--part1_1211f17c.24447d9a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope this will be of use to some one...Has anyone tried the LDS site yet??? Fran --part1_1211f17c.24447d9a_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-yd05.mx.aol.com (rly-yd05.mail.aol.com [172.18.150.5]) by air-yd04.mx.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:10:03 2000 Received: from smtp3.mindspring.com (smtp3.mindspring.com [207.69.200.33]) by rly-yd05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id QAA24788; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:10:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from packard-bell (user-38lcpk5.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.102.133]) by smtp3.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA15481; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:55:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> Comments: Authenticated sender is <[email protected]> From: "Jeannette" <[email protected]> To: "Expert Genealogy"<[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:42:06 +0000 X-Distribution: Moderate MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Family History Center Online Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Reply-To: [email protected] EXPERT GENEALOGY Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Family History Centers Subject: New Online Site The new online site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints contains two types of records: 1. The IGI (International Genealogical Index) 2. The Ancestral File IGI. The IGI is a composite of extracted parish registers in the US and 42 countries. Also, it contains Family Group Sheets submitted by members.=20 Batch Numbers. An important item to watch for is the "Batch Number". If the batch number is preceded by an alpha letter, such as C803406 - that means that the information came from an extracted record, such as birth, christening or marriage record. It does not include death records. You can order this record from the church (film number is listed), however, no additional information will be found. The best thing to do is to go to a local Family History Center, look under "Parish Registers", and locate the parish register in question. You can order that register on microfilm, and take a look at the "mortuary" or "deaths". This additional information is quite helpful, as it helps identify the oldest ancestors residing in that parish. If the batch number is a plain 6 digit number (such as 330906), that means that the information came from a Family Group Sheet submitted by a member, and, you can order that record on microfilm to view for yourself. It may or may not have additional information about other family members. That depends on the time-period involved. For example, during the 1970's, sheets for "individual" were used (as well as regular family group sheets) which did not list the whole family. ANCESTRAL FILE. This a composite of pedigrees submitted to the Ancestral Unit of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by members and non-members alike. Essentially, here is what happens: When the pedigree is received the "computer" determines if there is a family match, and if so, merges any new information with the old information. For this reason, you will sometimes find an example like this - John b. 1800, John b. 1803, listed as separate children. Since the date was not exact, the computer treated both Johns as separate individuals. The Ancestral File is "full of errors". Although a source or reference may have been included by the submitter, the program does not yet allow this into it. (They are working on that). It is not uncommon to find multiple errors and entries in any given pedigree. Best to treat this information as a "worksheet". What I do is print out the pedigree chart and family group sheets, then go to work trying to prove it. The IGI also contains error. Many of those errors are in the marriage portion (event). What happens is people frequently list the marriage license date, instead of the date it was performed. In Georgia, for example, the top portion of the marriage certificate is the license date, and the bottom half is the actual marriage date. These records should be used as guidelines, not fact. Accepting other people's work can really confuse our genealogy, and cause us not to get anywhere on it. We must search census records, county records, - census records, county records, on and on and on, to validate the genealogy. So, when you access the information online, please keep this in mine. LDS site - http://ldsonline.com/family.htm Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Family History Center Online - - Mormans - This is the site where you will be able to view the Ancestral File and IGI (International Genealogical Index) online. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D = FOR SALE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D FAMILY HISTORY CENTER RESEA= RCH HANDBOOK, by Jeannette Holland Austin, 264 pp., Paperbound $25.00. Floppy Disk $15.00. There is so much research material in family history centers that the average researcher only skims the surface. Now, for the first time, these tools are explained, beginning with the IGI, Ancestral File, etc. Helps researchers and volunteer workers...teachers one how to begin tracing their roots, using the fastest route....how to research in medieval times, etc. Deals with tools inside family history centers...helps you find more than ever before! How to set up new facilities, a self-teaching course for volunteers, about policies, equipment, forms, etc. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D NEW RELEASES =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 3660. INDEX OF MARYLAND COLONIAL WILLS 1634-1777 In the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland by James M. Magruder, Jr. With Additions and a New Introduction by Louise E. Magruder. 543 pp., cloth (2933), reissued 1999. $45.00 This is an index to all the wills of colonial Maryland as found in Will Books 1-41 at the old Land Office in Annapolis, now on file in the Hall of Records. It contains the names of approximately 16,000 testators, alphabetically arranged, giving the year of probate, county, and volume and page where the complete will is recorded. Among a host of other virtues, it is a convenient index to persons whose wills are abstracted in Jane Baldwin's Maryland Calendar of Wills, published in 8 volumes between 1904 and 1928. C6520. COLONIAL MARYLAND NATURALIZATIONS by Jeffrey and Florence Wyand. 104 pp., indexed, paper. (1975), repr. 1999. $26.50 This collection of naturalization records originally developed from a search for genealogical information concerning German settlers in Western Maryland. Although the first two parts of the work contain references to denizations granted by the Council and naturalizations granted by enactment of private laws, most of which have been extracted from various volumes of the Archives of Maryland, chief interest in the work rests with the naturalizations in Part II, which have not previously been published. Originally designated to encourage German Protestant emigration to colonial Maryland, a pair of 18th- century English statutes were enacted as a means of effecting bona fide naturalization in the Colony. The naturalizations in Part III, compiled from Maryland's Provincial Court documents in the Hall of Records, were granted in accordance with these stuatues. Heretofore, there has been no convenient means of ascertaining the names of all naturalized citizens in Colonial Maryland. Between 1742 and 1775 upwards of 1,000 naturalizations were granted in Maryland, 1775 being the logical terminal date since naturalizations were originally recorded incompliance with British statutes and were therefore only co-extensive with British dominion. Data in the naturalization records presented here include the identifying number of the record, date of naturalization, date of communion,volume and page of the Provincial Court Judgments, name, county or town of residence, nationality, church membership, location of church, and witnesses to communion. Place names, clergy, and parish locations are identified in the appendix. C2620. SIGNERS OF THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT by Annie Arnoux Haxtun. 8 =BD x 11", 128 pp., paper (1897-99), repr. 1998. $32.50 This is the standard reference work on the signers of the Mayflower Compact (162), consisting of lengthy sketches of the signers with considerable genealogical information on the men and their families. Descriptions of arms, lineages, and excerpts from wills and from other contemporary documents are integrated with the historical and biographical data. In addition, the work contains extensive records of the signers showing thousands of family connections. Includes Brewster tombstone and Bible Records, and information on a number of later Pilgrims who arrived on the Fortune, Ann, and Little James. Among the signers were John Alden, William Bradford, and Miles Standish, to mention only a few. C9321. PIONEER IRISH IN NEW ENGLAND by Michael J. O'Brien, 325 pp., indexed, paper (1937), repr. 1998. $37.50 In this book, Dr. O'Brien extends his thesis, begun in "A Hidden Phase of American History", that numberous Irishmen participated in the American Revolution, by demonstrating that the Irish were represented in the American colonies from the beginning of the colonial period. The author has combed through passenger lists, tax lists, marriage records, church records, and military records, as well as secondary sources, to unearth a plethora of references to persons of Irish birth or descent among the Colonists of New England. Includes a list of Irish soldiers who took part in King William's War, list of Irish settlers in York Co., Maine, etc. Over 2,000 New English Irish found. C9042. WHERE TO LOOK FOR HARD-TO-FIND GERMAN- SPEAKING ANCESTORS IN EASTERN EUROPE. Index to 19,720 Surnames in 13 Books, with Historical Background on Each Settlement. 2nd Edition. By Bruce Brandt and Edward Reimer Brandt. 