Ann, Where and for whom are you researching in Iowa? My dad was raised there and I am very fond of that state. I had a lot of ancestors there, all migrating in from New England, Germany, Virginia. Sharon

Virginia: It has been so long since I downloaded it I can't remember but I would think you would want to save it to your computer so you will have it installed for future use. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. Ruth

You're very welcome - wish I could take credit but it was passed on by another "lurker"- just the ticket for we seniors. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Callahan" <tlcallahan@mindspring.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] mafnifying blass v1.01 | Hello Ruth; | | Just wanted to say thank you for a great tool. | My eyes are not what they used to be, and my eye glasses do not help a lot | on census, so this glass is just the ticket. | | Thanks, | Tim Callahan | tlcallahan@mindspring.com | | From: Ruth Tysor | To: Rockingchair-roots-L@ancestry.com | Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:40 PM | Subject: MAGNIFYING CLASS | | Recently someone asked how to inlarge a printed page. For years I've used | the following download: HTTP://24.124.23.2/programs/archives/index.htm | You will enjoy it. Just go down to "magnifying glass v1.01" and download. | There will be a little magnifying glass show up on your desk top that | states "shortcut to oldpeople". Just click on that and a tiny little glass | will show up on the lower right of your screen and you can click it on and | off all day as you need it. It is priceless for reading census records. | Ruth Tysor | | | | Thanks; | Tim Callahan | tlcallahan@mindpsring.com | | | ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== | HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: | please click here and send: | mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe | | ============================== | 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 |

Maxine: Here is the link to the magnifying glass. Ruth Tysor ----- Original Message ----- > > Subject: MAGNIFYING CLASS > > > > Recently someone asked how to inlarge a printed page. For years I've > > used the following download: > > HTTP://24.124.23.2/programs/archives/index.htm > > You will enjoy it. Just go down to "magnifying glass v1.01" and > > download. There will be a little magnifying glass show up on your desk > > top that states "shortcut to oldpeople". Just click on that and a tiny > > little glass will show up on the lower right of your screen and you > > can click it on and off all day as you need it. It is priceless for > > reading census records. > > Ruth Tysor > > > > > > > > Thanks; > > Tim Callahan > > tlcallahan@mindpsring.com > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: > > please click here and send: > > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM LIST MODE: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > 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

am lurker too- always pciking up tidbits. Ann--Florida and Iowa

Yes, I am one of those that read every message but never reply. I've copied a lot for future reference. I have used that magnifying glass for several years and love it. I thought some of you might also have some use for it. I don't know what all of you do with your computer but I have done genealogy now for the last 12 years, every day like it was a job. By the way, I like it better than any job I ever had. HA! I use W98. I know how to do what I do and nothing else. So when something goes wrong I call one of two people. My daughter or the repair man. This list is wonderful. And the Senior NEWBIE list too. They are great helps and what has amazed me is the patients several people have had in helping others through their problems. They are truely amazing and have a rare talent. This is why you don't hear from me. I don't know when to stop. Ruth Tysor in SW Iowa

Thanks for the "old people glass" Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Callahan" <tlcallahan@mindspring.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 5:36 PM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] mafnifying blass v1.01 > Hello Ruth; > > Just wanted to say thank you for a great tool. > My eyes are not what they used to be, and my eye glasses do not help a lot > on census, so this glass is just the ticket. > > Thanks, > Tim Callahan > tlcallahan@mindspring.com > > From: Ruth Tysor > To: Rockingchair-roots-L@ancestry.com > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:40 PM > Subject: MAGNIFYING CLASS > > Recently someone asked how to inlarge a printed page. For years I've used > the following download: HTTP://24.124.23.2/programs/archives/index.htm > You will enjoy it. Just go down to "magnifying glass v1.01" and download. > There will be a little magnifying glass show up on your desk top that > states "shortcut to oldpeople". Just click on that and a tiny little glass > will show up on the lower right of your screen and you can click it on and > off all day as you need it. It is priceless for reading census records. > Ruth Tysor > > > > Thanks; > Tim Callahan > tlcallahan@mindpsring.com > > ______________________________

Hi. I have a question possibly someone can answer. Some time ago I requested on freegenalogylookups, the name of Absalom Clark. The answer came back that there was an Absalom Clark in the database NGS Quarterly, Volumes 1-85, disk 1. Supplement III, page 47, disk 2. Can someone please tell me what all this means, and where I would Iook for a National Genealogical Society Quarterly? Is this a magazine? Would my library have access to it? Thanks, Virginia in CA

