Connect With Surnames http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7708 Let's make this the LARGEST surname registry on the web! As of now, there are over 1500 different surnames! There are many, many unusual surnames as well as more common ones with lots of researchers. Drop by and leave up to 15 surnames to be listed with your email address or website address. For website owners: don't forget to read my special offer about submitting 25 surnames! I love genealogy, and I enjoy providing this service to the genealogy community. There is also a mailing list to join so that you will receive updates as soon as the website is updated! Thanks, Amy Brown [email protected] Connect With Surnames http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/7708 Heartland Genealogy Society Committee http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2416

Hello all! I have just updated the 'Links to other places' on my webpage. Won't you please make a pitstop there? Also, don't forget to leave your information on my new MESSAGE BOARD!!! All messages stay online for 30 days. Messages have to be approved by me; as long as the content is about genealogy, you should have no problems. I just want to make sure that no one is advertising on the board. In the next few months you will be seeing a section of pictures from Germany. My friend, Reinhard, from Germany has been kind enough to donate several of his pictures from his travels there for my webpage! So please check back soon! Also, don't forget to check out my MYSTERY PHOTOS! Maybe you know who these people are? http://www.ameritech.net/users/cindyjohnson1/Family_history.htm Thanks all! Cindy

Please visit my web page at http://members.aol.com/RKnowley/index.html I have updated it and added more info on my surnames + there are links to many genealogy sites on the web! Drop in and check it out I hope you make some connections! Robyn

Hi, folks! I just updated my genealogy links page, and added a registration form to my site so that you can be notified by e-mail whenever the page is updated. Homepage: http://www.accces.com/~wng/index.htm Genealogy Links: http://www.accces.com/~wng/gen.htm Happy ancestor hunting! :-) Alice -- Check out my new curriculum exchange forum! Ladybug Links: http://www.accces.com/~wng/index.htm *Govern your thoughts as if your future depends on them, because it does. (Debra St. Claire)*

Come see my new Adams information!! As well as I've added another surname, that could use your help!! :o) (Bastian) Main surnames: Adams, Andrews, Andrus, Bastian, Berstler, Brown(e), Caley, Campbell, Kaylor, Kendall, Knight, Lesher, McClellan, Morton, Paulus And many others. Loni (Adams) Voorhis (NOT researching the Van Voorhees/Voorhis line) surnamepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/9713/roots.html _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Here are the surnames on my web pages: Allan, Bundy, Davis, Dykeman, Ennis, Grant, Grinlington, Gitz, Guth, Harringer, Hover, Hall, Martin, Markwith, McGlashan, Mills, Politski, Sax, Seifert, Selzer, Simon, Stager, Stewart, Tilson, Timmerman, Trumpbour, Van Etten, Wilber, Wood and Wiedlinger. There may be more, but can't remember. Susan Seifert -- Visit our website at http://members.aol.com/guthgenes/gutha.htm

I would like to invite every one to the Genealogy-Native Channle on Afternet for more open talking and instances answers to questions. I am there off and on during the day and from 4pm eastern to when ever most evening. Also to my webpage for maps, list of tribes, queries, and list of other Native Suites, http://nctc.com/~cheyanne/index.htm -- Cheyanne Genealogy-Native Channel on Afternet Afternet Irc: agora.afternet.org port:6667 Visit Indian GN Webpage: http://nctc.com/~cheyanne/index.htm Query Page, Maps, Other Native Links, My Surname List, and more.

On my web pages Check it out.... http://www.greencis.net/~sandysq/index.htm

>With July half over, so are our mIRC Classes. The new IRCers are having a BALL with their new ability to seek out new websites, visit with new friends, and trade files. > >If you have hesitated about learning about Internet Relay Chat, you missing out on a great research tool and an opportunity to meet other genealogists in REAL TIME. > >Check our website for information on downloading mIRC 'chat software' (free) and instructions for how to join out Channel for the mIRC lessons. > >Hope to see you soon on IRC AfterNET in #GenealogyForum! From #GenealogyForum IRC Channel on Afternet: WE ARE HOLDING MIRC CLASSES! COME JOIN US! http://www.rare.on.ca/users/genealogyforum/index.htm Contains Surnames of Visitors and Simple instructions for joining us. ***** New INBOUND Email is [email protected] (It eats Spam for Lunch!) <smile>

to all: Sorry folks but I listed a bad URL on my last message. URL for Murphy's Public House is: http://www.alltel.net/~dmurphy595/ Dennis

