>From the USGenWeb Ship Passenger lists of people coming into the Port of Galveston. Transcribed by a generous worker and online, some 11 lists of passengers dating from 1846 to 1859. bj ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/shiplist/

And particularly for those of you interested in Victoria County, here are some map/ref's from that TX Archives Maps site. bj http://link.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/map.CGI

Need a Texas map? Check the Archives.. bj http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/lobby/maps/

Think maybe we already looked at this one, and if so, sorry. bj ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/abstracts/

This website on The Olive Tree is certainly increasing. I see many ancestor names of one of our local people and one for a family I work on, too. The index is good, but a click to the page leads to a non-alphabetical list, so you need to scroll down to find the person. bj http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/17th/dny_5.htm

Here's a site for free lookups. bj http://genweb.net/~gen-cds/private.html

Do you need a county map for KY? Here's the place to get any one of them. bj http://ukcc.uky.edu/~maps/

Edna LaFour sent this along, for land warrants. bj Revolutionary War Warrants http://www.sos.state.ky.us/intranet/revwarwar.htm

This site has a good selection of sites to look at for beginner internet-ers or more in depth discussions of How-To's under all those labels over on the left side. That one of WWW is about how to get better search results. Lots of good information here. bj http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Check on some MD marriages here. bj http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1500/s1527/html/ssi1527.html

Saw this off the new info on Roots, led to a lot of family names of websites up there. Maybe one you want is there. bj http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tmsgen/hpg/hptable.html

Anyone wanting to find ship lists may want to go to this page and search through the Archives or other websites from this. bj http://www.chignecto.net/TheShipsList

Peter Teal died in Victoria Co. in 1812. I have reason to believe that he was originally from Natchitoches, LA and may have been a brother or cousin on our ancestor, Sarah Teal who married a Major James Smith , and came to Texas abt. 1827 (The same time that Peter did). I am at a standstill on the family of Sarah, and hope that someone in Victoria Co. may have info. Connie, Corpus Christi

Anne Kuehl, of this list, ask you to help her to help her friend, if you have any information on this family mentioned in her note to me. Please make your replies directly to ANNE. She will be the one taking in the messages for her friend. If YOU can help, please do us all a favor and post a message via CC to this list of what you might reply, in case there are other family around, and so we will all see the answer. (and Anne, if she's talking about letters to this forum having been returned, that is because she has not subscribed to this list. It's a MUST, in order to post a letter to this and other Rootsweb lists. It's part of the Spam-Stop program of RootsWeb) Thanks. bj, listmistress Billye, I told you I went to New Braunfels last week to look up information on my great-grandfather. I got the nicest letter from a lady that I talked to at the genealogy library. She sent me some information on my family. She is searching Wachendorfs that lived in Victoria. She said her letters have been returned. Can you send this request to our people and I will send her any information. Her name is Vivian Zipp, 6080 FM482, New Braunfels, Texas 78132. Telephone 830-625-2056. She evidently doesn't have e-mail. Anne L. Kuehl <mailto:akuehl@tisd.net>

