Dear Members of the Roll List, The Roll Family Genealogy Windmill was updated January 1, 1998 February 1, 1998 There are now almost 500 more names in the Roll family database than were there in December 1997. The Roll family tree currently contains 1464 individuals in 557 family groups. There are an additional 500+ names to add at this time from the Shipman line, and probably as many more from a number of other lines. The Earl/Earle, Boquet/Bookey, Smith/Brotherton/Schooley, Smalley, Cauldwell/Denman, Shipman, and Vreeland lines show additions. The inflow of information is now incredible. It's difficult to keep up. Another researcher sent me photographs (.GIFs) of William Marquis Shipman as a corporal in the Civil War, a .ZIP file of 227 Kb, and as a policeman in Elizabeth New Jersey, a .ZIP file of 349 Kb. If you don't have an unZIPper, I can try to send you the files as a straight email attachment. I have two books in .PDF format to share. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free, to view the documents. I can tell you where to download the program and how to set it up. One book, published by the State of Ohio, is titled "Ohio Lands - A Short History" it says the key to understanding and using Ohio land records is the original land surveys, which are unique in that state. This file is 980 Kb. This book may be freely distributed. The other book is "A Pioneer Schooley Family," published in 1941 by May Schooley Ivy. I believe the copyright on this work was not renewed, and is out of copyright. This file is 1,208 Kb. The Brothertons came from the Schooley line, some of whom changed their name from Schooley to Brotherton. The Brothertons were Quakers, and married into the Smith Family. Elizabeth Brotherton, a Quaker, married Jonathan Smith, a Baptist, and raised their daughter Anne Smith in the Baptist church. When Anne married Wesley Roll, not a Quaker, she was dismissed from the Society of Friends. But must later have rejoined the society with her husband before their death. That's why Wesley Roll and Anne Smith are in the Plainfiel Friends' Cemetery. If you are interested in any of the photographs or books, let me know. I will try to send them as an email attachment. Failing that, I believe I can upload them to the FTP area on my web page where you can download them. Never done that before, but I believe it's possible. Perhaps I can put Acrobat Reader there too, if there is room. I have reached the size limit of 2 megabytes of contiguous space for my database on America Online. ~Never~ expected this would happen. I will be forced to move the genealogy database portion of the site to another server before the next update can be made. The last move took place in January when I moved the database to another partition at America Online. But the new space proved to be inadequate in less than a week. The change is transparent to the user accessing the site directly at the original URL. So continue using http://members.aol.com/whroll This link will be maintained after the new site is in place, so you will not have to worry about changing your bookmark. Only genealogy search engines have been affected by the change. Internet FamilyFinder at Family Tree Maker will probably take a long time to notice the change. FamilyFinder is only ~experimental~ at this point, but shows promise of becoming a major tool. Like most large corporations, there is no way to communicate with a real person there. Perhaps I can make the move before Internet FamilyFinder loads up the temporary site information. GENDEX genealogy index made the change in about 15 minutes. GenMatch adjusted their database very quickly. There have been some updates in other areas also. Sincerely, William Henry Roll [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ William Henry Roll Blythe, California [email protected] The Roll Family Genealogy Windmill http://members.aol.com/whroll "A thousand candles have burned themselves out; yet I read on."