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| March 09, 1999 |
There have been lots of rumors lately about a new LDS Family History website. My mailbox has been filling up with messages about it, and the story has even appeared on MSNBC at: http://www.msnbc.com/news/246411.asp. The MSNBC article says, "Much to the delight of genealogists, the Mormons are preparing to make some of their vast holdings of family records available on the World Wide Web for the first time next month, if not sooner." The article continues, "The new website ( http://www.familysearch.org) won’t officially launch until mid-April, but it is expected to "go live" for testing any day now. Church officials originally planned to leave the site open to all during the test period. But for fear of being swamped, they now may limit access to official testers with assigned passwords." When asked about a possible new online service, David Rencher, Manager of Outreach Coordination of the Genealogical Society of Utah, made the following official statement: Sometime in March or April 1999, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will conduct a brief beta test of a new genealogical service for the Internet. The Church believes this service will greatly enhance the way people trace their family history. A formal announcement and launch is expected in the Spring or Summer of 1999. Details will not be available until then. Stay tuned. Further details will be published in this newsletter as they become available. - Ancestry.com Named Top Genealogy website Media Metrix is a leading company in recording statistics on the World Wide Web. This week the company reported that Ancestry.com was ranked first among online genealogy sites for total unique visitors. According to the Media Metrix report, during the month of January, Ancestry.com surpassed all other online genealogy sites with 953,000 total unique visitors. The report shows Ancestry.com garnered 39,000 more unique visitors than its leading competitor. Ancestry.com ranked in the top ten of the complete Digital Media universe in three categories: sixth in average unique pages per visitor in a day, ninth in average minutes spent per visitor per usage day and tenth in average unique pages per visitor in a month. "We are pleased at the results of the recent Media Metrix report," said Paul Allen, general manager of Ancestry.com. "This new ranking speaks to our continued efforts to provide our members with the best and most comprehensive sources for family history research." Ancestry.com also carries this newsletter and a lot more at: http://www.ancestry.com - Guion Miller Roll of Eastern Cherokees on CD-ROM Indian Scout Publications has released a new book and a new CD-ROM disc, both called "Vital Information from the Guion Miller Roll" transcribed and edited by Billy Dubois Edginton and Carol Anne Buswell. The book and the CD-ROM apparently are identical: the CD-ROM has images of the pages in the book. I had a chance to use the CD-ROM version for a bit this week. The first thing I noticed is that the Guion Miller Roll of Eastern Cherokees CD-ROM is in Adobe Acrobat Reader format. That makes it useful for Macintosh owners as well as anyone using Windows NT, 98, 95 or 3.1. The CD-ROM includes Adobe Acrobat Reader viewers for all of those platforms. I tested it on a Windows NT system. So what is the Guion Miller Roll? Here is the transcribed explanation that is included on the CD-ROM itself: The Guion Miller Roll is one of the most important sources for Cherokee genealogical research. It was created as result of a successful lawsuit by three separate groups of Cherokees who had not been paid all the money due them as result of the Treaty of New Echota (1835). This treaty resulted directly in the infamous "Trail of Tears" in which thousands of Cherokees were forced to march from their homeland in the southeastern United States (Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia) to "Indian Territory", in what is now Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. These three groups represented a Cherokee Nation West, the eastern Cherokee Band, and a group of what were probably assimilated Cherokees from all over United States, Canada, Mexico, and Syria." (NOTE: Yes, it says "Syria." I will leave it to others to figure out how that happened. – Dick) "Between August 27, 1906, and May 18, 1909, nearly 46,000 applications were completed by Guion Miller of the United States Department of the Interior. Each qualifying applicant received a warrant worth $133.18. In order to fulfill the major requirement for admission (which consisted of an ancestral connection to someone who had signed the 1835 Treaty of New Echota) extensive genealogical information was required. At least two generations of family information were included, which often included aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters. One application was found that extended back nine generations. This was from a family that had separated from the tribe at an early date and who, by necessity, had to provide extensive genealogical information. There were no geographic limitations imposed on the applicants, as there had been in the Dawes Commission enrollment. Therefore, non-reservation Cherokees could apply. For the purposes of this book, no references are given indicating whether individual Cherokee applicants were admitted or rejected by Miller. The most important reason for this omission is that, due to