United States
| State |
# of Counties with Birth/Christening Records |
# of Counties with Marriage records |
| Alabama |
6 |
51 |
| Arkansas |
3 |
37 |
| California |
0 |
2 |
| Connecticut |
5 |
5 |
| District of Columbia |
2 |
2 |
| Florida |
0 |
2 |
| Georgia |
32 |
135 |
| Hawaii |
1 |
1 |
| Idaho |
2 |
12 |
| Illinois |
37 |
46 |
| Indiana |
7 |
5 |
| Iowa |
41 |
61 |
| Kansas |
2 |
9 |
| Kentucky |
45 |
47 |
| Louisiana |
2 |
3 |
| Maine |
36 |
45 |
| Maryland |
33 |
26 |
| Massachusetts |
19 |
|
| Michigan |
12 |
11 |
| Minnesota |
9 |
5 |
| Mississippi |
4 |
71 |
| Missouri |
6 |
11 |
| Montana |
2 |
1 |
| Nebraska |
6 |
8 |
| New Hampshire |
1 |
1 |
| New Jersey |
37 |
60 |
| New Mexico |
18 |
15 |
| New York |
26 |
25 |
| North Dakota |
4 |
2 |
| Ohio |
23 |
18 |
| Oklahoma |
3 |
7 |
| Oregon |
0 |
6 |
| Pennsylvania |
47 |
35 |
| Rhode Island |
5 |
5 |
| South Carolina |
1 |
0 |
| Tennessee |
44 |
86 |
| Texas |
59 |
135 |
| Washington |
0 |
4 |
| West Virginia |
2 |
3 |
| Wisconsin |
8 |
4 |
| Wyoming |
0 |
8 |
Two apparent errors in the above list sort of "jumped out" at me. First, the obvious spelling error on "Massachusettes" seems like a simple typo error. However, I am confused by the statement that the records for Maine include 36 counties with birth/christening records and 45 counties with marriage records. That’s a neat trick for a state that has only 16 counties! I don’t have any explanation for that. However, when searching the CD-ROM for records from Maine, I did see entries from most of the 16 counties.
Again, the CD-ROM does not cover all counties in all states and provinces. In fact, the records for Canada seem rather slim. Anyone researching French-Canadian ancestors will quickly note that there are no records from Quebec province on this set of disc. The coverage of the states that were settled first in the eastern United States seems good, but as you move westward the coverage becomes slimmer.
When picking up the set for the first time, I was surprised to find that it is so big. The set fills 8 CD-ROM discs. One disc contains the "viewer" software; the other 7 discs all contain data. The label on the CD-ROM set cautions that the viewer software operates only on Windows 95 or Windows NT. I suspect it will operate on Windows 98 as well. There is no version for the Macintosh nor for Windows 3.1. The CD-ROM label also states that 8 megabytes of RAM memory is the minimum required to operate the software but that 16 megabytes or more is strongly recommended. I would expect that Windows NT would require still more memory. The rest of the requirements seem quite modest: a CD-ROM drive, a VGA monitor and video card supporting at least 256 colors, and at least 25 megabytes of disc space available. Most people will want a printer as well; the software will operate with any Windows-compatible printer. I tested the "Vital Records Index – North America" CD-ROMs on a Windows 95 system that had 16 megabytes of memory installed.
Installing the software was a snap. It installs in the same manner as most other Windows programs. There is no printed manual included with the CD-ROMs; the manual is contained on the Viewer software disc. The user can read the manual on the screen or even print the entire thing on the local printer. I already have too much paper floating around, so I elected to not print it out. I didn’t have much need to use the manual as the software seems easy to use. The few times that I did look at the manual on my screen, I was able to quickly find the information I was looking for.
I quickly fired up the program and started searching for data. I entered my own surname and found hundreds of entries. I then narrowed the search to show only those records from the State of Maine. Again, the system displayed hundreds of records. I then narrowed the search further, first by year, then by first name. You can quickly narrow down the search to the specific areas of interest.
You do end up "shuffling" the discs quite often in this set of multiple CD-ROM disc. You always start with data disc #1 inserted in the CD-ROM drive; apparently that disc contains the index. But, once you find a person in the index, continuing the search results in a message asking you to remove the current CD-ROM disc and to insert a different one.
