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| August 24, 1999 |
Two weeks ago I published the announcement from Genealogical Publishing Company about the new book: "Cyndi’s List" by Cyndi Howells. This week I had a chance to read the book. Well, "read" is probably not the correct word. Maybe I should say that I "looked at" the book. This is a reference book, so most people will not read it from cover to cover. Instead, it is more like a dictionary: you use it as a reference when looking for something. Author Cyndi Howells is well known to readers of this newsletter. She compiles Cyndi’s List, the largest listing of genealogy-related websites available today. Her website won this newsletter’s "Readers’ Choice Award" in 1997 and again in 1998 for the "Best Genealogy Site on the World Wide Web." Cyndi has won numerous other awards as well for her hard work and dedication. She also authored an earlier book called "Netting Your Ancestors," which was reviewed in the October 12, 1998 edition of this newsletter. You can read that review at: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastOct12-98.htm When I opened the shipping box containing the new book, my first reaction was, "This book is huge!" Cyndi’s List is 8 ½ inches by 11 inches and is about 1 ½ inches thick. The book contains 858 pages of website listings plus several more pages of introductory text. The book is about what you would expect for a reference book listing websites. It starts out with a table of contents, then an acknowledgements page, and a foreword written by Cyndi’s husband, Mark Howells, all followed by six pages of introduction. The introduction describes the history of Cyndi’s website, tells how to use both the website and the book, and also explains much of the terminology encountered. The remainder of the book is devoted to listings of 40,000 different genealogy-related web pages. There is no back-of-book index, nor is one needed. After all, the listings are all in alphabetical order by topics, from Acadian to "Wills & Probate." The listings are brief. Of course, with 40,000 listings, they have to be short. Anything else would have produced a multi-volume set! Each website is categorized into one of more than 100 topics. Each listing contains at least the website’s name and its URL (address). Some sites have a sentence or two describing the information that can be found there. The book indeed does appear to be a close copy of the data that is available online. Obviously, that begs the question, "Why buy the book when you can read the same information online at no charge?" I suspect the answers will vary, depending upon each reader’s personal preferences. As fast as the Internet is, looking up references in this book is still faster than searching online. At my office I have a direct connection to the Internet that is probably 50 times faster than any dial-up modem. It is even several times faster than a cable modem. Even so, using the website from the office is slower than finding the same information in this well-organized book. For instance, to find any sites dealing with the Maine Genealogical Society, I first looked in the book’s table of contents for "United States Index." Under that, I found "Alphabetical Listing by State." It referenced page 526. I started on that page and searched the following pages for "Maine" and then for "Societies and Groups." This entire search took about ten seconds, faster than I can do the same search online. The printed version of the site also helps anyone prepare in advance for the time to be spent doing online research. That is especially important to anyone who pays for Internet connectivity by the minute. Libraries and Family History Centers also have expressed a need for the printed version of Cyndi's List. With a book version next to each computer terminal, library patrons are better able to spend their limited time online in a more productive manner. Another feature of the printed edition is its portability. You can tuck it under your arm and go anywhere. Reading a book will always be more convenient until Internet connections are available at every toilet! Conversely, the online version is free, and it probably will be more up-to-date as new information is added almost daily. Regardless of which version you use, Cyndi’s List is one of the top references available for today’s genealogist. The printed version is available for $49.95 from Genealogical Publishing Company and probably from their dealers as well. Some bookstores may sell it for a discount from the list price. For more information about Cyndi’s List: The Book, look at: http://www.genealogybookshop.com - For Macintosh Users: Update on the Census Book CD-ROM Last week I wrote about The Census Book by Bill Dollarhide, published by Heritage Quest. The book is available both on paper and on CD-ROM. I quoted documentation found on the CD-ROM stating that the disk contained Adobe Acrobat 4.0 software for Windows 95, 98 and NT. The same on-disk documentation also stated that the Census Book CD-ROM should operate on a Macintosh although the Mac software reportedly was not included. Lucy Armstrong