Hello Virginia.....Nice to hear from you. Yes,I was replying to Rosemarys message about not being able to locate her folks in St. Louis. I suggested she try the adjoining counties. We had many, many couples from St. Louis come to Franklin County for their license. The licenses were always published in local papers..so we just thought they did not want their names in St. Louis papers....Ha! Yes Franklin County marriage records date from 1819. May I ask what family are you searching in St.Louis? Good luck in your searches....all the best, Lois

Ruth, I put up the web site to download it, but didn't know what to do then. Do I click "open" or "save"? Virginia > [Original Message] > From: Tim Callahan <tlcallahan@mindspring.com> > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 5/5/03 6:36:46 PM > Subject: [RC-ROOTS] mafnifying blass v1.01 > > Hello Ruth; > > Just wanted to say thank you for a great tool. > My eyes are not what they used to be, and my eye glasses do not help a lot > on census, so this glass is just the ticket. > > Thanks, > Tim Callahan > tlcallahan@mindspring.com > > From: Ruth Tysor > To: Rockingchair-roots-L@ancestry.com > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:40 PM > Subject: MAGNIFYING CLASS > > Recently someone asked how to inlarge a printed page. For years I've used > the following download: HTTP://24.124.23.2/programs/archives/index.htm > You will enjoy it. Just go down to "magnifying glass v1.01" and download. > There will be a little magnifying glass show up on your desk top that > states "shortcut to oldpeople". Just click on that and a tiny little glass > will show up on the lower right of your screen and you can click it on and > off all day as you need it. It is priceless for reading census records. > Ruth Tysor > > > > Thanks; > Tim Callahan > tlcallahan@mindpsring.com > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > 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

Hello Ruth; Just wanted to say thank you for a great tool. My eyes are not what they used to be, and my eye glasses do not help a lot on census, so this glass is just the ticket. Thanks, Tim Callahan tlcallahan@mindspring.com From: Ruth Tysor To: Rockingchair-roots-L@ancestry.com Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: MAGNIFYING CLASS Recently someone asked how to inlarge a printed page. For years I've used the following download: HTTP://24.124.23.2/programs/archives/index.htm You will enjoy it. Just go down to "magnifying glass v1.01" and download. There will be a little magnifying glass show up on your desk top that states "shortcut to oldpeople". Just click on that and a tiny little glass will show up on the lower right of your screen and you can click it on and off all day as you need it. It is priceless for reading census records. Ruth Tysor Thanks; Tim Callahan tlcallahan@mindpsring.com

Hi, Where can I find the magnifying glass? Thanks, Maxine Tim Callahan wrote: > Hello Ruth; > > Just wanted to say thank you for a great tool. > My eyes are not what they used to be, and my eye glasses do not help a > lot > on census, so this glass is just the ticket. > > Thanks, > Tim Callahan > tlcallahan@mindspring.com > > From: Ruth Tysor > To: Rockingchair-roots-L@ancestry.com > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:40 PM > Subject: MAGNIFYING CLASS > > Recently someone asked how to inlarge a printed page. For years I've > used the following download: > HTTP://24.124.23.2/programs/archives/index.htm > You will enjoy it. Just go down to "magnifying glass v1.01" and > download. There will be a little magnifying glass show up on your desk > top that states "shortcut to oldpeople". Just click on that and a tiny > little glass will show up on the lower right of your screen and you > can click it on and off all day as you need it. It is priceless for > reading census records. > Ruth Tysor > > > > Thanks; > Tim Callahan > tlcallahan@mindpsring.com > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > 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 > >

Lois, I am searching for information on 2 families. Two sisters came from England abt 1869 toSt. Louis.- they both married there, as far as I can tell. Family name was Haslam. Girls were Louisa Mae, born 1850, and Helen, born 1852. Louisa married Frederick Hackey, born 1850 in Prussia. Later divorced. They are on the 1880 St. Louis census. Helen married (unknown) Robinson. I believe they both died, as Helen Robinson's daughter was adopted by her aunt, Louisa. I have no dates on any of them prior to the 1880 census. They could have married outside of St. Louis city - I have no clue. The St. Louis librarian can find nothing. Thanks for your interest. Virginia Leighty > [Original Message] > From: <Lois1926@webtv.net (Lois74)> > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 5/5/03 6:03:29 PM > Subject: [RC-ROOTS] MO Marriages > > Hello Virginia.....Nice to hear from you. > Yes,I was replying to Rosemarys message about not being > able to locate her folks in St. Louis. I > suggested she try the adjoining counties. > We had many, many couples from St. Louis come to Franklin County for > their > license. The licenses were always published in local papers..so we just > thought they did not want their names > in St. Louis papers....Ha! > Yes Franklin County marriage records date from 1819. > May I ask what family are you searching in St.Louis? > > Good luck in your searches....all the best, > Lois > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO CONTACT THE LIST ADMIN: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > 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

