Aha! That must be the reason! Couldn't figure out why not a single message from groups on Rootsweb and Jewishgen - both hosted by ancestry came through! Regards, Sherri Goldberg Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: Karen Isaacson Leverich Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 5:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ROOTS-L] RootsWeb is back up Ancestry and pretty much every site it hosted was taken down last week by a Denial of Service attack. I have no details. But in order to protect against such a thing happening in the future, all the sites stayed down while the architecture was reworked. Again, I have no details. Maybe the mailing lists are back up. If you're reading this, yes! If not, not so much... Karen ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to [email protected] and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Gale Em -----Original Message----- From: GALE GORMAN [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 5:24 PM To: Emery St Cyr Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] how to reach owner of family tree found on Ancestory Right click on the owner's name and a menu will drop down. One option is 'contact the owner' and then it will be up to the owner if they respond. Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 24, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Emery St Cyr <[email protected]> wrote: Hello searchers. I found a family tree for one of my lines on Ancestry. This is the first time I have used this feature and I want to know if there is any way to make contact with the owner of this tree so we can share information? Thank you for any help. Em ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to [email protected] and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Right click on the owner's name and a menu will drop down. One option is 'contact the owner' and then it will be up to the owner if they respond. Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 24, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Emery St Cyr <[email protected]> wrote: Hello searchers. I found a family tree for one of my lines on Ancestry. This is the first time I have used this feature and I want to know if there is any way to make contact with the owner of this tree so we can share information? Thank you for any help. Em ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to [email protected] and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Over 4,600 pages of Revolutionary War compiled unit service records covering 124 military units from New Jersey and Vermont have been added to Record Hunter Search. Unit service records are also available for Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Record Hunter hosts thousands of records and resources that are free for researchers. The site is provided by DigitalCambria and can be accessed at www.RHSearch.com. TD Maloney Director of Research CM & R www.DigitalCambria.com

There should be a contact email on the homepage of the tree owner's page. Sharon On Thursday, June 26, 2014 2:58:11 PM, Emery St Cyr <[email protected]> wrote: Hello searchers. I found a family tree for one of my lines on  Ancestry. This is the first time I have used this feature and I want to know if there is any way to make contact with the owner of this tree so we can share information? Thank you for any help. Em ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to [email protected] and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is the message I've been receiving when the posts come thru to my email account. Has something changed? This message cannot be displayed because of the way it is formatted. Ask the sender to send it again using a different format or email program. text/plain Thank you Deborah Sent from my iPhone

I am thinking about subscribing to Fold 3 , and would value others opinion and experience with this product. Thanks, Mike [email protected]

Hello searchers. I found a family tree for one of my lines on Ancestry. This is the first time I have used this feature and I want to know if there is any way to make contact with the owner of this tree so we can share information? Thank you for any help. Em

Version 11.9 of the U.S. Civil War Units File (June 22, 2014) is now available at its new home: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~acwunits/ The Civil War Units File (CWUNITS) lists people who have information on a unit, ship, or group (often rosters, battles, etc.) and are willing to help others research it. Some are experts; most are "just" helpful fellow researchers. If you see a listing for a unit you are interested in, you can send the contact person email and share information. There are also listings for battles, organizations, counties, ethnic groups, etc. Special note for those researching CSA Virginia & North Carolina units: Due to the passing of Jeff Weaver, we have had to remove his many listings. If you do research in this area (maybe you have one of his books) please read the FAQ and consider volunteering as a contact. If you write to me, please do *NOT* include this message in your reply. My time and disk space are limited. Also please do *NOT* include attached files. Thanks! If you have a listing in the file, please make sure it's still there, and send me an update if needed. If your account does not accept mail from unknown senders, please find a friendlier address. The following email address does not work so this person's listing has been removed. If you are this person or know how to reach her, please contact me. [email protected] (Carol A. Casner) CWUNITS is five files (plus one for the FAQ) as follows: USA National & States A-I USA States K-N USA States O-W CSA National & States A-M CSA States N-V FAQ -- frequently asked questions and answers Within a state the units are organized by number (1st Infantry, etc.). Questions and new listings for the CWUNITS file go to me. Carol Botteron (ancestors on both sides) [email protected]

