Thank you Juanita. I thought the books & CDs were by the years or port so I was hoping someone on the list might own what I was looking for. Gold ----- Original Message ----- From: "juanita" <juanita2@cox.net> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America > "Germans to America" is 60+ volumes. A no. of the larger libraries have the set. Here's a website that may help: > > http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/emig/gta-holdings.html > > juanita > > Hi, > > Could SKS help me on this please. > > Gold > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gold" <Silver9876@earthlink.net> > > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:44 PM > > Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America Does anyone have access to the Germans to America books or the "Genealogy" site and if so could they please find a Christian Rau that came to America 1887 and tell me whatever info. is given. The Genealogy site says there is one. A subscription is needed to obtain the info. > Thank you.

ITEMS FROM THE EDITOR'S VIRTUAL DESK. What's a Squire? From Christine M. Burton thehoyan@bellsouth.net Question. A friend and I had a discussion about the title, "Esquire." Both of us read somewhere that the title "Esquire" before a name meant That person was a lawyer. I am a reader. I'll read anything. If I can't Find a good book, I'll resort to reading cereal box and canned good labels, but what I really like are classics, such as, David Copperfield and Tale of Two Cities. I also enjoy a well-written "who done it" especially one by a British author (they seem to have made of the genre a science). In all those novels, I have continually met fictional "esquires" and never got the impression that any of them were lawyers. The impression I got was that they were men of importance in their communities, but not royalty. My friend expressed the opinion that the title of esquire may be one applied only to American lawyers. Could you or some of your readers shed some light on this? I've found several "esquires" in my family tree and if they were lawyers it's news to me, but then, just their names amounts to "news to me." Answer: Esquire was "the title given to any owner of a large tract of land. It was also the title given to a Justice of the Peace, but as nearly every lawyer in Colonial America at one time became a J. P., the title ultimately devolved on all lawyers. The word was originally squire from the Latin scutarius -- 'shield-bearer.'" (Richard M. Lederer, Jr., Colonial American English (Essex, Connecticut: A Verbatim Book, 1985) page 80. However, like with so many things we learn in genealogy, there are other meanings, so one must take the time and locality into consideration for how this term might apply in a particular situation. For example, esquire also: --Refers to a man or boy who is a member of the gentry in England ranking directly below a knight. --Is used as an honorific usually in its abbreviated form, especially after the name of an attorney or a consular officer: John Doe, Esq.; --Used in medieval times for a candidate for knighthood who served a knight as an attendant and a shield bearer. --Refers to an English country gentleman; a squire. (archaic) -- from the Middle English esquier, from the French escuier.] Black's Law Dictionary points that the term esquire, as used in the United States, is different from its usage in English law. It says: "In English law, a title of dignity next above gentleman, and below knight. Also a title of office given to sheriffs, serjeants and barristers at law, justices of the peace, and others. In United States, title commonly appended after name of attorney; e.g. John J. Jones, Esquire."

www.genealogy.com Gold ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Arnold" <judy@ntacustomjewelers.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America > Could you send me the URL you are > speaking of. > Thank You, > Judy > > Gold wrote: > > > Hi, > > Could SKS help me on this please. > > Gold > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gold" <Silver9876@earthlink.net> > > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:44 PM > > Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America > > Does anyone have access to the Germans to America books or the "Genealogy" site and if so could they please find a Christian Rau that came to America 1887 and tell me whatever info. is given. The Genealogy site says there is one. A subscription is needed to obtain the info. Thank you. Gold

Could you send me the URL you are speaking of. Thank You, Judy Gold wrote: > Hi, > Could SKS help me on this please. > Gold > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gold" <Silver9876@earthlink.net> > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:44 PM > Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America > > > > > Does anyone have access to the Germans to America books > > or the "Genealogy" site and if so could they please find a Christian Rau > that came to America 1887 and tell me whatever info. is given. > > The Genealogy site says there is one. > > A subscription is needed to obtain the info. > > Thank you. > > ==== 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

"Germans to America" is 60+ volumes. A no. of the larger libraries have the set. Here's a website that may help: http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/emig/gta-holdings.html juanita > Hi, > Could SKS help me on this please. > Gold > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gold" <Silver9876@earthlink.net> > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:44 PM > Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America > > > > > > Does anyone have access to the Germans to America books > > or the "Genealogy" site and if so could they please find a > > Christian Rau > that came to America 1887 and tell me whatever info. is given. > > The Genealogy site says there is one. > A subscription is needed > to obtain the info. > Thank you. > > ______________________________

Ancestry Quick Tip Sharing Mother's Stories with the Whole Family For several years I had been audiotaping stories that my mother had been sharing with me. We would laugh and howl at some of the antics she was involved in as a young girl of the 20s and 30s. She also shared losing a beloved younger brother, descriptions of her grandparents and great-grandparents, stories of her driving a fuel truck during WWII, and many other wonderful tales. I typed up all the stories, added some pictures of her at appropriate ages with the stories, and printed up copies of this book for my family members for Christmas 2000. The response was overwhelming! My cousins have since received copies, as their parents were siblings or cousins mentioned in the book. My mother, now 83, is still full of marvelous stories that we are currently audiotaping for Volume Two. Susan Mackey

Hi, Could SKS help me on this please. Gold ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gold" <Silver9876@earthlink.net> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 9:44 PM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Germans to America > > Does anyone have access to the Germans to America books > or the "Genealogy" site and if so could they please find a Christian Rau that came to America 1887 and tell me whatever info. is given. > The Genealogy site says there is one. > A subscription is needed to obtain the info. > Thank you.

