New Mexico's isn't on line, but by the end of the year there will be a dozen States. There are quite a few resources on their Web site, and I didn't see any evidence that you have to be a subscriber. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/stateguides/ There might be some information you can use. Susan

Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt are up and running. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold Kilmer, Coordinator for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt Counties in the great state of New Mexico. All of these counties are linked to: http://rootsweb.com/~nmcurry/index.html

Taos County checking in. Karen

Wow -- what a selection to choose from! Wonderful talent! I finally was able to pick "AB-6" as my personal favorite. It'll be interesting to see which logo wins. Angela Volunteer Albuquerque At 02:10 PM 5/21/2005, Susan Bellomo wrote: >The logo contest has produced some lovely examples. Visit it if you have >time and inclination. > >Susan > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "bookstorelady" <bookstorelady@prodigy.net> >To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:01 PM >Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] the logo page > > >Have any of you visited the logo contest page lately > >http://usgenweb.org/logos/index.shtml > >I can't believe the beautiful logos that have been >created... for the USGenWeb Project. > >Darilee > > >bookstorelady@prodigy.net >http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW >http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange >http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington > > >==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== >The Advisory Board: http://www.usgenweb.com/about/advisoryboard.shtml > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

The logo contest has produced some lovely examples. Visit it if you have time and inclination. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "bookstorelady" <bookstorelady@prodigy.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:01 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] the logo page Have any of you visited the logo contest page lately http://usgenweb.org/logos/index.shtml I can't believe the beautiful logos that have been created... for the USGenWeb Project. Darilee bookstorelady@prodigy.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== The Advisory Board: http://www.usgenweb.com/about/advisoryboard.shtml

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bosque Lover" <nana321@earthlink.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 7:59 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Next motion Well I sent this once, but guess it hasn't shown up--forgive me if this is the "second showing" on this, but I'd rather you have it twice than not at all <wink> ------------------------ A motion has been made & seconded (not yet numbered) http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARD/2005-05/1116395500 Motion to post the amendments recommended by the Bylaws Revision Committee to the national website and to request that the EC create a ballot for voting on the BRC amendments during the upcoming election cycle. Any discussion? Bettie <>< ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== The Advisory Board: http://www.usgenweb.com/about/advisoryboard.shtml

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:14 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD] USGenWeb Project National Election - Registration Reminder. **Please forward to all appropriate USGenWeb Project lists.** ---- To all USGenWeb Project members: In order to receive a voting password for USGenWeb national level elections and polls you must be registered with the EC (Election Committee.) To receive a voting password for the USGenWeb National Election, you must be registered no later than 31 May, 2005. The registration form will be disabled Tuesday May 31, 2005 at 11:59 pm EST. If you have previously registered and your registration (i.e., email address, participation within the project, etc.) has not changed, you do not need to re-register. If you have questions about your registration, please contact your Elections Committee representative prior to submitting a new registration. If you were a member of USGenWeb on or before 1 February 2004 and your name was submitted to the EC by your State or Project leadership, you were automatically registered. If you are unsure of your registration status, you may ask your area EC Representative, or you may submit a Registration form. Members joining USGenWeb or those who have taken on additional roles will not be automatically registered, and must register themselves. Example: You were a CC in a particular state. You resigned that county, and now have a county in another state. To ensure you will receive a voting password for that region, you must inform the EC that you have changed states. If you are currently registered but do not wish to receive a voting password, or if you leave the Project entirely, please contact an EC Representative to have your name removed from the Registered List. The EC has an online registration form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/register.html To learn who to contact on the EC, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/current.html Please bookmark the EC website for the latest Election and Registration news: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ ***Registration information is confidential to the Election Committee, and will not be shared with Project leadership or other members. It is used only to send voting passwords. Do not depend on your SC or other project leadership to see that you are registered, or that appropriate changes are made. Thank you, The USGenWeb Election Committee

