Hello List. The following is an old email I received. It was my understanding that Roots Web was now a part of Ancestry.com unless something happened after this email was sent. Any comments would be appreciated. Lois >From: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com >To: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com >Subject: Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and >MyFamily.com >Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:09:28 -0700 > >Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and MyFamily.com > >Good news: You, our users, have helped create at RootsWeb one of the >largest and most popular sites on the Internet. In May, we had over >149 million page views (according to Nielsen NetRatings combined home >and work statistics), sent over 155 million e-mails, and handled over >two million downloads of files from the various archives hosted at >RootsWeb. Everyone, take a bow! This is an incredible community of >genealogists, and the advances we're all making in our research due to >the sharing that occurs here is unprecedented. > >Bad news: The more popular RootsWeb becomes, the more costly it is to >simply stay alive and online. Expenses continue to exceed revenue. >We ran up a truly scary loss last year. Without outside help, it's >not clear how long we'd be able to go on like this. > >Good news: MyFamily.com (you may know them better as Ancestry.com) >recognizes the importance of the genealogical community that has grown >here at RootsWeb, and wants that community to continue to thrive. >They're excited to provide the financial stability we need to ensure >RootsWeb will be around for years to come. > >Brian and I are pleased by Ancestry.com's coming involvement with >RootsWeb. Now we can all focus on helping each other on the mailing >lists and message boards, uploading our GEDCOMs, and building Web >pages to share our research. > >Better news: As a special thank you to those of you who have helped >make RootsWeb such a vibrant Internet community, Ancestry.com is >making the following offer: > > You are invited to visit Ancestry.com today and sign up for a FREE > 14-day trial with no obligation. You'll gain full access to all 600 > million names in more than 2,500 databases. Go to the following address > to begin your free trial now: > > http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BA > <http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BA> > > You must activate your FREE trial by July 5, 2000. > >More good news: No one is going to charge you to use RootsWeb. You'll >still find RootsWeb at www.RootsWeb.com. Everything you're used to >using will still be here: the 19,000 mailing lists, the hundreds >of millions of names in free genealogy databases, the interactive >learning guides, the weekly RootsWeb Review and Missing Links, >the numerous tools for tracing your family history, the tens of thousands >of message boards, the thousands of independently authored web sites. >RootsWeb will still support worthy genealogy projects and societies, >such as the USGenWeb Project (www.USGenWeb.org), the Immigrant Ships >Transcribers Guild (ISTG.rootsweb.com) and the FreeBMD Project >(FreeBMD.rootsweb.com), and other groups that provide free >genealogical resources. > >And don't worry, you won't be charged to access RootsWeb. No one >will put your data on CD without your permission. Our Privacy Policy >(http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/pledge.html) and our Acceptable User >Policy (http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html) are unchanged. >Other promises made over the years will continue to be honored. You'll >still deal with the same RootsWeb volunteers and employees. In >fact, most users won't notice any changes, except exciting new tools, >more content, and better genealogical resources. > >If you would like more information, please check out our >official press release at > > http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm > >Thanks again for your support! Now, let's go figure out where >great-great-grandpa really came from, before that UFO deposited him in >rural Indiana in 1848... > >Karen > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Could someone please help me by doing a census lookup for Cornelius Sutton, mother was Jane Clawson and father unknown......... Thank you, Judy in Ohio

In a message dated 9/13/00 1:11:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, john.ballard@anu.edu.au writes: > I fully agree about the need for having the death index online, but I > suspect that ancestry.com is the wrong target. They have merely put Don't they make you pay? Rootsweb is free Thanks for writing. Sandy in Florida [Sandra Sommerville Wells Griffith] <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/sandrag">All My Mama's</A> Maybe I will catch up with my mail when I retire, in 2010, <grin>

WEST VIRGINIA Researchers: You're invited to a ONE-TIME chat for genealogy in WEST VIRGINIA! Please join us this Thursday night and feel free to invite others to come, too: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm 10-11 pm Eastern Time; 9-10 pm Central Time; 8-9 pm Mt. Time; 7-8 pm Pacific Bring a list of your surnames, any genealogy resources, and hints & tips to share. If you've never been to a chat, let me know and I'll send you step-by-step instructions. If you miss the chat, you can go to the forum and post your surname queries and research questions at: http://forums.about.com/ab-huntsville Hope to see you Thursday! Jean Brandau huntsville2@home.com

I fully agree about the need for having the death index online, but I suspect that ancestry.com is the wrong target. They have merely put up databases that others have made available, mainly LDS or in some cases the states themselves. See, for example, two that you don't cite, but which are in some ways superior to the others -- CA and TX at http://searches.rootsweb.com/, which were compiled officially but given to Rootsweb to put up online. The CA model is the one to go for, since it gives maximum information (stateor CA county of birth, mother's maiden name, county of death) from death certificates. See also the IN early marriage index, the IL marriage index, which are put up by state agencies or historical societies (as is OH's death index). Those who have direct or indirect contacts with the WV Vital Records Office may need to expose it to what other state officials are putting online or allowing to be posted by others. Perhaps the WV Historical Society is one route for lobbying. John