of Heritage Quest and I have exchanged e-mails since then and she points out that the document that I quoted has an error in it. In fact, the necessary Macintosh software is included on The Census Book CD-ROM. There is no other Macintosh software needed to use this excellent CD-ROM resource. My thanks to Lucy Armstrong for this update. - Genealogy on ABC News website ABC News is well known in the United States for their radio and television broadcast networks. However, they also have moved onto the World Wide Web in a big way: abcnews.com is a very popular news website. On Friday, ABC news conducted an online interview of Tony Burroughs, who is the director of communication at GENTECH, as well as past president of the Afro-American Genealogical Society of Chicago and a genealogy instructor at Chicago State University. The interview was recorded electronically and will be on their site for the remainder of the year. You can see it at: http://abcnews.go.com/onair/DailyNews/chat_burroughs081399.html - British Isles Genealogical Register: 2000 The Federation of Family History Societies has published several large registers of genealogy interests in past years. Now the organization is planning a bigger and even better effort to help usher in the new millennium. The following is from their announcement: The Federation of Family History Societies invites you to help celebrate the Millennium by registering your British Isles family names for posterity. In this way you also make your interests known to thousands of other family historians, worldwide. Unlike other directories, this one will be available in County Sections - for example the Yorkshire Section will contain only Yorkshire interests, thus helping family historians to concentrate their interests within one county. This will increase the possibilities of family contacts and enable researchers to access only those sections in which they are interested. Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Islands will be treated in separate sections. (Entries in previous editions will not be carried over and must be registered again). Photocopies of this form are acceptable. The compilation of the Register will be financed by a charge of £1.50 for 1st form (15 entries) and £1:00 per subsequent form. This charge will cover the administration costs only, and should be paid by Credit Card, Sterling Cheque on a UK bank, or by uncrossed UK Postal Order. Overseas contributors may pay by sending DOLLAR BILLS ($5 Australian for up to two forms; $5 Canadian for up to 2 forms; $5 New Zealand for up to two forms; or $2 US per form) or the equivalent in UK postage stamps. Dollar & other currency cheques CANNOT be handled. From mid-2000 county sections on microfiche should be available from the appropriate regional family history societies. The complete Register and sections will be on sale from FFHS (Publications) Ltd. 2 - 4 Killer Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, Lancashire BL0 9BZ England on microfiche or CDROM. Order forms and costs available from above and societies after publication. More information, including downloadable forms in Microsoft Word, Lotus WordPro and RTF formats, are available at the society’s website: http://www.ffhs.org.uk/pubs/bigr/index.htm My thanks to Peter Archdale for letting me know about the new register. - U.K. Public Record Office To Put Catalogue Online The Public Record Office (PRO) is about to put its entire catalogue on to the web. A prototype system is already available, and the PRO hopes the full catalogue, which describes its entire archive of 8 million documents, will be online by the end of the year. Once the catalogue is online, the PRO hopes to begin placing many of its most-popular documents online, including William Shakespeare's will, Guy Fawkes's confession, and the crew and passenger list of the Titanic. The catalogued collection spans documents ranging from the Domesday book, compiled in 1086, to the present day and includes all central-government files. According to Anne Crawford of the PRO, the system initially will allow users to search all of the documents' descriptions online. "Putting 8 million documents on the web is just too big a task," she says. "So we're making the catalogue available, which includes the location of the file and a brief description of it. This allows users to see what we have. "We will also allow them to order a document online so that when they come to Kew their documents are ready and waiting. We hope this will save a lot of wasted journeys." Currently, researchers must either visit Kew in person to check the availability of a document or commission somebody to do the research. According to Crawford, more than two-thirds of the archive's users are family historians who often travel to Kew from another country. "We are a great resource for academics, but we also get a lot of interest from individuals. With 8 million records, which include a lot of census data, we are probably one of the best resources in the world for individuals tracing their family history. We found that almost all our visitors had access to the net at home or work so it