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Subject: RootsWeb Review, Vol. 2, No. 52

ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News
Vol. 2, No. 52, 29 December 1999, Circulation: 377,281+
(c) 1999 RootsWeb.com, Inc. <http://www.rootsweb.com/>
RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798
Editors: Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG
<RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com>
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IN THIS ISSUE:

o Announcements from the CEO
o U.S. Presidential Pedigrees at RootsWeb
o RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees
o Cards at RootsWeb (New Year greetings)
o Connecting through RootsWeb
o New Genealogy Mailing Lists
o New Genealogy Web Pages
o GenConnect
o USGenWeb Archives Project
o Letters to the Editors
o Humor -- Murphy's Laws of Technology
o Reprint Policy, Back Issues, How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe

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ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE CEO, by Robert R. Tillman

o PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR GEDCOM NOW TO THE WORLDCONNECT PROJECT.
To date, RootsWeb users have uploaded 11,580,381 names to the
RootsWeb WorldConnect Project. Only 419,619 names to go to reach
the goal of 12 million by year end. RootsWeb can make it with
your help! Search the names already uploaded, upload your own
GEDCOM, or find detailed answers to questions about WorldConnect
at <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/>

o Not sure what a GEDCOM is? GEDCOM is the acronym for
GEnealogical Data COMmunication, created by the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to facilitate the exchange
of genealogical data among different software programs. A GEDCOM
is a text file that is created automatically in a special format
from information that is in a genealogical software program's
database -- no need to rekey. Most, but not all, genealogical
software programs have GEDCOM capability. For more information,
see <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/wc2.html#1>

o SEARCH AND YE SHALL FIND. I recently received e-mail from a
Mittelstadt researcher who complained that he could not find his
family tree on RootsWeb and indicated that he was off to use one
of the commercial subscription sites. I took his message as a
challenge and searched for the Mittelstadt surname on RootsWeb.
I made the assumption that he was interested only in the
spelling Mittelstadt and did not search for variations. We show
below the results of various searches on RootsWeb; however,
RootsWeb is much more than a giant search engine that is used to
brag about how many "names" it has. It is a community of avid
genealogists and volunteers who interact with and help others
daily on RootsWeb's 17,000+ mailing lists, 140,000+ message
boards, and hundreds of other volunteer genealogical projects
hosted on our servers. These people are the heart and soul of
RootsWeb, contributing their unique talents and time in many
ways to aid you in your genealogical quest

The following list is a template for doing a search on all of
RootsWeb's search engines. To follow the same process, simply
click on the URLs listed below. The Mittelstadt surname results
(the scores shown after each URL) are for Sunday, 26 December
1999. New material is added to RootsWeb every day, so be sure to
repeat your searches regularly. The information you have been
looking for these past 45 years might be uploaded somewhere on
RootsWeb five seconds after you've completed a search that came
up empty.

Free Birth, Marriage and Death Index Search (England and Wales)
<http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl> Score 0

GenConnect Message Board Search
<http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi?search> Score 12

GenSeeker (Web sites on RootsWeb)
<http://seeker.rootsweb.com/search.html> Score 35

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Search (ship passenger lists)
<http://istg.rootsweb.com/> Score 2

Mailing List Finder Search (specific Mittelstadt mailing list)
<http://lists.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/findlist.pl> Score 0

Mailing List Interactive Search (mailing list archives)
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl> This tool
allows one to search individually named mailing lists. As there
were no Mittelstadt-specific mailing lists, I chose to search
various German-related lists, including Alsace-Lorraine, Baden-
Wurttemberg, Bavaria, Brethren, Bundesland, Deu-Ladbergen,
Deutschland, GermanRussian, German-Kingdoms, Hesse, Hessenland,
Niedersachsen, Ostfriesen, Pfalz, Posen, Prussia-Roots,
Schleswig-Holstein-Roots, Surnames-German, and Trier-Roots.
Score 12 (4 on Baden-Wurttemberg list, 6 on Posen list, and 2 on
Prussia-Roots list).