Carolyn Shearer had this bit of extremely useful information sent to her from her own server, and she passed it along to me. It's timely, especially as I got struck down in my prime by that Marker Virus last week. If you read the paper today, there is a 4-column article warning that there is about to be another major virus attack against primarily NETWORKING computer systems, which won't bother most of us, but will hit businesses hard when it hits, if they aren't watching. Even so, this one is going to be hard to stop, it said. The problem is those people who are dissatisfied with the companies who make Windows 98, (as it's the one coming Virus will attack, Networks mainly.) and other programs like MSOffice. Their primary complaint is Microsoft has failed to address certain security issues in their programs. These Virus writers are making themselves heard by writing programs which will MAKE them address the issues, but in doing that they hurt all of us. Someone asked me just this past week, WHY do they do this. Well, that's what the paper said. There has just been a huge convention out in Las Vegas where all these virus writers met. And, they warned the next big virus is coming down the pike. All you who are getting this and work in a networking office, had best read today's paper, fast. This particular Virus is called BO2K, and the paper says whatever precautions you may be able to take may be 'fleeting' due to the way the virus is written. It says "it can enable someone to gain control of your computer or a network from a remote location." Victoria Advocate, page 5A, 12 July 1999. For those of us who are simply ordinary people like me, trying to deal with these guys, it's a real problem. I advise all of you, if you have not done so, to hie yourselves down to the computer software place and buy an extremely good software pack that will stop most of these bugs. And, since they offer free updates for at least a year, (my McAfee Office 2000 offers one for the life of my product and includes a lot of other good stuff), on their websites, plus daily, even hourly input re new viruses, I think you would be better off to have it going, and fast, if you do not. I don't know if I am safe, but I feel better. And, if you are already well protected, you need to run that virus update once a week off their pages. And virus scan EVERYTHING coming in, email or attachment. Email is now beginning to be targeted, too. Here's Carolyn's information. I hope you take advantage of her thinking of us all. I dislike bringing all this up again, but since I am a computer support person for Victoria County Genealogy Society, I need to help you guard yourselves. I didn't do so well for myself, and I hate for you all to fall into that. bj Worms and viruses are not the only plagues that infest the Internet. The net also abounds in hoaxes about viruses, chain letters, and just plain old ordinary hoaxes. So this week we are listing several sites that help you keep track of them. http://ciac.llnl.gov is a site run by the U.S. Government's Department of Energy. It lists not only real viruses and worms but also hoaxes pretending to be computer attack programs. Please note that the address for this site is NOT on the World Wide Web, so it does not require the "www" prefix, it is just http://ciac.llnl.gov Please note also the warning that by using the site you will be subject to "security monitoring and testing. All activity is logged with your host name and IP address." http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html is a non-profit site that exposes Internet hoaxes and chain letters. http://www.kumite.com/ dispels myths about computer viruses. Webmaster Rob Rosenberger wisely notes the Latin phrase "Mundus vult decipi" (the world wants to be deceived) and invites you to read about him before you take his advice. http://www.historybuff.com includes a list of great hoaxes throughout history. http://urbanlegends.about.com/ tracks current Internet hoaxes and offers message boards to discuss many other myths and legends in the popular culture.

This website was sent along by Julie Bowen. It's got some articles of some families that are being offered for sale. You need to go to the left side and look under the Search Database places, there are two. I looked at one of them, and see they are family pieces like photos, etc., for sale. The top site is a free page of info, as is the search, you would have to buy, though, if you found something. Who knows, maybe you might. I did look for one Diary I wish I had bought some two years back when I saw one offered! Thanks, Julie. bj http://www.pastconnect.com/

Looking for actual records, check this search source for England and Wales. bj http://www.hmc.gov.uk/mdr/england.htm

If you think you may want to put a page of your own genealogy families online in your own server space, or some other like GeoCities, you might want to use this particular little program to do it with, using a gedcom file you make. You can get the program, for whatever sort of computer you use, from here: http://www.frontiernet.net/~rjacob/gedpage.htm If you'd like to see a page done with this program, check this one: Evelyn's Branches page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Creek/1199/

Anyone interested in Texas research should search the online resources from the TX State Library and Archives website. Wonderful! Many records can be ordered thru your library on interlibrary loan. Look it over GOOD. http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/lobby/ Be sure and check all the resource under the genealogy section. Newspapers can be ordered, county records can be ordered, etc...check it out. Patsy Hand

Cornell Online Digital Collection..... http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/MOA-JOURNALS2.html Was chasing down a Dutchess Co. book found online and discovered I hadn't seen the original site of publication of those online records. Think maybe someone asked me recently if I had seen this collection. There are a LOT of books here and quarterly publications, too. Give it a close look, the books are by author, but take time to click on each of the alphabetical lists and look them all over. There are too many to mention. bj