Just another lurker-and another Dorothy. I have been seeing several lately. I am reading and printing a lot of the tips that sound like something I might need someday(and I seem to need a lot,My forgetter is better thn my rememberer anymore.) I have already used several. Anyway, thanks for all and it has been wonderful the last few days. So many messages!!!!!. Dorothy from northern Indiana

Fantastic hunting Juanita. Congratulations even tho you are still hunting Clara. Thank you for sharing Gold ----- Original Message ----- From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:55 PM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Breaking thru brick walls - Part 3 > I hope this will wind up the route I've taken to find my family. Clara > Hampton, as I said previously, seems to have disappeared shortly > after November 1882. I searched thru everything I could find in the > counties surrounding Jefferson Co. IA to see if she possibly moved > nearby. Finding nothing I was beginning to be discouraged. Then > one day we were in a library in Illinois, looking for military > information on one of my paternal grandfather's civil war service. I > was browsing the shelves of the state library, and happened onto a > small book about Mexican War pensions. In my research in Ohio > into the Hampton and Stidger families, I found my Clara's father, > George Stidger, had been a veteran of the Mexican War. I hadn't > been able to find much on him in the Ohio records. In fact, > researching a "Geo. Stidger" became a gigantic job. There are five > or six "Geo. Stidgers"....and I was getting hopelessly lost trying to > sort them out. > > But this is about my search for Clara's whereabouts. I opened the > little book of Mexican War pensioners and as usual, went to the > index, searching for "Hampton" and "Stidger". Much to my surprise, > there was an "Emily Stidger, widow of George Stidger". These were > Clara's parents! Elated....I went home and immediately ordered the > pension file on George Stidger's Mexican War service. I received > 42 pages of info! That buoyed my spirits. I spent a week or more > just poring over the contents of the 42 pages of affidavits. They > were chock full of new and interesting facts. And surprises. I found > Clara's mother, Emily, had filed for the pension long after her > husband, George's death. By that time she'd moved to Indian > Territory in the Choctaw Nation down in the SE part of what is now > Oklahoma. Emily came from an old, established long time resident > family in Ohio. She had been born in OH, married there, reared a > large family but for some reason had gone to Indian Territory in the > late 1880's. > > In the affidavits were statements about why she needed the pension > (she was as destitute, apparently, as her daughter, Clara) and said > she'd been her only support, working as a servant. She said she'd > spent some time after the death of her husband, George, in Fairfield > IA (where my Clara was living!), in Cincinnati OH and then Kansas > City MO and Johnson Co. KS before going to the Choctaw Nation to > the town of Lehigh. To my chagrin, she never mentioned the names > of any of her children, nor why she went to Indian Territory. Some > of the affidavits were signed by a Chas. T. Gardner though and I > found Mary, one of Clara's sisters, had married a Chas. T. Gardner > in OH about the same time as she and Levi Hampton married. I've > been told Chas. T. Gardner and Mary moved to MO, but after > personally going to Dallas Co. MO where they supposedly lived, > found nothing. > > Looking thru the Kansas City MO city directories I found Emily > Stidger was living there for a short time too, so I feel certain she > was probably living with one married child or another. However, > none of my searching has shown anyone named "Clara"! > > Last year, I concentrated on researching Clara's brother, Harmon P. > Stidger. I found his marriage record in Meigs Co. OH and the fact > he and his wife moved to Jefferson Co. Iowa. Apparently he and his > sister, Clara went to Iowa about the same time. I lost Harmon > though in Jefferson Co. after the 1885 state census. Since Van > Buren Co. isn't far from Jefferson Co., I began searching there. > Sure enough, Harmon had moved with his family to Van Buren Co. > He, like his father back in Ohio, were plasterers and I suspect he > moved to where the jobs were. On one census he said he'd been > out of work for several months. After 1900 his name was gone from > Van Buren. Because he'd been born in Ohio, I wondered if he went > back there, but I had no idea what county he might have gone since > I didn't find him back in his home county of Meigs. Then the Ohio > Death Records came online. I put the name Harmon Stidger in the > computer and found "Harmon P. Stidger". He died in 1926 in > Columbus OH. Another victory, I thought....now, I'd find where his > sister, Clara was. I obtained his obituary from a Columbus > newspaper. Disappointed, it gave the names of his survivors as his > wife, two daughters, one son, one sister ("Kate") and one brother. > Clara was not mentioned. The Columbus newspaper had added a > footnote to the obit: "Fairfield, IA. newspaper, please copy". That > encouraged me. We went to Fairfield again and thanks to the > people in that library and especially to Verda Baird (who calls herself > the court house 'snoop') the obituaries from many Fairfield > newspapers have been indexed. All I had to do was to find Harmon > P. Stidger's name on an index card citing the paper and page no. I > found a lengthy article about Harmon's death in Ohio....it gave > details about his stay in Fairfield and when he moved back to Ohio, > as well names of his survivors. Sad to say, Clara still was not > mentioned. > > I also followed up on Harmon's two daughters and son, finding their > obituaries - still no mention of Clara as their aunt. I wrote to the > Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus to get a plat layout of the > cemetery plot where the family is buried. No Clara. > > I found a relative in Texas quite by accident who was a grandson of > Clara's youngest brother who was a young 4 or 5 yr. old when Emily > Stidger became a widow. She apparently took him with her to Indian > Territory as he grew up there and married in IT. A descendant of his > gave me the date of his death and sent me his obituary. He died in > the 1940's in Texas....of course, his sister, Clara, was not > mentioned. > > One year we made a special trip to California where a couple of my > Dad's elderly cousins lived. They were sisters of my paternal > grandfather. I thought they might remember some of the stories > about my grandmother Ada who had married their brother. They just > shook their heads and said they knew very little about her. All they > could say was she'd been a beautiful young girl working in a > newspaper office at night when she and my grandfather met. No > one seemed to know a thing about her family. > > I'm still looking for Clara Hampton.....I have about exhausted all > avenues I can think of. I continue to search, continue asking, and > hoping somehow something will turn up that will answer the plaguing > question of what happened to my Clara Hampton. > > Genealogy is hard work. In fact, I never worked so hard in my life as > I have since I retired. But it's been exciting and fun and an > experience I wouldn't trade for anything. > > A PS to this story: My grandmother Ada and my grandfather spent > 40 yrs. together, devoted to each other. They died on Easter > Sunday, at the same time, in 1932. Ada was 55 yrs. old, my > grandfather 64. She died of a blood clot, my granddad died at her > bedside of a heart attack when the Dr. said "she's gone". > > juanita > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM LIST MODE: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > 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 > >

