Interment.net - Update (Jan 31, 2005)
 Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Saint James Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Stanstead County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 511 records Greenwood Cemetery - (USA, California, El Dorado County) - Contributed by Candis Ward, 176 records Cedar Park Cemetery - (USA, Illinois, Cook County) - Contributed by Edward R Sandstrom III, 10 records Waring Family Cemetery - (USA, Maryland, Prince George County) - Contributed by Anne Braun, 6 records Smithville United Methodist Cemetery - (USA, Maryland, Calvert County) - Contributed by Anne Braun, 28 records Jacobsburg Cemetery - (USA, Ohio, Belmont County) - Contributed by Julie Miller, 39 records Ross Family Cemetery - (USA, Oklahoma, Mayes County) - Contributed by Jo Melton, 13 records Cole Family Cemetery - (USA, Oklahoma, Mayes County) - Contributed by Jo Melton, 15 records Bryan-Lindsey Family Cemetery - (USA, Oklahoma, Mayes County) - Contributed by Jo L. Melton, 38 records Old Church Cemetery - (USA, Virginia, King and Queen County) - Contributed by Jeannette Seitz, 225 records DeShazo Cemetery - (USA, Virginia, King George County) - Contributed by Anne Braun, 5 records Marshville Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Harrison County) - Contributed by Susan L Ritter, 35 records Ash Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Harrison County) - Contributed by Susan L Ritter, 8 records
Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogists Companion
Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogists Companion is a collection of various compiled transcribed documents acquired from micro-film and original records, including but not limited to: Bible, Cemetery, Census, Church, Community, Deed, Family Lineage & Photo's, Funeral Home, Marriage, Military, Obituary, Scholastic, Tax, Voter Lists and Records.
Library Dust
Michael McGrorty, the blogger behind "Library Dust" is creating a list of endangered libraries. So far, there are four library systems listed, and it's interesting to note that the reasons are all having to do with shortfall of available funds. In many cases, ballot initiatives to raise taxes for libraries are being voted down. For whatever the reasons, voters are not seeing public libraries as important enough to warrant higher taxes. Could it be that taxes are too high as it is? Could it be that people are finding the Internet as adequate for research? Could it be that people have less time to visit libraries? It's probably all of the above. I certainly don't want to see libraries turn to dust. But I think the old model of having local governments manage and fund libraries is coming to an end. Instead, I would like to see private organizations step up to create collections that they take an interest in. Historical societies already do this. How about helping our local churches do this too? How about helping local Chambers of Commerce create business libraries? I would like to see our lawmakers create legislation that removes whatever roadblocks that make it difficult for these organizatiosn to do so.
Using DNA to Identify Tsunami Victims
Sorenson Genomics issued a press release this morning announcing that it is helping the people of Thailand to identify their deceased. They create DNA profiles of the most badly decomposed bodies using tissue samples. Then, they create similar DNA profiles from living family members. By comparing similarities in the profiles, they can reasonably determine which body belongs to which family. You might know Sorenson Genomics through a couple of its subsidiary companies, Relative Genetics, which assists genealogists in validating family pedigrees, and GeneTree, which offers paternity testing. Apparently, the demand for accurate DNA analysis is reaching a new level of urgency after the Thai government instituted a death benefit of $1,000 for surviving family members of each victim. In order to claim the death benefit and to perform traditional Buddhist last rites for the victims, family members need to demonstrate a genetic relationship with the victim.
Hudson, New York 1912 Directory, including Claverack Village and Stottville
NARA Guidance on Managing Web Records
The National Archives and Records Administration released new guidelines on managing records on the Internet. The guidelines were intended for government agencies, but they might provide some tips for any website publisher in general. For example: 1.2 How can I maintain a trustworthy web site?
For web site records to have integrity and remain reliable, authentic, and useable for as long as they are needed, you must maintain the content, context, and sometimes structure of the site. A trustworthy web site includes not only the content pages but also information about the web site that relates to the context in which it was created and used. Specific contextual information varies depending upon the business, legal, and regulatory requirements of the business activity. Structural information on the organization of the web site supports its long-term integrity. Huh?? If you think this is for you, enjoy.
Hillsborough, New Hampshire Town Reports for 1900, 1903, 1905-7, 1911, 1913, 1915-18
 DistantCousin.com today published scanned images of Hillsborough, New Hampshire Town Reports for 1900, 1903, 1905-7, 1911, 1913, 1915-18. These reports contain key information for understanding the town's history as well as some information useful for performing genealogy research. DistantCousin.com is home to one of the largest free online archives of city directories and town reports in the world.
Salem County, New Jersey 1913 Farm Directory
DistantCousin.com today published scanned images of the Salem County, New Jersey 1913 Farm Directory, originally published by Wilmer Atkinson Company. The images are accompanied by a surname index. DistantCousin.com is home to one of the largest free online archives of city directories in the world, combining both scanned images of directory pages with surname indexes.
GenWeekly - Update (Jan 27, 2005)
Library of Congress Seeks Public Comments on Orphaned Works
The Library of Congress today issued a public notice asking for comments regarding orphaned works. Orphaned works are considered to be those in which copyright protections theoretically remain in force, but in which the copyright holder cannot be contacted. The Copyright Office seeks to examine the issues raised by "orphan works," i.e., copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate. Concerns have been raised that the uncertainty surrounding ownership of such works might needlessly discourage subsequent creators and users from incorporating such works in new creative efforts or making such works available to the public. This notice requests written comments from all interested parties. Specifically, the Office is seeking comments on whether there are compelling concerns raised by orphan works that merit a legislative, regulatory or other solution, and what type of solution could effectively address these concerns without conflicting with the legitimate interests of authors and right holders. Comments must be submitted in writing. You can e-mail your comments to: orphanworks@loc.gov. Comments must be received by March 25, 2005. Dick Eastman blogged about the issue of orphaned works earlier this month. There are several old works that could be of value to genealogists, but they cannot be republished because the copyright holder cannot be contacted. Moreover, republishing these works can generate taxable revenues for the government. Seems like this is a win-win situation waiting to happen.
Rootsweb Database Update January 26, 2005
 The following files were added this week:School Alumni Records- GEORGIA. Clarke County. Athens. University of Georgia, Class of 1914; 68 records; contributed by Meredith Clapper
- ILLINOIS. Rock Island County. Moline. Contributed by Linda P. Cohn
- Moline High School Graduates, 1876-1899; 378 records;
- Moline Public Schools Employees, 1898-1900; 154 records;
- Moline Public Schools, Roll of Honor Students 1898-1899; 353 records;
- Moline Public Schools, Superintendents (1878-1898) and Board Members (1899-1900); 13 records
Origins Network adds exclusive Irish/US passenger records at Irish Origins
Press Release: The Origins Network, specialists in British and Irish genealogy, are proud to announce the addition of key passenger lists from Irish ships bound for the United States, which are entirely exclusive to Irish Origins subscribers, available via The Origins Network. The Irish Passenger Lists of 1890, compiled directly from original lists held at The National Archives in London, contain over 45,000 names of individuals travelling from several Irish ports to the east coast of the USA and include a wealth of valuable information for the genealogist such as the ship's name, date of departure, passengers' ages, marital status and occupation. . Particularly valuable are frequent appearance of family groups emigrating to the USA. About The Origins Network The Origins Network (formerly Origins.net) was founded in 1997 and offers online access to some of the richest ancestral information available for genealogy research. Origins Network services include subscription access to exclusive English genealogy related collections on British Origins and to Irish genealogy related collections on Irish Origins, expert Scottish Old Parish records research on Scots origins, plus Free access to a state-of-the-art specialized search engine for genealogy, Origin Search. Primary genealogical data unique to The Origins Network includes marriage registers, wills, court and apprentice records, as well as downloadable online place related images such as original survey maps. Most of this information is not available anywhere else on the internet.
Hillsborough, New Hampshire Town Reports for 1900, 1903, 1905-7, 1911, 1913, 1915-18
DistantCousin.com today published scanned images of Hillsborough, New Hampshire Town Reports for 1900, 1903, 1905-7, 1911, 1913, 1915-18. These reports contain key information for understanding the town's history as well as some information useful for performing genealogy research. DistantCousin.com is home to one of the largest free online archives of city directories and town reports in the world.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 24, 2005)
 Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Second Reformed Church 1910 Pastor Installation - The Second Reformed Church of New Brunswick, N. J. Installation of Reverand John A. Ingham as Pastor by the Classis of New Brunswick. Wednesday, March 2, 1910, 7:30 p.m. Includes order of services and consistory of the church.
23rd Annual Pawtucket Police Assoc. Ball - 23rd Annual Concert and Ball, Pawtucket Police Association, Friday Evening, February 9, 1923, State Armory, Exchange Street. Concert from 8 to 9. Dancing 9:30 to 12. Includes listing of the association officers, the concert programme, and committee members.
Directory of the Musician's Protective Assoc. - Directory of the Musician's Protective Association, Local No. 411, A. F. of M., Bethlehem, Pa. Organized November 24, 1916. Includes listing of members, with their residence and instrumentation. This item is undated.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 24, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Garden of Memories - (USA, New Mexico, Dona Ana County) - Submitted by Charlotte Farr, 1,439 records Cory Cemetery - (USA, Colorado, Delta County) - Submitted by Susan L. Ritter, 521 records Hatley United Church Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Stanstead County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 298 records Forks of Cheat Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 371 records Fletcher Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 390 records Eden Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 312 records Blaney Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 139 records Bayles Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 16 records Baker Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 75 records Wolfe Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K. Holt, 14 records Stafford Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K. Holt, 5 records Rubles Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K. Holt, 5 records Pierpont Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K. Holt, 226 records Hoard Cemetery - (USA, West Virginia, Monongalia County) - Contributed by Sarah K Holt, 28 records DeShazo Cemetery - (USA, Virginia, Stafford County) - Submitted by Anne Braun, 31 records
Wayne County, New York 1914 Farm Directory
DistantCousin.com today published scanned images of the Wayne County, New York 1914 Farm Directory, originally published by Orange Judd Company. The images are accompanied by a surname index. DistantCousin.com is home to one of the largest free online archives of city directories in the world, combining both scanned images of directory pages with surname indexes.