Mailing List Threaded Archives Search (most RootsWeb lists)
<http://archiver.rootsweb.com/search.html> Score 3

Miscellaneous Database Searches (various state and newsgroup-
related databases) <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/>
o Arkansas -- 244,456 General Land Office Records to 1908
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/arkland/arkland.pl>
Score 0
o California -- Sacramento County: 1890 Great Register
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sacramento/sacramento.pl>
Score 0
o Louisiana -- 126,347 General Land Office Records to 1908
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/laland/laland.pl> Score 0
o South Carolina -- York County: Census Index, 1790-1850
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/scyork/scyork.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Dakota Territories Census -- 1860
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdcensus/sd1860cen.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota Genealogical Society Quarterly Index
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdcensus/sd1860cen.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Brown County History Index
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdbrown/browninx.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Brule County History Index
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdbrulehist/sdbrule.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Campbell County Obituaries
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdcampbell/obitbook.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Charles Mix County 1906 Atlas
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdchasmix/1906atlas.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Edmunds County Cemeteries
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/sdedmunds/cemetery.pl> Score 0
o South Dakota -- Edmunds Co., Obituaries from the Bowdle Pioneer
<http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/sdbowdle/bowdle.html>
Score 0
o Tennessee -- Lincoln County Marriages from 1895 to 1910
<http://www.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/tnlincoln/tnlincoln.pl> Score 0
o Vermont -- Saxtons River 1920 Census
<http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/vtsaxriv/vtindex.html>
Score 0
o Wisconsin -- 260,530 General Land Office Records to 1908
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wisconsin/wisconsin.pl>
Score 4

UseNet Newsgroup Archives
o fr.rec.genealogie
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/gen-ff.html> Score 0
o soc.genealogy.computing
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/gencmp.html> Score 13
o soc.genealogy.french
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/gen-fr.html> Score 0
o soc.genealogy.german
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/gen-de.html> Score 47
o soc.genealogy.medieval
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/gen-medieval.html> Score 0
o soc.genealogy.methods
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/sgmethods.html> Score 13
o soc.genealogy.misc
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/genmsc.html> Score 21
o soc.genealogy.slavic
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/gen-slavic.html> Score 0
o soc.genealogy.surnames
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/sgsurnames.html> Score 12
o soc.genealogy.uk+ireland
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/genuki.html> Score 2

Obituary Daily Times Search (obituaries)
<http://obits.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi> Score 33

Roots-L Mailing List Archive Search
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/roots-l.html> Score 7

RootsLink Search (genealogy links)
<http://resources.rootsweb.com/~rootslink/search.html> Score 0

Roots Location List Name Finder Search (researchers by location)
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/Genea/rll> Score 0

RootsWeb Surname Helper (surname registries and Web sites)
<http://surhelp.rootsweb.com/srchall.html> Score 11

RootsWeb Surname List (surname researchers)
<http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi#search> Score 3

Social Security Death Index Search (government-created database)
<http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi> Score 277

USGenWeb Archives National Search
(large variety of material, including census records)
<http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/htsearch> Score 28
(One can also search the USGenWeb Archives on a state-by-state
basis. This capability is very useful for more common search
terms.) <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm>

U.S. Town and County Database Search (location research)
<http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi> Score 0

WorldConnect GEDCOM Search
<http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi>
Score 87

GRAND TOTAL SCORE: 597 Mittelstadt citations on RootsWeb on
26 December 1999, ALL free of charge ALL of the time.

There are many other German-related resources hosted by RootsWeb
that likely would be helpful to Mittelstadt researchers,
including the WorldGenWeb Project <http://www.worldgenweb.org/>,
the CenEuroGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~ceneurgw/>, the
international portion of the Roots-L Library at
<http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/regional.html>
and the Germany Visitors Center for GenConnect at
<http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/index/Germany.html>
There are also many non-search-engine-enabled resources on
RootsWeb, such as census file images at
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/> and
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/cen_img.htm>

o WHY "500 MILLION NAMES" MAY NOT BE ALL IT SEEMS. We have
recently seen claims of very large name counts by Genealogy
Site X (470 million names), Genealogy Site Y (500 million names)
and Genealogy Site Z (600 million names). Frankly, we have not
a clue how many "names" are on RootsWeb. Out of curiosity, we
performed the same Mittelstadt surname search on Genealogy
Sites X, Y, and Z. While a comparison of the results is hardly
scientific, it is enlightening.

Genealogy Site X -- Score 596. Of this total, 250 citations are
from the Social Security Death Index (a more recent version of
which is accessible on RootsWeb), 103 citations relate to
commercial CDs sold on Genealogy Site X containing user provided
data, 89 citations are links to other sites (including to
RootsWeb), and 84 citations relate to commercial genealogy CDs
sold on Genealogy Site X. The remaining Mittelstadt citations
total 70, which one can access for free. The cheapest price at
which one can purchase the 25 CDs upon which the 103 citations
are contained is $499.99. One could also subscribe online to the
contents of these CDs at $19.99/CD, a total of $499.75. The
cheapest price at which one can purchase the nine commercial
genealogy CDs upon which the 84 Mittelstadt citations are
contained is $379.90. Total cost: $879.65.

