Am willing to do Chicago IL Tribune obit lookups in trade for obit lookups that I need. I need obit lookups for the following Brayton, Harold d) 11/16/1972 in NY-Cortland, Cortland Co, Cortland Memorial Hospital Brayton, Maurice Eugene d) 1/17/1958 in NY-Homer, Cortland Co Short, Hannah VanHorn d) 01/17/1828 in NY-Truxton, Cortland Co PLEASE EMAIL ME PRIVATELY AT [email protected] Jim Dlask 4538 N Avers Chicago IL 60625

Per Rootsweb: "Mail Lists: 2003-10-09 One of our mailing lists servers (lists2) has been taken offline for maintenance. Any unprocessed mail will be distributed after the server is brought back online." Mail Lists: 2003-10-16 The mailing list server (LISTS2) that has been off-line for maintenance has now been turned back on, and e-mail is being processed. Mail will be processed from the queued mail concurrently with incoming mail. This will mean that not all mail will arrive chronologically until the backlog in the queue has been cleared. It will probably take the better part of the day to get mail from the queues to processing and then depending on the traffic to your ISP further time to get delivered. We did have difficulties with a small number of lists that has meant that these lists are not currently operational and will not be until we have manually checked and fixed any outstanding issues. A list is not currently available. These are family lists and 6 county lists (none for New York). Tim

1850 Town of Truxton Cyrus Hall 50 farmer VT Maria Hall 40 Martha Hall 15 Wesley Hall 12 Harrison Hall 10 Tyler Hall 8 Ellen Hall 4 George Hall 1860 Town of Truxton Cyrus Hall 66 farmer VT Martha Hall 36 NY Rosanah Hopkins 19 NY Louisa Hopkins 17 NY William N Hopkins 15 NY James D Hopkins 9 NY Charles W Hopkins 7 NY Ellen M Hall 13 NY George W Hall 12 NY Hannah R Hopkins 10 NY Sarah Hopkins 6 NY Emily E Hall 3 NY Thomas J Hall 2 NY Can anyone tell me what the relationship is between the Hall & Hopkins and who was the father of those Hopkins children. Anne

Unsubscribe --- [email protected] wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 > > NYCORTLA-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 80 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [NYCORTLA] Fort William Henry > [[email protected]] > #2 [NYCORTLA] site updates - 10/2 - S [Tim > Stowell <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from NYCORTLA-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, > but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, > too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > [email protected] > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:19:47 EDT > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NYCORTLA] Fort William Henry > > Hello all - can anyone tell me where I can find a > listing of soldiers of Fort > William Henry about mid 1750's? I am lead to > believe that an ancestor was a > soldier at Fort William Henry or "was in the Indian > massacre at Fort William > Henry". > > I have seen the wonderful write-up on the subject in > the internet, but there > are not "common" soldiers listed. > > Any help locating this list will be very much > appreciated. > > Dot > [email protected] > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 > Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:32:34 -0400 > From: Tim Stowell <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NYCORTLA] site updates - 10/2 - STOWELL > > Added around midnight eastern time the last two > nights: > > Chenango County - > > another round of data from the Oxford Annals - > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/annal.htm > > > Madison County - > > A couple of years ago, I requested some assistance > on the > STOWELL family mailing list, the results finally > presented > at the following URL: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymadiso/gedcom.htm > > this work covers STOWELLs from all over, with > several branches in > central New York state. > > Cortland County - > > Something soon here as well. > > =============================== > Finally, if you are transcribing for me, would you > please write me > off list and let me know if you are working on > something at the > moment or waiting on me to send you some more > material? > > Thanks - and an early evening! > > Tim > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com

Added around midnight eastern time the last two nights: Chenango County - another round of data from the Oxford Annals - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/annal.htm Madison County - A couple of years ago, I requested some assistance on the STOWELL family mailing list, the results finally presented at the following URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymadiso/gedcom.htm this work covers STOWELLs from all over, with several branches in central New York state. Cortland County - Something soon here as well. =============================== Finally, if you are transcribing for me, would you please write me off list and let me know if you are working on something at the moment or waiting on me to send you some more material? Thanks - and an early evening! Tim