Ontario County, New York 1914 Farm Directory
DistantCousin.com today published scanned images of the Ontario County, New York 1914 Farm Directory, originally published by Orange Judd Company. The images are accompanied by a surname index. DistantCousin.com is home to one of the largest free online archives of city directories in the world, combining both scanned images of directory pages with surname indexes.
Ancestry.com Update (Jan 15, 2005)
 The following is a list of database updates Ancestry.com made to its website, during the period of January 9 to January 15, 2005: U.S. Records Collection - Obituary Collection - Updated (115,052 names added for a total of 5,925,266) - 1/15/2005
- Pittsfield and Vicinity, Massachusetts City Directories, 1896-1965 - Updated (705,604 names added for a total of 1,003,665) - 1/14/2005
- Melrose and Vicinity, Massachusetts City Directories, 1912 - Updated (11,721 names added for a total of 17,265) - 1/13/2005
- 1900 United States Federal Census - Updated (6,002,745 names added for a total of 65,012,531) 1/13/2005
- Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) - Updated (159,248 names added for a total of 4,890,893) 1/13/2005
- Revere and Vicinity, Massachusetts City Directories, 1916 (11,796 names added) - 1/12/2005
- Hanover and Vicinity, New Hampshire City Directories, 1916- Updated (5,614 names added for a total of 8,177) - 1/11/2005
- South Kingstown and Vicinity, Rhode Island City Directories, 1925-1930 - Updated (5,255 names added for a total of 17,067) 1/10/2005
U.S. Immigration Collection Family and Local Histories 
Using GOONS To Research
It has been quite a while since I last visited the web site of The Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS). The site typically offered very little and was almost exclusively a billboard providing information about how to contact its members so you could send them your information. According to several people who e-mailed me years ago, the members typically did not share information so the GOONS site was kind of a one-way, dead-end street. I just paid a visit to the site and was pleased to see that it has changed a bit and now offers some information via its online records section. Please don't misunderstand me, there really is very little here but none of it is findable via typical search engine queries because of the way the site is designed. My reason for mentioning GOONS is twofold. First of all, I know I often stop visiting certain web sites because they don't offer very much to me at a given point in time. It is a mistake to ignore an otherwise good site from that point on because many sites add information regularly or change their focus to provide more information. It pays to visit your old favorites and see if there is anything new there. Also, I often forget that information is not always reachable by the search engines. For example, much of the USGenWeb Archives is not indexed and therefore, reachable via the search engines. Another site I know is very large and continually adds information, very little of which is ever indexed by Google or others.  So don't do the lazy thing and limit yourself to the search engines. Do yourself a favor and pay GOONS and some of your old favorite sites a visit. You may just find something you're looking for!
Washoe County, Nevada 1936 Tax List
Oceana County History Needed for New Book
The Oceana County Historical and Genealogical Society is putting together Volume III of its History of Oceana County, Michigan, and will be published this year, in coordination with the county's 150th anniversary. The Society is seeking submissions for the book. Family, business, organization or church histories of up to 400 words, with one photo, will be accepted at no cost. Additional words are 15 cents and additional photos are $10. Advertising, memorial and tribute space may also be purchased. The deadline for submissions is March 31. Books may be ordered in advance at $55 per book, plus $10 shipping and handling, with expected delivery in November. After July 1, the price increases to $65. Complete information is available from the society at (231) 873-2600.
Libraries with WiFi Hot Spots
Wireless Librarian is the name of a website that provides a listing of libraries, public and private, that maintain their own wireless networks. A "wireless network" generally means free Internet access to those with laptops and handheld computers capable of accessing the Internet without the use of cables and plugs. If you bought a laptop computer in the last year or two, chances are your laptop is capable of connecting to a wireless network. Being able to connect to a wireless network means you can use the Internet on your own computer with no cables to trip over. Perhaps someday all libraries and archives will have free wireless Internet access. Then we can all bring our laptops and handheld computers and be able to access websites and online databases as we conduct our research. Imagine being able to go to a library, pull out a book of marriage records, and transcribe the records into your laptop, and upload the information to an Internet database?
Labrador and Newfoundland Archives Charges Entrance Fees
Paul Shelley, the Culture Minister for Labrador and Newfoundland announced last week that effective June 29, 2005, visitors to the Provincial Archives will have to pay a fee to enter it. The Archives was moved to a new cultural center known as, "The Rooms". The Rooms will house the Provincial Museum, the Archives, and the Art Gallery. Anyone wanting to enter The Rooms must pay an entrance fee. Previously, the Archives did not require an entrance fee. Mary Ellen Wright of the Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives is appalled at the notion that people now must pay a fee just to enter the Archives: "People have a right to look at their records. They have a right to have access to the things that pertain to them, to their history, to their culture, without having to pay money to do so." But Priscilla Renouf, who chairs the board that operates the $50-million complex, says a fee is necessary to cover operating and maintenance costs. The Rooms had been scheduled to open last year, but the government delayed the opening to save money.
Rochester, New York - Online Marriage Records
The City of Rochester, New York has put their marriage records online. You can visit their website and run a search by surname or year and view records of marriages that occurred between the years of 1876 to 1932. Over 170,000 records are available. By clicking on a resulting match, you can see information about the groom and bride, including information about their parents. There is no fee to use their website.
New Surname Law in France
Effective January 1, 2005, a new law took place in France that abolished the old requirement that babies take their father's surname. As of now, parents have a choice of giving their child the father's surname or the mother's maiden name. The change was brought about largely because so many children in France are now being born out of wedlock, as many as 45%, according to the article linked above. Hence, the old law seemed out of place with the times. On other hand, the change will also allow families protect the "family name". In aristocratic families that produced only female offspring, no longer will they have to worry about their name dying out, as mothers can now pass their surnames to their daughters.
Greene County History Books Getting Moldy
The Greene County Historical and Genealogical Society in Arkansas is meeting with the Greene County Quorum Court to discuss the fate of several county historical records. Volumes of the county's history is stored in the basement of the historic Greene County Courthouse, and are succumbing to mold due to humid air and lack of ventilation.
Rootsweb Database Update January 19, 2005
The following files were added this week:Death Records- NEW HAMPSHIRE. Grafton County. Haverhill. New Hampshire death records compiled from town reports, 1887-1901; 576 records; contributed by Connie Verratti
School Alumni Records- KENTUCKY. Barren County. Glasgow. Glasgow High School Class of 1928; 32 records; contributed by E. F. Kerley
- NORTH CAROLINA. Durham County. Durham. Watts School of Nursing, Graduates 1897-2004; 2,914 records; contributed by Gail Bullock for Watts School of Nursing
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 18, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
18th Annual Vermont Academy Commencement - Vermont Academy, Eighteenth Annual Commencement, Graduating Exercises, Class of Ninety-Four, Fuller Hall, Wednesday, June 20th, 1894, 9:30 A.M.
High Prairie School 1897-98 Souvenir - 1897-1989 Souvenir for High Prairie School, District No. 1, Polk Twp., Taylor Co., IA.
1918 Los Angeles Normal School Graduation - Los Angeles State Normal School Graduation Exercises, March 22, 1918, 10:40 o'clock, Normal School Assembly Hall. Includes program and list of graduates.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 17, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Fern Hill Cemetery - (USA, Washington, Grays Harbor County) - Contributed by Dorothy Hinkey, 6 records Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery - (USA, Illinois, DuPage County) - Contributed by Bonnie Dagen, 25 records Milby Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Compton County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 119 records Saint John Cemetery - (USA, Maryland, Howard County) - Contributed by Barbara Rendina, 26 records Saint John Cemetery - (USA, Maryland, Prince George County) - Contributed by Barbara Rendina, 17 records Massawippi Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Stanstead County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 482 records Boynton Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Stanstead County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 93 records
Genealogy Events at the Indiana State Library
The Indiana State Library in Indianapolis has a couple genealogy-oriented events planned in the next week: Family History Orientation Tour - January 20 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. - Learn where different family history resources are located on the first and second floors of the Indiana State Library. This is a free orientation tour, geared toward genealogists.
Cemetery Research Workshop - January 22 at 10 a.m. - Betty Warren, Certified Genealogist, will give tips on how to plan a research trip to a cemetery and demonstrate how to do a "tombstone rubbing." Pre-registration is required for both events. Please call (317) 232-3732 or e-mail palwahaili@statelib.lib.in.us.
The Irish in America
With St. Patrick's Day coming up in a couple of months, the U.S. Census Bureau today released some statistics on Irish ancestry in America: - 34 million U.S. residents claim Irish ancestry. This number is almost nine times the population of Ireland itself (3.9 million). Irish is the nation's second most frequently reported ancestry, trailing only German.
- 24% of Massachusetts residents are of Irish ancestry, about double the national percentage.
- There are 3 states in which Irish is the leading ancestry group: Delaware, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Irish is among the top five ancestries in every state but two (Hawaii and New Mexico).
- There are 54 counties where Irish is the largest observed ancestry group. 44 of these counties are in the Northeast, with 14 in New York, 11 in Massachusetts and 5 in New Jersey.
- 348,978 residents of Middlesex County, MA are of Irish ancestry. Among the 54 counties where Irish is the largest observed ancestry group, Middlesex had the highest population of Irish-Americans, with Norfolk County, Mass., second, with 203,285.
- 31% of the population of Plymouth County, Mass., and Norfolk County, Mass., are of Irish ancestry. Among the 54 counties where Irish is the largest observed ancestry group, these two counties had the highest rate.