Hi, If you are searching in AL, GA, IA, IN, KY, MO or TX...we have several databases of census, tax lists, marriages, Civil War soldiers and more at our site. Stop by and take a peek, Happy Searchin' Brenda http://www.imagin.net/~tracers/census1.htm

Hi, as each of you may have recently noticed, Ancestry.com has adopted lots of new databases that have been very worthwhile to the geneologist. But after even recently seeing a posting on this list ffrom someone who feels that Vital Statistics in Charleston, WV takes such a long time to search for records, I feel it is about that the General index to the West Virginia deaths at Charleston shoud have a database just as so many other states have got. Kentucky has from 1911-2000 online in a database. Ohio has 1913-1937(Ohio historical society website), and 1958-1969, 1989-1991, and 1992(Ancestry.com), and other states have simmillar. But West Virginia has NEVER in the states history done a database index online. Although the achives in Charleston, WV has 1917-1991 on microfilm, but they are not in order of alphabet over the entire time span, but from year to year. This is where a death index database would make a world of difference. It's about time that West Virginia gets more advanced in the Vital records indexes. I do however understand it would not be possible to give out the actual death records themselves, because of privacy of thier family and people could use birth records do do harm to another individual. This is understandable. But what is not understandable is that why when I went there back in June 2000, they were mean to me and told me that thier books are totally closed to the public. They would not even let me look at the general index books over the counter. I am right now starting to drum up support for a West Virginia death index that is available to us in a database, just as it has been for other states. After all, if Kentucky can do it, why can't West Virginia, or even Virginia, Pennsylvania(I don't think that thier death indexes at New Castle are not even on microfilm!). The death index is vital, especially in a situation where you had relatives that moved around the state a lot and you don't know where they went, or last lived where they died, but because I don't live in West Virginia I can't look at the indexes any time I want at my leisure without bieng pressed for time so that I can find the names I need. I am so far grateful that ancestry.com has put West Virginia marriages 1863-1900 on a database, but even it doesn't include all the counties, just certain ones. Please everyone contact Ancestry.com and let them know that we need this index so that our research can be made easier. you can e-mail them at: support@ancestry-inc.com Thanks so much. Jason Arnott

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I have a little information on these families Eleanor Pauley + John Gunnoe Children Elizabeth 1866 Lemuel B. 1871 Andrew J. Nov. 1867 That is all I have for them Lemuel Married Rosabelle Abigail Dickens born 2-1-1872 Married 7-31-1892 1 Child Lemuel born 1893 Andrew Gunnoe + Salona Catherine Vealey born 1875 Married 4-13-1908 died 10-1-1943 Salona's Mother Rhoda Dickens born 8-11-1844 died 7-17-1910 she was a twin Daughter of Ephraim Dickens and Esther Ann James. Salona's Father Henry Vealey born 6-6-1836 died 1-23-1906 Son of Peter Vealey+ Virginia Newman. Andrew + Salona's Children William Howard born 3-7-1909 + Lois Ashbury 3-29-1936 Martha Hester born 5-10-1919 +Carl Edward Davison 12-14-1957 James Jackson born 5-1-1912 + Dora Elizabeth Smith 12-31-1933 Mary Demaris born 1-2-1914 + Phillip Albert Torgrimson 6-20-1941 Minnie Rosetta born 2-14-1917+ Frank C. Brink Feb.1949 Arvis Eugene born 5-24-1922+ Edgell Lucille Young 4-23-1941 I hope this helps this is all I have on the Gunnoe Family Emma Vealey vevealey@aol.com

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Does anyone know these folks or have dates for the children? thanks Descendants of Ellen Pauley 1 Ellen Pauley Number of children: 7 .. +John Gunnoe b: 1817-1818 m: Aft. 1850 Number of children: 7 Father: Mother: .... 2 Elizabeth Gunnoe b: May 1866 in Boone Co., WV d: 21 December 1932 in North Kenova, Lawrence Co., OH Number of children: 3 ........ +Mister Evans Father: Mother: .... *2nd Husband of Elizabeth Gunnoe: ........ +Emanuel Jackson Jarrell b: May 1853 in Boone Co., VA/WV m: 27 August 1896 d: Abt. 1905 Number of children: 3 Father: Jackson JARRELL Mother: Martha Jane COON .... 2 Andrew J Gunnoe b: November 1867 d: 1936 ........ +Catherine Vealey Father: Mother: .... *2nd Wife of Andrew J Gunnoe: ........ +Ollie Mae Jarrell b: 15 November 1872 in Boone Co., WV m: 1891 d: 14 December 1962 Father: Victor JARRELL Mother: Letha GREEN .... 2 Lace Gunnoe .... 2 Noah Gunnoe .... 2 Martha Gunnoe .... 2 George Gunnoe .... 2 Smith Gunnoe Thanks for writing. Sandy in Florida [Sandra Sommerville Wells Griffith] <A HREF="http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/sandrag">All My Mama's</A> Maybe I will catch up with my mail when I retire, in 2010, <grin>

