Life stinks when you loose your email address book. I back mine up on CD from time to time. It also be done on Floppy depending on the size, 1.4 meg. would be a huge address list. I think it is WAB.EXE under applications and the correct program. It is not easy to find. Favorites can be exported to a Floppy or CD by opening your browser then clicking File and then clicking Import/Export. Just follow the cues. Best of luck and sorry... Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: <B2ill1jean@aol.com> To: <VAPWILLI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [VAPWILLI-L]Quantico Creek > Anyone who wrote me on the Waters Family please send it again. My whole > e-mail address book, e-mail and Favorite places got wiped out today. > > Thank you very much. > > Jean > > > ==== VAPWILLI Mailing List ==== > Over 6,100 Discussion Lists and More Added Daily!!! > USGenWeb and The USGenWeb Archives! > Special thanks to go to RootsWeb, your generous donations to > RootsWeb makes this all possible. Find out more! > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 >

Anyone who wrote me on the Waters Family please send it again. My whole e-mail address book, e-mail and Favorite places got wiped out today. Thank you very much. Jean

I belong on an annual basis and I use it constantly. Some of the best money I've spent. I also have the Family Tree Maker site and love it also. ----- Original Message ----- From: Hundertmark <hundert@ismi.net> To: <VAPWILLI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [VAPWILLI-L] Census indexes > Charlie, > Thanks for the info. My problem is I don't know enough yet to be able to > cite a particular census entry. I'm still at the point in my research where > I need to find out what people named Thomas were living in Prince William > County in the early 1800s. > > I checked out the Ancestry.com site but, unfortunately you have to have a > membership in order to access their databases. :-( Their membership seems > a tad expensive but I might consider their 3-month plan for $19.95. I'd > just have to try and squeeze all my online research into a 3-month period. > :-) > > Does anyone have any comments about their membership with Ancestry.com? Is > it worth the investment? > > Shelley > > > ==== VAPWILLI Mailing List ==== > Visit the Prince William County, USGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapwilli/pw.htm > Check out the Prince William Archives and add your records! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/princewi.htm >

Thanks for the recommendation and the advice, Debbie. I am seriously considering that membership now! Shelley ---------------------------------- Hi Shelley, I am a member of ancestry.com, and I really like it. You are going to have the same problem I have with my Gregory & John lines though, their search engines will "hit" on people with those first names, as well as the last names. What you will need to do is click on "search by record type", and then click the AIS census indexes. Then it will "hit" on people with the surname of Thomas, plus you will be able to enter a county, or year, or even page number to see who lived near your ancestors. There were 6,816 people with the last name of Thomas in Virginia in the entire census period. Enter year 1810, and you are down to 511. Debbie ---------------------------------- Hmmmm... Now I'm thinking about Ancestry.com's "Preferred Plan" at $59.95 for a year. This would be, as was pointed out, $5.00 per month as opposed to $10.00 per month for the "Quarterly Plan". Mr./Ms. Marshall, is Ancestry.com's online information mostly indices or actual records -- or both? (I know that you said they are printed records, rather than photocopies of originals, but that would be okay too as long as they were transcribed accurately.) Have you explored their Virginia holdings at all? Do they have church records and cemetery records? Thanks. Shelley --------------------------- www.ancestry.com> is definitely a "for profit" operation and everyone's budget is unique but personally I have certainly gotten my $5 per month investment back many fold. Most of my searching has been in Kentucky records (for which they have good maps and data on land grants, census indices,marriages). Of course, as with printed compiled records (which most of their stuff is from), someday I will need to "prove" crucial data by finding the underlying records, which will be easier to find because of Ancestry. If you don't want to pay, you can still get the daily/weekly newsletter with the announcements of free access (for a limited time) to selected materials. ----------------------------- Charlie, Thanks for the info. My problem is I don't know enough yet to be able to cite a particular census entry. I'm still at the point in my research where I need to find out what people named Thomas were living in Prince William County in the early 1800s. I checked out the Ancestry.com site but, unfortunately you have to have a membership in order to access their databases. :-( Their membership seems a tad expensive but I might consider their 3-month plan for $19.95. I'd just have to try and squeeze all my online research into a 3-month period. :-) Does anyone have any comments about their membership with Ancestry.com? Is it worth the investment? Shelley