made sense for us to try to offer some access to our records over the net." The PRO also plans to put census data online. Crawford said, "One of the first things we will put online in its entirety is the 1901 census; we are currently preparing this for 2001. However, we want to get the catalogue online first, then we can track which documents are the most popular and put those online." To see the prototype catalogue system, look at: http://www.pro.gov.uk My thanks to Don Hazelton for letting me know about this huge new project. - Digital Classroom: Twentieth-Century U.S. History Now Available Online The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has announced eighteen new units in the Digital Classroom section of its website. These historical learning units may help some genealogists researching twentieth-century ancestry by providing background information about the events that affected their ancestors’ lives. It also provides interesting reading and, for anyone with school-aged children in the house, this is a big on-line aid for homework. The NARA’s press release states: The National Archives and Records Administration announces eighteen new units in the Digital Classroom section of its website. The units address various historical issues and events that occurred between 1900 and 1970, including the Election of 1912, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, Brown v. The Board of Education, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Vietnam. All of the units correlate to national academic standards, reflect constitutional issues, and encourage the analysis of primary source documents. Historical documents from the holdings of the National Archives inspire document analysis activities that lead to classroom simulations, mapping activities, creative writing assignments, cooperative learning exercises, and technology-based research projects as described in the units. In addition to the activities, each unit includes an historical background section that provides valuable contextual information about the featured documents. This is the final set of units created by members of The Constitution Community, a curriculum development team composed of classroom teachers from across the country and education specialists at the National Archives. Other units, also available online at http://www.nara.gov/education/cc, address issues and events from the American Revolution to the turn of the Twentieth Century. The project is dedicated to educating the public about the foundations of democracy and Constitutional issues and is being funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Government Information Technology Services Board (GITSB) Innovation Fund, administered by the General Services Administration. - Index To Recent Death Notices In Sydney, Australia Newspapers Genealogists in Australia must have a unique sense of humor. One of the largest genealogy societies there has a rather unique name: The Dead Persons Society. Despite the humorous name, this society is a very dedicated group involved in several serious efforts designed to help all genealogists researching Australian ancestry. John Graham, a member of the Dead Persons Society, sent along this article about their latest effort: Late in 1998, the Sydney branch of the Dead Persons Society commenced indexing death and obituary notices appearing in both local daily newspapers, the "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Daily Telegraph". A website was established to give wide access to these indexes. Indexing commenced with the "Daily Telegraph" of October 12th, 1998, and with the "Sydney Morning Herald" of November 2nd, 1998. It was the intention at the time to continue indexing forward as the newspapers are published, and to investigate methods of indexing other issues backdated from our starting point. Our initial estimate was that the "Herald" publishes about 15,000 death notices and 800 obituaries each year, while the "Telegraph" publishes about 5,000 death notices and 100 obituaries. The format of the death indexes for both newspapers is the same, and includes name, date of death, age, location details and publication date. Obituary indexes are in different formats for each newspaper, due to the differing information published, but both include at least name, birth and death years, and publication details. All issues of both newspapers since the starting dates have been indexed, and this process continues. Access by one member to back issues of the "Herald" for 1998 meant that we could start the back-indexing process quickly, and these notices (both death and obituary) have currently been indexed back to July. In May this year, the DPS was extremely grateful to receive what could only be described as a "hoard" - a virtually complete run of death notices saved from the "Herald" since 1985! Our idea of back-indexing could now commence in earnest. Now, in mid-August, the website contains over 50,000 entries relating to "Herald" deaths, about 4,500 to "Telegraph" deaths, over 900 to "Herald" obituaries, and over 100 to "Telegraph" obituaries. The "Herald" death entries are growing