Ancestry and pretty much every site it hosted was taken down last week by a Denial of Service attack. I have no details. But in order to protect against such a thing happening in the future, all the sites stayed down while the architecture was reworked. Again, I have no details. Maybe the mailing lists are back up. If you're reading this, yes! If not, not so much... Karen

Why can't I access ancestry.com? Haven't used it in a while, but have an account, still can't log on. When I search for it, get the free offer to try it, then subscribe. Don't even get the home page, where I can log in. Lois

Would there be anyone who could look up an obit for me on Genealogybank? I have the obit itself. I need to find the date it was published. Our family records have a death date of Nov. 30 1900. Someone else has posted a death date of Dec 8 1900 on Findagrave. I am wondering if Dec 8 might be the date of the obit. Henry A. Bletcher Died, Nov 1900 or Dec 8 1900, Bernalillo or Sandoval, New Mexico Surprising enough, when I used to subscribe to Genealogybank, it had a great deal of early newspaper articles from that area. Thanks for any help Jeanne

Here you go: Date: Saturday, December 8, 1900 Paper: Albuquerque Citizen (Albuquerque, NM) Volume: 15 Issue: 35 Page: 3 "After an illness of only two weeks, Henry A Bletcher died at the home of his sister, Mrs. R. B. Leonard, a week ago last night at 8:30 o'clock, says the Bland Herald...." If this is not the same as what you have, let me know and I'll clip this one out for you. Hope this helps. Pat In Tucson | -----Original Message----- | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] | On Behalf Of [email protected] | Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 2:34 PM | To: [email protected] | Subject: [ROOTS-L] genealogybank request | | | Would there be anyone who could look up an obit for me on Genealogybank? | I have the obit itself. I need to find the date it was published. | Our family records have a death date of Nov. 30 1900. Someone else has posted | a death date of Dec 8 1900 on Findagrave. | I am wondering if Dec 8 might be the date of the obit. | | Henry A. Bletcher | Died, Nov 1900 or Dec 8 1900, | Bernalillo or Sandoval, New Mexico | | Surprising enough, when I used to subscribe to Genealogybank, it had a great | deal of early newspaper articles from that area. | | Thanks for any help | Jeanne | | ===== | If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots- | [email protected] and ask for the digest... | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS- | [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the | subject and the body of the message

Looking for information on Boremann family that was from the St Peter, Minnesota area. Have photo of infant Viola to reunite If interested, please see http://thedeadrelativecollector.blogspot.com/2014/06/mystery-photo-viola-boremann-st-peter.html Cheers!

Unless things have changed a lot FMP is also a pay as you go site. Or at least you can buy set amounts of money that can be used for viewing transcripts or images, Which is how I have always used them. Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (Anon) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold) On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Karen Leverich <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their comments and advice on my first ever dabble > into UK genealogy. I can believe FindMyPast to be a useful resource but > probably won't subscribe at this stage of my research. I did head over and > explored a bit on ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. For those not familiar with it > (me!), it seems to be a "pay as you go" site, rather than by subscription, > which was well-suited to the limited nature of my query. Though getting > dinged every time I look at a page of search results and even more when I > looked at an image tended to discourage my usual appetite for anything and > everything associated with the family I'm researching. I'll probably put a > few more quarters in the meter (if only they were quarters, LOL!) and do > some more exploring, once I get used to the concept. Or (as someone > suggested) just order the microfilms to my local Family History Center and > then scroll away. > > We'll see. :-) > > I did feel good fortune was on my side when I read the following on their > description of Birth & Baptism Records in the Old Parish Registers, given I > was interested in Dundee! > > *INFORMATION IN AN OPR BIRTHS & BAPTISMS RECORD* > > *Do not expect too much from OPR birth & baptism records. The amount of > information recorded can be variable and most entries contain very little > detail.* > > *At best:* name of the child, whether legitimate or not, date of birth > and/or date of baptism, father's name, mother's name and maiden surname, > place or parish of residence, occupation of the father and names (and > sometimes occupations) of witnesses. Occasionally, as in, for example, > Dundee, witnesses' relationship to the child (if any) may be recorded. > Cheers! > > Karen > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to [email protected] and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks to everyone for their comments and advice on my first ever dabble into UK genealogy. I can believe FindMyPast to be a useful resource but probably won't subscribe at this stage of my research. I did head over and explored a bit on ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. For those not familiar with it (me!), it seems to be a "pay as you go" site, rather than by subscription, which was well-suited to the limited nature of my query. Though getting dinged every time I look at a page of search results and even more when I looked at an image tended to discourage my usual appetite for anything and everything associated with the family I'm researching. I'll probably put a few more quarters in the meter (if only they were quarters, LOL!) and do some more exploring, once I get used to the concept. Or (as someone suggested) just order the microfilms to my local Family History Center and then scroll away. We'll see. :-) I did feel good fortune was on my side when I read the following on their description of Birth & Baptism Records in the Old Parish Registers, given I was interested in Dundee! *INFORMATION IN AN OPR BIRTHS & BAPTISMS RECORD* *Do not expect too much from OPR birth & baptism records. The amount of information recorded can be variable and most entries contain very little detail.* *At best:* name of the child, whether legitimate or not, date of birth and/or date of baptism, father's name, mother's name and maiden surname, place or parish of residence, occupation of the father and names (and sometimes occupations) of witnesses. Occasionally, as in, for example, Dundee, witnesses' relationship to the child (if any) may be recorded. Cheers! Karen