In a message dated 9/12/2000 3:03:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, WVA-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << If you use the alternative spelling "Dunmore", as in "Governor Dunmore" or "Dunmore's War", you should get over 3,500 hits in Google >> Oh, my GOODness! He'd be on the computer for *3 years*, surfing those!! Suz G

<< Cecil H. Underwood, a Republican, >> Sidney, Thanks for the correction. There for a minute I thought something had happened in WV that I had missed and the governor switched parties. I too have enjoyed the articles on WV. As a former history teacher this is a good refresher course and I dug out my WV history book and started rereading it. I have save the emails also to send to some family genealogist who had the mis- fortune of being born and raised somewhere else. :o) Judy in Ohio but always a MOUNTAINEER WRIGHT, PELL, FAIRFAX, PHILLIPS, PYLES, PILES, MILLER, MITTER

I'm new to this list and posting. I am looking for information on my great grandparents: Thomas Goodwin 1825 - 1898 and his wife, Susannah Adams 1824 - 1900. Also Joseph Pomeroy 1820- 1898 and his wife Matilda Hall 1812 - 1894. They both lived in the Morgantown area. I was always told they lived near Cheatneck an old Indian reservation. Any help with these common surnames would be appreciated! Lois Kary _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

If you use the alternative spelling "Dunmore", as in "Governor Dunmore" or "Dunmore's War", you should get over 3,500 hits in Google :-) Curt ----- Original Message ----- From: <Sjg3587@aol.com> To: <WVA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [WVA] ST OF WV > << LORD DUNSMORE >> > Google results 1-14 of 14 for genealogy "LORD DUNSMORE" . > http://www.google.com/search?q=genealogy+%22LORD+DUNSMORE%22+&num=20&hl=en&l r= > lang_en&safe=active&btnG=Google+Search > > In a message dated 9/11/2000 5:07:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > derfson@email.msn.com writes: > > << Subj: RE: [WVA] ST OF WV > Date: 9/11/2000 5:07:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time > From: derfson@email.msn.com (Fred C. Shepler) > Reply-to: derfson@email.msn.com > To: Sjg3587@aol.com > > DO YOU BY CHANCE HAVE ANY INFO ON LORD DUNSMORE'S ARMY OR WHERE I MIGHT FIND > INFO ON HE AND HIS MEN. > > FRED >> > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ >

We have posted new pages of Court Orders for King George County 1721. By the way, we have changed Service Providers, and our "Surname Search" for Northern Neck Families can be reached at: http://www.sourcescript.com Good Hunting! ______________________ Virginia Hamrick virginiah@reflexnet.net http://www.sourcescript.com

Thank you. I was certain Gov. Underwood was (is) a Republican. I met his wife when I was in grade school and lived in WV the first time he was elected. Some of my ancestors were early residents of Tyler Co. W.Va. Lin http://homepages.go.com/~lin92/index.html Lin Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia URL My page.

What you could do is go to the website and contact the website manager who is resp. for the c content and errors thereof and perhaps the Col. Ency will make a correction. Suz G The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/65/we/WestVa.html West Virginia In a message dated 9/11/2000 8:38:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Spdent1@aol.com writes: << I enjoyed both articles written on West Virginia history, but would like to call attention to a small, insignificant error, the article referred to Gov. Underwood as a Democrat, Cecil H. Underwood, a Republican, was elected as West Virginia's youngest governor in 1956 at age 34, next elected 40 years later as the most senior governor at age 74 in 1996. He is running for reelection in 2000, since West Virginia has a 2 term limit this would be his last term if elected. Thank You Sidney P. Dent >>

<< LORD DUNSMORE >> Google results 1-14 of 14 for genealogy "LORD DUNSMORE" . http://www.google.com/search?q=genealogy+%22LORD+DUNSMORE%22+&num=20&hl=en&lr= lang_en&safe=active&btnG=Google+Search In a message dated 9/11/2000 5:07:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, derfson@email.msn.com writes: << Subj: RE: [WVA] ST OF WV Date: 9/11/2000 5:07:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: derfson@email.msn.com (Fred C. Shepler) Reply-to: derfson@email.msn.com To: Sjg3587@aol.com DO YOU BY CHANCE HAVE ANY INFO ON LORD DUNSMORE'S ARMY OR WHERE I MIGHT FIND INFO ON HE AND HIS MEN. FRED >>