Keep in mind that this huge collection of records is an index. It does not have all the details of each event. Instead, it tells you where to find the details. For instance, here is the entry for my great-great-grandparents’ marriage from the CD-ROM:
EASTMAN, Washington H. Marriage Wife: Cynthia TYLER Marriage Date: 29 Mar 1831
Recorded in: Civil Records for Bangor, Penobscot, MaineSource: FHL Number 10584 Dates: 1864-1864
This entry from the CD-ROM says that a marriage record for two individuals on the given date does exist in the Civil Records for Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine. I can view a copy on the Family History Library’s microfilm number 10584. The user’s manual describes it this way:
Source information is generally useful for locating the original record or a copy of the original record. The film numbers (FHL numbers) used in the source information apply only to the Family History Library and its branch libraries.
Source information also includes information about the county, state or province the record was recorded in, the film the record is found in, the years covered within the film and occasionally, useful notes recorded by the original scribe
Skipping over a few paragraphs of details, the user’s manual continues:
In most cases it is useful to see the original record from which the information found in the index was taken. The original record often contains additional information not found in the detail record. Sometimes, the person who was copying the information from the original record made mistakes.
To find the original record, look in the detail pane of the record of the individual you are looking for. The Source field shows the Family History Library call number of the film, fiche, or book which contains a copy of the original record. The detail pane also shows the place where the record was originally recorded and the time span of the records in the film.
Copies of most of the microfilms can be ordered for a small fee from one of more than 3,000 Family History Centers. Note: If you are using the Family History Resource File Viewer created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, click on the button with a picture of a temple, located on the lower screen. It provides the names and locations of hundreds of Family History Centers throughout the world.
I already know that I can easily order a 3-week rental of that microfilm by visiting a local Family History Center near me. A three-week rental costs about $4.00.
You can search all the records in the Vital Records Index for birth and christening records as well as for marriage records of an individual person. Birth and christening records show a person's parents, birth date, and birthplace, and often give other information. Marriage records show the names of a bride and groom as well as when and where the marriage took place. Four sections of the Search screen allow you to provide information: the Search section, the Individual section, the Events (optional) section, and the Relatives (optional) section. Only the individual name information is required to do a search.
For any given information, you may choose to search birth/christening records or marriage records. If you select Birth/Christening, the information pertaining to birth and christening records will be searched. If you select Marriage, the information pertaining to marriage records will be searched.
When conducting a search for an individual, you must type either the given name(s) or the last name(s) of a person to do a search. First given names and surnames of individuals have been standardized to help find most variations of last name spellings. For example, the last name Smyth will be listed with Smith, Smithe, Smethe, etc. You can further limit a search by providing the date and place of an event. In fact, you can further limit the search by using the optional Relatives section. You can also specify the names of the father and mother for birth/christening records and the name of the spouse for marriage records. All of this detail-level searching is optional. If you don’t specify the details, then you see all the records for the names that you entered.
While I displayed only one record for my great-great-grandfather above, keep in mind that there are many options for records. You can select one record or a group of records. The group can be all the records of a certain name, all the records of certain years, all the records of a certain place, or any combination of the above. You can also add or delete individual records from a group.
Individual records or groups of records can be printed on any Windows-compatible printer. In addition, records or groups of records, up to 100 at a time, can be can be saved as a GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) file. This allows you to export records from the index to your favorite genealogy program, assuming that it can read GEDCOM files (most programs do). Records from the Vital Records Index can be saved as an RTF (Rich Text Format for word processing) file. This allows you to export records from the index to a word processing package. I was able to save a group of all the Eastman records from Penobscot County, Maine and then import that data into Microsoft Word.
I did not find any direct method of saving the data to a spreadsheet, something that I like to do. However, several of the better genealogy programs have the capability to import a GEDCOM file and then to create a spreadsheet file. For example, I was able to create a GEDCOM file from data on the CD-ROM, import it into The Master Genealogist, and then use that program to create a spreadsheet from the data.
Unlike some other genealogy CD-ROM discs that I have described in recent weeks, the Vital Records Index-North America viewer software does support the Windows Clipboard in the same manner as most other Windows programs. I was able to copy data from the CD-ROM and then paste it into this newsletter using the normal cut-and-paste commands.
The viewer software CD-ROM has a couple of "extra goodies" not mentioned in the manual: it has information about why the Mormons are so interested in genealogy. It also contains a listing of all the local LDS Family History Centers in the United States, Canada, the British Isles, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
This particular set of CD-ROM discs is probably the biggest release of North American GENEALOGY records in electronic format of the year. So how much does it cost? You won’t believe this: the price is $19.00 U.S. funds. That’s not much money for seven data CD-ROM discs and another disc with the software and users’ manual! I’ll bet that Santa Claus delivers a lot of these discs this year.