Hi Karen Any Ancestry database with the word "select" in its title is a familysearch database Most records on familysearch can be ordered for free from the LDS (takes around 28 days) Or you could check scotlandspeople and most likely find and pay to download it (sadly Scots records pre civil registration are rather sparse in details) There are virtually no passenger lists into the uk before 1878 ============== Findmypast have the same census as Ancestry (different transcriptions) (both only have transcripts for Scotland census 1841 to 1901) Both have the GRO indexes (different transcripts) Findmypast have the Chelsea pension records and the BL newspapers For Naturalisation records check the National Archives online catalogue Whilst Findmypast have some records Ancestry don't, Ancestry have far more than Findmypast But it would depend upon what you seek, whether one is better than the other for any individual researcher I would recommend searching the newspapers which is one Ancestry don't have but are a mine of information Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 12/06/2014 21:47, Karen Isaacson Leverich wrote: > First, I got a free one month subscription to FindMyPast, that I > turned on this morning. While I have several of my own lines that > originate in the UK, I've never had success (nor tried very hard) at > making connections "across the pond". But I'm doing a variant on a > "house history" by researching the families associated with the land

First, I got a free one month subscription to FindMyPast, that I turned on this morning. While I have several of my own lines that originate in the UK, I've never had success (nor tried very hard) at making connections "across the pond". But I'm doing a variant on a "house history" by researching the families associated with the land on which our house was built in 1985. The house is fairly new, but the land was an 1840s Mexican land grant that was acquired in the 1850s by a Scottish sea captain who had married into a Californio family. With me so far? I'm trying to learn about him and about his son (the son returned to England and died there). I've had relative success finding records for them on Ancestry, but am getting absolutely NOWHERE with FindMyPast. Any tips on finding stuff on FMP, or am I just out of luck? Briefly, what I know, focussing more on the UK and less on California. Captain John Wilson was born in 1798 in Dundee, Scotland (so it says on his San Luis Obispo, California tombstone, where he died in 1861). Using additional information about other kin, I believe him to be the son of John Wilson (1768, Dundee - 1839 Dundee) and Jean Wedderburn (1772 Meigle, Perthshire - 1832, Dundee). He can be found in Ancestry's "Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", which is an index ... I was hoping to find the actual records on FindMyPast. Captain Wilson married the widow Ramona (Carrillo) Pacheco in Santa Barbara, California. They had three daughters, and a son John Wilson (born 1843, Santa Barbara, California). The son was sent to "Europe" for schooling and never returned home, living in Liverpool at the time his father's estate was settled. The daughters stayed in California, married, etc., etc. Using Ancestry, again, I was able to find this younger John Wilson in Liverpool in the 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses, the latter two decades in Toxteth Park. He married Georgina Margaret Wrenshall (Google?), and (FreeBMD, the census) had J. W. Wilson (1876), George L. Wilson (1877), Margaret Anita Gore Wilson (1878), Duncan William Wilson (1881) and Jeanie Wedderburn Wilson (1883). I'm not all that interested in tracing his descendants, but would like to know when he died (probably between 1901 and 1911 ... Georgina is a widow in the latter census). He apparently became a naturalized British citizen, and I'd be curious to see that record. Ditto passenger lists. And the 1851 and 1861 census records, if he shows up for those years. In 1871, he was living with his aunt Margaret (Wilson) Young (born 1801 in Dundee). Can FindMyPast shed any light on any of this, or I "done good" with Ancestry and need to be thinking of offline research angles? I've got a month to test drive FindMyPast and would like to understand why a subscription would make sense. I thought this would be a good test case, and am so far disappointed. Thanks in advance! Karen [email protected]

