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Sincerely, Ramona List Mom for: Bayes-Kidder-Stogsdill Sturges-Sturgess-Sturgill KYMORGAN-HISTORY-L @ Rootsweb.com Ramona Gayle Bayes Woods [email protected] | Ancestry Daily News | In this issue: | - Databases of the Day | ----- Muscatine, Iowa Directory, 1891-93 | ----- Marinette County, Wisconsin Census, 1900 (Excluding Grover | Precinct) | ----- Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana Directory, 1891-92 | ----- Waldo County, Maine Deaths, 1743-1892: Belfast | ----- Anchorage Daily News (Alaska) Obituaries, 1998-2000 (Update) | - Today's Featured Map: | ----- Spain and Portugal and the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) | - Ancestry.com's Year in Review | - A Sampling of the Best Ancestry Articles from the Past Year | - Ancestry Quick Tip | - Fast Fact | - Thought for Today | - Ancestry Daily Poll | - Product Special from The Shops @ Ancestry.com | ----- "The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual," | by the Board for Certification of Genealogists DATABASES OF THE DAY (Free for 10 Days!) | MUSCATINE, IOWA DIRECTORY, 1891-93 | | Located in eastern Iowa on the Illinois border, the city of Muscatine | is the county seat of Muscatine County. This database is a | transcription of a city directory originally published in 1891. In | addition to providing the residents' names, it provides their | addresses and occupational information. The database includes more | than 5,000 names, mostly heads of household. | | Source Information: Ancestry.com. "Muscatine, Iowa Directory, 1891- | 93." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: | "Muscatine, IA, 1891-93." Muscatine, IA: Chas. I. Barker, 1891. | | To search this database, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5297.htm | | This database is also included in the 1890 Census Reconstruction | Project and can be searched through its main page at: | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/1890sub/main.htm | ____________________________________________________________________ | | MARINETTE COUNTY, WISCONSIN CENSUS, 1900 (Excluding Grover Precinct) | | Marinette County, Wisconsin is located in the northeastern part of | the state. In 1900, the county was home to nearly 30,900 residents. | Most of the residents lived in or near the city of Marinette. This | database consists of the 1900 U.S. Census (except Grover Precinct) | taken in Marinette County, Wisconsin between 1 June 1900 and 28 June | 1900. It includes approximately 29,000 individuals. Each record gives | the individual's name, date of birth, age, place of birth, marital | status, father's place of birth, mother's place of birth, immigration | date, and census precinct residence. Researchers should remember that | census databases are one of the most comprehensive sources for family | history research for any geographical location. | | Source Information: Bouchard, Joe, comp. "Marinette County, Wisconsin | Census, 1900 (Excluding Grover Precinct)." [database online] Provo, | UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: United States of America, | Bureau of the Census. "Federal Census of Wisconsin, 1900." | Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. | | To search this database, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5295.htm | ____________________________________________________________________ | | BUTTE, SILVER BOW COUNTY, MONTANA DIRECTORY, 1891-92 | | During the 1890s, Butte, Montana was a copper mining boom town. | Thousands of men and women moved there to seek their fortunes, among | them Marcus Daly and W.A. Clark, who were remembered as the "Copper | Kings." This directory attempted to list the name of every adult male | living or doing business in the city in 1891-92, along with the | occupation, business location, and residence of each. Also listed are | numerous women and names of deceased husbands. | | Source Information: Sewell, Patricia, comp. "Butte, Silver Bow | County, Montana Directory, 1891-92." [database online] Provo, UT: | Ancestry.com, 2000-. Original data: "R.L. & Counties Butte City | Directory 1891-1892." Montana: R.L. Polk and Co., 1903. Records | extracted from the Butte, Silver Bow County Directory, 1891 at the | University of Montana, Mansfield Library Special Collections in | Missoula, Montana. | | To search this database, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5296.htm | ____________________________________________________________________ | | WALDO COUNTY, MAINE DEATHS, 1743-1892: BELFAST | | Belfast, Maine is located in Waldo County and was incorporated in | 1773. It is located on the coast of Maine and has about 6,000 | residents. This database includes Belfast death records between 1773 | and 1892. However, there are several deaths included in this database | prior to 1773 (hence the dates in the database title). There are more | than 5,500 entries in the database, and each includes first, middle, | and last names, and maiden names in brackets. The entries also | include spouses' names and/or parents' names, cause of death, date of | death, place of death (if other than Belfast), and age at death. | There are several sources for the information, and variants of data | are given in brackets. Variants would include dates, names, and ages. | The sources include church, county, and town records, along with more | than 150 private sources. | | There are a large number of men in the database who are listed as | having died during the Civil War. The database gives places of these | deaths, and in some cases, it lists the actual battle. One, Samuel | Houston, is listed as being a bodyguard for Gen. George Washington. | There is another one, John Cochran, in the death records, who is said | to have been part of the Boston Tea Party. | | Source Information: Flint, James, comp. "Waldo County, Maine Deaths, | 1743-1892: Belfast." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. | Original data: "Vital Records of Belfast, ME: Vol. 2, Marriages and | Deaths." Boston, MA: Alfred Johnson of the New England Historic | Genealogical Society (101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116-3087), | 1743-. | | To search this database, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5298.htm | ____________________________________________________________________ | | ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS (ALASKA) OBITUARIES, 1998-2000 (Update) | | Source Information: Bell and Howell Information and Learning Company. | "Anchorage Daily News (Alaska) Obituaries, 1998-2000." [database | online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original electronic data from | the electronic newspaper newsfeed service of the Bell and Howell | Information and Learning Company. | | To search this database, go to: | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3475.htm | ============================================================ | ANCESTRY.COM'S YEAR IN REVIEW | ============================================================ | As we end the year 2000, it is interesting to look back and see how | far we've come during the past 12 months at Ancestry.com. Here's a | quick review of some highlights from the year; the list includes | links to save for future reference. | | RESOURCES AT ANCESTRY.COM | | Incredibly, the "Ancestry Daily News" has grown from just under | 250,000 subscribers at the beginning of 2000 to more than 1 MILLION | subscribers today. | | In March, Ancestry.com also launched its online reference Library | (http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/main.htm), which now holds | more than 3,000 articles that have been published in "Ancestry" | Magazine, "Genealogical Computing," and the "Ancestry Daily News," as | well as online columnist articles. The Library is one of the largest | collections of family history instructional information on the | Internet and can be freely browsed by category, author, date, column, | or article title; it is a powerful resource for both beginner and | expert genealogists. See the next section of this newsletter for a | sampling of articles from the past year. | A number of other free resources have also been added to the site in | the past year, including: | | --- ONLINE FAMILY TREE (http://www.ancestry.com/oft). A free, easy- | to-use application that lets people create online family trees from | scratch or by downloading a GEDCOM file. | | --- RESEARCH REGISTRY | (http://www.ancestry.com/share/research/main.htm). Allows users to | create a profile of themselves that includes a summary of their | research interests. This also makes it easy for those with similar | research interests to contact each other. | | --- Surname Communities | (http://www.ancestry.com/share/surname/main.htm). Surname centers | that bring surname-specific resources together in one place. | Information is gathered from the FamilyHistory.com message boards, | Online Family Trees, the Ancestry World Tree, MyFamily.com Web sites, | and Ancestry.com databases. | | And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Ancestry.com now has more | than 1 BILLION records posted online! You can browse all of the | titles by record type at | http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/main.htm; do a search of all | of them at once using the Advanced Search page at | http://www.ancestry.com/search/main.htm; or search by locality at | http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/main.htm. | | In July of 2000, Ancestry.com also unveiled its Images Online | project, which has taken online family history to a new and exciting | level by making original source documents available online. More than | 2.5 million images of original Civil War pension index cards were the | first offerings. Later, the U.S. Federal Census Population Schedules | (1790-1920)--powerful research cornerstones that touch almost every | American family--also began to be added to the site. You can see | which census images (as well as other offerings) are available today | through Images Online at http://www.ancestry.com/search/io/main.htm. | MYFAMILY.COM | | Ancestry.com's sister site, MyFamily.com (http://www.myfamily.com), | continues to be a hit with family historians seeking a way to share | their family history on free, private sites--not to mention those who | want to stay connected with living family members. A MyFamily.com | site allows users to post family tree data (by downloading a GEDCOM | file or by creating a GEDCOM from scratch), exchange information, | chat in real time, post photographs and scans of documents, and much | more--all on a secure, password protected site. | | These sites give researchers a distinct advantage when they are | working anywhere with Internet access, because they put all of a | researcher's family history data just a mouse click away! | | ROOTSWEB | | In June of this year, RootsWeb (http://www.rootsweb.com), the oldest | and largest free community genealogy site, joined the MyFamily.com | network of sites, allowing RootsWeb to continue with the many | valuable services it provides free to all users. These services | include the WorldConnect Project (a set of tools that allow users to | upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to | share their work with other researchers), more than 20,000 mailing | lists, free databases, message boards, Web site hosting, research | guides, and more. | | RootsWeb.com | http://www.rootsweb.com | | WorldConnect Project | http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ | | RootsWeb Mailing Lists | http://lists.rootsweb.com/ | | RootsWeb Databases | http://searches.rootsweb.com/ | | RootsWeb Message Boards | http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/ | | RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees | http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ | | You can keep up with the newest resources at RootsWeb by subscribing | to two weekly newsletters: "RootsWeb Review" and "Missing Links." | Subscribe at the home page at http://www.rootsweb.com. | | IN THE COMMUNITY | | Ancestry.com continues to support non-profit organizations in the | genealogical community. This year it gave substantial donations to | organizations like the National Genealogical Society and the | Federation of Genealogical Societies. Ancestry.com also sponsored | workshops for the American Library Association and the Newberry | Library in Chicago and continues to maintain the FGS Society Hall | (online at http://www.familyhistory.com), which helps publicize the | great works done by genealogical and historical organizations across | the United States and around the world. | | MYFAMILY.COM, INC. | | Apart from these advances, MyFamily.com, Inc., Ancestry.com's parent | company, also had a few other milestones this year. It was joined by | two other new companies--ThirdAge.com and Ah-ha.com. And by fall, it | moved up in the Nielson/Net Ratings list to take its place among the | world's top 15 Web sites (in number of visitors each day). | | All of these advances at Ancestry.com and its sister sites give us | reason to celebrate as we look back on a milestone year for online | genealogy. Ancestry.com's Online Family Tree allows you and other family members | to create a multi-user, password-protected family tree where you can | collaborate in real time. You can build your family tree online from | scratch or by downloading your GEDCOM file. The easy-to-use interface | allows you to update your file, submit it to the Ancestry World Tree, | see when it was last updated, or even delete it--24 hours a day, | seven days a week. | | Ancestry.com Online Family Tree | http://www.ancestry.com/oft |