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| Free Mailing List Service Encarta Africana Kith and Kin Pro for Windows 95/98 Released American Genealogical-Biographical Index Is Now Online Family Historian's Address Book to be Updated The Exchange Newsletter Searching For Obituaries on the Web Family History Library Changes Its Hours The Learning Company Offers Grants to Aid Genealogy Groups England and Wales Births, Marriages, and Deaths Online Database Genfindit An Announcement about The Master Genealogist GENTECH’s website Wins Honors Saturday Dinner at GENTECH99 Home Pages Highlighted |
| January 11, 1999 |
Would you like to set up a free mailing list for all the members of your local genealogy society? Or for people researching all the descendants of a particular ancestor? Or perhaps you want to publish an electronic newsletter and want a simple method of maintaining the list of e-mail addresses? If so, I can tell you how to do it. This week I set up a free mailing list and found that it is a very easy task. I must admit that my new mailing list was not genealogy-related. I created a mailing list for all the members of a local ultralight pilot’s association that I joined recently. However, the methods I used will work as well for any mailing list. The free mailing list service can easily be used to communicate with all the members of your genealogy society or your son’s Little League organization or members of your high school class or any other group of e-mail equipped computer users. A mailing list is an "e-mail echo." That is, one e-mail message is sent to a list server program running on a particular e-mail server. The message is then automatically forwarded to every member who subscribes to the list. With a mailing list of 300 members, you simply send one e-mail to the list server, and the server then sends individual copies to each of the 300 people. Even better, the people who wish to join the mailing list can do so automatically by filling out a form on a Web page. The person in charge of the mailing list server does not have to manually add or delete e-mail addresses. If all this sounds a bit familiar, you might realize that the newsletter you are reading right now is sent out by a mailing list server provided by a commercial service: L-Soft, Inc. However, the free mailing list service that I am describing this week is provided by one of L-Soft’s competitors: ListBot. Mailing lists generally come in three different configurations: announcement, open discussion and moderated lists: Announcement lists are "one-way" e-mail systems. Usually only one person is allowed to post to the mailing list; the list server software ignores any messages received from any other person. This is very popular for announcements and for newsletters. In fact, the weekly genealogy newsletter that you are reading right now is sent by an announcement list server at L-Soft, Inc.. Open discussion lists allow full two-way e-mail "discussions." Any member of the list may post messages, and all those messages are broadcast out to the other subscribers to the list. Most mailing lists are run as open discussion lists. Moderated discussion lists are similar but have one person in control of all messages. Any member may post a message, but all messages first go to the person serving as "moderator." When he or she "approves" the message, it is then broadcast out to all the other subscribers. If the moderator feels that the message is inappropriate, he or she can delete the message and the other subscribers never see it. This option is popular among people who are concerned about unwanted "spam" or advertising messages. The disadvantage is the burden it places on the moderator. And, if the moderator is unavailable for a while, nobody receives messages. The free mailing list service provided by ListBot allows for creation of all three types of mailing lists. ListBot’s mailing list service seems to include most of the "bells and whistles" included by commercial mailing lists companies. In fact, it is easier to configure than the commercial service that I use to send this newsletter. There is one glaring restriction: you cannot import lists of e-mail addresses. If I wanted to move the newsletter over to ListBot’s free mailing list server, I would have to manually retype every one of the 22,000+ e-mail addresses into the new server’s list of addresses. Another limitation is that messages are limited to 50,000 bytes each or less. I don’t think that is much of a problem for most people. In case you are wondering how big a message that is, I will point out that most of my newsletters are between 25,000 to 40,000 bytes. And you already know that I write long newsletters! So how does ListBot provide this free service? Who pays the bills? Like many other free services in the online world, ListBot carries advertising. Currently all that is added to the messages you send out is one line of text at the bottom of each message that informs subscribers about how to unsubscribe. ListBot says that, in the near future, a small advertisement may be included with ListBot free messages. ListBot obviously hopes that the fees charged to the advertisers will pay the bills. The advertising seems to be a reasonable