Hello all - can anyone tell me where I can find a listing of soldiers of Fort William Henry about mid 1750's? I am lead to believe that an ancestor was a soldier at Fort William Henry or "was in the Indian massacre at Fort William Henry". I have seen the wonderful write-up on the subject in the internet, but there are not "common" soldiers listed. Any help locating this list will be very much appreciated. Dot [email protected]

At 09:33 AM 9/20/03 -0400, Jim Hartigan wrote: >Another LIST member informs me: "FOLKS, AOL is currently blacklisting Rootsweb, all list mail to AOL/Compuserve members is being rejected by AOL". >Jim H It was from one server at Rootsweb - which contains some of the lists. It has been fixed. Tim

Not necessarily - I am on AOL and recieved this message & several others this morning from rootsweb lists - Dot

Another observation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hartigan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "NYESSEX" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:39 AM Subject: Fw: [NYWASHIN] Fw: [NYE] AOL > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Candy_B" <[email protected]> > To: "Jim Hartigan" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:31 AM > Subject: Re: [NYWASHIN] Fw: [NYE] AOL > > > > Hi, Jim, > > > > I don't know that it will help with AOL - since they are such a PITA > > sometimes - but when my ISP did that, I called and spoke with tech > > support and let them know that ANY mail coming from rootsweb was > > "opt-in" mail as you have to subscribe to the lists, and that NOTHING > > unsolicited comes from there. Now I see a bit of delay on some of it, > > but it all comes through. Until they can get all the IP addresses into > > their "do not block" info, they appear to be manually checking the > > blocked stuff just in case. It might be worth a try as a List > > Administrator to explain this to someone at AOL. Good luck. > > -- > > Candy_B > > [email protected] > >

Another LIST member informs me: "FOLKS, AOL is currently blacklisting Rootsweb, all list mail to AOL/Compuserve members is being rejected by AOL". Jim H

Listers, I am not sure if this is the right list . . . but here goes! I am searching for information on John Gibson. He might have been born in Schenectady (1790 Federal Census) and was in Norwich (1800 Federal Census) then disappears. He had a daughter Batshannah (1766- ) and son, Chauncy (1782 - ) who also lived in Norwich. I already have Batshannah tied into my Wasson line and am trying to tie John Gibson in with my Gibson line from Middlesex county, Connecticut. William R. Randall =================================================== Beebe, Cranmer, Hale, Lamb, RANDALL, Roberts and Wightman families in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island Randall Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randall

What a wonderful acoomplishment for researchers all over the world, if we can create no cost access to this 43 year body of data on our website at no cost via our volunteer indexing project. It's just matter of making connections. Please help us help you by volunteering to indx the remaining 46 County Packets. To check the quality of our indexig work, see the two indices that have been completed at: Http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycnygs scroll down to indices Thank you, Jim hartigan CNYGS member ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hartigan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [NYCHAUTA] Conley > Dear Listers: > It would be nice to hear from you regarding good, bad or not sure comments > about your success with Central New York Genealogical Society pre-1860 > abstracted primary & secondary source data compiled into our 48 COUNTY > PACKETS from our 42 years of publishing the Genealogical Periodical, "TREE > TALKS". The 48 counties where we have varying amounts of abstracting , > straddle varios migration routes. We are im the midst of an indexing proj. > for the PACKETS but we need volunteer help to finish it. The indices would > allow you to search our website at no cost, find your ancestor, and make a > more informed decision about purchase of a COUNTY PACKET. > We preserve, we share information. If you can, please help us complete this > high quality body of work. > For what we offer researchers: > Http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycnygs > and browse about > thank You, > Jim Hartigan > CNYGS member > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:56 PM > Subject: [NYCHAUTA] Conley > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > > > Surnames: CONLEY > > Classification: Query > > > > Message Board URL: > > > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/7369 > > > > Message Board Post: > > > > I am looking for the Conley Family. The fathers name was Robert we dont > know who he was married to. He reportedly had 18 children so we assume he > had more than one wife. The children I do have are George,Wesley,Margaret > who married a Lyle,and William. George was born in 1829 in Quincy (Ripley) > as were Margaret and William,and Wesley. Anna was born in 1853. We also know > that Robert and George both went to Bureau County Illinois. Robert did in > Oseola,Stark,Illinois and was buried there in 1866. > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I will up the nearest address of a public collection of "TREE TALKS" available for researchers of abstracted primary & secondary source pre-1860 records. Reply to me. More about whatwe offer researchers: Http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycnygs Jim Hartigan CNYGS member