Genealogy Site Y -- Score 874. Of this total, 409 citations are
from current United States and European telephone books
(accessible elsewhere on the Web), 272 citations are from the
Social Security Death Index (a more recent version of which is
accessible on RootsWeb), 63 citations are from post-1990
obituaries, 22 citations are links to other sites (including to
RootsWeb), four citations relate to Wisconsin land records
(available on RootsWeb), and two citations are from the PR
Newswire (accessible elsewhere on the Web). The remaining
Mittelstadt citations total 102, for which a user normally must
pay an annual fee of $59.95 to subscribe.

Genealogy Site Z -- Score 93. These citations are all free of
charge.

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CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories.

A CHRISTMAS STORY

by Sharon Blain <psblain@kanservu.ca>

On 22 December 1999 my husband was unable to get to sleep so
he decided to mess around on the Internet. The most recent
newsletter had just arrived from RootsWeb and he started
clicking on a variety of links that he had seen. One link that
he clicked on was a bulletin board on RootsWeb that we frequent
occasionally and look at, but don't pay much attention to. On
this site was an enquiry under the name SLAGHT that had just
been posted that evening. He called me into the room to verify
the query. Karol's request was to find her father who had last
been heard from in St. Thomas, Ontario. My husband remembered
that I had been to a funeral about two years ago for someone who
had sounded very familiar. At this funeral I met the daughter of
Alfred A. SLAGHT, who had come home for the funeral from British
Colombia. In the following days they spent a lot of time
together and "Judi" the daughter had indicated she had a half-
sister, but did not know her name or where she lived. On the
evening of 22 December 1999 I put 2+2 together, made the
connections, contacted both Karol and Judi to let them know what
I was doing, and on 23 December 1999 Karol and Judi had
confirmed that they were truly sisters. Tonight is Christmas Eve
and we have just received a call from Judi to say this is the
best Christmas she has ever had. Peter and I are having a very
tough Christmas but if anything can make it worth our while it
is that we were able to unite two sisters who have never known
each other. Warm and fuzzy doesn't even begin to explain how
we feel. Thank you RootsWeb.

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MAILING LISTS. For an index to most genealogy mailing lists
hosted by RootsWeb, visit <http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/>

NEW MAILING LIST REQUESTS. Please request new mailing lists at:
<http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/members/listrequest.html>

TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing
list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE
(or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to
[name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to
[name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). FOR
EXAMPLE, to discuss Sonora, Mexico, send a SUBSCRIBE message
to: <MEX-SONORA-L-request@rootsweb.com>

NEW SURNAMES MAILING LISTS, GenCONNECT BOARDS, AND CLUSTERS
AGASSIZ
ANDREWARTHA
ATNIP
BASISTA
BERGESON
BIEDENBACK
BILDERBACK
BOLDWYN
BRENNENSTUHL (also BRININSTOOL, BRENENSTAHL)
BROWN-TN-IL -- BROWN family who moved from Tennessee to Illinois
[Use the existing BROWN cluster page and GenConnect boards.]
BURRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE
CEARLOCK
CHEDZEY
COLQUITT
COVENHOVEN
DAFT
DALPE
DICKINS
DIGMAN
ENGLEMAN
ENO
FERMOR
FILDES
FINCHNER
FLAVEL (also FLAVELL)
FRIEDBERG
FULLUCK
GAEDE
GLADNEY
GRIESHABER
GUEREQUE
HANNIBAL
HASSELDIECK
HENAULT
HENEAULT
HEWER
HOLBEN
HOLDENGRABER
HONAKER
HORLER
HOUSEL
HURFORD
INABNIT
INSALL
KURRAT
LEDEBUR
LESEBERG
MASONER (also MASNER and MASNOR)
MCCLEERY
MCENTYRE
MCMONAGLE (and variants)
MILLETS
OLDALE
OLEFORD
OTTERY
OVERLOCK
PARISEAU
PARLIER
PASSER
PEUGH
PLEUBUCH
QUINTRELL
REZEAU
ROFFEY
RUDNICK (also RUDNIK)
SCHARPING
SEGGIE
SISEMORE
SMITHERMAN
SOUTHEY (and variants)
STATLER
STEINROCK
STENON
STRICKLIN
STUCKLEY
SWIGART (also SCHWIGART)
TANSLEY
TARNO
TESTON
THAWLEY
TIBBETT
TOOTHAKER
TRIMPEY
TROWELL
WATERWORTH
WASH
WITULSKI

NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS
CANADA
    CAN-ONT-ESSEX -- Essex County, Ontario
    CAN-ONT-KENT -- Kent County, Ontario
    CAN-ONT-LAMBTON -- Lambton County, Ontario
    CAN-ONT-MIDDLESEX -- Middlesex County, Ontario
    CAN-ONT-WATERLOO -- Waterloo County, Ontario
    CAN-ONT-WELLINGTON - Wellington County, Ontario
MEXICO
    MEX-COAHUILA   -- Estado de Coahuila
    MEX-DISTRITO-FEDERAL -- Distrito-federal (Federal District)
    MEX-DURANGO    -- State of Durango
    MEX-MEXICO     -- State of Mexico
    MEX-MICHOACAN -- Estado de Michoacan
    MEX-MORELOS    -- State of Morelos
    MEX-NAYARIT    -- Estado de Nayarit
    MEX-NUEVO-LEON -- State of Nuevo-Leon
    MEX-OAXACA     -- Estado de Oaxaca
    MEX-PUEBLA     -- State of Puebla
    MEX-SAN-LUIS-POTOSI -- Estado de San Luis Potosi
    MEX-TAMAULIPAS -- Estado de Tamaulipas
    MEX-VERA-CRUZ -- Estado de Vera Cruz
    MEX-ZACATECAS -- Estado de Zacatecas
U.S.A.
    HCGS -- For members of the Harrison County Genealogy Society
      (West Virginia).
    VA-Harrison-Monongalia -- To discuss the families of the
      Harrison and Monongalia counties area of Virginia (now
      West Virginia), surrounding areas, and the trails used
      to reach the area.
    VA-Jackson-Roane -- To discuss the families of the Roane and
      Jackson counties area of Virginia (now West Virginia),
      surrounding areas, and the trails used to reach the area.

NEW ETHNIC, SPECIAL INTEREST, AND MISCELLANEOUS MAILING LISTS
INTERRACIAL-GENEALOGY

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NEW WEB ACCOUNT REQUESTS. Please see the instructions at
<http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi>

NEW WEB SITES. Some of these might not yet be accessible. If one
that interests you isn't up yet, please check again in a few
days or a week. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~[account name]>. Note
that the ~[tilde] before the account name is required. FOR
EXAMPLE, to visit the Washington County, Tennessee Web page,
go to <http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnwashin/>

MEXICO
mexnleon -- Nuevo Leon
SWITZERLAND
chevaud -- Vaud
U.S.A.
nywnygs -- Western New York Genealogical Society
tnwashin -- Washington County, Tennessee
tnclaibo -- Claiborne County, Tennessee
vaschsm -- Surry County Historical Society and Museum, Inc.

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GENCONNECT. RootsWeb hosts more than 60,000 surname GenConnect
boards that are in need of people to maintain them.
o For a complete list of adoptable GenConnect surname boards
<http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/surnames/adoptable/>
o For the form to request to adopt a GenConnect surname board
(the same form is used for surname mailing list requests)
<http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/adoptrequest.html>

Have you found a genealogical treasure, such as a photo album or
an old Bible containing a completed family record page, that you
would like to see reunited with its family? If so, in addition
to submitting a notice for publication in the "Somebody's Links"
section of MISSING LINKS or in the SOMEBODY'S LINKS NEWSLETTER
(to subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to:
<SOMEBODYS-LINKS-NEWSLETTER-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com>) you also
may post a notice about it on the GenConnect board at
<http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/SomebodysLinks/>

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USGENWEB ARCHIVES -- THE ARCHIVES NEWSLETTER contains the
current USGenWeb Archives submissions in the last week.
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/>
December 27, 1999 issue
<http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsletter/1999/dec/dec27.htm>

USGW-ARCHIVES-ANNOUNCE is a read-only mailing list for weekly
announcements of new updates and submissions to the USGenWeb
Archives. It is open to anyone who wishes to subscribe. To
subscribe, send e-mail that says only SUBSCRIBE to this address:
<usgw-archives-announce-L-request@rootsweb.com>

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS may be posted to the GenConnect board at
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/RWR-LettersToTheEditor
or e-mailed to RWR-Editors@rootsweb.com.

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HUMOR. Thanks to Les Williams <rv6aflyr@hotmail.com> who sent us
the list from which these were drawn.

MURPHY'S TECHNOLOGY LAWS

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
civilization.

All great discoveries are made by mistake.

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Previously published by RootsWeb.com, Inc., RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Genealogy News,
Vol. 2, No. 52, 29 December 1999. RootsWeb: <http://www.rootsweb.com/>

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