If you would like to purchase a copy of the "Vital Records Index – North America," call 800-537-5971 from the U.S. or Canada. Callers outside North America can call 1-801-240-1126. FAX orders may be set to 801-240-3685. You can specify a credit card number on any of these methods. Finally, you can send an order and a check by old-fashioned mail if you address the envelope to:
Church Distribution Center
1999 West 1700 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84104-4233
U.S.A.
When ordering, make sure that you specify "Item #50029, North American Vital Records Index (1620-1888)."
- New England Historic Genealogical Society Library Online
I was delighted to find the following article in one of this week’s editions of the "Ancestry Daily News":
The New England Historic Genealogical Society Library is about to put their online catalog for both the research and circulating libraries online. A test version is available online at: http://www.ils.ca/webopac/cgi/swebmnu?act=3&ini=nehgs.
NEHGS is looking for input from researchers regarding the catalog, its look, and usability. Please send any comments or suggestions to: tomkemp@nehgs.org.
You can now order the NEHGS Register on CD-ROM. "This remarkable 9 disc CD-ROM includes over 60,000 pages of The Register, Volumes 1 through 148, as well as an index of names and software that will allow you to search and read or print pages of text and index material. The CD-ROM contains all of the index information that has been published in The Register from 1847 to 1994. To order or for the latest news and events, visit the NEHGS website at: http://www.nehgs.org/.
Establishment of this new online catalog is a significant milestone for the use of the Internet for genealogy. The New England Historic Genealogical Society has one of the best genealogy libraries in the U.S. Obviously, they focus on New England ancestry, but they also have many books about genealogy research in other areas of the country and other parts of the world. They have a lending library that will mail books although that service is only available to members of the society.
I logged onto the website this week and conducted a search. The site doesn’t say, "New England Historic Genealogical Society" on the pages. Instead, it says "Sydney Plus OnLine Catalog." That was no surprise as I happen to know that the society’s in-house computers use Sydney cataloging software. The online version obviously is an extension of that.
I selected "Title" and then entered my own surname in the search field. Even though the announcement says that it is a test database, the software quickly found seven books from the society’s library that had my surname in the title. When I clicked on one of them, the following information appeared:
Template........ books
System key...... acob
Title........... History and genealogy of the Eastman family of America :
containing biographical sketches and genealogies of both
males and females.
Author.......... Rix, Guy S. (Guy Scoby), 1828-1917.
Call number..... CS71/E137/1901/also/LOAN
Publisher....... Concord, NH : [Press of I.C. Evans]
Year............ 1901
Document type... mon Monograph
Phys.descr...... 2 v. + index vol. : front. col. plates (coats of arms)
ports. ; 24 cm.
Acquisitions.... 5/95: Loan has 1901 Index.
Subject......... Eastman family.
Title trace....:
Type of trace.. n/a Not Applicable
Title..........
C.A. Bulletin..:
Period......... n/a Not Applicable
Year........... 0
Security level.. 1
Multi-volume?... Yes
The Call Number represents the shelf where the book is kept. The words, "also/LOAN," apparently mean that I can borrow the book via the society’s "Books By Mail" program. Well, I only live about 35 miles away, so I usually go to the library in person. For anyone who lives further away, Loan By Mail is a valuable service.
All in all, the new test of the online catalog software looks good. I look forward to full implementation. I will warn everyone, however, that not all of the society’s many thousands of books have been catalogued. Even when the New England Historic Genealogical Society finishes the test and places their card catalog online permanently, the catalog will not have all volumes listed for some time.
Again, you can experiment with the test version at: http://www.ils.ca/webopac/cgi/swebmnu?act=3&ini=nehgs.
- Ancestry Daily News
As I mentioned earlier, I first learned of the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s new online catalog because of an article in the "Ancestry Daily News." That’s a great newsletter and one that I read as soon as I receive it. If you do not yet subscribe to the "Ancestry Daily News," you should. It carries a lot of information although it is quite different from this newsletter. Best of all, it is free. You can read it on the Web, or if you prefer, you can have it delivered directly by e-mail. For more information, look at: http://www.ancestry.com/whatsnew.htm
- Legacy Update
I like to write about the major genealogy programs whenever they release a new version. You may have read many of those reviews in the past. However, the folks at Millennia Corporation present a problem to me: they never seem to release major new updates.