To All: Have begun a new set of databases of Surnames beginning with A. All from Cuyahoga County, Ohio but other Ohio databases are also available at my updated web site, Murphy's Public House. If you're looking for an Irish or German ancestor from Ohio, stop by and check out this site. http://www.altel.net/~dmurphy595/ Good Luck to all Dennis

DONEGAL ANCESTRY CLUB Fed up paying over the top prices for Irish Genealogical Info? Would you prefer to pay nothing for Ancestral Information? Don't know where to start searching for the elusive ancestor? Donegal Ancestry Club may be your answer to these question! Visit the Donfam web site at: www.donfam.com The Donfam web site has a 'FREE LIMITED VERSION' of the 'Donfam People locator'. This is an online database of Irish ancestral surname records. This facility allows you the opportunity to possibly locate an 'inquired after' named person, on a given day, to a particular place or event in that persons life 'ANYWHERE' in Ireland. INCLUDES IRISH, SCOTTISH, ENGLISH & OTHER RELIGIONS. GREAT TOOL FOR FINDING THOSE ELUSIVE STRAY ANCESTORS!! These records have been extracted and transcribed from every source available at this time to Donfam. Examples of information source are: Griffith Valuations (Donegal). 1901 Donegal County Census. Towns Business Indexes. Church Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Graveyard Inscriptions. Prison Records. Hearth Tax Records. Memorial Card Information. Newspaper Notes and Jottings. Emigrant Records. Many More Sources. Although the main body of record information is concerned with the North West of Ireland, there is also listed, thousands of records from all other parts of Ireland, North and South of the great divide. Should this type of information interest you, then take the opportunity to visit the Donfam Web Site, join the Donfam Ancestry Club and make use of the full version of the 'Donfam People Locator'. The Donfam club is now operating very well, but needs your support. Again, the Donfam Web Site can be found at: www.donfam.com Visit now, it may be the best web site visit you will ever make!

Photo of Veterans of the Civil War is now listed on the Sumter County Site. Sumter County,Alabama AlGenWeb-USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~alsumter/ Sumter Query Forum http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Al/Sumter Family Records of Sumter County http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/7813 Submit your Alabama Obit's. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/7951/obquery.html Visit Alabama Obit's. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/7951/alabamaindex.html

Hi! We're technically not a ~new~ site, having been around in one form or another for 4+ years, but we're growing at a steady pace. We've added a Pictou-Roots mailing list, and new cemeteries and other lists will be added soon. If you haven't been by recently please surf on over and take a look. We've got a new logo and all sorts of information for anyone researching in the Pictou or Antigonish County areas in Nova Scotia, Canada. http://www.rootsweb.com/~pictou/ Thanks! Morgan Robertson webmistress / *//////{<>==================> \ Garg'n Uair Dhuisgear Family Roots of Pictou and Antigonish Counties, Nova Scotia http://www.rootsweb.com/~pictou YAHOO Canada's Pick of the Week for May 29th, 1998 Join the Pictou-Roots Mail List -- http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/pictouroots

Check out Amy and Dallas' Family Tree if you haven't lately. In my personal family tree, there is a lot of information on Wigley, Hanson/Henson/Hinson(there are some mix-ups that I need to correct), Harris, Rowell, Trammell, Lisles/Liles, and White in AL/GA. I also give out awards, maintain a mailing list, and have 3 surname specific webrings(Wigley, Trammell, and Harris). If you visit, sign my guestbook so that I can visit your webpage as well! :--) Thanks, Amy Brown http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/4239

The year was 1837 when Rev. Samuel Sewell, Isaac H. Sewell, Wisdom Gober, and Parks Groover, donated $40.00, for 40 acres of land for a campground in Cobb County. Parks Groover went to Meriweather Co. to purchase the land and secure the deed. In 1837 there was a brush arber erected and in 1838 a new arbor was built by the same four men and their slaves. William Mayes and others of the congreation joined in to help also Uncle Isaac was an engineer of road building so he Samuel and the slaves fabricated the iron & the wood work for the present arbor. I am telling you this story because I want each and everyone of you to make plans to come if you can. There will be a lot of families there to meet and fellowship with and share stories with, and a lot of history. The Campmeeting will began Friday July 31, 1998 and run thru Sunday Aug.9,1998. The first Sunday will be the big meeting , that date is Aug. 2,1998. The Marietta Campgrounds is located on Roswell Road across the street from the Methodist Church at 2325 Roswell Road, Marietta Georgia,30062. Please try to come and join in and see how it use to be. Sandra Sewell Lewis My direct lines are : Sewell , Wing, McCord Blackwell, Mayes, and Hembree, other families of early settlers from this area will be there too.