method of defraying expenses, and I suspect that most people will not mind seeing an ad included with each mailing list message. For those people who do not want advertising in their mailing lists, ListBot also offers a "Gold Service" that contains no advertising. ListBot Gold costs $79.00 per year. In return, ListBot Gold does not contain any advertising, messages can be longer than 50,000 bytes, and a pre-built list of e-mail addresses can be directly imported into the list of subscribers. None of these features seemed important to our local pilots’ club, so I elected to use the free mailing list service. On both the free lists and the Gold service, there is no limit as to the number of people on the mailing list nor on the number of messages sent. I logged onto ListBot’s home page, read the instructions, and then created the "Plum Island Ultralight Flyers’ Club" mailing list. I spent quite a bit of time reading the instructions, but the creation of the actual list only required about 5 minutes’ time. I did cut-and-paste the e-mail addresses from an Excel spreadsheet that the club secretary had provided; however, I could only cut-and-paste one address at a time. The system also asked for a message from me that would be sent to each of the people on the list, explaining what the new list was all about and why they were being invited to join. The mailing list system then sent to each new member an e-mail that contained my message and some other explanatory text. Each person had to reply with a message before they were actually added to the list. Nobody’s e-mail address gets added without their permission, a very good idea in my mind. I had to manually add the 28 members to the mailing list. If you own a Web page some place, ListBot provides a bit of HTML code that you can add to your page so that visitors can subscribe to a mailing list you have created. That code allows anyone to add themselves to the mailing list without any action on the part of the list owner. If you do not use that bit of HTML code, you must manually enter the e-mail address of each new member. Any list member can delete his or her own e-mail address from the mailing list at any time simply by visiting ListBot’s website. All in all, ListBot seems to be providing a great service. The mailing list software used is not as powerful as listserv or majordomo or some of the other mailing list programs that have been in use for some time. ListBot does not provide as many options for the list owner as listserv or majordomo. However, it does all the basics and also is easier to configure and manage. There are other free e-mail mailing list servers around, most notably Roots-L. Roots-L is also an excellent service but is intended for genealogy purposes only. ListBot can be used for genealogy mailing lists, your local genealogy society, your bowling league or as I did, for your local flying club. The only restriction is that ListBot refuses to carry "adult material" or anything that violates laws. To learn more about ListBot’s free service, look at: http://www.listbot.com A group of Harvard University scholars have realized a long-held dream by publishing a comprehensive reference work on all things African. The Encarta Africana has just been released this week. It catalogs the historical and cultural achievements of Africa and people of African descent from early prehistoric times to the present. I haven’t seen this CD-ROM yet, but I hear that it is a good one. The announcement of the CD-ROM disk says that the project will also be published as a single-volume book. The book and the CD-ROM are edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard. Gates says that this high-tech project is the culmination of an idea first raised around the turn of the century by W.E.B. Du Bois. "He had this idea that the quickest way to make political progress... was to edit an encyclopedia," Gates said. He explained that blacks had missed out on "the great movement to systematize knowledge about ourselves" that had characterized the Enlightenment in the West. While other reference works on Afro-American culture and on sub-Saharan Africa are available, experts say there is nothing as comprehensive as the project created by Gates, who is working with his Harvard colleague, Kwame Appiah, and a team of researchers and writers. Gates also points out that computer technology allows the editors to incorporate music, video and images in ways he never expected when he first began trying to get backing for the project a quarter-century ago. The Encarta Africana project was completed with the assistance of one of Harvard’s best-known dropouts: Bill Gates of Microsoft. Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft donated a large sum of money to the project being run by Mr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard. (There is no known relationship between these two men with the same surname.) The new CD-ROM runs on the same software engine as Microsoft’s Encarta encyclopedia. The Encarta Africana sells for $69.95 and is available now. A website has been established to give information about the CD-ROM at http://www.africana.com. However, when I looked at the site this week, it simply said, "This page is not ready yet. Please come back later." I suspect that information will appear at that address soon. However, you can order the CD-ROM today by going directly to the order form at: http://superdog.icoms.com/doggen.cgi/500026/001. - Kith and Kin Pro for Windows 95/98 Released SpanSoft of Glenrothes, Scotland has announced the release of Kith and Kin Pro, the new Windows 95 version of Kith and Kin. I wrote about the earlier shareware version of Kith and Kin in the February 26, 1996 edition of this newsletter. At that time I wrote, "The program features a graphic interface that fully uses Windows’ capabilities. It also has an on-screen timeline, zoom in and out of data, statistics and a relationship calculator. Pictures, maps, diagrams or even sounds may be embedded in or linked to a person or family." The new Kith and Kin Pro reportedly is a complete rewrite of the earlier version although it retains the unique graphic user interface. The previous version of Kith and Kin was nominated for a shareware industry award in 1995, primarily because of that interface. The new Pro version has a lot of other changes and updates, however, including: Source document recording Kith and Kin Pro sells for 35.00 Pounds Sterling or $59.00 U.S. dollars. It can be ordered online via credit card, thereby avoiding the problems associated with different currencies. SpanSoft is currently contacting all registered users of Kith and Kin to offer a special upgrade price. Further details about Kith and Kin Pro, along with a downloadable version of the earlier shareware version, are available at the website: http://www.spansoft.org. - American Genealogical-Biographical Index Is Now Online The following is a quote from the "Ancestry Daily News" edited by Juliana Smith: Called one of the most important genealogical collections and the equivalent of over 200 printed volumes, the American Genealogical-Biographical Index, or AGBI, is now available here at Ancestry.com. This database contains millions of records for persons whose names have appeared in printed genealogical records and family histories. Collecting data from sources largely from the last century, each entry contains the person's complete name, year of publication, state of birth (if known), abbreviated biographical data, and the book and page number of the original reference. In addition to family histories, other genealogical collections are indexed. These include the Boston Transcript (a genealogical column widely circulated), the complete 1790 Federal Census, and published Revolutionary War records. For researchers of American ancestors, this can be among the most valuable databases available at Ancestry.com. The same announcement went on at some length to describe the printed version of the Index: Also called "Rider's index," "The American Genealogical Biographical Index to American Genealogical, Biographical, and Local History Materials (AGBI)" 1-188+ vols. (Middletown, Conn.: Godfrey Memorial Library, 1952), is an ambitious project that is intended to index every name in almost 750 book-length genealogies and family histories and around eighty other genealogical sources. Begun in 1952, the index will have upwards of 6.25 million entries when it is completed (projected for 1998 or 1999). By early 1997, approximately 5.75 million references were found in 188 volumes, covering surnames from A through Warren. Usually, four volumes are published each year. The importance of this index is its objective to include every name in each source, something that even the indexes in the sources themselves often fail to do. AGBI is easy to use and usually distinguishes very well among many people who have the same name. Each entry contains the subject's complete name, birth year and state (if known), occasional biographical data (such as military rank), an abbreviation for the source, and the page number. When the birth date is unknown, estimates are made based on other information in the book being indexed. AGBI is strictly alphabetical. Because it has so many volumes, alternate spellings of an ancestor's name may appear in different volumes. Each volume contains an explanation of the index. Full bibliographic citations for the sources indexed are found in volumes 1, 10, 34, and 54, with a supplement in volume 70. Several of the sources indexed do not have separate indexes, or the indexes are incomplete. With the additional identifying information in AGBI, it is easier to find the right Thomas Pierce in this index than in the index to the Pierce genealogy, where there are dozens of Thomases without identifying information. In addition to traditional genealogies, AGBI indexes the entire printed 1790 census for the United States, some local histories and vital record collections, several volumes of colonial military records, and the more than 2 million names in the genealogical query column of the "Boston Transcript," which published detailed questions and answers about the ancestry of several thousand colonial families between 1906 and 1941. In fact, the amount of information and the scope of this column made it practically a "serial compendium" of northeastern genealogy. AGBI is available in around 170 libraries throughout the United States, including most major research libraries. As of 1997, plans were underway to sell microfilm copies of the out-of-print volumes (1 through 105). An earlier edition of AGBI, covering most of the same published genealogies but very few of the other sources, was published in forty-eight volumes as "The American Genealogical Index." Each source in the first edition is also indexed in the new version. Bibliography: Godfrey Memorial Library. "American Genealogical-Biographical Index." Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. To search the online database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3599.htm To learn more about the Godfrey Memorial Library, visit their website at: http://www.godfrey.org/ - Family Historian's Address Book to be Updated I already mentioned that Juliana Smith edits the Ancestry Daily News, but she apparently has a number of other projects as well. She recently wrote: I am currently working on updating the 2nd edition of "The Ancestry Family Historian's Address Book." Has your society or library changed its mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail, or website? Or maybe your society or library got missed in the first edition. Now is the time to send in those updates. If you are not sure if your society needs to be updated, you can check the online version of the First Edition at: http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3351.htm If you would like to have your organization or facility's address included or updated, send an e-mail to: jsmith@ancestry-inc.com and put ADDRESS BOOK UPDATE in the subject line. Thank you for your help in making this edition of the "Family Historian's Address Book" the most comprehensive resource available. Best Wishes, The Genealogy Exchange and Surname Registry has always been an interesting website. It contains many searchable databases, most of which have been contributed by other users of the site. For instance, one new addition is the Civil War 127th Regiment Records contributed by Brian VanSise. Joanne & Anthony Abby, owners and operators of this site, write: The Genealogy Exchange & Surname Registry, simply put, is a genealogical data exchange where visitors and researchers alike can go to find specific persons, and exchange specific data with one another. The GenExchange is a community effort where visitors and project volunteers can contribute data for the free use of others. The mission of the GenExchange is to further our goal of ensuring permanent free access to as much raw genealogical data as possible. The Genealogy Exchange & Surname Registry has recently added a newsletter. According to Anthony Abby, the first edition includes "the total record count for our databases, as well as last month’s web hits/page counts for the site. We've been steadily climbing in both data, as well as the number of total hits/page hits for several months now and have only just missed the milestone of 1,000,000 total hits for the site in a month by less than 7800 total hits. We are also up to 180MB of total data in the databases." To learn more about this site and the brand-new newsletter, look at: http://www.genexchange.com/gesr/archive.cfm
- Searching For Obituaries on the Web Charles Bowen, an old acquaintance from CompuServe, has written a nice article about online searches of obituaries. He says, in part, "Obituaries are golden to genealogists. In fact, family historians find such a wealth of biographical information in obits that clubs have formed to routinely share the names and dates you publish. Now on the World Wide Web, genealogists have kicked into high gear, coming together to launch global, keyword-searchable summaries of published obituaries. Their work is just getting started, but already it can be of use to your newsroom." To read the entire article, look at: http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/webnews/dig010199.htm - Family History Library Changes Its Hours The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has recently changed the closing time on Monday to 5:00 p.m. Full hours for the facility are: Monday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The library is closed on the following holidays: New Years Day - The Learning Company Offers Grants to Aid Genealogy Groups The producers of Family Tree Maker have long been one of the largest benefactors to genealogy societies. Even though they are operating under new ownership, the group continues to donate money to worthy causes. The Family Tree Maker product group of The Learning Company has issued the following announcement: The Learning Company’s Family Tree Maker product group is pleased to announce its third annual Genealogy Group Grant Program. Hundreds of genealogy groups across the nation are involved in developing new materials and resources which benefit all genealogy enthusiasts. However, many groups with fantastic ideas are limited by financial concerns. The Learning Company recognizes that each genealogy society’s project has the potential to impact the overall genealogical community, and we are proud to support the community by providing financial assistance for some of these important projects. Grants to Aid Genealogical Projects The Learning Company will award a total of $20,000 in a number