Shelley Thanks for informing us how to do that. Makes a huge difference. Charlie

Hi Shelley, I am a member of ancestry.com, and I really like it. You are going to have the same problem I have with my Gregory & John lines though, their search engines will "hit" on people with those first names, as well as the last names. What you will need to do is click on "search by record type", and then click the AIS census indexes. Then it will "hit" on people with the surname of Thomas, plus you will be able to enter a county, or year, or even page number to see who lived near your ancestors. There were 6,816 people with the last name of Thomas in Virginia in the entire census period. Enter year 1810, and you are down to 511. Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: Hundertmark <hundert@ismi.net> To: <VAPWILLI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 1:59 PM Subject: [VAPWILLI-L] Ancestry.com > Hmmmm... Now I'm thinking about Ancestry.com's "Preferred Plan" at $59.95 > for a year. This would be, as was pointed out, $5.00 per month as opposed > to $10.00 per month for the "Quarterly Plan". > > Mr./Ms. Marshall, is Ancestry.com's online information mostly indices or > actual records -- or both? (I know that you said they are printed records, > rather than photocopies of originals, but that would be okay too as long as > they were transcribed accurately.) Have you explored their Virginia > holdings at all? Do they have church records and cemetery records? > > Thanks. > > Shelley > --------------------------- > www.ancestry.com> is definitely a "for profit" operation and everyone's > budget is unique but personally I have certainly gotten my $5 per month > investment back many fold. Most of my searching has been in Kentucky records > (for which they have good maps and data on land grants, census > indices,marriages). Of course, as with printed compiled records (which most > of their stuff is from), someday I will need to "prove" crucial data by > finding the underlying records, which will be easier to find because of > Ancestry. If you don't want to pay, you can still get the daily/weekly > newsletter with the announcements of free access (for a limited time) to > selected materials. > ----------------------------- > Charlie, > Thanks for the info. My problem is I don't know enough yet to be able to > cite a particular census entry. I'm still at the point in my research where > I need to find out what people named Thomas were living in Prince William > County in the early 1800s. > > I checked out the Ancestry.com site but, unfortunately you have to have a > membership in order to access their databases. :-( Their membership seems > a tad expensive but I might consider their 3-month plan for $19.95. I'd > just have to try and squeeze all my online research into a 3-month period. > :-) > > Does anyone have any comments about their membership with Ancestry.com? Is > it worth the investment? > > Shelley > > > > ==== VAPWILLI Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Hmmmm... Now I'm thinking about Ancestry.com's "Preferred Plan" at $59.95 for a year. This would be, as was pointed out, $5.00 per month as opposed to $10.00 per month for the "Quarterly Plan". Mr./Ms. Marshall, is Ancestry.com's online information mostly indices or actual records -- or both? (I know that you said they are printed records, rather than photocopies of originals, but that would be okay too as long as they were transcribed accurately.) Have you explored their Virginia holdings at all? Do they have church records and cemetery records? Thanks. Shelley --------------------------- www.ancestry.com> is definitely a "for profit" operation and everyone's budget is unique but personally I have certainly gotten my $5 per month investment back many fold. Most of my searching has been in Kentucky records (for which they have good maps and data on land grants, census indices,marriages). Of course, as with printed compiled records (which most of their stuff is from), someday I will need to "prove" crucial data by finding the underlying records, which will be easier to find because of Ancestry. If you don't want to pay, you can still get the daily/weekly newsletter with the announcements of free access (for a limited time) to selected materials. ----------------------------- Charlie, Thanks for the info. My problem is I don't know enough yet to be able to cite a particular census entry. I'm still at the point in my research where I need to find out what people named Thomas were living in Prince William County in the early 1800s. I checked out the Ancestry.com site but, unfortunately you have to have a membership in order to access their databases. :-( Their membership seems a tad expensive but I might consider their 3-month plan for $19.95. I'd just have to try and squeeze all my online research into a 3-month period. :-) Does anyone have any comments about their membership with Ancestry.com? Is it worth the investment? Shelley

