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| March 02, 1999 |
- George B. Everton, Jr., R.I.P. George Baugh Everton, Jr. died Sunday, February 21, 1999 at his home in Providence, Utah, after a courageous battle with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS). He was 69. Mr. Everton was well known around the country as publisher of Everton's Genealogical Helper magazine, which he published from 1974 until his retirement in 1991. According to the Special Edition - George B. Everton, Jr. Obituary at Everton's Home Page, "He spent his life teaching about family history to people close to him and around the world." Mr. Everton was born January 1, 1930 in Logan, Utah. He was the youngest of three children born to George Baugh and Ellen Rose Nielsen Everton. He is survived by his wife, Louise; three sons: Stephen George (Sheila), Providence; Alma Lee (Laura), Providence: Andrew Harold, Logan; two daughters: Carrie Louisa (Richard) Singleton, Providence; Marion Buchanan, Arizona; 13 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Interment was at the Logan City (Utah) Cemetery on Wednesday, 24 February 1999. - Obituary Records Placed on the Internet Did your ancestors live in or near Evansville, Indiana? If so, you will be interested in the new online Browning Genealogy Database. According to the information at the website: The Browning Genealogy Database is the lifetime work of Charles Browning, who compiled the obituary records of Vanderburgh County and surrounding southwestern Indiana from the Evansville newspapers: The Evansville Courier, The Evansville Press, and now The Evansville Courier and Press. Information on each deceased person listed in the database includes fifteen categories encompassing age, date of death, survivors, funeral information, cemetery, occupation, and activities. This attention to detail provides a vital community resource and source for genealogical research. Currently, the database is complete from 1990 to date and is kept up-to-date by the Browning family and the dedicated staff of the Browning Funeral Home in Evansville. Mr. Browning's research goes back to 1920. The Browning files, from 1920 to 1990, are recorded on over 180,000 index cards, which were microfilmed and donated to several Indiana libraries. Part two of this project is to enter the data from 1920 to 1990 into the database. The complete records from 1920 through today cover more than 50,000 people and more than 345,000 of their survivors, according to Troy Vanaken, University of Evansville assistant director of information technology. However, only the records from 1990 through today are online. Vanaken helped set up the database, which he said will be invaluable to people doing genealogical research. The site is set up so that a person can type in a deceased person's name and get the complete obituary information, including age, occupation, time and place of death, survivors, and burial place. Researchers also may type in the name of a survivor and find all obituaries in which that name is included. You can also type in any last name, and all obituaries that include the name will appear. You can even find all people with a particular name who died in a specified period, Vanaken said. I experimented a bit and found the database was very easy to use and contains detailed information, even showing the interests of some of the deceased. Here is one database entry picked at random to show an example of the information available: Deceased ID = 25202 Relative Type Comments Browning, owner of Browning Funeral Home, has been compiling the information since 1954, putting the information on index cards. To access the Browning Genealogy Database, point your Web browser at: http://www.evcpl.lib.in.us/databases.html - Sierra Home to Inaugurate Web-Interactive Family History Talk Show Sierra Home issued the following press release this week: First Web-Interactive Family History Talk Show To Debut Saturday, March 6 History-making Net event to feature celebrity Internet Genealogist Cyndi Howells. Genealogy enthusiasts, newcomers and press are invited to become a part of history by participating in the first ever web-interactive genealogy call-in talk show, which will debut internationally at http://www.talkspot.com on Saturday, March 6th. The first ever "Generations: Find Your Roots" Webcast will occur online from 4-6 p.m. Pacific Time (7-9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time). Cyndi Howells, creator of the highly acclaimed website, "Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet," will kick off the show as the first guest. Genealogy fans can share in the conversation with Cyndi and show host Elon Gasper while viewing family charts, pictures and video captures to illustrate certain points of discussion. The audio portion will be received over the computer speakers while participants follow along visually through interactive chat and pictures broadcast onto their monitor via the Net. Audience members will be able to ask questions of Cyndi and Elon, as well as share their own personal experiences to help others who are also researching their family heritage. TalkSpot is the first project launched by http://www.worldstream.com/ Worldstream, an innovative new Internet broadcast company that integrates the elements of radio talk shows with the interactive chat and multimedia features of the Internet to create a dynamic new medium. Audience members login to the TalkSpot website and become an integral part of the discussion by participating in online chats with the show host, featured guests and each other. The "Generations: Find Your Roots" Show will be broadcast online every Saturday evening and will feature different guests, new tips on family research, news, and stories shared from listeners. Each week the Webcast will explore new surnames, regions, and various topics of heritage exploration. Meet the Host The show's host, Elon Gasper, is an avid genealogy researcher and senior designer of the Generations family heritage software line from http://www.sierrahome.com/ Sierra Home. He has traced his family roots back to the 13th century, with links uncovered in his family to Salem witches, Mayflower passengers, Scottish nobility, and both Union & Confederate soldiers. Elon is following in the footsteps of his great-great-aunt, a noted genealogist and Fellow of the Institute of American Genealogy. Premier Guest Cyndi Howells is one of the foremost Internet genealogists, author of Netting Your Ancestors and creator of the award winning site http://www.cyndislist.com. Cyndi's List provides 41,100 genealogy web links, classified in more than 100 different categories. How To Participate: For more information, please contact: Kelly Stanmore at (425) 649-9800 x3898, kelly.stanmore@sierra.com or Elon Gasper at (425) 649-9800 x3002, elon.gasper@sierra.com. I suspect this will be a very interesting "talk show." The technology is rather new, of course. There have been traditional radio shows broadcast in the past with audio feeds on the Internet. However, this new talk show from Sierra Home will include interactive feedback