of grants ranging in amount from $500 to $2,500. A panel of professional genealogists and representatives of large national genealogy organizations will select the winning entries. Following are general guidelines for the grants: Your society should be trying to do something special that will make a valuable genealogical contribution. Grants will be given to societies whose projects require additional funds not covered by their dues. Preference will be given to: preservation projects (such as flattening documents and archiving in acid free materials); projects to make otherwise inaccessible records available (microfilming, cataloguing, indexing, etc.); projects that convert data from paper or microfilm to electronic format; and large projects or equipment needs (e.g., purchasing a microfilm reader or computer). Application forms can be obtained by writing to The Learning Company Genealogy Group Grants, 39500 Stevenson Place Suite 204, Fremont, CA 94539. The forms are also available online at the following URL: http://www.familytreemaker.com/grantfrm.html. Applications must be received by March 15, 1999. Winning groups will be notified by May 10, 1999, and all winners will be announced at the National Genealogical Society’s Annual Conference in May. The Learning Company Assists Other Genealogical Endeavors The Learning Company offers these and other grants because we believe that individuals and genealogy societies are the best people to provide education and instruction for the hobby. While we continue to focus on developing the #1-selling family tree software, we also strive to make our success benefit the entire genealogy community. In addition to grants for local societies, we continue to support several national genealogy organizations, and to offer scholarships to assist individuals with education fees for genealogy coursework, or with fees associated with becoming Certified or Accredited Genealogists. All of this assistance is offered in order to encourage the pursuit of genealogy. - England and Wales Births, Marriages, and Deaths Online Database The Free BMD project to generate an online version of the BMD Index for England and Wales is now through its test phase and is starting to transcribe the indexes. FreeBMD stands for Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths. The FreeBMD Project's objective is to provide free Internet access to the Civil Registration index information for England and Wales. The Civil Registration system for recording births, marriages, and deaths in England and Wales has been in place since 1837 and is one of the most significant single resources for genealogical research back to Victorian times. The FreeBMD Project will place Civil Registration index information that is greater than 100 years old on the Internet. Therefore, the span of years covered by the project is currently the 62-year period from 1837 to 1898. For more details, look at the project’s home page at: http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ for more details. My thanks to Colin Tuckley for letting me know about this great project. Julian van der Veer operates Genfindit, a service in Sydney, Australia that specializes in finding Scottish and Irish Vital Records. He just announced a new online service. Here is an extract from the announcement: Genfindit has announced the launch of an on-line Scottish and Irish Vital Records Ordering Service. From its website at www.genfindit.com – clients can complete request forms and make secure credit card payments on-line. Professional agents at the GROs in Edinburgh and Dublin research all requests. The Scottish agent will look up to three same name entries in the Civil Registration or Old Parochial Records in order to identify a requested name. Genfindit guarantees to send a transcript (typed copy of original record) if a GRO Index No. or OPR Source reference is supplied. However the success rate in finding Unreferenced requests is over 95%. All Unreferenced searches are based on information supplied by the client. The Irish agent will look up a name in the GRO indexes in a nominated year and one year either side. Genfindit guarantees to send a photocopy of the original record if a GRO Index reference No. is supplied. However the success rate in finding Unreferenced requests is over 75%. All Unreferenced searches are based on information supplied by the client. The full announcement was much longer than the above extract. To read all the details, or to order a search, look at: http://www.genfindit.com - An Announcement about The Master Genealogist In the April 25, 1998 edition of this newsletter, I wrote a lengthy review of The Master Genealogist software produced by Wholly Genes Software. I praised this high-powered genealogy program and described many of its features. One sentence in that review sparked quite a bit of controversy. I said that the new source citations in the program had several options, including the ability to use either a format based upon Elizabeth Shown Mills’ book "Evidence!" or a format specified in Richard Lackey’s earlier book. In fact, there is much more to the story than that one simple sentence. A lengthy discussion ensued as to whether or not the program accurately reflected