- There are 148,000 foreign-born U.S. residents born in Ireland.
- There are 4.8 million immigrants from Ireland admitted for lawful permanent residence since fiscal year 1820, the earliest year for which official immigration records exist. By fiscal year 1870, about half of these immigrants were admitted for lawful permanent residence. Only Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Mexico have had more immigrants admitted for permanent residence to the United States than Ireland.
- There are 1,010 immigrants from Ireland admitted for lawful permanent residence to the United States in the 2003 fiscal year.
- There were $23.0 billion worth of imports from the Republic of Ireland during a recent 10-month period (January-October 2004). Meanwhile, the United States exported $6.6 billion worth of goods to Ireland.
- There are 4 places in the United States named Shamrock, the floral emblem of Ireland. Mount Gay-Shamrock, W.Va., and Shamrock, Texas, were the most populous, with 2,623 and 1,828 residents, respectively. Shamrock Lakes, Ind., had 164 residents and Shamrock, Okla., 126. (Figure for Mount Gay-Shamrock is a Census 2000 count; the other figures in this paragraph are 2003 estimates.)
- There are 9 places in the United States that share the name of Ireland's capital, Dublin. Since Census 2000, Dublin, Calif., has surpassed Dublin, Ohio, as the most populous of these places (35,581 compared with 33,606 as of July 1, 2003).
- 22 gallons of beer is consumed per capita by Americans annually. On St. Patrick's Day, some drinking establishments offer green-dyed beer to their thirsty patrons.
- There were 376 breweries in 2002, down from 529 in 1997. These figures do not count microbreweries or brewpubs that serve customers on the premises. While California had the highest number of breweries (55), Colorado had the largest number of brewery employees, with more than 5,000.
Genealogy Suggest Interface
Micah Dubinko, a self-described "XML and Xforms Geek" is interested in working with someone who runs a genealogy website to experiment with creating a genealogy search word suggestion tool. If you've ever used Google's new " Search Suggest Tool", you'll know what Micah is talking about. As you enter a word to search for, Google displays a list of matching keywords, while you are typing, and lists out the number of times that keyword was searched. He's looking for genealogy sites that have their own on-site search engine. Contact him at his website.
Delicious Library - Home Based Lending Library
If you have accumulated a large number of genealogy and history books over the years, and now find that you don't refer back them as often as you used to, how would you like to join a network of home-based libraries willing to lend out books to researchers all over the country? Well, a software company based in Seattle, Washington is developing software that will set up a network of home-based libraries for the purpose of doing just that. The company is called Delicious Monster, and their software is called, "Delicious Library". Right now, Delicious Library works as a cataloguing tool for books, videos and music. However, the company is busy working on a new version of the software that will enable the creation of networked home-based lending libraries. Delicious Library is now a cataloging program, appealing to those with an obsessive, Nick Hornby-esque desire to catalog every song, book and movie on their living room shelves.
But from the start, the software was planned to be social, allowing friends, neighbors and colleagues to see what's in each others' media libraries, and turn collections into personal lending libraries.
Version two, due later this year, will allow users to browse each other's libraries. It will be location-aware, letting users know who has what in their neighborhood or city. This really could have great potential in the field of genealogy. You would be able to run a search for "anderson genealogy" and be able to find people across the country with matching books, microfilms, or CD-ROMs.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 17, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Second Congregational Church 1877 Catalogue of Members - Confession of Faith, Convenant, and Catalogue of Membership of the Second Congregational Church, Brookfield, Vermont. Includes listing of members that joined between 1848 and 1877. Centre Congregational Church 1836 Members List - Articles of Faith and Form of Covenant adopted by the Centre Congregational Church in Gilmanton, Together with a List of the Members. Published by order of the Church. Includes listing of members that joined between 1826 and 1836. 24th Annual St. Dominic's Academy Commencement - Twenty-Fourth Annual Commencement of St. Dominic's Academy at St. Boniface Hall, Jersey City, N. J., Thursday Evening, June the Nineteenth, Nineteen Hundred and Two, at Seven-Thirty. Includes program, names of orchestra members and name of their single graduate!
Burke's Peerage & Gentry Third Anniversary Special
To mark the third anniversary of Burke's Peerage & Gentry's online database, the annual subscription cost has been reduced from UK£64.95* to £49.95* during January and February. Since the data from Burke's Peerage & Baronetage was uploaded in 2002, the web site has been visited over 5 million times by users from around the world. A subscription to the database includes: - Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage 107th Edition -includes Scottish and Irish Chiefs and Scottish Feudal Barons - Burke’s Landed Gentry Scotland 19th Edition - Burke’s Landed Gentry Ireland 19th Edition - Burke’s Landed Gentry England & Wales 18th Edition - American families with British ancestry 19th Edition (gradually updated) - American Presidential Families - British Prime Ministers + ATAVUS - The exclusive e-magazine
http://www.burkes-peerage.net
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 16, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Baccalaureate of Rhode Island College, 1803 - An Address Delivered to the Graduates of Rhode Island College, at the Public Commencement, September 7th, 1803. Includes a catalogue of the graduates and their home towns.
55th Annual Starling Medical College Commencement - 55th Annual Commencement of Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio at Great Southern Theater, Thursday Evening, 7:30, April 10th, 1902.
Second Presbyterian Church 1864 Catalogue - Manual and Catalogue of the Second Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, Ohio, From June, 1844, to April, 1864.
Ercildoun Boarding School 1859 Catalogue - Ercildoun Boarding School for Girls, Catalogue of the Pupils, with a Circular of the School. Chester County, Pa.
25th Orphan and Destitute Children Home Annual Report - Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Church Home for Orphan and Destitute Children, N Street, between Broadway and Fourth Street, South Boston. Read at the Annual Meeting, November 8th, 1882.
25th Wisconsin Historical Society Annual Report - State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Twenty-Fifth Annual Report. Submitted to the Annual Meeting, January 2, 1879.
Florence Crittenton Mission 23rd Annual Report - Twenty-third Annual Report of the Florence Crittenton Mission, 21 and 23 Bleeker Street, New York CIty, 1883 - 1906.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 16, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Wise McGehee Cemetery - (USA, Mississippi, Pearl River County) - Contributed by Jeff Grantham, 22 records Bohemian National Cemetery - (USA, Maryland, Baltimore City) - Submitted by Valerie Sayre, 2,306 records Johnville Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Compton County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 393 records Gorman Cemetery - (USA, Missouri, Phelps County) - Contributed by Sharon Macormic, 82 records Shiloh Primitive Baptist Cemetery - (USA, Georgia, Bibb County) - Contributed by James W. Allen, 390 records
Pennsylvania State Archives Online Records
If you are tracing family history through Pennsylvania, take note that the Pennsylvania State Archives has some databases available for you to use online, for free: PA National Guard Veterans' Card File, 1867-1921Imaged database of 4" x 6" cards originally maintained by the Office of the Adjutant General, showing information about each veteran, including name, rank, age, physical description (height, complexion, hair and eye color), occupation and residence; the date and place of enlistment; the date and reason for discharge; and the unit (company and regiment) to which assigned. Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866Imaged 3" x 5" cards initially prepared to serve as an index to Samuel Penniman Bates' "History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865,". Mexican Border Campaign Veterans' Card FileImaged cards, bearing the title "Mexican Emergency, Call of President, June 18, 1916," containing information about veterans. World War I Service Medal Application CardsImaged cards originally submitted by veterans and their survivors who applied for service medals in accordance with the Act of April 21, 1937 P.L. 331, sections 1 and 2. Spanish American War Veterans' Card File of United States VolunteersImage cards of veterans who participated in the Spanish-American War created by the Office of the Adjutant General in 1941 from information taken from the official records of the United States War Department. Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card FileImaged cards containing transcriptions of data extracted from original records in the custody of the State Archives concerning Revolutionary War service in the Pennsylvania Militia, Pennsylvania Line, and the Navy. Militia Officers Index Cards, 1775-1800Imaged card file of the names of Pennsylvania militia officers who served during the American Revolution, in Indian campaigns in northwestern Pennsylvania, and in quelling the Whiskey Rebellion.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 15, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Jubilee Souvenir - 1859 - 1909 Directory and Jubilee Souvenir of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Broadway and Emereld Street, Camden, N. J. Nov. 21-28, 1909.
71st Annual Report of Chester Co. Mutual Fire Ins. - Seventy-First Annual Report of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chester County, Coatesville, Pa. For 1911.
Mozart Lodge, No. 436, F. & A. M. 1924 Members - By-Laws of Mozart Lodge, No. 436, F. & A. M. Held at Philadelphia, County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania. Approved by the Grand Lodge, September 3, 1924.
Salem Female Academy 1894-95 Catalogue - Catalogue, Salem Female Academy, Salem, North Carolina, Ninety-third Annual Session. 1894-1895.
Framingham State Normal School 1890-91 Catalogue - State Normal School at Framingham, Mass. Catalogue and Circular for 1890-91. Established JUly, 1839.
Olive Tree Genealogy - Update (Jan 15, 2005)
 Olive Tree Genealogy announced today it has added new transcriptions to its website: - Baptisms for St. George's Church - Hempstead, Long Island, New York 1760-1763
- Miscellaneous Church Records from Jamaica, Flushing and Newtown New York:
- Finished New Amsterdam (New York City) New York Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms for the years 1696 to 1725. This adds to the existing online records from 1639 to 1695 and 1725 to 1760. The records start in 1639.
For an index of all free church records transcribed and published on Olive Tree Genealogy, go to: http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/
Chittenden County Vermont, including City of Burlington, 1902-3 Directory
GenWeekly - Update (Jan 14, 2005)
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 14, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Yagwadatsla School 1913-1914 Souvenir - Souvenir for Yagwadatsla School, District No. 4, Town of Elderon, Marathon County, Wisconsin, 1913-1914. Includes listing of teachers, school board and pupils.