at about 15,000 per month (1,500 current, the remainder historical). An additional index was also started at the same time, to include those entries in the "RSVP" column of the "Herald". This column is a repository of public notices, about two-thirds of which have a genealogical content. This index currently contains about 300 entries. Our short-term target is to complete indexing "the hoard" by the end of 2000, at which time it is estimated that there will be approximately 200,000 entries in the "Herald" death index. At this time, we will investigate the possibility of progressing back beyond 1985. It is also expected that the indexes will be made available on CD-ROM at this time, if the demand is sufficient. Indexing is carried out by members of the DPS, using software written specifically for the project. Notices for each day are e-mailed to a central coordinator, who adds them to the master database, and each month regenerates the website. The web pages have been deliberately created in a very plain format, to ensure speedy loading and to make sure that those users who pay their ISP by the megabyte are not disadvantaged. The Indexes can be found at http://www.southernx.com.au/dps/dpsindex.htm. Queries about the project can be directed to the coordinator, John Graham, at johngrah@ozemail.com.au, or to the Sydney DPS mailing list at DPS-SYDNEY-L@rootsweb.com. - Avotaynu Publishes List of World War II Swiss Bank Accounts Avotaynu Inc., a publisher of information on Jewish genealogy, has released a list of 29,000 Holocaust-era Jews who had accounts in Swiss banks or were forced to declare their assets, including insurance policies, to the Austrian government. Some of the names came from a list of unclaimed Swiss bank accounts released by the Swiss government. The others are from a collection at the Austrian State Archives in Vienna. When the Germans occupied Vienna, Austria, in 1938, they required all Jewish residents to complete a detailed declaration of valuables, including insurance policies, bank accounts, real estate, art and other possessions. The declarations are the files held in the Vienna archives. The Avotaynu web page gives survivors or heirs of people on the list instructions for registering a claim. The list of given names, family names and birth dates is posted on the publisher's web page at http://www.avotaynu.com - Historic New Jersey Jewish Cemetery To Get Genealogy Study For years, the old Jewish cemetery in Clifton, New Jersey has been a mystery. No one even knew the names of the people buried there. But that may be changing now that the tiny graveyard, located off View Place in the Albion section near Valley Road, finally is being restored. The 152-year-old burial ground is believed to be the oldest organized Jewish cemetery in New Jersey. It is the resting-place for some of the area's first Jewish residents. But it had been forgotten for decades as tract homes sprouted up around it. The 50-by-100-foot cemetery was cleaned earlier this year by Franklin Lakes resident Mitchell Knapp, who donated the use of his landscaping company and paid for removing diseased trees and disposing of the debris. Knapp is a member of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun of Franklin Lakes, which opened the cemetery in 1847 when the synagogue was located in Paterson. The graveyard got an additional cleaning this summer from a Clifton public works crew. No one knows much about the people buried there, in part because only one or two headstones were visible in the thicket of brush and debris that once covered the cemetery. The last burial probably was in the late 1800s. But additional stones were found during the cleanup, and some have Roman lettering, including ones with the family names of Goodhorn and Rosenstien. Auerbach said he now plans to have the Hebrew lettering on the stones translated so he can perform a genealogical study on all of the names. He wants to determine the identities and find out if there are any descendants. The full story is available online on the Bergen Record’s website at: http://www.bergen.com/psouth/gravesjc199908205.htm - www.Genealogy.com Hits the Top 100 The following announcement is from Broderbund, producers of Family TreeMaker and of www.Genealogy.com: FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 18 -- www.Genealogy.com has recently been recognized as one of the Top 100 websites by PC Magazine, whose writers and editors are acknowledged industry experts in determining which software programs and websites are the best. According to PC Magazine's editors, websites that made the Top 100 list were "especially useful and well-designed and ... deliver on the promises they make." Summarizing the functionality of Genealogy.com, the magazine said, "The site lets you begin by simply typing in a name to get ancestral history on any of 325 million people. From there, you can take online classes, post your queries in the online community, and get lots of links to other useful sites." PC Magazine concluded that Genealogy.com is "a great place to start your ancestral search." This prestigious recognition of Genealogy.com comes just