Millennia produces Legacy 2.0, one of my favorite genealogy programs. The program is very powerful yet also easy to use. I wrote a lengthy article about Legacy 2.0 in the January 26, 1998 newsletter, which you can read at: http://www.ancestry.com/home/Dick_Eastman/eastjan26-98.htm. Since then, the program has evolved with many new features. Millennia doesn’t seem to ever announce a major upgrade; they simply keep releasing minor updates every few weeks. Over a period of six to twelve months, the program will evolve into something much different from the earlier version, yet Millennia Corporation still doesn’t announce a major update!
I haven’t written much about Legacy 2.0 since my article last January although it has had many changes since then. With that thought in mind, I decided to mention their latest "minor update." Keep in mind that this "minor update" is only the latest of many. Quoting from the latest announcement:
27 Oct 1998 - Build
- The "A" button on the Family and Pedigree Views has been changed from showing Addresses to showing Alternate Names. If there are alternate names for an individual, the button will be highlighted. Pressing the A button will display the Alternate Names List now. We felt it was more important to be able to tell if a person had alternate spellings of their name than to see if they had an address...
- A little fine tuning went into the Pedigree chart printing.
- You can now print a Summary Source Citations Reports that shows each Master Source along with how many times it has been cited from individuals and marriages.
Full details about this release and all the previous releases are available at the company’s website. Registered users of Legacy 2.0 can download all the updates at any time free of charge.
Anyone who is not yet familiar with Legacy 2.0 can also download a demo copy from the same website. All the features of the regular version are available in the demo copy with one exception: when your family file in the demo version contains more than 50 individuals, you will not be able to save changes made to individuals. Everything else works as normal. If you are using another genealogy program, you will find that Legacy will import PAF and GEDCOM files. It will even import files larger than 50 individuals, and will save that file. But you won’t be able to later MODIFY any data in the file if it contains more than 50 people. You can even print all the fancy reports, whether or not the chart shows more than 50 people. That is a good way of test-driving the program.
For more information, read my earlier article at http://www.ancestry.com/home/Dick_Eastman/eastjan26-98.htm and then look at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
- Free Copy of Family Chronicle Magazine
Family Chronicle Magazine has an offer that is tough to beat: a free copy. Publisher Halvor Moorshead sent an announcement that is interesting. He also said, "This is not a disguised "Bill-Me" offer - and incidentally we don't sell or rent people's names or e-mail either." Here is the announcement:
Family Chronicle Magazine has grown rapidly since it was launched in September 1996 but the publishers recognize that a lot of people have never heard of them or seen a copy. They are therefore running a "Get-to-know-us" campaign until the end of December. They will be mailing out free copies of the magazine to the first 20,000 people who ask with no strings attached - to anyone who is interested in genealogy, just for the asking!
If you would like to find out why Family Chronicle has become so successful, you can find details on the website www.familychronicle.com. Or ask for your free copy by writing to Family Chronicle, PO Box 1201, Lewiston, NY, 14092 (please mention this column).
While not mentioned, I suspect this offer is limited to mailing addresses within North America. Overseas postage rates probably discourage the mailing of free issues.
- Ellis Island Immigration Records Database
ComputerWorld magazine just ran an article about the new database of immigrants being built at Ellis island. The article says "The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Inc. has begun computerizing the records of immigrants who entered Ellis Island from 1892 to 1924, said Maria Antenorcruz, the foundation's public affairs coordinator. The project will cost $15 million; the foundation has raised $11.5 million so far, she said."
The magazine article also says that this first phase of the database project is expected to be finished by late 2000. Internet access to the data is expected to follow soon after. To read the full article online, look at: http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/all/9810305ellis
- American Indian Heritage Month
The month of November is American Indian Heritage Month. Keep an eye open for a number of celebrations, events, newspaper articles and proclamations. If you are interested in Indian ancestry, this might be a good month to start working on your family tree again.
For information about the American Indian Heritage Month, contact the Native American Heritage Foundation, 6051 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church, VA 22044. (703) 237-7500.
- Oprah Winfrey Postponed
Last week’s newsletter mentioned that the October 29 Oprah Winfrey show would feature family history. That was the plan until the network decided to cover John Glenn’s latest launch into space on that day. The Oprah Winfrey show THEN was postponed twenty-four hours and was broadcast on the 30th. I hope to see a videotaped copy in a day or two. Others have told me that it was a good show.
- The Internet For Genealogists
More than a year ago (September 29, 1997) I wrote about the book, "The Internet For Genealogists." I will repeat much of the article here before describing the new edition:
Barbara Renick and Richard S. Wilson have produced a third edition of their book, "The Internet For Genealogists: A Beginner’s Guide." I read through it this week and found a few things I didn’t know about, even though I try to keep abreast of genealogy "happenings" on the Web.