Sparrowbush School 1926 Christmas Souvenir - Souvenir for Sparrowbush School, District No. 14, Deerpark, Orange Co., New York, Christmas, 1926. Includes listing of teachers and pupils. Cherokee County High School 1907-8 - Seventh Annual Catalogue of the Cherokee County High School for the Year 1907 - 1908. School opens Tuesday, September 4. Issued by the Board of Trustees, Columbus, Kan., July, 1907. Includes listing of trustees, faculty and roll of class.
Southern History Collection Celebrates 75th Anniversary
The Southern History Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. The collection contains a wealth of documents, letters, manuscripts, and recordings of life in the South. If you haven't discovered this resource, you're in for a treat. You can visit the website for the Southern History Collection, and browse its materials online. There are thousands of imaged manuscripts all online for your perusal. For example, you can read the Autobiography of Amanda Smith (1837-1915), in which the manuscript describes her as the "Colored Evangelist: Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa as an Independent Missionary". The university's radio station WUNC, published an audio report of the 75th anniversary. Portions of some manuscripts were read to provide readers with an understanding of the detail contained in the collection.
The 1911 Rig Veda, Volume XIII, Yearbook of Illinois College
Black Sheep Ancestors - Update (Jan 14, 2005)
Ancestry.com Update (Jan 13, 2005)
The following is a list of database updates Ancestry.com made to its website, during the period of December 26 to January 1, 2005: South Carolina Death Index, 1915-1949 - New database adding 758,937 death records from South Carolina. No images. Meriden and Vicinity, Connecticut City Directories, 1908-1961 - City directories originally published by Price and Lee Co. Nantucket and Vicinity, Massachusetts City Directories, 1914-1927 - City directories originally published by Union. 1871 England Census - Update adding Cornwall and Cumberland counties. 577,404 records added for a total of 20,833,432 records. Family & Local Histories Collection - added the following titles: - Harlan County, Kentucky
 - Harlan County, Kentucky. Middleton, Elmon.. Big Laurel, Va.. J.T. Adams & J.T. Adams II. 1934.
- General history of Seward County, Nebraska
 - General history of Seward County, Nebraska. Waterman, John Henry,. Beaver Crossing, Neb.. unknown. 1916.
- Genealogical records, Illinois, 1938-1939
 - Genealogical records, Illinois, 1938-1939. Illinois. Illinois Society, D.A.R.. 1939.
- History of Pender County, North Carolina
 - History of Pender County, North Carolina. Bloodworth, Mattie,. Richmond, Va.. Dietz Print. Co.. 1947.
- History of Berkeley County, West Virginia
 - History of Berkeley County, West Viginia. Evans, Willis F.. Martinsburg, W. Va.?. unknown. 1928.
- Appendix to Powell genealogy
 - Appendix to "Powell genealogy". Powell, Ralph W.. Berkeley, Calif.. R.W. Powell. 1972.
- Clarke's kindred genealogies
 - Clarke's kindred genealogies : a genealogical history of certain descendants of Joseph Clarke, Dorchester, 1630, Denice Darling, Braintree, 1662, Edward Gray, Plymouth, 1643, and William Horne, Dover, 1659 : and sketches of the Orne (Horne), Pynchon, and Downing families. Clarke, Augustus Peck,. Cambridge, Mass.. Harvard Print. Co.. 1896.
- John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633
 - John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633 : and five generations of his descendants : also ancestral lines of some families intermarried with his descendants amd colonial and revolutionary records pertaining to them : also an account of the Hill family of Poundsford, Somersetshire, England. Bartlett, J. Gardner. Boston. Printed for private circulation by L.C. Hill. 1904.
- Time scale chart of family tree of William Barger
 - Time scale chart of family tree of William Barger, Feb. 27, 1834-Sep. 8, 1920, Sarah Ann Zeck, mar. Nov. 20/62, 1841-1932 ... : 70 families, 300 members. Barger, G. J. P.. Washington, D.C.. unknown. 1959.
- Simpson genealogy
 - Simpson genealogy. Simpson, Helen Ann,. Upper Roxborough, Pa.. unknown. 1970.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 13, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
1867 By-Laws of Merrimack Lodge, F. & A. M. - By-Laws of Merrimack Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Haverhill, Mass. To which are added A List of Its Officers and Members, from its Organization to the Present Time.
44th Annual Greely Institute Catalogue - Greely Institute, Cumberland Center, Maine, Forty-Fourth Year, 1911 - 1912. Includes listing of trustees, faculty, students (with residence) and 1911 graduates.
10th Mass. Normal Art School Graduation - Graduation Exercises at the close of the Tenth Year of the Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston, Mass., June 28th, 1883. Includes listing of graduates and order of exercises.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 13, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Wiggins Cemetery - (USA, Alabama, Madison County) - Contributed by Jeannette Seitz, 14 records Jamar Family Cemetery - (USA, Alabama, Madison County) - Contributed by Jeannette Seitz, 3 records Paul Hill Cemetery - (USA, Virginia, Stafford County) - Submitted by Anne Braun, 8 records
"Mohammed" is Now a Popular Baby Name in UK
An interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor reports that the most popular names that mothers in the United Kingdom are giving to their babies are changing dramatically. Among some of the highlights from this article: - "David" is no longer in the top 50 names
- "Mohammed" is now the fifth the most popular baby boy's name
- "Jane", "Mary", and "Margaret" are no longer in the top 100
- "Peter" and "Paul" are no longer in the top 100
The article cites a trend to hang on to names that reflect moral values, but people want something unique: Experts point to a number of reasons for the trend. They say parents still want names that express solid moral and spiritual values, perhaps because of the uncertainty of the times. But they also want uniqueness, bringing in a whole new slate of names to challenge perennial favorites.
Rootsweb Database Update January 13, 2005
The following files were added this week:New Zealand Records NEW ZEALAND. WAIKATO. Second Regiment Waikato Militia — New Zealand Land Wars, 1863; 1,510 records; contributed by Russell Thorne ObituariesFLORIDA. Brevard County. Cocoa. Cocoa Tribune, deaths 1955-1959; 903 records; contributed by Jim and Bonnie GarmonSchool Alumni RecordsOREGON. Columbia County. Saint Helens. Saint Helens High School Class of 1941; 75 records; contributed by Carol White
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 12, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Sunderland Woman's Club 1918-1919 - Twenty-Fifth Annual Announcement. Regular Meetings, Once in two weeks, Saturday afternooon at 3-00 o'clock from September 28, 1918, to April 26, 1919. Organized 1894. State Federated 1898. Includes officers, committees, club members (with year joined) and in memorium section.
South Hadley Falls Woman's Club 1918-1919 - Year Book of the South Hadley Falls Woman's Club, 1918 - 1919. Organized 1898. Federated 1901. General Federation 1916. Includes list of officers, directors, active, associate and honorary members (with addresses), and standing committees.
Montclair Dramatic Club 1889-1914 - Montclair Dramatic Club. 1914. Organized April 17, 1889. Includes listing of active and associate members along with officers.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 12, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Stonestreet Family Cemetery - (USA, Maryland, Charles County) - Contributed by Anne Braun, 5 records Fitzhugh Family Cemetery - (USA, Virginia, Stafford County) - Submitted by Anne Braun, 6 records Saint Paul Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery - (USA, Pennsylvania, Centre County) - Contributed by Daniel L. Loss, 291 records Maple Grove Anglican Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Beauharnois County) - Contributed by Joan Cruickshank, 350 records Brown's Hill Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Stanstead County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 138 records
Seattle Public Library to Incorporate RSS Technology
The Seattle Public Library (SPL) announced yesterday that it will replace its computer catalog with a new system called, "Horizon" this February 23. Among the features of this new system is RSS technology. Just as websites like CousinConnect are using RSS to syndicate its content to several online news outlets, the SPL will use RSS to syndicate headlines of new book titles. You will be able to monitor new books at the SPL through your favorite newsreader or through newsfeed portals like My Yahoo and Bloglines. We continue to see great ideas on how RSS technology can be put to use in genealogy. I'd like to see some genealogical and historical societies step up to the plate and do something similar to what the SPL is doing.
The 1913 Alumni Record of the University of Illinois including faculty and boards of trustees
DistantCousin.com today announced that it has re-published The Alumni Record of the University of Illinois, 1913. This publication, which includes historical sketch and annals of the University and biographical data regarding members of the faculty and the boards of trustees, was published 1913 by the University of Illinois. Images of this nearly 1,000 page publication have been re-scanned to significantly improve their quality. DistantCousin.com is home to one of the largest free online archives of college yearbooks and alumni lists in the world, combining both scanned images of original publications and transcriptions from a variety of sources.
"Who's Your Daddy" Creates a Flood of Requests
Steven J. Weisz, the CEO of ReuniteToday.com, the Private Investigations firm behind the controversial Fox show, "Who's Your Daddy" spoke at a press conference today to discuss the flood of letters pouring into his company offices. "In short, we got slammed!" said Weisz. "Since the airing of Who's Your Daddy on January 3rd, my email box has been jammed with hundreds of letters from around the world." Weisz reported that some of the e-mails were negative and that the most of the negative ones seem to come from organized adoption groups. However, Weisz noted that the majority of letters were positive. More than 2,000 letters came from people wanting to reunite with lost loved ones. "There seems to be a tremendous need for people to locate and reunite with missing family," said Weisz. "I think there is a possibility for a great deal of good to come out of Who's Your Daddy and shows like it."
Grace Church Records (Jamaica, New York)
Olive Tree Genealogy announced today that records from Grace Church, in Jamaica (Queens County), New York have been published on its website. You can find the records from the links below: Records of other New York churches can also be found at Olive Tree Genealogy's New York Churches page.