Does anyone have any ideas where this gentleman might look next? Tom Bombaci's NM Funeral Homes page (http://bombaci.rootsweb.com/NMFHomes.html) only lists one funeral home in Raton. I'm wondering how common it was for burials to be on family-owned land in those days, or whether that is not a likely occurrence. Would the cause of death, influenza, have any bearing on how and where someone would be buried? I found only two mentions of John Monroe Thorne. The first was on the LDS Web site, http://www.familysearch.org, and the second was a reference in Ancestry.com to Soldiers of the Great War from Georgia. The LDS site referenced an Ancestral File Number of G1JN-WL. There is also an entry for the IGI, and these may be identical. Ancestry.com lists page 215 of Volume I as the reference page for John Monroe Thorne, but I couldn't find the name listed when I printed the page. It's one of those brick walls that we've all encountered. If anyone has a suggestion or an idea, will you please share it with Mr. Thorne? Thank you. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: B. Thorne To: susanbellomo@yahoo.com Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 1:03 PM Subject: Wickens & Johnson parlors Hi Susan, We took our trip to Raton, New Mexico. We were unable to locate my grandfather's grave but were able to find two newspaper articles. One of the articles mentioned that his funeral was at the parlors of Wickens & Johnson. We couldn't find anyone in town that recognized this name. We've looked on the internet and found a Wickens & Troupe. I'm wondering if maybe they have any affiliation with Wickens & Johnson funeral homes. Do you have any way of getting information on Wickens & Johnson and where their records might be located? Thank you, Everett ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Bellomo To: B. Thorne Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 1:21 PM Subject: Re: grandfathers grave site Hello, Everett. I've not been able to find any specific information on your grandfather. Unfortunately, New Mexico didn't begin keeping vital records consistently until 1919. The Spanish Influenza Epidemic is what showed our State government that we needed to do so. I have found a list of cemeteries and some cemetery transcriptions (listing of people buried in each cemetery). It is laborious, but you may want to visit the cemetery transcriptions and search (Edit-->Find-->Thorne) for your grandfather's name. Raton is in Colfax County. You may also want to check Union County, which is adjacent to Colfax County. Cemetery Transcriptions (for Colfax County) http://www.rootsweb.com/~nma/cemtry.htm Listing of all the cemeteries in Colfax County (no transcriptions--just locations) http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmcolfax/cemeteries.htm I wish you the best of luck finding your grandfather's grave and hope the lists and transcriptions will help. Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties ----- Original Message ----- From: B. Thorne To: susanbellomo@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:08 PM Subject: grandfathers grave site Hi Susan My name is Everett Thorne my family and I are traviling to Raton on April 23 we are in search of my grandfathers grave, my father told me he was buried there in l9l8 his name is John Monroe Thorne . No one in my family has ever been able to locate his grave my Father told me died in the flu epademic in l9l8. If you can direct us on how we may search the area I would be very grateful. Thank you for your time. Everett

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bosque Lover" <nana321@earthlink.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:54 AM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: USGENWEB at FGS 2006 -----Original Message----- From: Shari Handley [mailto:srh@tyaskin.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:56 PM To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [STATE-COORD] IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: USGENWEB at FGS 2006 Please pass this very exciting and important announcement on to your state/regional lists! USGenWeb at FGS 2006 Call for Speakers The USGenWeb Project is proud to announce that in celebration of our 10th Anniversary, USGenWeb will sponsor a track at the 2006 Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) Conference. The conference will be held in Boston , Massachusetts , home to the oldest genealogical society in the United States and the local host for the 2006 conference - the New England Historic Genealogical Society, August 30-September 2, 2006 We are currently seeking proposals for lectures from members of the USGenWeb Project relating to the subject(s) of Technology and Genealogy, Using Specific Projects or Aspects of USGenWeb, and Internet Publishing for Genealogy (i.e. website development, website publicity, website building, strategies for converting data, etc.) Lecture sessions will be 50 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. Two-part sessions are also welcome (i.e. two lecture periods). USGenWeb will sponsor a total of 20 lecture sessions during the four day conference. While USGenWeb cannot offer compensation for travel, meals, or speaking time, we can offer speakers the chance to participate on the program of a national genealogical conference, and share their methods and ideas to hundreds of genealogists. In addition, selected speakers will receive a complimentary free registration to the 2006 FGS Conference. Speakers may submit any number of proposals, and may be able to present multiple lectures at the conference. Speakers are not required to have spoken at a regional or national conference before, but are encouraged to have some experience teaching their topics. An example of a submission may be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~kylewis/callexample.htm. If you have any questions at all, please direct them to Josh@DJoshuaTaylor.com. Speakers will be required to submit syllabus information for their lecture by January 1, 2006. More detailed information on the syllabus will be sent to those speakers who are chosen. Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than June 1, 2005. Please send your submissions in PDF, Word, or WordPerfect format to Josh@DJoshuaTaylor.com no later than MAY 18, 2005. Submissions should include: -Class Title -Your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address -Designation of audience level (beginning, intermediate, advanced) -Length of presentation -Class Description (1-2 sentences) -Brief Class Outline -Speaker Bio (2-3 sentences) -Audio-Visual Needs -List of Recent Lecture Experiences -List of USGenWeb Involvement Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to receiving your proposals! USGenWeb at FGS 2006 Program Committee ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== The Advisory Board: http://www.usgenweb.com/about/advisoryboard.shtml