as the site surpasses a traffic milestone that confirms its popularity among family history enthusiasts as well as industry experts. The online community referenced in PC Magazine centers around the site's "GenForum" message boards. These boards are frequented daily by tens of thousands of genealogists, and just surpassed a total of 2,000,000 messages posted. The message boards enable people to collaborate and share information about specific family names, to trade advice on tracing certain ethnicities or locations, and in general to communicate with other people from around the world who share a passion for understanding their family heritage. "PC Magazine's award acknowledges the hard work we've put into developing a website that is well-thought-out and truly useful to the growing community of Internet genealogists around the world," said Rob Armstrong, General Manager of Broderbund's Genealogy.com group. "That fact is confirmed by the number of actual family history enthusiasts who visit the site every day, and who have used our GenForum Message Boards to post more than 2,000,000 messages to communicate with other genealogists and speed up their research." The Broderbund unit of The Learning Company is the recognized technology leader in genealogy. In April 1999, the company's www.FamilyTreeMaker.com website was selected by members of the Software & Information Industry Association (formerly SPA) for the industry's highest award, the "Codie Award" for Best Internet Commerce Site. Also in April, PC Magazine selected Broderbund's Family Tree Maker software as its "Editor's Choice" among all genealogy software programs. And in its April 19 cover story, Time Magazine recommended www.Genealogy.com as one of ten most comprehensive genealogy-focused websites. The Broderbund unit of The Learning Company is one of the country's leading developers of consumer software for the entire family. The company publishes some of the best-known education, reference, personal productivity, and family entertainment brands in the U.S., including American Greetings, National Geographic, The Print Shop, PrintMaster, Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover, and Mavis Beacon. The company's products are sold in more than 23,000 retail stores in North America and through multiple distribution channels including school sales, online, direct marketing, and OEM. The website is located at www.broderbund.com. NOTE: All trademarks are property of their respective holders. - Ancestry, Inc. and Compaq Announce New Partnership I have written several times in recent weeks about the trend towards partnerships in the genealogy online world. Companies producing genealogy-related products and services are scrambling to forge partnerships with other companies, both inside and outside the genealogy arena. You can see my recent articles on this at: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastjune01-99.htm and at: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastjune08-99.htm Now Ancestry.com has signed a partnership agreement with a multi-billion dollar computer manufacturer: Compaq. The two companies issued the following press release: OREM, Utah, Aug. 19 -- Ancestry.com, Inc., the premier online resource for connecting and strengthening families, and Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) today announced a joint initiative designed to broaden e-commerce opportunities for both companies. The alliance will make Compaq the premier PC vendor on the MyFamily.com and Ancestry.com sites and will allow Ancestry.com, Inc. to broaden its member base through joint online and off-line marketing programs. The partnership represents part of Compaq's effort to integrate its hardware and software offerings into CMGI's (Nasdaq: CMGI) extensive network of Internet operating companies. CMGI holds an approximate 30 percent stake in Ancestry.com, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, the Compaq and Ancestry.com affiliate partnership will consist of revenue sharing on sales of computer goods, online subscriptions and other genealogy-related products. In addition, a co-branded Web page will be created linking Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com with Compaq.com. Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com will also feature links to the Compaq.com online store. "Partnering with an industry leader like Compaq provides added value to our members, offering them access to Compaq Internet PCs and customized promotional offers," said Curt Allen, president and CEO, Ancestry.com, Inc. "This agreement also enables us to introduce the large base of Compaq customers to the MyFamily and Ancestry brands. This added presence is a key component of our overall brand-building strategy to become the premier family service on the Web." "We are pleased to bring together Compaq's products and services with the unique content offerings of Ancestry.com, Inc.," said Ray Robidoux, Vice President, U.S. Consumer Sales and Marketing, Compaq. "Through this alliance, Compaq can build strong, direct relationships with powerfully vibrant, family-focused communities like