from people on the net while the show is live. - Singapore Using Internet For Census It had to happen sooner or later. In the year 2000, Singapore will become the first country to use the Internet to help take its population census. The government hopes to save $29.7 million by moving away from the old-fashioned, door-to-door interview method, according to the government announcement. In June 2000, when Singapore's population is expected to exceed 4 million, the Department of Statistics will use databases it already has on dwellings, age, gender, race and citizenship. Information from 40,000 families will be collected through forms filed on the Internet, said the reports. About 30 percent of Singapore households are expected to have access to the Internet by next year, said Chief Statistician Paul Cheung. - Brighter Look For Death Certificates The British Office for National Statistics has announced that birth, death, and stillbirth certificates issued in England and Wales are to have a new background design. The changes will affect some 4 million certificates issued each year for a wide variety of purposes, from genealogy to passport applications. The traditional red tint background for birth certificates and gray for deaths are both to be replaced by a blue tint with a central design incorporating the rose and daffodil emblems of England and Wales. Although there have been minor changes to certificates in recent years, the new look is the first major design change since the existing background tints were introduced about 50 years ago. Register offices in England and Wales will begin to issue the new certificates from late spring onwards. For certificates issued centrally by the Office for National Statistics, the new style certificates will be used when stocks of the existing design are exhausted. The existing certificate design will be phased out with a view to all birth, death, and stillbirth certificates from 1 January 2000 being issued in the new design. Certificates that have been issued in the current design before 1 January 2000 will remain valid. Another design feature will be to standardize the majority of the certificates, including short birth certificates, to A4 size. The only exceptions on the full bilingual (English and Welsh) certificates are related to events in Wales. Certificates are printed by the security arm of the Stationary Office. Organizations such as government departments, insurance companies and banks that often need to see birth and death certificates have been informed of all the changes. Marriage certificates are not included in this round of design changes. The full announcement is available at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/press_release/presslnk.asp?Ptype=link - Ancestry.com, Inc. Receives More Investments In the December 19, 1998 edition of this newsletter, I wrote about CMGI, a financial firm that invested $10 million in Ancestry.com. This past week Ancestry.com announced even more investments, including one by a name well-known in the computer world: OREM, UTAH, February 24, 1998 -- Ancestry.com, Inc., a leading provider of family-oriented content and services on the Internet, today announced it has received $12.3 million in first round financing. This is the largest first round venture financing for a Utah-based information technology company and provides Ancestry.com, Inc. with additional resources to help fuel its growth and to further develop and deploy its customer service technology. Three investors participated in the initial appropriation: CMG@Ventures, the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI), Intel Corporation, and Wasatch Venture Fund, Inc. Further financial details of the investments were not disclosed. "Families are increasingly turning to the Internet as a means of communication," said Curt Allen, CEO of Ancestry.com, Inc. "The infusion of capital from CMG@Ventures, Intel, and Wasatch Venture Fund enables us to expand our family-oriented services and introduce a more global family communication network." Several thousand copies of this newsletter are delivered to CompuServe members every week. I suspect that most of these CompuServe members will be as interested as I am in the latest announcement from the company. CompuServe announced that it has updated its software in an effort to reposition itself as a home on the Internet for busy adults. CompuServe says it will continue to serve the professional people key to its business, but with more user-friendly software, flashier features and lower prices for the service. The software upgrade, called CompuServe 2000, is easier for users to install and customize on their personal computers. Users will see a "Main Menu'' screen with a continuously updated news ticker with headlines from The Associated Press, market analysis from CBSMarketWatch.com and personalized news folders. The company’s e-mail also will be easier to use. Subscribers will be given five user names per account, each ending in the domain name "cs.com," shortened from "compuserve.com." - Virginia Law Would Make Internet Spamming A Crime Lawmakers in Virginia have adopted legislation that would make it a crime to send mass, unsolicited electronic mailings - or spam - on the Internet. The bill, which Gov. James Gilmore has promised to sign, would make Virginia the first state in the nation to have the power to criminally prosecute people accused of spamming. The Virginia law would have far-reaching implications because about half of the United State’s Internet infrastructure is routed through the state. - 114-Year-Old Man to Marry 17-Year-Old An Egyptian farmer said to be 114 years old plans to marry a 17-year-old, despite opposition from his family and intervention by police. Police sources said Tuesday that Fayez Sultan's son Mohamed, age 80, had complained that his father planned to give his farm to the would-be bride. Police have set up a traditional committee to settle the dispute in the province of Sohag, some 400 km (250 miles) south of Cairo. Sultan has 45 grandchildren from seven sons and daughters. 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: South African genealogy researchers and LEHMKUHL researchers: BASINET and GAGNIER family pages: Descendants of Jonathan Rudd (~1620, England-1658, Saybrook, CT): Markley ancestry - the history of the family and related spellings: Lohrman/Schieferstein genealogy US and Swedish family history: Dunlop/Dunlap Family Society: APELLIDO CASTILLA - a genealogical web page about the Spanish surname Castilla. This site also has studies about descendants of King Pedro the First and another section called "Cuaderno de Enlaces Genealogicos." Most of the site is in Spanish: 1890 Cincinnati City Directory - Listings of the 1890 City Directory for Cincinnati are in the process of being placed online: History and family tree of William and Agnes Bronlee NICOL who migrated from Scotland to Hammond, NY: Archer Family Index: Archer Descendants: Main Archer Page: Hardy/Gutzeit Genealogy Page: 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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