Another hunting place. Hope the hunt goes well in your particular neck of the woods. bj http://www.worldwide-top100.net/tops5/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=kenbowen

I was looking at the newest Rootsweb articles and saw this one. It's interesting, and you may not have noticed it. It explains those odd names used on English and American currency really well. Thought you might want to see it. bj QUOTE: [The editor-at-fault's error in last week's MISSING LINKS (transforming the original "3d" into a "3 shilling piece," which never existed in British coinage, in Part 2 of Ronald R. Caseby's "Food, Glorious Food!") resulted in a flood of mail to the author and to your editors. Two readers were so kind as to attempt to remedy the obvious gap in the editors' education. We hope you will find the following information to be useful.] British coinage was not as badly confusing as some people think. We, too, were confused by watching American films. They talked of pennies, cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, bucks, dollars, bits, etc. We thought they only had two types, dollars and cents, what were we to make of such bewildering names? <G>. Of course our coinage was for about three centuries in the Saxon period the penny. We had no other coinage. The D denoting a penny was from the Denarius of the Roman occupation which they tried to emulate in an attempt to keep the civilisation of Rome going. When the Saxon pennies were weighed it took 240 of them to make a pound in weight, hence our pound sterling. In the Tudor period the shilling was coined although strangely the amount itself as a twentieth part of a pound was used on paper long before a coin of that value was minted. That was the bare bones of our numismatic system. All others were merely fractions of those three levels of money, pounds, shillings and pence as we used to call it. L for pound (Libra, = weighing scales), s for shilling, and d for pence. Forget about pounds, think of multiples of shillings and pence. We had a half-penny coin (1/2d) a penny coin,(1d) a three penny coin. (3d) a six penny coin. (6d) Next was double the sixpence, in other words, a shilling equal to 12 pence (1s). There was a 1 shilling coin a two shilling coin a 2 1/2 shilling coin. It was known as a half crown but the crown had disappeared a long time ago. Above that value all were banknotes. We changed to the decimal system in February 1971. Happy Hogmanay. Joe of Gateshead of the Clan Armstrong Trust <JoeArmstrong@gateshead8.demon.co.uk> * * * I thought it might possibly be useful to you in future to add just a little to Joe's excellent explanation. First, the name "sterling" for British currency originated from the use of a small star on some early Norman silver pennies, leading them to be called sterlings. Large sums were then measured in pounds (weight) of sterlings. This became over the years reduced to pounds sterling. The word sterling then also came into use to signify the purity of silver when used for other purposes. Second, many other coins have been used over the years, and are sometimes encountered by genealogists (mention of them, not the actual coins!). The gold coin called a sovereign was last minted for currency use in 1914, and was worth one pound. They are still sometimes minted for commemorative purposes, nominally worth one pound but actually worth their weight in gold at the current rate. There was also a half-sovereign coin of similar design but exactly half the volume, weight and value. An earlier coin was the gold guinea (worth 1 pound 1 shilling), still used to mark prices on goods up to 1971 and even occasionally beyond. It was last minted in 1817, when the sovereign replaced it. Even earlier were the groat (4 pence) and the mark (originally 8 ounces of silver, then 13 shillings and 4 pence, and later other values), and probably others. Third, just like in the U.S.A., semi-slang words and genuine alternatives have been used for coins, especially pre-1971. The half crown (2 shillings and sixpence) was often called a half- dollar (its value in U.S. dollars until the 1939-45 war), the two shilling piece was called the florin (marked as such in some issues), the shilling was a "bob" and the six-pence a "tanner". E. J. (Jim) Fisher in Luton, Beds, UK <jim@jimella.co.uk> <http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/home.htm>

Among the top ten for Dec. There are new ones here. bj http://members.tripod.com/surnames/geneology/top10.htm

Have you seen these? Probably. Are you aware these are records of land owned PRIOR to 1701? The records date from then, and are misleading, in that the date of the actual records of ownership, and the date of putting these records together aren't one and same. If your man shows on these, it means he was in VA prior to 1 Jan 1701, if I'm not mistaken. Colonial Dames 17th Century allows this particular set of records (and no other beyond 1 Jan 1701 but this one big list) as a source they will allow to prove up residency there prior to 1 Jan 1701. I could be wrong in that information, but think that's right. Someone speak up and correct me if I am, I don't mind a bit, and need to know myself if I'm misinforming both you and me. bj VIRGINIA 1704 Rent Rolls Called also the VA Quit Rent Rolls, I believe. ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/1704va.txt

Can't recall if or not I sent this before. Anyhow, will take this opportunity to wish each of you a happy, healthy new year and that you will find at least ONE missing ancestor someplace this year. There are KY maps available for every county, a bit slow, but great maps. There is a gazetteer on the site, also. bj, listmanager (I'm always hunting around in KY, thus my interest in it) http://ukcc.uky.edu/~maps/

Just wanted to share with you, that I will be shutting down my own system after a couple days more, until after the holiday for New Year is over, and even now, I'm not opening any, not any, attachments that come my way, unless first they get checked for virus, but even that isn't good, since the virus might not show up if your own virus protection isn't current and have a particular one prepared against. I have so much, I don't want to chance anything going wrong, so safest thing is just to shut all the way down and wait for those inset bugs to go off, and not on MY machine. Just thought I'd tell you it might be advisable to do the same, shut down until after New Year, shortly. My son's big company is even shutting down, as a virus protection move. IF they do, I surely should, and they ARE. bj

I just got this email and wondered if any of you could help out on this problem......Thanks, Cynthia Subject: Victoria County Courthouse Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:58:55 -0500 From: "Lerich, Theodore ()" <tlerich@att.com> To: buttram@viptx.net I am looking for some one who has a high quality 35mm photo of the Victoria County courthouse. The scaffolding has been up on the courthouse for sooooooo long I can't get a decent picture. I need a Photo and negative and I am willing to discuss copyright terms. Please pass my email address and phone number along to any one you my think will be able to help. My phone number is 214-290-6550. Thank you for your help.