248 pp., paper (1993), repr. 1998). $28.50 This book is a godsend for researchers whose German-speaking ancestors emigrated to Eastern Europe or whose trail cannot be traced to Western Europe, inasmuch as it furnishes the surname of every German-speaking individual who appears in the 13 authoritative histories which document this massive emigration. In all this work lists 19,720 surnames of German-speaking ancestors who emigrated to Russia, Poland, Romania, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, containing 24,000 references. C9320. THE LAST DAYS OF BRITISH SAINT AUGUSTINE 1784-1785. A Spanish Census of the English Colony of East Florida by Lawrence H. Feldman. 116 pp., indexed, paper. 1998. $27.50 In 1763, East Florida was ceded to Bitain by the Treaty of Parish which concluded the French and Indian Wars, only to be returned to Spain 20 years later as part of the settlement of the American War of Independence. This intriguing volume is based upon an examination of a census of the "English residents at the time of change of Flag", that was conducted by the newly installed Spanish government between August and October 1784. Every reference to non-slave, non-Spanish heads of households are found, in all 740 entries, each giving the name of the household head, nation or colony of origin, occupation, and number of persons in household. In many instances, the annotations also refer to the householder's city of origin, if married, number oc hildren and/or slaves, location of residence in St. Augustine, intentions with respect to Spanish citizenship, or more. C9323. SCOTTISH-AMERICAN GRAVESTONES, 1700-1900 by David Dobson. 105 pp., paper, 1998. $24.00 Prior to 1855, gravestone inscriptions represent almost the sole source of death information in Scotland. When one considers that a number of these gravestone inscriptions contain references to family members who died abroad, as well as those who died in Scotland, Scottish gravestones taken on even more importance for North Americans. These facts have not been lost on the indefatigable Scottish researcher, David Dobson, who, drawing upon both published and unpublisshed sources, has compiled this new colume of death records. There are more than 1500 death records in this volume, arranged alphabetically. C9131. THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN THE US. With Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social and Educational Influence. In 2 volumess. By Albert Bernhardt Faust. 605, 730 pp., illus., indexed, paper (1927), repr. 1995. $95.00 This remarkably detailed work is still the best introduction to the German influence in American life and culture from the colonial period to 1927, the year of the book's original publication. Volume 1 treats German immigration, colonial and early national settlement, and participation in the great poitical or military upheavals of American history, while Volume II looks at the economic, social, cultural, and educational contributions made by persons of German birth/descent and Germanic cultural influences. The researcher would have to venture far and wide to discover in another work anything approaching Faust's detailed bibliography or the index or more than 10,000 references. C9341. ANNALS OF TAZEWELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA FROM 1800 TO 1924, 2 volumes, by John Newton Harman. 467, 653 pp., illus., indexed, paper. (1922, 1925), repr. 1999. $95.00 Tazewell County in southwestern Virginia was formed from Russell and Wythe counties in 1799. Notwithstanding its considerable and unique contribution to Virginia history, Tazewell County takes on added importance for Virginia genealogists for lying to adjacent to the great Augusta migration trail which traversed southern Virginia. While this book is nearly 75 years old at this point, it is nonetheless a colossal undertaking and still the starting point for Tazewell genealogy and history. It is a vast extraction o f county court records. Volume 1 contains extracts of court orders, wills and deeds, names of all civil and military officers, all lawyers admited to the bar, all preachers licensed and an exact copy of the Tazewell marrige registers from 1800 to 1852, every deed made to churches of all denominations from 1800 to 1922, the names of all Tazwwell representatives in the General Assembly of Virginia from 1800 to 1852, and a list of Revolutionary pensioners. Volume II continues the principal features of Volume I from 1853, with marriage records to 1868, the names of all devisers and devisees of wills to 1924, lists of Tazewell soldiers in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War II, various court orders, and a fairly complete list of Tazewell churches and church officers in 1924. The concluding 250 pages consist of genealogies of the following pioneer families: Bandy, Barns, Bowing, Chapman, Couling, Crockett, Deskins-Maxwell-Witten-Fields, Gillespie, Gose, Graham, Graybeal-Greear, Greever, Hankins, Harman, Higginbotham, Holmes, Hopkins, Laird, Linkous, Litz, Lockhart, McGuire, Martin, Maxwell, Mays, Moore, Peery, Sparks, Stras, Thompson, Tynes, Ward, Whitley, Witten, Wohlford-Mustard, Yot and Young - nearly 40,000 persons. Postage $3.50 for 1st book, $1.50 for each book thereafter ORDER FROM: Jeannette H. Austin Genealogy Books 175 Thornton Drive Fayetteville GA 30214 1-800-899-9524 Local 770-719-1754 Fax 770-719-8699 Order online: http://www.genealogy-books.com/gpcorder.htm ACCEPT VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER --part1_1211f17c.24447d9a_boundary--