This 175-page book has 46 pages of introductory information for the newcomer, followed by a lengthy list of genealogy-related websites, each with a brief description. The many sites are divided into different categories, here is a partial listing of some of those categories:
General Genealogy Sites Ethnic, Foreign & Special Interest Groups Genealogical Software Sites Genealogical and Historical Societies Online Genealogy Bookstores and Publishers Online Databases for Genealogists Citing Sources & Writing Skills
There are quite a few more categories, but I think you have the idea by now. The entire book is organized in a manner that makes the information easy to find. It also has a lengthy glossary that explains all the technical and genealogical terms you are likely to encounter in the world of online genealogy.
The writing style is loose and informal. I found it very easy to read. I also liked the spiral binding; this book lies flat on the desk beside the computer. That’s much more convenient than paperback books with the more common glued-together bindings.
Again, that was for the third edition of the book. This week I had a chance to read the new fourth edition. It is similar to the previous edition, but authors Barbara Renick and Richard S. Wilson obviously have been busy. The book has been reorganized; it now has four "sections" and two appendices. It is thicker and obviously the authors have made many updates. I like the new organization a bit better. The list of sections and chapters now reads:
Part I: Understanding the Internet In the Beginning So What’s On The Internet for Me? Merging Onto the Information Superhighway Part II - Getting Online Web Browsers Using E-mail Software Mail Lists Newsgroups Netiquette FTP - What is it? Do I have it? Surfing vs. Searching Part III - Internet Resources for Genealogists General Genealogy Sites Netiquette Genealogy Megasites Ethnic, Foreign & Special Interest Groups Genealogical Software Sites Genealogical and Historical Societies Online Library & Catalog Sites Map & Gazetteer Sites Genealogy Book Stores & Publishers Online Databases for Genealogists Genealogy Tools & Training Writing Sources & Writing Skills Copyright Information Mail Lists, Newsgroups, & Chat Sites Locating Living People Other Computer Software Sites Internet Search Tools Part IV: Where Do We Go Next? Where Is the Internet Headed? What Effect Will Internet Growth Have on Genealogy? Appendix A: Choosing an Internet Service Provider (ISP) Important Considerations Internet Service Providers: Local and National Telnet Access Appendix B: Glossary
You can see from this list that "The Internet for Genealogists" covers most of the topics that the online newcomer needs to learn. The authors do not examine any one topic in great depth; otherwise, the book would be much bigger than its present 220 pages. Yet it does give a good "overview" of each topic.
Part III, "Internet Resources for Genealogists," contains exactly 100 pages of Internet sites. Each site is listed by title and URL (address) along with a one-paragraph description. The glossary is 20 pages and has explanations of almost every term you might encounter on genealogy sites.
The spiral binding that I mentioned last year has disappeared. The new edition is bound like most other paperbacks, I suspect that works better for the stores that sell it. The book probably fits on the shelf a bit better.
The final description that I gave last year still fits:
"The Internet For Genealogists: A Beginner’s Guide" lives up to its name: it is written for the online newcomer. If you have been cruising the Web for a few months, then I’d suggest that you don’t need the book; you already know how to find this information online. But if you are new to the online world or if you are looking for a gift for an online novice, this book will be useful.
"The Internet for Genealogists" is published by Compuology. It has a retail price of $19.95 U.S. funds. It is available in many bookstores. If it is not in stock, most any bookstore can order it if you ask for ISBN 0-938717-41-3. It is also available directly from the authors. For more information, look at: http://www.compuology.com/book1.htm
- Genealogy WebSite Sells Your Name and E-mail Address
It’s a tough world. Lots of businesses sell their customer lists these days. The result is that you get junk mail and marketing phone calls from all sorts of companies trying to sell you something you probably don’t want. The newest twist is "spam mail", unwanted e-mails that advertise all sorts of junk. Now a well-known genealogy website is contributing to the spam mail that you receive and apparently is profiting from personal information that they obtain from you under the guise of helping you do genealogy research. In fact, the website apparently is a "front", as the main purpose seems to be gathering personal information about you and then selling that information.
The Family Tree House website at http://www.usaafter.com claims that it is "the Association for FamilyTree Enrollment and Registry." The homepage says, "This site offers free family tree software and links to key genealogy sites. The software is available online. You can build your FamilyTree House in real time, no downloading is required."