The Cortland County Hist. Soc. is a current subscriber to "TREE TALKS". Since 1962, it has been a leading Genealogical Periodical straddling two migration corridors in New York State. The CNYGS has abstracted pre-1860 primary & secondary source records for over 42 years in 48 counties. Http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycnygs Jim Hartigan

I am trying to find more information about Effie Mae and William Magee who lived in Cortland in the early 1900's.

----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Hartigan To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:41 AM Subject: Your nearest Family History Center The Family History Center closest to you may by now have an internet connection with the added feature of access to the Ancestry Subscription. This means FHC's will now have sometyhing better than the wonderful access we all appreciate and take for granted on www.familysearch.org Please be patient, acquiring an ISProvider may take some FHC's a bit longer to accomplish. Jim hartigan

In a message dated 9/3/03 6:02:42 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Grab the mechanism with your mouse and move it to the left until it reads 1%. Then select OK, and you are done. That worked out nicely- we have an old pentium that only has 1 gig- it will help. Valerie

Early this morning eastern time: 1872 History of Madison County - Chapter 10 - Lenox - chapter chock full of names, including Spooner, Higinbotham, Spencer, Perkins and many more. This leaves one chapter and the index left to transcribe for this book as the rest are already in the field. Correction - Chapter 4 - Cazenovia - Picture of John Linklaen left out, now added. ============================= PC lesson 2 - ----------------------------------- Once again Microsoft and/or Netscape in this instance thought they knew what was best for every user, made assumptions and have plagued users with lots of wasted space on their hard drives - space that users would much rather use for data or operating space. The item I'm referencing here is the cache file on your browser. When you visit a site on the Internet, where graphics (pictures), banners, any none text item is located, your browser makes a temporary copy of each of those items on the premise that you've visited this site once, you may visit it again. This is done so that the next time you visit the site, your computer can load from memory any graphics on the page, thus allowing the page to be viewable more quickly than the first time you visited the page/site for your computer won't have to download all the graphics again. But what, you might ask, if I never ever visit the page again? It doesn't matter, the computer still sits and holds all the graphics from the page. Now the cache on your browser, works a bit like your recycle bin (an item I forgot to mention in lesson 1), in that once it gets full, it will remove items that are the oldest in the stack of files. If however, like your recycle bin it is large - items could sit there a long time, never used again, occupying space you'd rather use elsewhere. In older computers and operating systems with smaller hard drives these caches were very small, only about 5 Megs. With newer systems such as those I'm currently setting up at work - with hard drives 40 Gigs in size, this cache is automatically set at 1.8 Gigs (just for these temporary files, I may never need!). At work I use a standard 15 megs for everyone, even heavy surfers, for most people either site hop, rarely viewing the same sites twice or visit just a few sites all the time. Either way there really is no practical need for a cache much bigger than that for in the case of the former - sites rarely visited twice, the cache would be in constant flux anyway and in the case of the latter even 15 Megs is probably too large, for that's a lot of files. I'll confess I haven't kept up with Netscape as much lately as Internet Explorer has dominated the market. However, as I write this, I'm also reminded that there are yet other browsers that folks use, which this will also apply to such as Opera and Mozilla. I'm only give you how to change the size of the cache for Netscape/Communicator and Internet Explorer, leaving it to you to find this setting on any other browser you may use. In Netscape - Edit, Preferences, Advanced, Cache - there's memory cache and disk cache here. Mine were set at 1024k (1 Meg) and 7680k (7.6 Megs) respectively. Memory cache is how much of the computer's memory is used to capture pages on a very temporary setting. The disk cache is the one I've been referring to, so I'm lowering mine in this instance to 5000K since I so rarely use Netscape. For Internet Explorer - Tools, Internet Options, in the middle of the box displayed - Temporary Internet Files, Settings, Amount of Disk Space to use - if lower than 15 Megs, probably leave it as it is, if more than 15 Megs - set to 15 Megs or whatever you so desire - remembering that this space is reserved for the browser. Another setting here that will also affect performance, but not as much as the cache is concerned - history. How long do you want your computer to keep a record of your visit to a particular site? The default is about 30 days, some have less, some like myself much more. The limits are 0 days and 999 days. If you never wish to see where you've been, set it to zero otherwise leave it alone or make it larger as you wish. The more sites you visit and the more time you keep them, will increase the amount of space required to keep said history. It's not much but then, like dust bunnies under the bed, a little here and a little there and pretty soon.... Feedback on the clarity or lack thereof appreciated. Tim