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Mulatto was a mixed race person, generally part black and part white. Aloha Wayne, NH6K -----Original Message----- From: Cathe125@aol.com [mailto:Cathe125@aol.com] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:46 AM To: ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Abbreviations in census question..??? Abbreviations HH - household m - male f - female M - mulatto C - colored Wid or W'd - widow/widower In the old Census, this are the descriptions used. Can anyone explain the EXACT meaning on the one for (M - Mulatto), please..??? Thanks, Cathey ==== 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

Ancestry Quick Tip Jamboree Free Blank Maps I recently read a tip regarding using government mapping sites and books to find blank maps to plot your own ancestor's migration paths. One suggestion was to make your own by tracing a map out of a book. But once in a while you have to think outside the genealogy box and consider what may be available from sources outside of those, which are commonly used by genealogists. Doing a web search for "blank maps," I came upon a wealth of sites offering free blank maps. One such site has blank maps in printable versions of continents, countries, and U.S. counties. This site is aimed towards helping school children but is perfect for genealogists too. It is called geography.about.com. If you want a wall-size map, you can take it to Kinko's or some other copying service and have it blown up. Diana Thornton Beaumont, Tex. Family Letter of Remembrance On the first anniversary of my 89-year-old mother's death, my brother and I exchanged e-mails about her and the house she lived in for 56 years. The two actually went hand-in-hand with our memories. I put a photo of the house on a Microsoft Word document along with our emails and sent it to her fourteen grandchildren. I asked them if they'd like to contribute to this. Thus began a beautiful walk down memory lane with little tidbits of seemingly insignificant events of long ago. More photos were added to the avalanche of nostalgia. Together we created a wonderful document. Chris Snyder Marlborough, Mass. Print Preview Function Saves Paper Whenever I need to print one of the articles from the "Ancestry Daily News," I use the printer-friendly version, but first I use the print preview feature of my browser (most of the popular ones have this). That way I know how many pages will be printed. If I find that the last page to be printed would only have the copyright information, I exit the preview and select edit on the tool bar and select all from the drop down menu. Then I copy the information, in its entirety to MSWord. It usually scales the article down a page, saving paper. This also gives you the advantage of being able to adjust the size of the text, if you need to. Lisa Troy, Mich. Lightning out of the Blue Although I am no longer living in Florida, which is the lightning capital of the USA, I still unplug my computer and everything that concerns the computer when I hear an approaching thunderstorm. I am often reminded of an experience I had in the days before computers while I was in Miami, Florida, about an hour before an expected afternoon rain. One sunny afternoon, I was sitting on the couch watching TV and I heard thunder, although the sky was blue with a few white fluffy clouds. Before I could get up, lightning struck the transformer behind our home. As a result, everything was fried in the TV. (I wasn't too upset because I wanted a color TV.) I was always glad that I was a little slow getting off of the couch (by a few seconds) or I probably wouldn't be here to share my story about safeguarding computers. So, be extra careful while unplugging appliances during an approaching thunderstorm. Guess this is the kind of experience from which the old saying about "Lightning out of the Blue" originated. Jackie (Sheafer) Cramer El Paso, Tex.

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In a message dated 9/26/2003 4:46:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, fairplay51@yahoo.com writes: Am interested in contacting anyone with roots in district 15 of Sumner County, Halltown/New deal ------ Hi- Your best best would be to join the RootsWeb list for this county--you will find it under the TN lists in the Index: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ This list is designed to help with hints and tips for research but isn't the best list for actual surname or locality research. Joan

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Thanks so much. Will follow your suggestion on the e-lists. Noelie

Thanks, Candy, for your reply. Most helpful. I do have a VERY old address of an elderly relative in France; don't know if she is still living. I will take a chance and write to her - see if someone answers or if the letter is returned. Noelie

if she is really elderly, she may not take the time to write or she may have arthritis or may not even be able to afford the postage ! Rootsweb seems to have e-lists for EVERYWHERE; (and for nearly any conceivable surname) my suggestion would be to get on one of those having to do with French lineages, and see if you can find someone on the list, living in France, who could contact her directly; in return you might be able to research something for that person in the U.S. if that doesn't work, there is someone on our quilting e-list who lives in France and just might do it .. don't wait, I have been two weeks "too late" to contact several relatives or researchers -- I think we were all shocked to have Jackie Drybread die so young (and at her computer working on genealogy at that) C ----- Original Message ----- From: <Yayanb@aol.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: September 25, 2003 11:49 AM Subject: [RC-ROOTS] Ancestry-France > Thanks, Candy, for your reply. Most helpful. I do have a VERY old address of > an elderly relative in France; don't know if she is still living. I will take > a chance and write to her - see > if someone answers or if the letter is returned. > Noelie

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And would someone who uses Ancestry and is searching England and/or Germany, advise if they have found the program to be helpful? Thank you. Ruth