Just thought I'd let you know these Victoria websites will be going online as we can get them up there to RootsWeb. Space has been designated, part of the sites are nearly ready to go. Watch these for further development, none are up yet, but all WILL BE!! Yeah!! This is a snip from RootsWeb announcements of Wednesday, this week. They omitted the "of the Seventeenth Century" on the Colonial Dames site, I notice. Will have to check on that, CD and CD17C are two different groups. bj U.S.A. txdbdac -- Daniel Braman Chapter -- Daughters of American Colonists (Texas) txgvdar -- Guadalupe Victoria Chapter -- Daughters of the American Revolution (Texas) txjbcd -- John Brewer Chapter -- Colonial Dames (Texas) txjwfdrt -- James W. Fannin Chapter -- Daughters of the Republic of Texas txvcsar -- Victoria Chapter -- Sons of the American Revolution (Texas) txwprudc -- William P. Rogers Chapter -- United Daughters of the Confederacy (Texas)

Saw this on RootsWeb notes. bj: Lesson 22 is ITALIAN AND HISPANIC ROOTS. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson22.htm>

You probably have seen this page, maybe not. Part of the government National Archives works. Map Collections 1544-1999 .... and other things. bj http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

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I should have sent you the Index page for that site. Try this one..bj http://www.findagrave.com/index.html

Looking for info on a well-known person? (I only noticed famous people) Try this for not only information, but pictures as well. If there is a picture, the name has a little black clickable icon on the right. bj http://www.findagrave.com/tocs/alphabet.html

Found this in looking around a bit today. You may, or not, want to use it. (It costs more getting the records this way, than doing it by yourself.) Both of these sorts of files can be gotten other ways, direct, but this may be something you want to use if you are unfamiliar with the How's of do it yourself ordering from the National Archives or DAR HQ or just don't want to bother. bj http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~legends/service.html

This was sent in by Edna LaFour. Thanks, Edna. http://www.webnation.com/~spectrum/usn-cw/rosters/master.htm

Marilyn Logan sent this to me, and it's not genealogy, but it's how we get there (she knows me!) I think you will all get a kick out of it. Computers, genealogy, and US! You sure found a description of me, Marilyn, and I bet..... way more than me. http://home.att.net/~scorh/Compulsion.html [Image] [Image] bj

Saw this on the Nelson County list. Thought it might be of interest to some in our area, since James W. Fannin was active around here. Also someone was asking me just a few days back about Donoho family. bj repeated: Subject: [KYNELSON-L] Kentucky Mustangs(NELSON CO.) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:34:55 EST From: KEDDK5@aol.com To: KYNELSON-L@rootsweb.com I'm researching John DONOHO of Nelson Co. KY.I believe John was a Kentucky Mustang.I am looking for more info on this group of Kentucky Rifleman.Also any info on the commander Burr H. DUVAL (1809-1836) of the Kentucky Mustangs under James Walker FANNIN Jr. at the Battle of Coleto, and Goliad. Burr H. DUVAL was born in Nelson Co. KY. in 1809, the son of Nancy HYNES and William Pope DUVAL.Burr H. DUVAL was elected captain of the company of Kentucky Rifleman that formed at Bardstown in November 1835. Any info you can share about the DONOHOS, DUVALS, and the Kentucky Mustangs would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ed Donaho

Well, I was wrong, that website does work, just slow due to heavy, heavy traffic, I believe. If at first you don't succeed, try later...This fresh info below came from another list and is very timely. Last evening at least two of us spent a lot of time trying to find census records. This might help speed the process up, so print this and use it in your search, unless you have a good memory. (I do NOT) bj To any Listers accessing the week's free trial on Family Tree Maker's GenealogyLibrary.com site (from any of the offers I've seen posted), you may find this helpful in your Census searches . . . . When using the 1850 Census Records, you will find it much easier if you: 1. Click on the link that says "200,000 Images from the 1850 US Census now online". 2. Next page, select the State you want to search from the link box on the right. 3. This opens the 'index' for that State. Click on "First Page of Book". 4. The next page starts an alpha index of every name on the census. At this point you can scan down to surname sought by using the "Next Page" function at bottom or typing in a 'page' number to skip to until you find the surname you're seeking. Click the little camera to go to the actual census image. (OR) 5. Click on "Search Book" at top and when the search screen opens, type in the "Last Name" and/or "First Name" of the person to search. You will be given a list of hits, with links, to go directly to the census page(s). Hits are detailed and should be easily matchable to person desired.

You will need to use this address, instead of the other, for Gonzales access. There's a tiny error in the address given previously, so you will need this one instead. I wanted to use the newspaper records there today and noted the access problem. Try this one if you needed it, but couldn't get at it: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/gonzales/gontoc.htm

Well, ladies and gents, I apologize. That url for FTW free search at their Genealogy Library.com maybe SUPPOSED to work, according to two people, but believe me, no matter which way I tried I could not access it, so just delete that info. Did not work for me! Sorry, folks, that would have been nice for a freebie. bj