778-1782 * Enlistments The price for these eight CD-ROM disks will be $39.95 each. However, GenRef is offering a pre-publication price of $29.95 each for orders received before the CD-ROM disks are released. For more information, send an e-mail to: [email protected] ============================================================ - Genealogical Library Master Catalog Another new product being displayed at GENTECH99 was the Genealogical Library Master Catalog for both Windows and Macintosh. This catalog will be published on three CD-ROM disks and will contain listings of more than 300,000 works held by eighteen libraries across the United States. Most of the listings will contain the full title, the author's name, publisher, format (usually meaning the number of pages in a book), whether or not the work has a bibliography, notes, a description of the book's subject, the library where it may be found and that library's call number. The CD-ROM disks will include profile information about each library such as location, hours for onsite research as well as information about research services available via FAX, mail or telephone. The Genealogical Library Master Catalog Family History CD-ROM will list nearly 100,000 family histories and genealogies. The two Local Histories and Genealogical Sources CD-ROM disks will list more than 100,000 titles of original and transcribed records. All the CD-ROM disks will cover books, manuscripts and microfilms. Developer Rick Crume exhibited a late beta test version of the Genealogical Library Master Catalog at GENTECH99. The CD-ROM certainly was simple to use: it runs in either Netscape or Internet Explorer. All commands appear as buttons or icons within the browser. It looks like you are on the World Wide Web even though you are actually reading the data from your own CD-ROM drive instead. The Genealogical Library Master Catalog CD-ROMs can be read by any Windows PC or a Macintosh. The company reports that the first of the three CD-ROM disks will be available within a few weeks and that the other two will follow in rapid succession. Each CD-ROM disk will sell for $39.95 U.S. funds, or all three can be purchased at once for $99.95. The company expects to have a Web page soon at http://www.OneLibrary.com but that is not yet in operation. You can also obtain more details by sending an e-mail to: [email protected] ============================================================ - Jewish Records Indexing - Poland Stanley Diamond asked me to write about the Jewish Records Indexing project. Stanley is involved in this great project and would like to make sure that other Jewish genealogists are aware of the project. I decided that I was no expert on this, so I asked Stanley if he could write the article. He wrote: Here is an excerpt from the syllabus from the 1998 Summer Seminar on Jewish Genealogy. Stanley Diamond Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland ================ Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland) In last week's newsletter, I referred to the Tarnow Shtetl CO- OP of "Jewish Records Indexing - Poland" without giving background on the project. Here's the full story: The goal of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland) is to create a World-Wide-Web - based, searchable database of the indices of 19th century Jewish vital records from current and former territories of Poland. Where such records are available, they may include towns which are now part of Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus. The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland database has been growing steadily and now includes entries for more than 400,000 vital records from 98 towns. Most of the work is done by volunteers; some of the difficult Cyrillic script entries (from the post-1867 Russian years registers) are in the main transliterated by professionals whose work is funded by contributions from both individuals and groups of Jewish genealogists. JRI-Poland volunteers are typically researchers whose families lived in the many towns and Shtetls (villages) of Poland. They are organized into Shtetl CO-OPs responsible for the indexing of specific towns. There are now over 50 CO-OPs and Tarnow, mentioned last week, is just one of them. JRI-Poland has been recognized by the international medical and scientific community because of the potential benefit of the database for Ashkenazic families trying to trace their medical histories, particularly those at increased risk for hereditary conditions and diseases. The project has received recognition from investigators at the Cancer Research Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Yeshiva University, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, Epidemiology- Genetics Program - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, McGill University - Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute, McGill University - Division of Medical Genetics, Mount Sinai Hospital - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Yale University Cancer Genetics Program. Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is one of the many JewishGen web site - based projects aimed at facilitating Jewish genealogical research. For more information about Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, check the website: www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl ============================================================ - A-Z of British Genealogical Research An extensively revised 4th edition of the "A-Z of British Genealogical Research" tutorial by Dr. Ashton Emery is now available online. Dr. Emery describes this tutorial as: A concise guide to researching British ancestry both locally and at a distance. Everything the family historian wants to know about the IGI, using parish registers, the Civil Registration system, the 19th century Census returns and dozens of other archives, indexes and sources, with all the costs, contacts, addresses and tips a professional or amateur researcher could ever need. To read the tutorial, look at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/EmeryPaper.html ============================================================ ============================================================ ============================================================ - Home Pages Highlighted The following is a list of some of the genealogy-related World Wide Web home pages that have been listed recently on http://www.rootscomputing.com. Some of these sites may charge a fee for their services: The Blaisdell Family National Association - more than 350 years of Blaisdell history: http://www.gwi.net/~blaisdel Gittins Genealogy - the name "Gittins" or variants of the name, including Gettins, Gettens, Gitton, Gittons, Gittings, Gettings, Gittens, Gyttyn, Gyttyns, and Gethin: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/gittins/ancestry/index.htm van Tuijl family information (from the Netherlands): http://www.telebyte.nl/~dessa/tuijl.htm Genealogy resources of United Empire Loyalists - mainly Bay of Quinte and eastern Ontario areas, but some information on Maritime Loyalists and Niagara area: http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/loyal-ists/ Families from Schuylkill County Pennsylvania back to England, Ireland, Prussia: http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/rscheima/HORSWOOD.htm The Elam Family Research page is devoted to research on all branches of the Elam family, in the US and abroad, as well as spelling variants: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/6831 Family history and genealogy of the JEANS of North Carolina: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/6038/ County Kerry Ireland genealogy help page with a focus on the Dingle Peninsula: http://members.aol.com/waterlilys/index.html Extensive O'Connor surname history and data: http://members.aol.com/waterlilys/Ancestors.html "Adversities of Fortune" - An Irish-American genealogist's successful search story for her famine era emigrant ancestors, told here for other researchers to learn from and more importantly, to encourage and inspire them to continue their search: http://members.aol.com/waterlilys/MySearch.html James Coil Family of Georgia: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/1705 The Brammer Family and Its Branches, a web site for Brammer descendants of colonial Virginia: http://hometown.aol.com/ohioroots A genealogy bulletin board, used mostly for Swedish Genealogy: http://disc.server.com/Indices/38837.html The RITHERDON family genealogy pages: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/d.ritherdon/ Petrus and related family histories: http://www.enginedesign.com/petrus.html The Vaught Connection webpage: http://www.shawneelink.com/~mvyoung/ Genealogy of the Menso family, Holland in the beginning of the 16th century: http://w1.302.telia.com/~u30202898 The Antrim Family Tree News Letter, published four times a year: http://www.chieftain.com/antrim Penketh homepage of interests in Penketh Genealogy and related family history: http://www.npenketh.freeserve.co.uk To submit your home page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: http://www.rootscomputing.com/register.htm. 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Hi all, I took a look at the Wilson Daily Times on-line and after some searching I found the Archeological find, that I believe ya'll were speaking of below. It was found on the front page Dec. 23, 1998. It is pretty interesting. I hope it is the same location you were referring to. Jennifer ---------- > From: JeanneBain <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NCWILSON-L] Discovery of an Indian Burial Ground > Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 1:57 PM > > Brenda, there was an article in the Wilson Daily Times about that in the > past few weeks. you might want to get in touch with them, or get in touch > with the North Carolina Department of Transportation. It seems that the > construction of a new highway was being held up because of the possible > burial site, and that there were archeologists searching for evidence. > Jeanne >

Brenda, there was an article in the Wilson Daily Times about that in the past few weeks. you might want to get in touch with them, or get in touch with the North Carolina Department of Transportation. It seems that the construction of a new highway was being held up because of the possible burial site, and that there were archeologists searching for evidence. Jeanne

Has anyone heard of an Old Indian Burial Ground being found while construction of Hwy 264 near Wilson and Black Creek (NC). If anyone has heard of it or have any info please contact me ASAP. I have family members past and present in that area. Thanks, Brenda