The Ravelings, Yearbook of Monmouth College (Illinois) June, 1921
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 11, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Eclectic Medical College 21st Commencement - Twenty-First Commencement of the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York, Chickering Hall, 8th Ave. and 18th Street, Wednesday Evening, March 1st, 1882. The next annual session commences Monday, October 4th, 1882. Includes list of graduates and faculty.
Jacksontown High 1911 Alumni Banquet - Annual Alumni Banquet, Jacksontown High School, Thursday Evening, June 15, '11. Includes alumni names from 1890 to 1910. Goddard Seminary Commercial Class of 1914 - Graduating Exercises of the Commercial Class of 1914 of Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. Tuesday Evening, June 9, at 8 o'clock. Includes list of graduates and their home towns.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 11, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Park Lawn Cemetery - (USA, Pennsylvania, Mercer County) - Contributed by Terence Whalen, 2,451 records Ross Private Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Megantic County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 2 records Parkhurst Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Lotbiniere County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 78 records Crystal Lake Cemetery - (Canada, Quebec, Stanstead County) - Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, 2,381 records
Pennsylvania Roots
Pennsylvania Roots is a new website that has a well organized set of links to Pennsylvania genealogical and historical records around the Internet. If you are tracing ancestry through Pennsylvania, this is a good website to bookmark. There is a directory of links to statewide records, with categories in vital records, census records, burial records, military records, biographies, just to name a few. There are also directory pages that focus on specific counties.
Family Forest Lists Descendants of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Philip II of England
 Millisecond Publishing, the makers of Family Forest, have published a list of several famous descendants of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her husband King Philip II of England. Both Eleanor and King Philip were the subject of the 1968 movie, "Lion in Winter". The movie is an historical account of the relationship between Eleanor of Aquitane and King Philip II of England. King Philip ruled England during the 12th Century. The marriage of Eleanor and King Philip produced nine children. However, Eleanor had been previously married to King Louis VII of France, and produced two children. The list of famous descendants includes well known persons such as Audrey Hepburn (22nd great-granddaughter), Brigham Young (20th great-grandson), Gov. Howard Dean (21st great grandson), Walt Disney (22nd great-grandson), and President George W. Bush (24th great-grandson). By creating this list of famous descendants, Millesecond Publishing demonstrates the ability of Family Forest to trace the ancestry of famous people today to famous people of centuries ago. Family Forest is a database on CD-ROM that maps out ancestral pathways of prominent people, using facts from hundreds of well-documented and published sources.
Using Search Engines - Don't Forget about Yahoo!
For many family history researchers, the discovery of Google was a watershed event. Prior to the search engine's creation, performing in depth research was a rather complicated mess of trying various searches in each of many engines. Yahoo was perhaps the best of what was available before Google. AltaVista was pretty good especially if you were willing to dig through piles and piles of results. Other engines often delivered results available on neither of these two. So frequently, if you didn't find what you were looking for on one engine, you might get lucky and find it on another. Google simplified the process quite a bit because it spidered so many sites and delivered most, if not all, of the relevant results in just a couple pages. Google's original search algorithms ranked the "hits" from a search in such a manner that most of the good and relevant sites appeared in the first couple of pages. I'm not sure that is always true these days. The problem is that website developers have become more and more aware of what they have to do to stay in the top results on Google. Whole stables of sites have been developed to catch keyword searches and grab visitors to push into large commercial sites that charge fees for their services. Google has tried to combat this trend by changing their algorithm time after time to keep these nefarious website developers on their toes. The result is a search performed a year ago might return completely different results today, and those results may not be nearly as relevant. Also, when Google went public last year, most of the criticism lobbed at the company was targeted at it having too few revenue sources. To their credit, Google has worked hard at diversifying but this does little to improve search. Acquisitions and new services may make Google more attractive to investors but they do nothing to help you find where your great aunt is interred. Some time ago, Yahoo revised its search technology to compete better with Google. At first the results were pretty good but were never "better" than those found on Google. No additional resources were generated. I got into the habit of going only to Google and giving up on my search if I didn;t find anything. Lately I have become increasingly dissatisfied with searches for both genealogy and non-genealogy related items on Google. Every once in a while I'll try the same search on Yahoo and it seems as if the results are improving. My point is that, while search engines are one of the best resources and Google certainly made the experience better, don't forget about Yahoo and other engines. It is difficult and time consuming to search through multiple engines, but you may just find what you were looking for.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 10, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Lutheran College 1916-17 Catalogue - Lutheran College, Seguin, Texas, 1916 - 1917.
Tapkaow Club 2nd Annual Banquet - Second Annual Banquet of The Tapkaow Club, February 12th, 1908. Morristown, New Jersey. Tapkaow Club Banquet - Tapkaow Club Banquet, February 12th, 1907.
Dover Fire Department 1875 Annual Report - Annual Report of the Chief Enginerr of the Dover Fire Department. Year ending March 1st, 1875. Dover, N. J.
Vermont State Normal School 1885 Catalogue - Catalogue of the State Normal School, Johnson, Vermont, for the Year Ending June 23, 1885.
Public School No. 4 Souvenir 1899-1900 - Souvenir for Public School, District No. 4, Sioux Township, Clay County, Iowa. 1899-1900
Albia High School 1887 Commencement - The Annual Commencement of the Albia High School at Perry's Opera House, Tuesday Evening, March 29th, 1887. Music by Ramsay's Orchestra. No Class Honors.
13th Albia School Annual Commencement - Thirteenth Annual Commencement of the Albia High School, will be held at Perry's Opera House, Albia, Iowa, May 29th, 1890. Class honors not indicated by program. Albia High School 1907 Commencement - Albia High School Commencement Exercises, Wednesday evening, May twenty-second 1907 at eight o'clock King's Theatre
'The Gamma', Hiram College 1912 - 'The Gamma' is a booklet for active members and alumni of Pi Ro Phi at Hiram College. Includes list of officers and members.
Farris School 1925 Souvenir - Souvenir for Farris School, District No. 4, Town, Micawber, Creek Twp., Okfusee Co., Oklahoma, February 27, 1925.
Iroquois Club 1890 Officers and Members - Constitution, Rules and List of Officers and Members of the Iroquois Club, of Hornellsville, N. Y.
First Class State Grade School 1906 Commencement - Commencement Exercises, First Class State Grade School, School District No. 2, Town of Lake, Wis. Wednesday Evening, June 20th, '06 at 8 o'clock P. M., Hauerwas' Hall, Corner 8th Ave. and Manitoba St.
Dublin High School 1926 Commencement - Dublin High School Commencement Exercises, Friday, May Twenty-eighth at eight o'clock In the School Auditorium.
37th Hackettstown High Commencement - Thirty-Seventh Annual Commencement Exercises, Hackettstown High School, Thursday Evening, June 15th, 1922, High School Auditorium, Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Roundabout Club 1918-1919 Calendar - Calendar, Roundabout Club, 1918 - 1919, Auburn, N. Y.
Rutherford High 1918 Commencement - Commencement Exercises, Rutherford High School, Class of 1918, City Hall Auditorium, Thursday Evening, June 27 at 8:30 o'clock.
Park Grammar School 1914 Graduation Exercises - The Rutherford Schools Graduation Exercises, Park Grammar School, Park School Auditorium, Tuesday, June 16, 1914 at 8 P. M.
Saint Mary Cemetery - Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Interment.net published a transcription of sexton records from Saint Mary Cemetery, in Hermitage, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, comprising of 4,392 records. The transcription was compiled by Terence Whalen, and includes burial records up to 1983.
American Community Survey
If you happen to receive a census form in the mail during the next few days consider yourself 1 out of 40 lucky households to get one. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that it has begun mailing out census forms to some 250,000 households across the United States in what it claims will replace future decennial censuses. Each month, the U.S. Census Bureau will mail out census forms to randomly selected households in an attempt to create more timely statistics on America's population. This new type of survey is called, " American Community Survey" (ACS). According to the U.S. Census Bureau: In development and testing since 1996, the ACS currently produces data for areas with populations of 250,000 or more. This week's mail-out of questionnaires expands the survey from 1,239 counties to all of the nation's 3,142 counties, as well as Puerto Rico, American Indian reservations, Alaska native villages and Hawaiian homelands.
The Census Bureau will release data for areas with populations of 65,000 or more annually beginning in summer 2006. For smaller areas, it will take three or five years, depending on their population size, to accumulate a large enough sample to produce data. Once those data are collected, though, the Census Bureau will release tabulations based on rolling three-year averages annually for areas with populations between 20,000 and 65,000, and rolling five-year averages annually for areas as small as census tracts. As to what this means for future genealogists is uncertain. It could very well be that genealogists will no longer to be able to count on finding their ancestors in the U.S. Census, if census forms are mailed out to randomly selected households.
Foxborough, Massachusetts 1887-88 City Directory
Newsplan 2000 Filming Project Complete
Newsplan 2000 announced late last month that it has completed the microfilming of 1,350 newspaper titles, dating from as far back as 1700 to 1950. A total of 30,500 reels of microfilm were created, encompassing 12.2 million pages of newsprint. Newsplan 2000 is a co-operative program covering all the regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland to preserve local newspapers by microfilming them to international archival standards. Distribution of microfilm readers are now underway to libraries across the United Kingdom. Newsplan 2000 will also be working to make records available over the Internet.
Anglesey-Môn Info Web
A new website launched just recently called, " Anglesey-Môn Info Web". Anglesey is an island north west of Wales, and is a part of the United Kingdom. This website provides resources to people with a wide variety of interests involving Angelsey, and it also provides some materials that could be useful to Anglesey researchers. The website has... Visit: http://www.anglesey.info
Iowa Gravestone Photo Project
If you are tracing family history through Iowa, then take some time to visit a wonderful online tombstone photo database, " Iowa Gravestone Photo Project". This is a project of the Iowa USGenWeb. The database contains photographs of tombstones in Iowa cemeteries. Over 118,000 tombstones have been photographed and indexed. You can enter a name to search the database, or browse photos by cemetery. The database is the work of volunteers who have painstakingly visited and photographed every tombstone. Visit: http://iowagravestones.org
English Prison Records Now Available
BBC News reports that records for Plymouth Prison in Plymouth, England, are now available for public viewing at the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office. The records contain extensive information including age, occupation, address, height, eye colour, sentence, religion and the birthplace of prisoners.
