This came in via email, and also from a friend who is a subscriber, apparently it went out to all their members for open access for a week, the password information from my friend and from this note, all are the same. Think it is open for us all to take advantage of. I was told this Genealogy Library.com is a better site even than Ancestry.com, but I wouldn't know that for myself. I was told the membership fee is $99.00 a year, which is more than Ancestry. That's all I know, just wanted you all to know we can use this for a bit, free. Has 1850 census, and other stuff....bj The User Name and Password below will give FREE access to the > >> entire GenealogyLibrary.com site, 24 hours a day for seven days. > >> To take advantage of this offer, go to the following Web page > >> before December 24th: > >> http://www.familytreemaker.com/holiday99/ > >> > >> When prompted, type in the following User name and Password: > >> User name: holiday > >> Password: special

If any of you have an interest in Gonzales Co. TX you should check out the web page for the Gonzales Co. Archives Table of Contents. They have indexes to some county cemeteries, index to a portion of their newspaper and much more. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb.tx/gonzales/gontoc.htm Patsy Hand

Ken Titt sent this along, it's a site that lists the counties of Texas and their various postmasters through the years. Nice site, Ken. Thanks. bj http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Etxpost/countyindex.html

On Rootslist, they mentioned this website. I find it fascinating, maybe you have an interest in that time period, whatever nationality you are after. I've enjoyed the free clip art and offers of free wallpaper packages, since I'm in thinking mode for working up a webpage. http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson19.htm

I know south Texas has need of more Polish info. This came through the rootslist notes today. Re Polish records, a website. bj http://www.polishroots.com/

For the weekend there is a "free special" at Ancestry website. Good time to hunt records on your New Englanders. (Picked this up on the Quaker list) bj Nearly 380 years ago, the early settlers of Plymouth Colony gathered to give thanks for the bounties and blessings that the "New World" afforded. In honor of this event, Ancestry.com is providing the following databases free for searching over the Thanksgiving Day weekend. Massachusetts Pioneers to the West Index New England Irish Pioneers History of Cambridge Massachusetts Founders of Old Dunstable Boston Vital Records Freemen of Massachusetts Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families Plymouth Colony: History and People Founders of New England Pioneers of Massachusetts Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers Massachusetts Town Vital Records Collection These databases can be found at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/thanksgiving.htm

to look over while you aren't busy. Sent along by a couple of friends, this time. We thank both of them. bj http://www.myhistory.org/ My History is America's History

This index has been posted in the Indian List in pieces for some time, and the full index is all online at Indian Pioneer Papers http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/pioneer/pioneer.htm Be sure to go all the way to the bottom, there are some other indexes there which you might miss. One is for cemeteries and has two of the Tulsa, OK cemetaries online. Have a good holiday, all. I've been staying really busy, and I'd bet most all of you are, too. Wishing you all a safe trip, if you are visiting. Hope you have lots to eat and a lot of good ole leftover turkey sandwiches. See you all later. Don't get run over in the malls at the Christmas Sales on Friday! Listmanager, bj

Family History Center November 1999 Memorandum __________________________________________ We would like to make you aware that Pedigree Resource File compact discs, including a master index disc, are available from Church distribution centers individually for $5 each or collectively as a set for $15. The set includes the five discs plus the master index disc. Pedigree Resource File Disc 1 50201 $5.00 Pedigree Resource File Disc 2 50202 $5.00 Pedigree Resource File Disc 3 50203 $5.00 Pedigree Resource File Disc 4 50204 $5.00 Pedigree Resource File Disc 5 50205 $5.00 Master Index for discs 1-5 50121 $5.00 Pedigree Resource File Set 50250 $15.00 (Includes all 5 discs plus a master index disc) Pedigree Resource File discs can be ordered from the Salt Lake Distribution Center by phone at 1-800-537-5971 or on-line at www.familysearch.org. Each Pedigree Resource File disc contains about 1.2 million names. FamilySearch® Internet Genealogy Service is receiving submissions of over 1 million names each month (currently, over 40% of the records being submitted are from outside the United States, Canada, and the British Isles). As new submissions are received, additional compact discs will be published accordingly. Each set of five discs will include a cumulative master index. Sometime in the first quarter 2000 a searchable index to the Pedigree Resource File database will be available on-line at www.familysearch.org. Current plans are to update the on-line index at least monthly. Unlike compact disc version, the on-line index will not contain a submitter's individual Pedigree Resource File discs referenced by the master index.