Find A Grave www.findagrave.com Among the best and biggest cemetery sites, Find A Grave lets you search 4.1 million grave records or look for specific cemeteries. You can also create virtual memorials and even add "virtual flowers" and a note to an ancestor's grave. Interment.net www.interment.net Our other favorite cemetery site puts online more than 3.2 million records from nearly 7,000 cemeteries worldwide. Browse transcriptions by region and check out special collections of veterans cemeteries. Obituary Central www.obitcentral.com Death is a lively topic here, with thousands of links to online obituaries; cemetery inscriptions; birth, marriage and death notices; and divorce records arranged by state and county, plus a collection of search engines that cover only obituaries. Access Genealogy www.accessgenealogy.com It's not just a useful online starting place, with genealogy-related news plus lots of links, but also a source for data. Researchers with Native American roots especially will want to explore the collection here, which includes the 1880 Cherokee census and the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes. Other resources cover military records, cemeteries, biographies, census records, immigration, African-American ancestry, vital records and more. Genealogy Resources on the Internet www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/internet.html The Web isn't the only way to research your family tree online; don't forget mailing lists, newsgroups, telnet and Gopher, technologies that predated today's ubiquitous WWW. This in-depth list, compiled and still continuously updated by Chris Gaunt and John Fuller, covers all those other ways to plug into your roots, as well as Web sites. Genealogy Today www.genealogytoday.com A useful stop wherever you are in your genealogical journey: Resources and how-to information are categorized for those just getting started, those who've been researching for several years and are mostly interested in recent generations, those who've already traced their families back multiple generations, and advanced genealogists (including professionals, librarians and educators). German Roots www.home.att.net/~wee-monster In addition to being a terrific starting point for pursuing your German ancestors, this handy site includes lists of links to US military records and death records of interest to all genealogists. Heraldry on the Internet www.digiserve.com/heraldry Also of interest to British Isles researchers, this site offers the best crash course on coats of arms on the Internet. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing e -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 5/4/2005

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Call for Temporary Volunteers - Election Committee To USGenWeb Project Members - **Please forward to all USGenWeb Lists** The USGenWeb Election Committee is in need of temporary helpers for the upcoming National Elections, for a period of approximately 12 weeks beginning May, 2005, continuing through the completion of the USGenWeb Project National elections. Responsibilities include assisting with nominations, and handling bounced email addresses. Volunteers will be required to be responsive to email, check email daily, and to participate fully in Election Committee activities for the time period specified. Three to five temporary members are needed. Advisory Board members and USGenWeb Project members considering running for office are ineligible. All other individuals are encouraged to apply. Please contact the EC Chair, Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net Thank you, and please consider helping out the Project during this important time! The USGenWeb Election Committee ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To browse the mail list archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGENWEB-SW/

Eddy County Richard Wilkinson

Dona Ana Cty checking in.

Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt are going better than ever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold Kilmer, Coordinator for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt Counties in the great state of New Mexico. All of these counties are linked to: http://rootsweb.com/~nmcurry/index.html

Hello, Wild Bunch. The NMDI project has been a boon to many New Mexico researchers. I do not believe in pushing contributions, but thought I'd mention one way I have of making a painless contribution. There's an envelope on my desktop where I save cancelled stamps to send Sam-Quito, which he sells for funding for the NMDI project. Most of us are on tight budgets, but for the cost of sending an envelope with used stamps, I can help the project. If anyone is interested in participating, here's Sam-Quito's address. Sam-Quito Padilla G., P. O. Box 114, La Joya, NM 87028-0114 It is my understanding that the project can use volunteers to transcribe records for the NMDI and the NM census transcriptions. If you have some time and energy, contact Sam-Quito: vasosi3@yahoo.com. Thank you for all you do to support free genealogy research in NMGenWeb! Susan Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

Chaves, Colfax, Otero, San Miguel, Union and NMGenWeb checking in. Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

Taos County checking in. Karen Mitchell

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bosque Lover" <nana321@earthlink.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:33 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Motion 05-06 "Bettie presented, and Linda seconded, a motion that the following question be added to the ballot during the next regularly scheduled election: "In an attempt to protect living people from identity theft or embarassment, should The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board establish a policy limiting the date and/or scope of data placed on all of its sites?" Yes or No. If this is what you all truly want, please write to each of your AB reps to let them know. http://www.usgenweb.com/about/advisoryboard.shtml If you'd like something completely different, or some variation, let us know that too. Bettie <>< ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a message to USGENWEB-SW-L-request@rootsweb.com with the one word, unsubscribe. If you are subbed to the digest, send it to USGENWEB-SW-D-request@rootsweb.com

The link leads to the handouts offered by the speakers. Some are specific to Mississippi genealogy, and others are best practices for genealogy research in general. Take a look at them. It looks like a terrific day for genealogy buffs! Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Pack" <e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [STATE-COORD] MSGenWeb Seminar Report "Researchin' Mississippi" A genealogy workshop was presented by MSGenWeb volunteers at the new Brandon Public Library, Brandon, Rankin County, MS on April 16, 2005. The event was coordinated by MSGenWeb CC Jackie Rhodes. It was sponsored by The Rankin County Historical Society, and The Friends of the Brandon Library, with special assistance by library contact Jonelle Anderson. The goal was to help raise funds for the new Genealogy Room. Approximately 22 MSGenWeb volunteers and family members from around the country attended and/or participated in the day long event. Others who could not attend were extremely helpful in the preparation. This was truly a whole state effort. The turnout was excellent, and the reviews have been great. This seminar is the fourth such activity in which MSGenWeb has participated over the years. That's a tremendous tribute to each and every MSGW volunteer. It's not an easy task to pull something like this together via a mail list and an occasional phone call, sometimes scurrying at the last minute to solve an unexpected problem. Yet the MSGenWeb volunteers accomplished it well. They helped a lot of researchers, made new friends, and had a *lot* of fun and laughs in the process. I am honored to be State Coordinator for such a great group of volunteers. For more information and photographs: http://www.rootsweb.com/~msgenweb/seminar/index.htm Thank you, Ellen Pack State Coordinator, MSGenWeb

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 9:03 AM Subject: [STATE-COORD] USGenWeb Project - Registration Notice **Please post to all USGenWeb Project lists** In order to receive a voting password for USGenWeb national level elections and polls you must be registered with the EC (Election Committee.) To receive a voting password for the USGenWeb National Election, you must be registered no later than 31 May, 2005. If you have previously registered and your registration (i.e., email address, participation within the project, etc.) has not changed, you do not need to re-register. If you have questions about your registration, please contact your Elections Committee representative prior to submitting a new registration. If you were a member of USGenWeb on or before 1 February 2004 and your name was submitted to the EC by your State or Project leadership, you were automatically registered. If you are unsure of your registration status, you may ask your area EC Representative, or you may submit a Registration form. Members joining USGenWeb or those who have taken on additional roles will not be automatically registered, and must register themselves. Example: You were a CC in a particular state. You resigned that county, and now have a county in another state. To ensure you will receive a voting password for that region, you must inform the EC that you have changed states. If you are currently registered but do not wish to receive a voting password, or if you leave the Project entirely, please contact an EC Representative to have your name removed from the Registered List. The EC has an online registration form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/register.html To learn who to contact on the EC, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/current.html Please bookmark the EC website for the latest Election and Registration news: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ ***Registration information is confidential to the Election Committee, and will not be shared with Project leadership or other members. It is used only to send voting passwords. Do not depend on your SC or other project leadership to see that you are registered, or that appropriate changes are made. Thank you, The USGenWeb Election Committee