Maybe the Facebook page could be a way to encourage people to join it's sister Rootsweb list? The one strong asset of the Rootsweb lists are the searchable archives, but Facebook does have the advantage of allowing for the posting of photos. Bette Collins On Feb 3, 2012, at 6:46 PM, Wstjs@aol.com wrote: > > It will be just harder to get to and more trouble to write an answer to > help people or ask for help, like the other sites that Ancestry has set up > for email so most of us will just skip it. I don't know why so many people > left the Rootsweb email programs that are so easy to use and at one time were > full of people offering help and people needing help. > Janet > > In a message dated 2/3/2012 5:23:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, > edmckeown1@comcast.net writes: > > Joan, > What are the benefits of a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook?? > Ed McKeown > > > > > >> I've started a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook is anyone is >> interested in broadening their horizons and adding to their arsenal of >> research >> tools and resources: >> >> http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/322575227784091/ >> >> Joan, admin >> PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com >> PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com >> >> >> ********* >> Visit the threaded archives of this list: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS >> ********* >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

There is room for both. This isn't an end to the lists...please use them as you always have. Whether or not you would ALSO like to join the Facebook group is a matter of personal choice. Just like some people prefer chocolate or vanilla--and others like both. Additional resources are never a bad thing. Joan In a message dated 2/3/2012 6:52:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Wstjs@aol.com writes: It will be just harder to get to and more trouble to write an answer to help people or ask for help, like the other sites that Ancestry has set up for email so most of us will just skip it. I don't know why so many people left the Rootsweb email programs that are so easy to use and at one time were full of people offering help and people needing help. Janet

Regardless...this was a VA error and not an error made by Ancestry.com. The deceased have no privacy rights while the living do...those misidentified as being deceased were the result of an error on the part of the VA. I think we've discussed this issue sufficiently on the list. Thanks! Joan, admin PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com In a message dated 2/3/2012 6:50:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, rjfenner@comcast.net writes: As I understand it, somewhere between 2,200 and 4,500 living veterans were affected, all of whom had been misidentified in the VA's records as deceased. Bad enough, especially for an agency that has done this before, but nothing like the 14.5 million claimed in Mr. Stackhouse's e-mail. See http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2250. Bob, Marlton, NJ ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As I understand it, somewhere between 2,200 and 4,500 living veterans were affected, all of whom had been misidentified in the VA's records as deceased. Bad enough, especially for an agency that has done this before, but nothing like the 14.5 million claimed in Mr. Stackhouse's e-mail. See http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2250. Bob, Marlton, NJ

It will be just harder to get to and more trouble to write an answer to help people or ask for help, like the other sites that Ancestry has set up for email so most of us will just skip it. I don't know why so many people left the Rootsweb email programs that are so easy to use and at one time were full of people offering help and people needing help. Janet In a message dated 2/3/2012 5:23:50 P.M. Central Standard Time, edmckeown1@comcast.net writes: Joan, What are the benefits of a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook?? Ed McKeown > I've started a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook is anyone is > interested in broadening their horizons and adding to their arsenal of > research > tools and resources: > > http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/322575227784091/ > > Joan, admin > PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com > PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS *********

Jane, You are absolutely right. Ancestry should be stopped publicizing the personal information of living persons. That is entirely wrong and unethical among the well known expert genealogists. It is also particularly dangerous to the living persons in this day and age. They should be stopped somehow. Janet In a message dated 2/3/2012 2:51:14 P.M. Central Standard Time, rhamilton26@tampabay.rr.com writes: Ancestry also has our full name, date of birth and address in their open public records! Somehow they should be stopped at public/living folks information. Jane -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Stackhouse Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 1:40 PM To: allaboutphilly yahoo ; paphila@rootsweb ; philly-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] Data release, ArmyTimes ancestry.com >From “ArmyTimes”, 6 February 2012 VA releases living vets’ data to genealogy website in error By Patricia Kime The names and Social Security numbers of as many as 4,542 living veterans were posted on the popular genealogy website Ancestry.com for at least nine months in 2011- a gaffe the Veterans Affairs Department attributes to erroneous record-keeping. In a Jan. 20 news release , VA said it released the information of 14.5 million veterans—names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and death… to Ancestry.com in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. … Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights, President Emeritus, Germantown Historical Society. Author: "Germantown in the Civil War" The History Press, 635 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, SC 29403 www.historypress.net Now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBookstore on iPad, Google's eBookstore. “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry -

Hi, Ed- Just an additional research tool. We may pick up some people who are not subscribed to our lists and prefer Facebook...and it can also serve as a place to post photos and other images not suitable for our lists. Joan In a message dated 2/3/2012 6:23:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, edmckeown1@comcast.net writes: Joan, What are the benefits of a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook?? Ed McKeown

Joan, What are the benefits of a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook?? Ed McKeown > I've started a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook is anyone is > interested in broadening their horizons and adding to their arsenal of > research > tools and resources: > > http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/322575227784091/ > > Joan, admin > PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com > PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It's there...just use the link I provided. Joan In a message dated 2/3/2012 2:43:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, marmfin@verizon.net writes: Joan, It's not showing. Great idea! Mary Finley