>From the PafWays newsletter: "By now you've probably used it. If not, just type ask.com into your search browser "address", hit enter. Write your search request in the forma of a question n the dialog box. Click "Ask". In very short order Jeeves will fetch the pick of the most popular search engines on the internet. The internet has another great innovation to help us all get better and faster search results." bj

And a trailer note in from Carolyn, on the new LDS Info going up. Thanks, Carolyn. bj Subject: German names on Family Search >?240 Million New Names Added to World's Largest Online Genealogy >Research Source: > LDS Church Press Release 12 Nov 1999 > > SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- FamilySearch.org, the world's largest online > genealogy site, will feature 240 million new names in its genealogy >database -- enabling users to access over 640 million total entries. > > Beginning Monday, November 22, the new addition-in itself bigger than > most genealogical databases on the web -- will represent > international data culled primarily from Western Europe, >Scandinavia,....... > >This means that a lot of the names we are looking for in Germany MAY be >on the Family Search. We will still have to go to the original source >(primary source) but how much easier if we have a place to start from! >Priscilla > > >==== BADEN-WURTTEMBERG Mailing List ==== >Visit the Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing List Website: >http://members.xoom.com/BW_List/bw.htm

Ken Titt has sent along a couple of pieces of info on websites. Thanks, Ken. I looked over the Texas History site, found another leading off to a separate TX page that offers TX postcards, if anyone might want to see that part. It's at http://www.virtualtexan.com/ Here's Ken's submissions: http://www.usgennet.org/~alhntxus/prolog.html and a piece of info he passes along. Think we mentioned it the other day, but my brain cells forget. The second piece was re the LDS site update. Pay particular attention to the warning not to download any of the gedcoms directly into your genealogy program database. It can sure mess one up, if you find later you don't want it. Every single person you had in that download gedcom would have to be hand removed! Big chore. So, do put any downloads into their own new file, like it says...bj: Subject: LDS site update Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 05:55:46 -0600 From: "Gary F. Presson" <g_presson@juno.com> Reply-To: ks-kin-l@raven.cc.ukans.edu To: ks-kin-l@raven.cc.ukans.edu The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright 1999 by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. ============================================================ - FamilySearch.org Updated The very popular LDS FamilySearch.org Web site has a few new capabilities. Visitors to the site can now search by: * Event (All, Birth/Christening, Marriage, Death/Burial, Other) * Year Range (None, Exact Year, + or - 2 years, + or - 5 years, + or -10 years, + or - 20 years) * Specific Year * Countries (All Countries or select one from list) * State * Ancestral File Number (AFN) * An option to search for only exact spellings Other recent changes include the ability to download a GEDCOM from Ancestral File search results. This allows users to import information directly into their own genealogy software. (Never import such data into your primary database! Always create a new, empty database and import into that. Once you have examined the quality of the new data, you may decide to import it into your primary database.) The FamilySearch.org Web site also has over 43,000 new and updated titles added to the Family History Library Catalog. There are new Pedigree Resource disks and collaboration lists available as well. Full details are available at: http://www.familysearch.org/whats_new.asp

This is a page for finding those State Links to the Official state pages, and which may not be on Genweb, probably aren't. Save us all taking time out to do a search for them. Useful page. bj http://www.premiernet.net/~ccarley/statelist.html

Snagged this info on a KY list group, and it's useful to all KY hunters. Deer season has opened, and I hope you all catch your most "dear" missing ancestor. Well, at least the ones lost in KY might be hiding around here. Sorry, I couldn't help that. bj, listmanager.. An electronic version of A Guide to Kentucky Place Names, published by the Kentucky Geological Survey, is now available. The Guide is a gazetteer of Kentucky towns, landmarks, churches, cemeteries, etc. compiled from a number of sources. This index is extremely useful when you need to know how some obscure place name relates to the world as you know it. http://ukcc.uky.edu/~kgsinfo/ An Electronic Guide to Kentucky Place Names

this is a good latin/english dictionary that has translations that might be of use if you are trying to decipher some of the old German or English records that will use latin base words. I think. bj http://www.familysearch.org/sg/WLLatin.html