MyFamily.com and showcase the benefits of computing with Compaq." My guess is that we will see several more partnerships announced by genealogy-related companies in the next year or so. Have you ever dreamt about inheriting wealth from some rich ancestor or other long-lost relative? If the wealthy relative was Henri d'Orleans, count of Paris and pretender to the French throne, you might reconsider your plans. When Henri d'Orleans died this summer at the ripe old age of 90, the blue-blooded playboy who had been one of France's wealthiest men left very little behind. In the bungalow where the Bourbon aristocrat had lived with his mistress, officials found a pair of bedroom slippers and six handkerchiefs embroidered with the royal crest. That’s it, nothing else. In another residence in the Paris suburbs also owned by the count, there were no paintings or furniture, although traces on the floors and walls showed they had been there at one time. The apartment had been stripped -- down to the light bulbs and light sockets. Some of Henri's nine surviving children have retained Paris lawyer Olivier Baratelli and other attorneys to find out what happened to one of the great fortunes of this country, amassed by a royal line running back 300 years to Louis XIV's younger brother, the duke of Orleans. "Two hundred and 50 million francs (about $38.5 million) from the count's estate have disappeared," Baratelli says. The lawyers are especially keen to hear what Henri's mistress, former nurse and governess Monique Friesz, has to say. However, Baratelli's firm has not been able to contact her. The attorneys also want permission to sift through the records of a foundation that the count had created and endowed as they hunt for any signs of improprieties. When dapper, mustachioed Henri, a one-time volunteer in the French Foreign Legion, took over as head of the royal house of France in 1940, he was said to be worth at least $650 million in castles, forests, farmland and other holdings. His ancestor Louis Philippe, the last French king, had abdicated in 1848, but the count hoped to see the monarchy restored in his lifetime. Unfortunately for the count's offspring, he was a gambler and ladies' man who spent much time in the casinos of Deauville and Biarritz. To finance his costly pleasures, he sold off land and castles, antique furniture, jewelry and art. Once, Henri was detained at the Swiss border carrying a ruby-and-diamond necklace that had belonged to Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI's guillotined queen. He later sold it to the Louvre for $1 million. In 1950, the head of the House of France was identified as the single largest landholder in the country. But the lawyers for four of his children -- led by Jacques, present duke of Orleans -- don't think energetic womanizing and compulsive gambling can explain the disappearance of the entire fortune. Over a decade and a half, starting in the early 1980s, Henri sold off holdings worth an estimated 100 million francs ($15.4 million), including palaces, chateaux and manor houses in Sicily, Portugal, Belgium, and the Ardennes in northeastern France, frequently agreeing to poor deals in his eagerness to secure cash. Other prime properties, including a chateau at Amboise overlooking the Loire River, and the royal chapel at Dreux west of Paris where he was buried, were deeded by Henri to a foundation he created in 1973 and named for an illustrious ancestor, Saint Louis, king of France from 1226 to 1270. Henri made no secret of his meanness toward his children, once saying they would inherit nothing but "crumbs." In a will written by hand one month before his death from prostate cancer, the count made his long-suffering wife of 68 years, Princess Isabelle d'Orleans-Bragance, great-granddaughter of the last emperor of Brazil, sole beneficiary of whatever worldly goods he left behind. As the lawyers point out, that means the children aren't even entitled to one handkerchief until the 88-year-old widow dies. 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. Origin of the name and history of the Hannays of Sorbie: The Melungeon Health Education And Support Network - Descendants of Melungeon connected families may inherit one of five Mediterranean illnesses. This site is devoted to educating the descendants and others of Mediterranean ancestry about these illnesses and providing support for those who suffer with them: Family tree of the Loxton family, particularly related to the families of Albert Rich Loxton who arrived in South Australia on the Elgin,1849 but also covering the Canadian, South African and United Kingdom members of the family: A research of the Páramo surname in Mexico: Cooper Family, VA, NC, SC, KY, MO, MS, AL, TN and TX: SEPHARDIM.COM serves as a research tool for those interested in Sephardic genealogy. The site contains thousands of names with links to thousands of other names. You will also find Sephardic facts and lore, recipes, and heraldry all served up with authentic music: The McAtee Surname Family Center: 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.
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