There are registers of male prisoners dating back from 1867 until 1930, a register of women prisoners from 1915 to 1922, as well as an index of male and female prisoners from 1911 to 1929.
There is also a register of Plymouth prison officers from the late 19th century until 1926, visiting committee minutes and inspection reports. The records are not available online. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office in Clare Place is open from 0930 GMT to 1700 GMT from Tuesday to Thursday and 0930 GMT until 1600 GMT on Friday.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 8, 2005)
Three Scottish Archives to Create Super Database
The Sunday Herald reports that three of Scotland's largest archives will collaborate to create a giant digital archive of genealogical records along with a "one-stop" personal history center. The National Archives of Scotland, the Court of the Lord Lyon, and a family history website, Scotland's People, have pledged to work together to give family historians researching Scottish roots greater tools to discover their ancestry. Fi Harris, a consultant for specialist body Scotland Online, who is working on the project, said: “It is going to be giving a greater insight into Scottish history, and will make it more accessible. The centre will not be open until 2006, but our initial step is to create the new [extended] Scotland’s People website, amalgamating it with 500,000 records from the Scottish Archives and Court of the Lord Lyon." The new service will offer access to images of Scottish statutory registers of births, marriages and deaths, from 1855 to 1903, 1928 and 1953 respectively. There will be census records and old parish registers going back as far as 1553, indexes and images of Scottish wills and testaments from 1500-1901, as well as records of both the 1891 and 1901 censuses in Scotland.
Beavis Lake Gets Renamed to Butthead Lake
The AP reports today that someone at the U.S. Census bureau renamed a lake to "Butthead Lake". The lake was previously named, "Beavis Lake". Someone at the Census Bureau must have gotten bored and made a joke out of naming the lake, said Ken Brown, a land surveyor with the state Department of Natural Resources.
Indian Genealogical Database Planned
The Associated Press reports that a new genealogical database that helps Indians (people from India) track their ancestor's travels is being planned. The project's organizers, along with the Indian government, is seeking permission from the United States and Britain to obtain immigration information about their forefathers. When the database is planned for completion has not been determined.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 7, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Ben Avon Presb. Church Weekly Bulletin Oct 1, 1922 - Ben Avon Presbyterian Church, Ben Avon, Pa. Weekly Bulletin. Rally Day and Promotion Exercises of the Sabbath School. October 1, 1922.
School District No. 3 Souvenir for 1898 - Souvenir for School District No. 3, Spring Valley Township, Mc Cook County, S. Dakota. 1898.
Texas Public School 1914 Souvenir - Souvenir for Texas Public School, No. 10, South Woodbury Tp., Bedford Co., Pa.
Steuben Township Schools 1916 Graduation - The Annual Graduation Exercises of the Steuben Township Schools will be held at Red Men Hall, Marshfield, Ind., on Thursday Evenin, May 25, 1916, 7:30 o'clock p. m. Please leave flowers with flower girls at the door upon entering.
Schuylkill Haven High School 1907 Commencement - Program of the exercises of Commencement Week, Class of 1907, Schuylkill Haven High School, May 19-27.
Public School No. 33 Souvenir 1905-06 - Souvenir, Public School No. 33, Charlestown Township, Redwood County, Minnesota, 1905-1906.
Stamford High School 1918 Graduation - Stamford High School, June Graduation, Class of 1918, High School Auditorium, Thursday, June 20, 1918, Eight P.M. Ladies will kindly remove their hats.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 7, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Washita Cemetery - (USA, Texas, Hemphill County) - Contributed by Lyle Keeton, 143 records IOOF Cemetery - (USA, California, San Mateo County) - Contributed by Dayna Chalif, 160 records
San Luis Obispo County Libraries Closed on Mondays
The San Luis Obispo Tribune reports that San Luis Obispo County libraries have been forced to close their doors on Mondays. The reduced hours, however, is not the result of reduced demand, but lack of money. Interestingly, the reporter of the article quoted a patron who states: "You can do a lot on the Internet," she said, "but you can't replace a book in your hand." I agree there's nothing like the form factor of paper. But what exactly does the Internet have to do with shrinking government budgets? Voters in the California county were asked to approve Measure L, an initiative that would have raised sales taxes for libraries. But the measure did not pass. The question of whether or not governments should be in the library business is one issue. But this reinforces the fact that the biggest threat to libraries is inadequate funding. If libraries are forced to reduce their hours even further, people will have little option to but to get their materials from the Internet. The sad thing is that this will cause librarians to reinforce the myth that computers are putting them out of work.
Welcome to the Googlezon
"I'm talking about the future, Mr. Gittes!" - Noah Cross, Chinatown (1974) Yesterday I wrote about the paranoia over libraries succumbing to the onslaught of digital media. Today, a very interesting documentary is being blogged that chronicles the history of media on the Internet and takes us into the future all the way to 2014. Watch the video on the Internet here: http://www.broom.org/epic/ols-master.htmlOne of the reasons why Dave and I started this blog is because it became apparent to us that "news" is the wave of the future. When I say "news" I don't mean about what's happening in Washington D.C., what Dan Rather has to say, or what the weather is going to be like tomorrow. I'm talking about the delivery of new information that matches a user's specifications. This video reflects my feelings exactly. Though, I'm not suggesting that Google will indeed purchase Amazon.com, or that the New York Times will sue Google. But if you take a look at your lives right now, you have set up "information delivery" all around you. It's just that right now, all of this information is not connected, and is not controllable from a single place. If you have a newsreader, you have news delivered to your computer. If your mobile phone has a camera, chances are you have web space somewhere where you can transmit photos to. If you do a lot of shopping on Amazon.com, chances are you have them e-mailing you books that you might be interested in. If you're a genealogist, chances are there is a Rootsweb mailing list sending messages to you. Moving forward into the future, our lives will be centered more with having filtered information delivered to us. That's where blogs are going. As a blogger it's my job to filter information in a way that is desirable to genealogists, and present it here. But in the future, more of my writings will reach you via RSS newsfeed. Thus bloggers are information filters. Bloggers who capture the most information, and filter it in the most desirable way, will enjoy the greatest success. How does this apply to genealogy? Genealogy is a perfect fit for this. Genealogists are interested in vast amounts of information. Genealogy is, in fact, the study of information, but for a specific goal. Recently, CousinConnect.com announced its support for RSS newsfeeds. You can create an RSS newsfeed that delivers only genealogy queries matching a specific region or surname, and even tailor it by soundex matching or with wildcards. This is an example of taking large amounts of raw genealogy information, filtering it to meet your specifications, and delivering it to your desktop. Imagine all genealogy websites delivering filtered information to your desktop. That's the future of the Internet.
Tippecanoe County and Lafayette, Indiana 1929-30 City Directory
Ships Passenger Lists from Holland to New York Online
Olive Tree Genealogy announced today a new project to reconstruct ships passenger lists for ships from Holland (Netherlands) to New York (formerly known as "New Netherlands") before 1664. Here is what Lorine McGinnis Schulze, the publisher of Olive Tree Genealogy had to say: All "passenger lists" for travel from the Netherlands (Holland) to New Netherland (present day New York) between 1654 and 1664 came from the debit side of the West India Company Account Book. This account book showing who owed money when they arrived is the source for previously published lists of passengers to New Netherland/New York.
Thus we do not have complete passenger lists for this time period. Many of the previously published lists are flawed. Many names of those who sailed are not found, as they paid their passage money ahead of time.
In some cases, I've been able to reconstruct names for a ship list that has never been published before! In other cases, I've been able to add names to previously published lists.
I reconstructed the names of those sailing on various ships from several primary sources. Please note that not every source was used to reconstruct every ship. I have indicated which sources were used for each individual. The full list of 82 ships and names of passengers on these ships sailing to New York from 1624 to 1664 is found at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/ships/
Interment.net - Update (Jan 6, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Old Prospect Cemetery - (USA, Alabama, Lawrence County) - Contributed by Sunni Montgomery, 58 records Lincoln Chapel Cemetery - (USA, Pennsylvania, Union County) - Contributed by Daniel L Loss, 20 records First Catholic Cemetery - (USA, Kansas, Ellis County) - Contributed by Janice Pfannenstiel, 22 records West Deerfield Cemetery - (USA, Michigan, Lapeer County) - Contributed by Heather Curtis, 14 records Spy Hill Cemetery - (USA, Virginia, King George County) - Contributed by Anne Braun, 22 records
The Effects of the Internet on Library Patronage
The University of Buffalo School of Informatics will launch a study to determine what effects the Internet has made on the use of libraries. This will actually be their second such study. Their first study five years ago showed that it had no effects, negative or positive. Librarians seem to have this fascination with computers and the Internet, but in a pessimistic way. There is this myth that computers will eventually put them out of work. Have any of you seen that movie, "Desk Set", where Katherine Hepburn is the librarian and Spencer Tracy is there to install a new computer? It's just like that. If libraries are ever to become obsolete, it won't be the result of computers or the Internet. It will be for other reasons, primarily lack of adequate funding. I used to work at a public library while going through college. For one thing, ours was one of the most difficult libraries to get into, mainly because there was no place to park your car. The library was located in downtown, next to City Hall, and next to the County Courthouse. I heard patrons complain of having to park a half-mile away, and hoofing it in. Where I live, the County usually builds a new library about once every year. But these are all small libraries. I believe the County builds only small libraries just to handle the most popular items, namely childrens books, contemporary fiction, and New York Times bestsellers. You can't do any research in these libraries, but they do cut down on costs. One of the biggest reasons why library patronage might go down is because more libraries have implemented rules restricting circulation to only local residents. That is, if I visit a library in another town, I can't check out their books because I don't live in that town. This is being done because a lot of patrons don't return books back to the library. Cities and counties can only levy taxes on their residents, hence they are circulating books only to their residents. Another reason is lack of hours. In the library I used to work at, it was one of the few that opened on Sundays. But since then they are now closed on Sundays. Lack of funding has forced them reduce their hours. Many folks can only visit libraries on weekends and evenings. As these library hours are reduced, people simply can't get into libraries. Computers and the Internet do not replace libraries. They are merely new mediums by which information is available. If this new study finds that fewer people are visiting libraries, I would start by following the money.