<www.ancestry.com> is definitely a "for profit" operation and everyone's budget is unique but personally I have certainly gotten my $5 per month investment back many fold. Most of my searching has been in Kentucky records (for which they have good maps and data on land grants, census indices, marriages). Of course, as with printed compiled records (which most of their stuff is from), someday I will need to "prove" crucial data by finding the underlying records, which will be easier to find because of Ancestry. If you don't want to pay, you can still get the daily/weekly newsletter with the announcements of free access (for a limited time) to selected materials. Hundertmark wrote: > > Charlie, > Thanks for the info. My problem is I don't know enough yet to be able to > cite a particular census entry. I'm still at the point in my research where > I need to find out what people named Thomas were living in Prince William > County in the early 1800s. > > I checked out the Ancestry.com site but, unfortunately you have to have a > membership in order to access their databases. :-( Their membership seems > a tad expensive but I might consider their 3-month plan for $19.95. I'd > just have to try and squeeze all my online research into a 3-month period. > :-) > > Does anyone have any comments about their membership with Ancestry.com? Is > it worth the investment? > > Shelley > > ==== VAPWILLI Mailing List ==== > Visit the Prince William County, USGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vapwilli/pw.htm > Check out the Prince William Archives and add your records! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/princewi.htm

I checked Virginia in ancestry.com, they give it for entire period. There are 63,000+ Thomas in the state. I checked ancestry trees which are free but there are 48,000 in the period 1800-1849. I have these problems all the time, you might try LDS as a way to find some first names, etc. Charlie

Charlie, Thanks for the info. My problem is I don't know enough yet to be able to cite a particular census entry. I'm still at the point in my research where I need to find out what people named Thomas were living in Prince William County in the early 1800s. I checked out the Ancestry.com site but, unfortunately you have to have a membership in order to access their databases. :-( Their membership seems a tad expensive but I might consider their 3-month plan for $19.95. I'd just have to try and squeeze all my online research into a 3-month period. :-) Does anyone have any comments about their membership with Ancestry.com? Is it worth the investment? Shelley

The email after mine suggests that census are all available at Ancestry.com. If you know the year, state, county (including Alexandria), and page number, the entry can be gotten from the original census form. I don't know how they handle getting them for others. It is: Alexandria Libraries 717 Queen Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 838-4555 Let me know if there are problems. If necessary, I can get it, but it may be a while until I get there again. Charlie

Thanks, Charlie. I assume they also have indexes to these records.... . If I write to them will they make me copies of selected index pages (I would pay of course)? If so, can you give me their address? Thanks. Shelley ------------------------------------------ The Lloyd House in Alexandria, about to move into the library across the street, has a complete set of the actual census from the beginning. Charlie -----------------------------------------

Shelly, I have two CDs on the Census Index: United States, Selected Counties, 1820 and 1840. Gathered from District of Columbia and 29 states. It gives the individual's first and last name, soundex code, state, county, and locality, census year, census page number, some entries also indicate the number and age of household inhabitants. June

The Lloyd House in Alexandria, about to move into the library across the street, has a complete set of the actual census from the beginning. Charlie

<A HREF="http://www.pwcweb.com/gov/dumfries/indexhistory.html">Town of Dumfries History Index page</A>

www.ancestry.com has the indices online. Hundertmark wrote: > > Does anyone know of a possible online source for indexes (or is it indices?) to the US census for Virginia for the years 1810, 1820 and 1830? Thank you. > > Shelley > > ==== VAPWILLI Mailing List ==== > List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received > when you subscribed. Feel free to contact Yvonne James-Henderson, > list administrator with questions concerning this list! > mailto:hen1@idt.net

Does anyone know of a possible online source for indexes (or is it indices?) to the US census for Virginia for the years 1810, 1820 and 1830? Thank you. Shelley

Hi All, Wondering if anyone knows where Rocky Run Creek was? Need any information on the Rocky run Methodist church that the land was donated for by George Trotter. Any help appreciated. Thank you Maggie

Shelley, I have John Jones, with daughter Mary Jones. Mary Jones married my ancestor William Overall. John Jones died June 5, 1713. I haven't got much on the family either. I do have a copy of John Jones will. It's probably too early to know if they are connected to your Sarah. They were in the area though. Best regards, Laura Jones (Jones is only a coincidence, I married a Jones)

<A HREF="http://www.patc.net/pwfp.html">Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, Virginia</A> <A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/prwi/">Prince William Forest Park</A> June