There is a special census that was performed in 1880 for Defective, Dependent, and Delinquents Schedules. I have information on it from a book by Emily Croom. It says: In 1880, the census schedules included a special enumeration of people who were residents of various asylums, such as prisons or porrhouses, or who had various afflictions that made them dependent on others for support, such as deaf-mutes, homeless children, the indigent, the insane or the blind. The purpose of this special schedule was to identify people in these categories and to learn more specifically about their situation. One William Douglas lived in Middleton in Ada County, Idaho. He was totally blind, yet partly self-suporting, and had lived for six years in a institution for the blind in Newton, Iowa, from which he was released in 1876. In Whiteville, Hardeman County, Tennessee, the names of Rufus Green and Calvin Hall were recorded on the schedules were sent off, Dr. A.P. Waddell, M.D., scratched out the names and wrote, "I have known Rufus and Cal for many years- they are both colored and are both of sound mind." In the same county, BEn Oppenheimer of Bolivar had been deaf since the age of three, due to scarlet fever. He had lived for three years at the Kentucky State Mute Asylum, from which he was discharged in 1855. About WIlliam Burnette, listed as insane, the enumerator J.R. Jones of Hardeman County wrote, "I cannot learn any thing in reference to the above named person only that he was of sound mind up to the Shiloh Battle in April 1862 but soon after the battle he became insane and has been so ever since. He is in good health and lives with his brother George L. Burnette. He is a married man but his wife left him after he became insane. No physician has ever examined him; it is believed that he was so frightened that he became insane. These DDD schedules were made in most states. Even in the stated where they were not made or no longer exist, some of the information is available in the regular populations schedules, from which the DDD schedules were taken. Microfilm copies are available from many of the same places as the mortality and the supplemental schedules. Also....You can check the newspapers in the are around the time that you think she was put into an asylum. Most likely in some sort of police log. A lot of papers back then listed that sort of thing....a person being transported to an asylum and what caused them to be sent there. You can check the obituaries of her relatives; there might be a reference to her name and what town she lived in at the time of her relatives death. I hope this helps! Cindy Johnson [email protected] [email protected] wrote: > > Is there a website for hospitals for the Mentally Insane in AL? Or, how would > I find someone who was mentally challenged. I am talking about 1840 to???? I > have an ancestor whose husband died at a very young age and she was not able > to cope with it. > Thanks in advance, > Darlene

Is there a website for hospitals for the Mentally Insane in AL? Or, how would I find someone who was mentally challenged. I am talking about 1840 to???? I have an ancestor whose husband died at a very young age and she was not able to cope with it. Thanks in advance, Darlene

You can try the Family Tree Maker website. They have information on how to join classes, etc... I don't have the URL so maybe someone here can send it to her????? As far as working, I am sure that the local gen. society would hire you out to someone who needs research done for them. That is the way it is done in my home-town; turned out that my researcher was related to me so now she does it for free! <BG> Good luck!!! Cindy Johnson Amy Harris Brown wrote: > > I am interested in becoming a professional genealogist. I heard that there > are some correspondence courses offered by an organization in order to > become certified. I had back surgery 3 months ago at age 19, and I've lost > my college scholarships b/c I had to drop out to have the surgery. My > husband and I can't afford to pay the tuition ourselves, and I love > genealogy, and I would like to do this on a higher level. Can someone > direct me to the website? Also, once you become certified, > where do you work? Pardon my ignorance, please. I don't know of any > genealogy societies in my area, other than Tap Roots. > Thanks, > Amy Brown > > ==== NEW-GEN-URL Mailing List ==== > To post to list e-mail > [email protected] > Post your new,revised,or interesting URL HERE.

I am interested in becoming a professional genealogist. I heard that there are some correspondence courses offered by an organization in order to become certified. I had back surgery 3 months ago at age 19, and I've lost my college scholarships b/c I had to drop out to have the surgery. My husband and I can't afford to pay the tuition ourselves, and I love genealogy, and I would like to do this on a higher level. Can someone direct me to the website? Also, once you become certified, where do you work? Pardon my ignorance, please. I don't know of any genealogy societies in my area, other than Tap Roots. Thanks, Amy Brown