CIVIL WAR MAPMAKING
A new Library of Congress online collection could let you trace your Civil War ancestor's footsteps into battle or see whether soldiers dug trenches on his farm. The Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov), Virginia Historical Society (http://www.vahistorical.org) and Library of Virginia (http://www.lva.lib.va.us) have teamed up to post nearly 3,000 Civil War maps, charts, atlases and sketchbooks at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps. Union forces or northern commercial firms prepared most of the maps in the Library of Congress collection. They depict battles and engagements, troop positions and movements, and fortifications. The Virginia Historical Society's online collection includes Army Engineer Corps maps of Virginia that not only detail roads, bridges, waterways and major buildings, but also identify farms and plantations by the owners' names. In addition, you'll find images from the diary and scrapbook of Robert K. Sneden, an Army of the Potomac private who served as a mapmaker, consist primarily of battle plans and fortification details. The Library of Virginia contributed 200 maps to the new site. Some accompanied reports to the governor of Virginia; others include Confederate imprints, printed and manuscript maps of areas in Virginia, and field maps of southwestern Virginia. You can search the collection or browse by title, subject, place or creator. To view an image, zoom in and click to navigate, or, if you have the MrSid plug-in, download the whole thing. (Reprinted with permission from Family Tree Magazine Email Update, copyright 2005 F+W Publications Inc. To subscribe to this free weekly e-mail newsletter, go to http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter.asp. For a free sample copy of the print Family Tree Magazine, America's #1 family history magazine, go to http://www.familytreemagazine.com/specialoffers.asp?FAMfreeissue)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
 Now here is a website worth visiting, " The Proceedings of the Old Bailey". It is an online database of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court, between the period of 1674 to 1834. The text contained in this database comes from old publications, known as "proceedings", dating as early as 1674. Originally, these were meant to provide entertainment, describing the lives and exploits of criminals. It's kind of like watching "COPS" on television. As the years went by, the proceedings became more objective, and took on a new purpose, to inform, rather than to entertain. You can search the database by a variety of criteria, name, keyword, crime, etc. In addition to seeing the text of each trial, you also get to see the scanned image of the page which the trial appears. Really cool. I ran a search of one of my wife's ancestral lines, the Lawman family. I got back 3 results. I looked at one of them for Peter Lawman. Here's what it had to say: Peter Lawman of the Parish of St. Mary Islington, was Indicted for Felony; for that he, being above the Age of 14 years, was seen to wander up and down, calling himself an Egyptian, from the 10th day of June last, to the 12th of June following. The Prisoner alledged for himself that he was a German, and no Egyptian; nor that he did say at any time he was an Egyptian; but the Evidence for the King being very positive against him, the Jury brought him in guilty of Felony.
Rootsweb Database Update January 5, 2005
The following files were added this week:Book Indexes- CALIFORNIA. Alameda County. History of Alameda County, Biographies and Portraits; 403 records; contributed by Lori Wicks
Birth Records- CALIFORNIA. Humboldt County. Babies Delivered by Mary Deborah Hinton Goff, 1873-1892; 158 records; contributed by Humboldt County Historical Society by Karen Hendricks
Newspaper Indexes- MONTANA. Wibaux County. Wibaux. Wibaux Pioneer-Gazette, 1907 marriages and deaths; 47 records; contributed by E. A. Cecil
Obituaries- FLORIDA. Brevard County. Cocoa. Cocoa Tribune, deaths 1955-1959; 903 records; contributed by Jim and Bonnie Garmon
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 6, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Union League Club Annual Report for 1920 - Anual Report for the Twelve Months Ending February Twenty-ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty, with List of Members. Union League Club, Chicago.
53rd Annual Report of Indigent Widows' Society of Phil. - The Fifty-Third Annual Report, For the Year 1869, of the Managers of the "Indigent Widows' and Single Women's Society of Philadelphia," With a List of the Officers and Managers and of the Contributors.
Broad Street Academy 1886-87 Catalogue - Annual Catalogue of Broad Street Academy, Philadelphia. Twenty-fifth Year. 1886-1887.
The Cambridge Hospital 1886-1929 - The Cambridge Hospital 1886-1929. Additional Units Dedicated October 29, 1929: Morrill Wyman House, Woolson Building, Nurses' Home.
Report of Old Tennent Church and Cemetery - Report of Old Tennent Church and Cemetery Endowment Fund, 1925. Founded 1730.
Barre Academy 1872-73 Catalogue - Catalogue of the Officers, Instructors and Studens of Barre Academy, Barre, Vermonth, 1872-73.
Chicago Theological Seminary 1879 Alumni - Chicago Theological Seminary Quarter Centennial Historical Sketch. Published by the Board of Directors. Chicago. 1879.
First Baptist Church of Leominster 1901 - Manual of the First Baptist Church of Leominster, Massachusetts, Containing the Articles of Faith, Convenant, Church History, and List of Members.
Wilton Academy 1898-1899 Catalogue - Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Wilton Academy, Wilton, Maine. 1989 - 1899
Winchester Normal 1880-81 Catalogue - Annual Announcement, with Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Winchester Normal, Scholastic Year 1880-81, By Order of the Board of Trustees.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 5, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions for the following cemeteries: Bradford Church Cemetery - (USA, Pennsylvania, Clearfield County) - Contributed by Peter Swanson, 6 records Maple Grove Cemetery - (USA, Michigan, Van Buren County) - Contributed by James Blue, 6 records Sandhill Cemetery - (USA, Ohio, Erie County) - Contributed by John Hupp, 6 records
Ancestry.com Update (Jan 5, 2005)
The following is a list of database updates Ancestry.com made to its website, during the period of December 19-25, 2004: Westport and Vicinity, Connecticut City Directories, 1921-1952 - City directories originally published by C. DeWitt White Co., and Price and Lee Co. Rockland and Vicinity, Massachusetts City Directories, 1916-1931 - City directories originally published by A.E. Foss Co., and R. L. Polk and Co. Cumberland and Vicinity, Rhode Island City Directories, 1913-1920  - City directories originally published by Boston, Mass.: Union Minnesota Births – 1935-2002 - New database adding 4,267,629 birth records from Minnesota. No images. U.S. Census Images & Indexes - Note from Mike Mansfield in development: Today we rolled live the final pieces of the AIS Depublishing Project on Ancestry.com. It is a rare occasion when we get to celebrate the replacement and removal of over 50 million records from the site. However, the completion of this project, which we were legally bound to have complete by the end of this year, will save us significant royalty payments. As well, our internally created census indexes are: 1- higher quality, 2- every-name indexes (1850 & 1860), and 3- linked to J2Ks instead of Mr SID images (1900 & 1920 only remain linked to Mr SID images today). The result is a better user experience in both our indexes and image collections for subscribers to these datasets.
This project began almost two years ago when we started creating our own early US Federal Census indexes (1800 – 1860) to replace the same AIS indexes that have been on the site for many years. Obviously a lot of work has occurred over the past two years to get us here today and many people in the organization deserve congratulations. Electronic Production, Content Engineering, Product Management, QA, etc. Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1892-1948 - Update adding the years 1892-1898 (121,064 records added for a total of 813,152) Family & Local Histories Collection - added the following titles: - U.S. Map Collection, 1585-1922
 - This database is a collection of maps compiled by the Library of Congress. This collection contains various map types, including political and geographical, covering various years ranging from 1585-1922.
- A century of Wayne County, Kentucky, 1800-1900
 - A century of Wayne County, Kentucky, 1800-1900. Johnson, Augusta Phillips.. Louisville, Ky.. Standard Print. Co.. 1939.
- The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave
 - The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave : containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape. Thompson, John,. Worcester. J. Thompson. 1856.
- The Cherokee nation
 - The Cherokee nation : Fort Mountain, Vann House, Chester Inns, New Echota. Allen, Ivan,. Atlanta, Ga.. I. Allen Co.. 1958.
- Conversations on the mission to the Arkansas Cherokees
 - Conversations on the mission to the Arkansas Cherokees. Dean, Christopher C.. Boston. The Society. 1833.
- The early history of the Jews in New York, 1654-1664
 - The early history of the Jews in New York, 1654-1664 : some new matter on the subject. Oppenheim, Samuel,. New York?. unknown. 1909.
- History of Ritchie County
 - History of Ritchie County : with biographical sketches of its pioneers and their ancestors, and with interesting reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian times. Lowther, Minnie Kendall,. Wheeling, W. Va.. Wheeling News Litho Co.. 1911.
- Herbert Pelham, his ancestors and descendants
 - Herbert Pelham, his ancestors and descendants. Chester, Joseph Lemuel,. Boston. unknown. 1879.
- Some descendants of Edward Cowell, 1616-1691, Boston
 - Some descendants of Edward Cowell, 1616-1691, Boston. Barnes, Roger.. Carmel, Calif.. unknown. 1972.
- The Nutt Tree
 - "The Nutt Tree". Andrews, Ivan L.. Rodeo, Calif.?. unknown. 1970.