Found this tonight in another list, hadn't seen that pretty pink background, I don't think, nor this site. It covers migration paths for all states, but is a work in process so not all are covered, it's only a recently begun page, actually. Keep an eye on this, and there's an option to submit what we know of our own family migration paths. This is a good thing. bj http://www.migrations.org/

Tanya Kloesel sends us this one, which is part of the Texas Library and Archives system. Lot of records there, and maybe you haven't gotten around to looking at this. She said she hopes it will help someone, and we never know if it did or not, when we send anything out, so out it goes. Thanks, Tanja! http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/lobby/local/index.html

Found this note in my Gen Med list group, thought it will be of interest to those of you who may not be subscribers to that list, and are interested in another good source/s for English/Medieval resources, and who knows what else might be here. I haven't looked at any of these, either, just now saw this, so let's all check it together? This time, we thank Tom Tinney, Sr, who sent it in bj, listmanager subject: Key scholarly Genealogy and Family History Links Web Directory. Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 17:38:46 -0800 From: "Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr." <vctinney@dcn.davis.ca.us> To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: For those seeking to avoid sources with shoddy information, please be advised that the Britannica Internet Guide, [The Web's Best Sites chosen by Britannica's editors], is currently online, FREE!!! "The world's best Web sites, plus magazines, books, and the complete Encyclopædia Britannica", are now located at Web Pages for Scholarly Societies. http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/archives.htm#Scholarly Another sample reference from this site is: RESOURCES OF SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES - History, at: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/history_soc.html These Internet links are part of the Best University related Genealogy and Family History Internet sites, with examples, as discussed at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/1999/prweb9996.htm Further comprehensive worldwide connections are listed by Topic, such as Military, at: http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/archives.htm#Military This site includes such items as: Armed Forces of the World Includes official military servers and other defence (defense) information. Military Directory Worldwide [1,643 links from the Open Directory Project] Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/homepage.htm#Here Listed in: Who's Who In The West, 1998/1999 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]

This note/website has a Victoria family on it, I noticed. Check it out for the Rooke family to see it. bj Subject: DeWitt County Cemetery Records, Vol II Resent-Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:49:50 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: TXCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:46:38 -0800 From: "Mark & Jana Rooke" <rooke@earthlink.net> To: TXCALHOU-L@rootsweb.com I have the Cemetery Records of DeWitt County, Vol. II by Patsy Goebel and Karen Gohmert. My Mom has other Vols. We would be happy to do lookups from these books. Jana Rooke San Jose, CA http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/o/o/Mark--Jana--Rooke/index.html Come look at our homepage and click on our family database report! Over 15,000 names in our database and growing!

I have used Netscape for a long time, and just accidentally found a feature I need to share with you all. If ever I knew about this little gizmo, I forgot I did, but I do recall long ago finding out I could get at the online url's listed in my address book, I just forgot how I did it. (old age and stage gene) So, if you happen to use Netscape, this is a Share Thing for you. If you open your bookmark file, using the EDIT Bookmarks selection, you will get a full screen view of all your bookmarks. (I must have a gazillion of them, but if the bookmark files are closed, it doesn't look so fearful long.) Anyhow, what I saw was this: Up on the top right are two little arrows, each pointing to opposite directions. (I've successfully ignored those a LONG time.) With that Edit Book selection open, click on the little black pointy arrow on the left. And, over on the left of your screen, pick the Box of Folders you want opened, where it has a little PLUS + signs showing. That opens the folders and shows the websites stored in in. You will then see not only the Name of the website, you will see the URL for it over on the right of the screen. To make the url address go away, just go back to the top and hit the opposite black arrow, and it shuts off that URL address feature. Leaving the one on the left +/- open or shut is just your choice, but if you shut it, and you have the little Left Arrow on, it will not show the url's for that website. Nothing would be hurt, whichever way you left it. This would be handy for trying to get a url cut, copy and paste, in order to insert a web address into an email, quicker, but only by eliminating one step, as I see it. It would let you select edit/copy off the web address from this bookmark site without first having to open up the website to get it. One less little move, and a tad faster. Enough of that, got stuff to do. bj TXVICTOR-L List Manager