Ancestry also has our full name, date of birth and address in their open public records! Somehow they should be stopped at public/living folks information. Jane -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Stackhouse Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 1:40 PM To: allaboutphilly yahoo ; paphila@rootsweb ; philly-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] Data release, ArmyTimes ancestry.com >From “ArmyTimes”, 6 February 2012 VA releases living vets’ data to genealogy website in error By Patricia Kime The names and Social Security numbers of as many as 4,542 living veterans were posted on the popular genealogy website Ancestry.com for at least nine months in 2011- a gaffe the Veterans Affairs Department attributes to erroneous record-keeping. In a Jan. 20 news release , VA said it released the information of 14.5 million veterans—names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and death… to Ancestry.com in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. … Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights, President Emeritus, Germantown Historical Society. Author: "Germantown in the Civil War" The History Press, 635 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, SC 29403 www.historypress.net Now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBookstore on iPad, Google's eBookstore. “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry - ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4783 - Release Date: 02/03/12

Joan, It's not showing. Great idea! Mary Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com>; <philly-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:10 PM Subject: [Phly-Rts] Philadelphia Genealogy Group on Facebook > I've started a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook is anyone is > interested in broadening their horizons and adding to their arsenal of > research > tools and resources: > > http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/322575227784091/ > > Joan, admin > PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com > PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I've started a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook is anyone is interested in broadening their horizons and adding to their arsenal of research tools and resources: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/322575227784091/ Joan, admin PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com

>From “ArmyTimes”, 6 February 2012 VA releases living vets’ data to genealogy website in error By Patricia Kime The names and Social Security numbers of as many as 4,542 living veterans were posted on the popular genealogy website Ancestry.com for at least nine months in 2011- a gaffe the Veterans Affairs Department attributes to erroneous record-keeping. In a Jan. 20 news release , VA said it released the information of 14.5 million veterans—names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and death… to Ancestry.com in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. … Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights, President Emeritus, Germantown Historical Society. Author: "Germantown in the Civil War" The History Press, 635 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, SC 29403 www.historypress.net Now available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBookstore on iPad, Google's eBookstore. “The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government lest it come to dominate our lives and interests”. - Patrick Henry -

Joan,I apply for it on facebook but never received acceptance.Chocy > From: JYoung6180@aol.com > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:10:47 -0500 > To: PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com; philly-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Phly-Rts] Philadelphia Genealogy Group on Facebook > > I've started a Philadelphia Genealogy group on Facebook is anyone is > interested in broadening their horizons and adding to their arsenal of research > tools and resources: > > http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/322575227784091/ > > Joan, admin > PAPHILAD@rootsweb.com > PHILLY-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am looking for an obituary for Susan (Heary) Sharra who died on October 28, 2006 in Philadelphia. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Some years back I researched with Dan Wilson on the Agnew’s. Wondering if Dan is still with the group? Would like to contact him with new Agnew information. Thanks, Jane

Thank you all for your helpful responses-obviously it has been awhile since I visited a FHC! I will order online. Thanks again. Kathy

The Philadelphia City Archives should also have those records. On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Barbara Lynch wrote: > have you tried the FHC in Cherry Hill??? > > Barbara > > -----Original Message----- > From: kathy918@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:12 PM > To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Phly-Rts] Marriage records 1906 > > Hello > I have a marriage in Philadelphia in 1906 (I have the index # and > names)--I seem to remember that these records were filmed and > available from a FHC. I'm in NJ about a half an hour from > Philadelphia. Is there a way to check if any area centers have the > film on hand? I know I can order it as well. > Thanks so much for your help. > Kathy Karn > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kathy, If you send me the year and license number, I can give you the corresponding roll of film to order. With this you get the front page, license application and ministers return. Film is now ordered (credit card) over the net and the LDS will call when it is in for your viewing. They do not keep copies on hand. Or you can send to the Phila. Archives for a typed out copy. About $10. Jane -----Original Message----- From: kathy918@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:12 PM To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] Marriage records 1906 Hello I have a marriage in Philadelphia in 1906 (I have the index # and names)--I seem to remember that these records were filmed and available from a FHC. I'm in NJ about a half an hour from Philadelphia. Is there a way to check if any area centers have the film on hand? I know I can order it as well. Thanks so much for your help. Kathy Karn ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4763 - Release Date: 01/24/12

have you tried the FHC in Cherry Hill??? Barbara -----Original Message----- From: kathy918@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:12 PM To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com Subject: [Phly-Rts] Marriage records 1906 Hello I have a marriage in Philadelphia in 1906 (I have the index # and names)--I seem to remember that these records were filmed and available from a FHC. I'm in NJ about a half an hour from Philadelphia. Is there a way to check if any area centers have the film on hand? I know I can order it as well. Thanks so much for your help. Kathy Karn ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message