Ms. Mills’ excellent reference book. I knew that I could never properly explain the intricacies of the issues involved, so I asked both parties to write explanations of their views. Those explanations were published in the August 1, 1998 edition of this newsletter and in Ancestry’s "Genealogical Computing" magazine. However, the controversy continued for some months thereafter. Wholly Genes Software recently issued the following announcement, which I hope closes the issue: Public Notice: Wholly Genes, Inc., and Elizabeth Shown Mills have resolved their differences. We feel sure that our agreement will advance genealogical scholarship and protects both of our legal interests. Additionally, in order to avoid any other problems, we have agreed to make this agreement confidential and to not discuss the subject matter of this agreement or the agreement itself, beyond this statement. Bob Velke - GENTECH’s website Wins Honors "PC Novice" magazine recently published an article listing what they believe to be the 2500 best websites in the world. That is a lot of websites, but it is still in less than .001% of all the websites available today. GENTECH's website at http://gentech.org was listed as one of the best 2,500. The GENTECH site was created and is maintained by Mike St. Clair, who deserves a round of applause for all his hard work. It’s nice to see his efforts recognized in a mass media publication. - Saturday Dinner at GENTECH99 Speaking of GENTECH, the annual GENTECH conference is being held two weeks from now in Salt Lake City. I will be there and hopefully will be sending the newsletter from the conference. I hope to write about all the new products and announcements made at this premier genealogy-technology event. As usual, a bunch of us will gather for a very informal dinner after the conference closes Saturday evening. Audrae Mathis is coordinating the arrangements. That alone assures that it will be a success. We generally meet at a local restaurant and each person simply orders off the menu. The restaurant probably will be determined only a day or two in advance. If you are attending GENTECH99 and would like to join a bunch of us at a very, very informal dinner, please stop by the GENTECH booth and sign up there. We will need a head count by Saturday morning so that we can notify the restaurant. We should have full details available at the booth. The following is a list of some of the genealogy-related World Wide Web home pages that have been listed recently on http://www.rootscomputing.com. Some of these sites may charge a fee for their services: Official genealogy pages of the Clan Carmichael USA website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dkerner Genealogy Research Denmark - extractions of Danish records: Census, Church Records, Probates, LDS Emigration. Handbook of Estate Probates of Sjaelland & parishes within the estates: http://www.ida.net/users/really The history and events related to the Chinese indentured laborers who went to work on the sugar plantations of British Guiana between 1853 and 1879 are presented. Names of individuals and surnames of descendants to 4 generations are shown. http://members.tripod.com/~CGRoots Weitz, Germans from the Volga Valley of Russia. The Weitz history and lineage is traced from Germany, to the Volga Valley in Russia and then onto the US and Canada: http://www.ncal.verio.com/~patricem/weitz/. The Clover Family Page - Clover databases for all Clover families: http://members.aol.com/junebyr/index.html. McDavitt Family Historical Page: http://www.dallasadmall.com/McDavitt. The genealogy of STUEBING STUBING and STEUBING from Germany, U.S., Canada, Austria and Australia: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5042/genes.html. Canadian Genealogical Projects Directory: http://www.afhs.ab.ca/regabout.html. Descendants of Rev. John WING & Deborah BACHILER - This site has about 6 generations of descendants on both male and female lines: http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/RaymondWing/WINGDESC/index.htm. A site for all spellings of Hammonds includeing Ammons: http://genweb.net/Hammons. Templin Family Genealogy - Researching and documentating all Templin Family information: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/4991/. Ellis Family Tree: Suffolk and Essex England: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/e/l/l/Sheree-A-Ellis/. Staunton Park Genealogy Centre, Havant, Hampshire, England - a Family History Research Centre with a very wide-ranging base for research. Particularly strong in in the Portsmouth/Havant area and in Commonweath War Deaths particularly in Hampshire and the Royal Marines: http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/stjosephs/staunton/index.html To submit your home page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: http://www.rootscomputing.com/register.htm. Due to the volume of new Web pages submitted, I am not able to list all of them in the newsletter. If you would like to submit news, information or press releases for possible inclusion in future newsletters, send them to roots@compuserve.com. The author does reserve the right to accept or reject any articles submitted.
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