ANSWER TO BELOW: John, You might have to check further but here's what I found....Per the 1900 Census N? Denham was born Oct. 1868; his wife "Zadora" was born Nov. 1870. In Find A Grave there is buried in Rocky Hill Cemetery In Edmonson County Kentucky the following: Newton Denham b. Oct. 29, 1868 and "Isadora" Marr Denham b. Nov. 15, 1870. The cemetery listing reads Isadora married to Harrison Denham but the TOMBSTONE reads wife of "N" Denham. Hope this turns out to be them. Gretchen ORIGINAL QUESTION: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:16:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "John D. Sissom" <[email protected]> Subject: [ROOTS-L] Cleo D. Denham Merideth To: Roots List <[email protected]> Researchers, ? I am seeking information regarding one Cleo D. Denham who married George W. Merideth. ?Cleo D. Denham, born Sep. 1893, is the daughter of N. Denham, born Oct. 1868 and Aqadora <Unknown>, born Nov. 1870 according to the 1900 Edmonson County, Kentucky Census.? She also has a brother, Guy D. Denham, born 1890.? All of the above reported born in Kentucky.? I am particularly looking for the name of her father, ?N. Denham?. ? George W. Merideth, the son of Nathan Merideth and Alice Rebecca Johnson was born January 14, 1890, married Cleo Denham, had no children, died July 3, 1977, at age 87. ? Many Thanks, ? John Sissom

John To begin with, I think Aqadora is Azadora. Or, otherwise spelled, Isadora. I don't find Dad or Mom in 1910, but do find Clea (I think) in the household of John H Cochran, wife Josie. John is Clea's guardian. So, you may be looking for a death for Dad and Isadora/Azadora/Dora bet 1900 and 1910. Using this information, I did find (in a family tree on Ancestry) one Cleo D Denham, dau of Isaac Newton Denham and Isadora (Zadora) Denton There is an Isaac N Newton in Edmonson Co., in 1880, age 12, son of Charles Denham, farmer, age 45, wife Martha M, 37. Brothers Harrison, 19, and James 1/4, and sister Barzilla, 3. Looking back at the 1900, it looks to me as though that could be a poor rendering of Newton -- it is: N**ton The particular family tree I mentioned has Isadora's last name as Denton, and brother Guy's name as Guy Denton. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/68917807/person/44202127207 There are some discrepancies (no kidding?) between the 1880 and 1900 censuses, however, with Newton born in Kentucky in 1900, but Tennessee in 1880. I have to run off to exercise now, but perhaps this gives you some ideas? Pat In Tucson | -----Original Message----- | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] | On Behalf Of John D. Sissom | Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 6:16 PM | To: Roots List | Subject: [ROOTS-L] Cleo D. Denham Merideth | | Researchers, | | I | am seeking information regarding one Cleo D. Denham who married George W. | Merideth. Cleo D. Denham, born Sep. 1893, is the daughter of N. Denham, born | Oct. 1868 and Aqadora <Unknown>, born Nov. 1870 according to the 1900 | Edmonson County, Kentucky Census. She also has a brother, Guy D. Denham, | born 1890. All of the above reported born in Kentucky. I am particularly looking | for the name of her father, “N. Denham”. | | George | W. Merideth, the son of Nathan Merideth and Alice Rebecca Johnson was born | January 14, 1890, married Cleo Denham, had no children, died July 3, 1977, at | age 87. | | Many | Thanks, | | John | Sissom | ===== | If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots- | [email protected] and ask for the digest... | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS- | [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the | subject and the body of the message