Tubbs ancestral notes - Tubbs ancestral notes : a genealogy from William Tubbs of Duxbury, Mass., through Isaac Tubbs of Lyme, Conn., and the descendants of Alvan Tubbs of Hanover, N.H. : with several other Tubbs and collateral branches and charts, also various supplementary material. Tubbs, Charles M.. Bath, Me.. unknown. 1958.
Scrapbooking Blog
A new blog for scrapbooking news has opened. Click here to see scrapbookinghow.com and use the "contact us" link to have your site or news announced.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 4, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions of the following cemeteries: Bennington Cemetery - (USA, Idaho, Bear Lake County) - Contributed by Clint Dunn, 357 records. Cottonwood Cemetery - (USA, California, Merced County) - Contributed by Loretta Kanelos, 74 records O'Connor Cemetery - (USA, Nebraska, Greeley County) - Contributed by Kathy Sweeney, 603 records East O'Connor Cemetery - (USA, Nebraska, Greeley County) - Contributed by Kathy Sweeney, 6 records Unity Baptist Cemetery - (USA, Missouri, Callaway County) - Contributed by Dennis Rittenhouse, 57 records
The 1827 Class of Dartmouth 25th Reunion Booklet
The 1827 Class of Dartmouth University published a booklet to commemorate their 25th reunion in 1852. The booklet contained biographical sketches of the class members. These sketches have been published on Genealogyfinds.com. The sketches contain family and career information about the class members, and can provide insights into the lives of these men and valuable information genealogy researchers.
The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark
 If you are interested in recipes of early America, then you'll probably want to pick up a copy of Mary Gunderson's book, " The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark". Gunderson extracts facts and recipes found in the actual journals of Lewis and Clark and recreates them in this book. I've read the journals of Lewis and Clark and they are indeed one of the treasures of American Literature. Meriwether Lewis, the educated military captain from Virginia, and William Clark, the self-taught frontiersman, probably had a lot of opinions on each other's culinary tastes. It would be very interesting to see the kinds of foods these people ate throughout their journey. Mary Gunderson is a nationally-noted food writer, lecturer, and culinary historian. She’s a graduate of Iowa State University where she majored in journalism with an emphasis in food and nutrition. Her book, "The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark" won a Ben Franklin Award in 2004.
Settlers of Maryland 1679-1783
 The Advocate, a newspaper in Baton Rouge, LA, offers a review of a genealogy book entitled, "Settlers of Maryland 1679-1783" on its website. The book, which is available from Genealogical Publishing Company, is actually a re-release from another series of books called, "Early Settlers of Maryland, 1633-1680", a five volume set, which came out in 1996. But demand for the previous set was so high, that all available copies sold out fast. Instead of re-printing all five sets, they were consolidated into one book, with new material added, taking the time period to after the Revolutionary war. The book costs $75.00 is available from Genealogical Publishing Company.
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 3, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Sherman School 1902 Souvenir - Souvenir for Sherman, Maine. 1902.
Lakeville School 1913-14 Souvenir - Souvenir for Lakeville School, Lakeville, Panpack Township, Wayne County, Penna. 1913-14 Stanchfield Ridge School 1908 Souvenir - Souvenir for Stanchfield Ridge School, Milo, Maine, Spring Term Ending June 12, 1908.
Santiago De Cuba Reunion Souvenir - Souvenir & Program, Santiago De Cuba Reunion, Detroit, July 16-18, 1903. Society of the Army of Santiago De Cuba
Kuna High School 1919 Graduation - Kuna High School Commencement Exercises, Thursday, June Nineteenth at eight o'clock, M. E. Church. Class of Nineteen Hundred Nineteen.
St. Boniface School for Nurses 1924 Commencement - St. Boniface School for Nurses, Programme, Commencement Exercises, Thursday, June 26th, 1924 at 8:30 p.m., St. Boniface Orphanage Auditorium, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winchester Fireman's Relief Association 1916 Concert and Ball - Concert and Ball of Winchester Fireman's Relief Association, Town Hall, Winchester, Massachusetts, Friday evening, February fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Concert, 8 to 9:30. Dancing, 9:30 to 2.
St. Luke's Hospital 9th Annual Report - Ninth Annual Report of St. Luke's Hospital, Valencia and Twenty-Seventh Streets, San Francisco, California, April, 1894.
15th Annual Rockford Business College Reunion and Commencment - Fifteenth Annual Reunion and Commencement of the Class of 1895 at Rockford Business College held Friday Evening, Sept. 13, 1895.
No. 4 Platoon Dinner Menu 1917 - Menu. No. 4 Platoon Dinner at Golden Lion Hotel, Newmarket. Saturday, August 25th, 1917. Listed at top of document: "A." XII OCB COY.
Penn. Surveyor General Annual Report for 1874 - Annual Report of the Surveyor General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the Year Ending Nov. 30, 1874.
Sincerity Lodge, No. 200, Roster for 1895 - Roster of Officers and Members of Sincerity Lodge, No. 200, F. & A. M. of Phelps, N. Y. for January 1895.
Millersburg High School 1910 Commencement - Millersburg High School, Millersburg, Pa., Commencement Program, Grace United Evangelical Church, Thursday Evening, May 26, 1910 at Eight O'clock.
Wyoming Seminary 1902 Class Day Exercises - Class Day Exercises, Wyoming Seminary, Tuesday, June Seventeenth, Nineteen Two, Two P. M., Nelson Memorial Hall, Kingston, Penn.
1899 Frankfort High School Commencement - Frankfort High School Commencement Exercises, Friday evening, May the twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine at eight o'clock, Columbia Theatre.
Wesley Chapel School 1914 Souvenir - Souvenir for Wesley Chapel School, District No. 4, Posey Township, Franklin County, Ind.
5th Annual Lebanon High Schools Commencement and Alumni Exercises - Alumni Exercises and Fifth Annual Commencement of the Lebanon High Schools, Tuesday Evening, May 29th, 1877.
Public School 1911 Souvenir - Souvenir for Public School, District No. 21, Cheyenne Co., Kansas.
18th Preble County Public Schools Commencement - Eighteenth Annual Commencement Public Schools of Preble County, Opera House, Eaton, Ohio, Saturday, June 17, 1911, Two o'clock.
CousinConnect Adds Custom RSS Feeds
 CousinConnect.com, a leading online genealogy query website, is the latest to add RSS newsfeed support. Everytime your RSS newsreader synchronizes with its newsfeed, it will pull in the latest genealogy queries. Instead of visiting CousinConnect to see the latest queries, you can have them delivered to your RSS newsreader. What makes CousinConnect's RSS feeds different from the others is that it allows you to create customized feeds. You can elect to receive only those queries for a specific surname, or only those associated with a specific country, state, or county, or even those with a combination of the two. CousinConnect is the first genealogy website to offer customized feeds. To create a customized feed, go to CousinConnect's homepage, and either search for a surname, or navigate down to a desired country, state, or county. Look to the far-right column (you might need to scroll down a little). You will see a link entitled, "RSS this search". Click that link, it will display your customized newsfeed. To get a newsfeed customized for a specific surname AND geographical region, first navigate down to a desired country, state, or county, and then conduct a surname search from there. You can even get a surname newsfeed using Soundex Matching, by going to CousinConnect's Advanced Search page. Basically, any search parameters entered into CousinConnect will yield an accompanying RSS newsfeed URL. CousinConnect's RSS newsfeeds are assembled on the fly whenever a newsfeed URL is requested, thus no RSS files are stored on the server, making it possible to create millions and millions of customized feeds. "We hope that our new RSS feeds will help genealogists get more answers to their queries, much more quickly", says Sheila Ruth, the programmer behind CousinConnect. "That's the goal of CousinConnect, to be the most effective genealogy query website".
Family Tree Connection - Update (Jan 2, 2005)
Family Tree Connection has added and indexed the following genealogy databases to its website:
Dutch Settlement School 1914-15 Souvenir - Souvenir for Dutch Settlement School, District No. 5, Dutch Settlement, Bronson Tp., Branch County, Michigan. 1914 - 1915.
Biglin School 1909 Souvenir - Souvenir for Biglin School, District No. 30, Neosho Township, Morris County, Kan.
75th Annual Hume-Fogg High Commencement - Hume-Fogg High School, Nashville, Tennessee, Class of 1929, Seventy-fifth Annual Commencement, Ryman Auditorium, Thursday Evening, June 13, 1929, Eight o'clock.
Rosemont Public School 1904 Souvenir - Souvenir for Rosemont Public School, District No. 40, Bedford Twp., Nemaha Co., Nebr.
Interment.net - Update (Jan 1, 2005)
Interment.net published transcriptions for the following cemeteries: Stevens Ferry Cemetery - (USA, Vermont, Franklin County) - Contributed by Ted Hemenway Sr, 143 records Enosburgh Cemetery - (USA, Vermont, Franklin County) - Contributed by Ted Hemenway Sr, 1,125 records
Vatican Letter Sheds Light on Origins of WWII Catholic Orphans
Reuters reported today of an interesting revelation for researchers of Jewish and Catholic ancestry. An historian named Alberto Melloni unearthed a letter from Pope Pius XII dated in 1946, containing orders for the church in France not to return Jewish children to their parents. During World War II, Jewish families brought their children to Catholic Churches for protection. The children were baptized as Catholics as an attempt to protect them from Nazis. However, the letter from Pope Pius XII gave instructions not to return the children to their parents. According to the letter: "Children who have been baptized cannot be entrusted to institutions that do not know how to ensure a Christian education," read the letter, written by the Vatican's doctrinal department. To address requests from Jewish parents on the whereabouts of their children, the letter advises: "Avoid, as far as possible, responding in writing to the Jewish authorities, but do so orally," it said. Jewish groups have accused Pope Pius XII, pontiff from 1939 to 1958, of not doing enough to stop the Holocaust or to help Jews escape it. Read the full article at The Boston Globe for the whole story.
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