the nature of the lawsuits themselves, many applicants were rejected who had indisputable Cherokee lineage. Even among those Cherokees living in Oklahoma, a little less than two-thirds of the applications were "admitted." Only those whose direct ancestors actually participated in the Treaty of New Echota were approved. Those whose ancestors were classified as "Old Settlers" were rejected. (These Cherokees had left the old Cherokee Nation before 1835.) These "Old Settlers" were estimated by Emmett Starr to constitute one-third of the Cherokee Tribe around the turn of the twentieth century. Others were rejected as well. Those who applied after the "final" application date of 31 August 1907 were only admitted if they were filing for a minor child or could prove extenuating circumstances. Illegitimate children were rejected even when their legitimate brothers and sisters were admitted. Dual Indian citizens (such as Cherokee/Choctaw) were also rejected, even though dual Cherokee/white citizens were admitted. Cherokee/black citizens were rejected if any connections to a slave were indicated. Others were rejected because they failed to provide adequate proof of relationship to the tribe. It is important to remember that application was purely on a voluntary basis and it is impossible to determine exactly how many Cherokees failed to apply. For further analysis of the Miller Roll limitations and statistics, see Carol Buswell’s "The Guion Miller Roll of 1906-1909: Cultural geography of the late 19th and early 20th-century Cherokees," UCLA Master’s Thesis, 1997). Use of the Miller Roll CD-ROM is simple. It literally is a "book on a CD-ROM disc." You display it one page at a time. You can easily jump from page to page and can immediately go to any page number. However, you cannot search for text within this book. For instance, to look for an ancestor whose surname started with the letter "E", you first look in the index to find that the E entries start on page 254. You then can jump directly to that page by using either the pull-down menus or the shortcut of Control-5, then enter the page number. Actually, the Acrobat Reader software counts the title page as page 1, the copyright page as page 2, the Dedication page as page 3, and so on. Therefore, what is supposed to be page 254 of the real book turns out to be page 263 in Acrobat Reader. I quickly learned to add 9 to all the page numbers shown in the Index. This mental gymnastic exercise was a minor annoyance. Printing a page was simple: select FILE and then PRINT from the pull-down menus. Be careful, however, the default is to print all 1,020 pages! You will want to change that to print only the page or pages that you are interested in. Reading the entries was a rather simple exercise. One typical entry was: EATON, 36122, f, EATON, Angeline, LEATHERWOOD, 1851, AL, POWDER SPRINGS, Cobb, GA, E350 That entry would be decoded as: Surname: EATON Keep in mind that this is an index of the original application. It does not contain all the information shown on the original document. The original applications usually contained information about parents and often included listings of children, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. Occasionally, even photographs or business letterheads are included. None of that is shown on the CD-ROM, however. Once you have the Guion Miller Application Number from the CD-ROM, you can view a microfilm copy of the original application at any of many places. The microfilms are available at the U.S. National Archives and at the LDS Family History Center in Salt Lake City. You can "rent by mail" at any of the local LDS Family History Centers. Many university libraries and many city libraries, especially in Cherokee areas, also have the microfilms. One thing to note is that Indian Scout Publications has a surname list of the book on their website. You can first check the site to see if a particular surname is listed. If not, you probably won’t want the CD-ROM or book. The Guion Miller Roll of Eastern Cherokees on CD-ROM will be a useful addition to many genealogy libraries and collections. The hardcover book costs $159.64 while the CD-ROM version is $30.00. At those prices, I suspect that Indian Scout Publications will sell many more CD-ROM disks than hardcover books. For more information, look at: http://www.ndnscout.com Progeny Software has announced the immediate availability of an updated version of Genelines. The major change in version 1.1 is that it will now read Family Tree Maker 5.x file format. This means that all new event types, including user-defined events (which are new in Family Tree Maker 5.x) can now be included on the Life Bar charts. Other changes in version 1.1 include an option to reset to default colors. This will be useful to anyone who has made a lot of changes to color settings and wants to get back to where they started. For a review of Genelines, look at the October 24, 1998 edition of this newsletter, available at: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastOct26-98.htm. You can also download a demo of the new version of Genelines at Progeny’s website. Version 1.1 is a free upgrade to registered users and is being shipped automatically to all customers who purchased the software directly from Progeny Software or have sent in registration cards. Genelines sells for $29.95 U.S. funds plus $5 shipping ($10 overseas). The Genelines programmers are already working on the next release that