Helen Ware, living in MA, are you familiar with any Tatros? Been looking for relatives of Mattie Tatro, (marriedBreault), for years. Thanks for reading, jg in Nebraska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Ware" <helenware@attbi.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] Re: ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D Digest > Hello to all, > I am also another lurker. I do read every post and never seem to have > anything to add. But I do enjoy the list. > I live in Massachusetts and spring is finally here and trees and flowers are > in bloom and everything looks lovely. > I do not have a rocking chair or a cat, but I have a recliner and a little > Chihuahua who is smaller than most cats! > I hope no one on this list experienced any of the terrible and destructive > weather yesterday in the south and mid-weat, a really bad weather system. > Take care and keep the list active! > Helen > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO CONTACT THE LIST ADMIN: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > 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 >

Lillian, I have gotten fantastic help from people, following a message-board posting. I just received from one of them a document of 48 pages of new ancestors. These are all Dutch folks who settled in Ulster County, New York. Very tricky to enter, because the names are so unfamiliar. Such as: Hasael Matthyssen Van Keuren. There aren't many brick walls among that group in southeastern New York. Births, baptisms, marriages, deaths were all recorded in the church records, and everyone attended the churches. FANTASTIC! Sharon

Have you tried your states archives. Missouri has records of all their citizen's war records and are free for the asking. Hope this helps. Rosemary

Haave you tried a library in Washington, D.C. Our local public libraries have films of papers in St. Louis that are no longer in business. Ancestry.com has a newspaper collection, but it is a paid service Rosemary

I am also a lurker trying to learn what I can Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Haller" <ahaller@i2k.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] Re: ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D Digest > Hello to the list! I am another "lurker". I read every message and save > all the good computer tips and fixes for when I will need them (keep my > fingers crossed that it's not too soon) <Grin> I use ME on the desktop and > XP on the laptop. I have not tried a posting before, hope I'm doing it > correctly! > Anna in Northern MI, still waiting for spring! > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: > > please click here and send: > > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > > > ============================== > > 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 > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > 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 >