Dear Listers: Wanted to bring to your attention that the Central New York Genealogical Society has about 47 more county packets that require various amounts of volunteer work from data entry, preproofing and final proofing prior to being placed on our website as a searchable index at no cost. Yes we are looking for volunteers who would like to know more about this. So far we have two counties complete with indexes on line and searchable. To see how they work go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycnygs scrool down to NEW! and click on either county and do a search. I would like to hear you comments or questions. A county packet is a compilation of over 41 years of pre-1860 abstracted data, taken from our Genealogical Periodical, "TREE TALKS". Thank you, Jim Hartigan

Added around midnight eastern time: 1880 History of Chenango and Madison Counties - Chapter 1 - Aboriginies. Approximately 10 pages of early tribal history in central New York. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/1880-1.htm 1872 History of Madison County - Chapter 4 - Cazenovia - chapter chock full of names Chapter 5 - De Ruyter - lots of names again - early newspaper account - notes on occupations of the people and several newspapers listed in both chapters. This leaves a couple of chapters left to transcribe for this book as the rest are already in the field. ============================= PC lesson - a couple of weeks ago, I asked on the Madison list - if folks might benefit from a few simple tips to keep their PCs in tip top shape - at the best possible price - free. Since a goodly portion replied in the affirmative, I'll pass one along here to the group, then if the Chenango and Cortland lists want further, I can include them as well, in future notes of like kind. If you have a Apple computer (Mac, MacIntosh) or WebTV this part won't really help you. While I have used Macs and do have a few ideas on helping them as well, since they are nearly perfect as it is...this will be geared mostly to Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP users since all these editions of Windows have several characteristics in common. In giving my instructions, I'll try to write in clear enough language so that my Mother, who is not computer friendly could understand and/or follow my directions. ----------------------------------- Microsoft engineers in all their wisdom, or perhaps Bill Gates, have made some assumptions about the users of computers and have thus created their own set of standards as to what the original settings or default settings of a particular piece of software would have. In the past, they were extremely conservative and made some statements and decisions that have come to haunt them and plague us. In the here and now - starting with Windows 95 - and perhaps in Windows 3.0 or 3.11 - they went the other direction and have become very liberal with settings which can be tweaked by the end user, which will give their computer better performance with little downside effects. Several of these are rather simple and hopefully I can explain it so that you can understand how to do this. Such an item is one's Recycle Bin - the little trash can sitting on the desktop - screen one sees when Windows opens. The default setting for the size of the Recycle Bin is 10% of your hard drive. That means that if you have a hard drive that has a capacity of 1 Gigabyte - 100 megs is set aside, just for trash - that you 'may' toss there. By decreasing the size of the Recycle Bin to say 1% - 10 megs on a 1 Gigabyte hard drive, one frees up 9% of one's hard drive or 90 megs which are then available for you to either use to put other files on, or leave empty. Either way you win. To modify the size of your Recycle Bin, click on the Recycle Bin, right click and select properties from the selection menu. You may show more than one drive listed there - but you want to use the Global setting - ie a 1% setting for all drives - so make sure the selection you are moving the bar on, says 'Global', if you have more than one hard drive. You should see a bar graph in the middle of the part that opens - with a slide mechanism pointing to 10%. Grab the mechanism with your mouse and move it to the left until it reads 1%. Then select OK, and you are done. Feedback on the clarity or lack thereof appreciated. Tim