They also say, "…you can create and register your own online FamilyTree. And because it is online, you can enlist the help of other family members by giving them your personal access code to allow them to fill in the missing branches--it's a project the whole family can participate in no matter where they live." On another page the site advises, "When requesting information, please make sure you include your name, mailing address and the information you would like."
After they collect all the personal information from you and your other family members, the owners of Family Tree House apparently package the information and sell it to other companies that send junk mail or spam e-mails. On a different website, the owners of Family Tree House offer "a file of 33,600 last-12-month registrants of the Family Tree House, an association that offers wesite members free software and links to genealogy sites." The file they sell reportedly contains information about each person’s date of birth, gender, e-mail address, state and ZIP code. The Web advertisement says that the file contains listings for 33,600 people who have left personal information on the Family Tree House site.
To check for yourself, first look at http://www.usaafter.com and then look at: http://www.mediacentral.com/Magazines/DirectNewsline/Archive/1998100910.htm
- Ameritech Stops Junk Phone Calls
Speaking of junk mail and junk e-mail, I was fascinated by a new announcement from Ameritech this week. One of my strongest dislikes is telemarketing. I believe that intrusive calls from a salesperson trying to sell something should be banned. These cretins enter your home electronically by means of a phone. When you answer, they deliver a sales pitch.
I doubt if telemarketing calls will be banned anytime soon, so I have already taken steps to eliminate these obnoxious calls from my life. (Someday I will write about the steps I have taken.) Now telephone giant Ameritech is also doing something about these odious interruptions. The cute thing is that Ameritech is even making money by stopping junk calls!
In September Ameritech launched Privacy Manager in Chicago and Detroit. Privacy Manager is an anti-telemarketing service. Customers in those two cities have signed up by the thousands; the company says it got more orders from customers in the first two days than it expected in two weeks.
Privacy Manager costs about $11.00 a month. It works in conjunction with Caller ID, an existing service that displays the telephone number of the person calling. Caller ID is useful except that, when placing a call, anyone can prevent their number from being displayed to the receiving party. Telemarketing firms usually take advantage of that; they normally block the display of their number on all calls they initiate. Therefore the unwary recipient sees a blank on the Caller ID unit, picks up the phone and then gets an earful of advertising.
Ameritech intervenes in that situation. If Ameritech’s computers cannot identify the number of a call, Privacy Manager intercepts it and asks the caller for a name. Callers who refuse, as Ameritech contends telemarketers are likely to do, are immediately disconnected. If the caller gives a name, it is recorded, the destination phone rings, and then Privacy Manager relays the recorded name to the person who answers. That person may elect to take the call, to reject it, or to play a taped request demanding that the caller place the called telephone number on a telemarketer's "do-not-call list." (Federal law mandates that the bigger telemarketing firms must keep a "do-not-call list.")
Neat service. Ameritech has found a way to make money off both ends of an uncompleted call, essentially charging one customer for protection from another. The company plans to offer Privacy Manager in five states by the year 2000 and to all of their other customers soon after.
- homepages Highlighted
The following is a list of some of the genealogy-related World Wide Web homepages that have been listed recently on http://www.rootscomputing.com. Some of these sites may charge a fee for their services:
Beaver County, Pennsylvania Genealogical Society WebSite: http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabecgs/.
Vaughan/Vaughn, Haskins, King families of Massachusetts, Minnesota and New York: http://www.vitrex.net/~dbrown.
Descendants of Gabriel and Marie (Hersent) Maupin, French Huguenot refugees who fled to Amsterdam, Netherlands around 1690 and then emigrated to America aboard the "NASSAU" in 1700: http://www.GeoCities/Heartland/Bluffs/6987.
Kadinger Konnections, information about the Kadinger family name: http://www.netins.net/showcase/kadinger.
"ALLEN's Stuck in NY State", dedicated to ALLEN surname researchers that are "stuck" in NY state: http://members.aol.com/JudyKCski/Allen.html.
Descendants of: Amasa and Lois (Davis) Davis, Solomon and Persis (Baker) Howe Ware, Darwin and Anner D. Canfield (Sherman), Dr. William Hooker Smith, Rev. Samuel Sturdevant: http://userdata.acd.net/korroch.william/home.html.
Looking for descendants of Hans Jakob Straumann and his son Johann Jakob who emigrated from Bretzwil, Baselland Switzerland to the USA in circa 1820-1830: http://webhome.idirect.com/~rafolliv/Strauman.htm
To submit your new genealogy-related homepage 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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