reportedly will have the capability to read GEDCOM files. GEDCOM capability should greatly increase the program’s appeal. The company isn’t announcing a release date yet, but I’d guess that they will be showing it at the NGS conference in May. For more information about Genelines, look at: http://www.progenysoftware.com - Publisher's Genealogical Coding System David W. Dole has created an interesting coding system for obituaries. He describes the problem of obituaries thusly: When someone clips a family member's obit and sends it to a relative and then–even 20 years later–that relative's daughter starts family genealogy and finds great-aunt Susie's obit ... she doesn't simply read: "Susie Smith died last Thursday at her lake home. Services Saturday, 10 a.m. at Christ Church" ...And wonder: When was Thursday? Where was the lake? What city? Which Christ Church? David proposes that newspapers should include a code with every obituary, such as "A10023N1998FB18". The code would identify that this obituary was from the Buffalo, NY News published on the 18th of February, 1998." The example PGCS Code A10023N1998FB18 would decode this way: Code Component Explanation Meaning Obviously the implementation of such a system will require a lot of coordination with the newspapers. David Dole is asking genealogists to get involved in the effort. To learn more about the Publisher's Genealogical Coding System or to see what you can do to help the effort, look at: http://www.obituarycoding.com - Civil War Medal of Honor Database Online Every month, Sierra Home places a free database on their website. The database for March is the list of men awarded the Civil War Medal of Honor. To use the database, you simply enter a person’s name. The first name is optional. If there is a match, you will receive information that may include the individual's rank and organization, the date they entered service, and a citation about the reason for their award. For instance, here is one typical entry: Full Name: CLARK, CHARLES A. To search this month’s free database, go to: http://www.sierra.com/sierrahome/familytree/records/ - Update: "Beginning Genealogy" Classes Online Michael Neill has started this year’s online "Beginning Genealogy" classes. I had a chance to look at the course and can report that it looks complete. For instance, the first week’s lecture outline covers these topics: Getting Started The first week’s course materials include scanned images of newspaper clippings, photos, Ahnentafel charts and family group sheets. The materials become more advanced in later weeks, of course. I noticed that Week #5 includes an in-depth discussion of deed records. For more information, send an e-mail to Michael Neill at: mneill@mail.asc.csc.cc.il.us - Irish-American Heritage Month, 1999 The following was issued by the White House: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A PROCLAMATION During the month of March each year, as millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we remember with special pride our Irish heritage. We remember our ancestors who stood on Ireland's western shores, yearning for the promise of America. Fleeing famine and injustice, they longed for a new world of opportunities. Millions of these courageous men and women set sail from Ireland, leaving behind all that they had ever known to seek the promise of America. They gave to their new homeland their strength and spirit, sinew and determination, eloquence and wit. In return, America offered them the opportunity for a better life, the chance to rise above poverty and discrimination, and a future where they could live out their dreams. The Irish who came to America endured many hardships, but they prospered and helped to build our country with innumerable physical and intellectual contributions. They gave us Presidents like Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan; patriots like John Barry and Stephen Moylan, who fought fiercely for American independence in the Revolutionary War; jurists like Justice William Brennan, who championed justice and equality; suffragists and social reformers like Maria McCreery; journalists, peacekeepers, artists, playwrights, labor leaders, and educators. These and so many other Irish Americans seized the opportunity of freedom America promised. From their grand literary tradition to their deep religious faith, Irish Americans and their descendants have enriched every facet of American history. But Irish-American Heritage Month is a time to look to the future as well as to the past. Today we rejoice at the promise of peace in Northern Ireland and the resolve of her people to approach their differences not with weapons, but with words. While the path to peace is rarely easy, it is by necessity a community effort. Americans are a vital part of the process in Northern Ireland by virtue of our shared heritage and shared goal of lasting peace and a better future for all God’s children. By lending our hearts, minds, and prayers to the work of peace, we can best fulfill our obligation to the generations of Irish men and women who have given so much to our Nation's life and history. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 1999 as Irish-American Heritage Month. I call upon all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-third. WILLIAM J. CLINTON - Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Now here is a real "grass roots movement." The Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Movement consists of volunteers who agree that once per month they will videotape cemeteries or do look-ups of information in a county where they live. They will do this whether they have ancestral ties there or not. These volunteers agree to share the fruits of their labors. Quoting from the group’s website: Because the idea is that a person can spare one time per month to go out into the area they live to unselfishly provide information to another far from home, this makes volunteering and giving of oneself much easier. It also means that if we can obtain one person living in each county of the United States, as well as folks from other countries, to volunteer for this once per month, our odds of obtaining what we need anywhere we need to look go up tremendously! Details are at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogle/index.htm - Vermont Town Changes Name Back to Killington Do you have ancestors from Sherburne, Vermont? Or from Killington, Vermont? If you are writing to the town clerk, you need to address your letter to the town clerk of Sherburne. However, soon you will need to address your letter to the town clerk of Killington, Vermont. For years, many folks just assumed the Killington ski resort was in the town of Killington. They would have been right when the town was chartered 230 years ago, and they will soon be right again. Residents voted 197 to 51 this week to drop the name Sherburne for Killington, the name the town was given in the first place and which most people call it anyway. The change now goes to the state Legislature for approval. While the town was originally called Killington, its name was later changed to Sherburne in honor of Col. Benjamin Sherburne, a land grantee and the original developer of the town. The colonel's influence was forgotten over the years while the Killington ski area grew to dominate the economy of the region. The move to change Sherburne's name started when the AAA automobile club said it would stop listing local businesses under a Killington address in their tour guides. Business owners said this would add to the confusion of tourists who already think the town is called Killington but can't find it on maps. Just one reminder: When recording information in your genealogical database, you always record the name of the town or county or state as whatever it was on the date of the event. Names may change later, but you don’t go back and modify original records. If your ancestor was born in Sherburne, Vermont, then you record the birthplace as Sherburne, Vermont, as it appeared in original records. However, I suggest you might attach a note such as "(now called Killington)." Just what the online world needs: another search engine. Right? After all, there are already several dozen search engines around and even search engines that search other search engines. I tried a new search engine this week and must say that I like it. Google seems to find most everything that the other search engines find. It often is faster than other search engines as many thousands of Web pages are cached at Google. The thing I liked most about Google is its simple interface. This search engine doesn’t pretend to be a "Web portal" like most of the others. It doesn’t clutter your screen with hundreds of links listed in a tiny font. Like Joe Friday, this search engine is concerned with "Just the facts, ma’am, only the facts." Google is new and is still listed as being in beta test. Take a look at: http://www.google.com The Upcoming Events section of the newsletter is published once per month. Each event will be listed very briefly: title, date(s), location, and sponsoring organization, all followed by either an e-mail address or a Web page that you can use to find more information. Since detailed information is available via e-mail or the Web, I will not list the details in this newsletter. If you do contact any of these organizations, please tell them where you heard about the event. Here are the listings, arranged by date. An asterisk indicates a new listing that has been added since the last time this list was published: National Genealogical Society Regional Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, March 12 & 13, 1999. For details, send an e-mail to: phoenix@ngsgenealogy.org The Williamson County (Texas) Genealogical Society presents Dr. John P. Colletta of Washington, D.C. on March 13, 1999. An all day seminar will be held in Round Rock, TX. For details, contact: LREMRY@aol.com Brigham Young University’s annual Computerized Genealogy Conference will be held March 18-20, 1999. Details are available at: http://coned.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/ The Slippery Rock Heritage Association will hold its annual genealogy workshop on Saturday, March 20, 1999 at the Slippery Rock (Pennsylvania) University Union. For info, send an e-mail to: hmssagt@aol.com Genealogy Fair; a celebration of the resources in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan will be sponsored by the South Bend Area Genealogical Society on March 20, 1999. Details are available at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~insbags The Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society will hold its annual Spring Seminar on March 20, 1999 in Huntsville, AL. Lloyd Bockstruck will be the featured speaker. Topics will include: Special Collections for Genealogical Research; Finding Substitutes for Birth & Death Records; State Bounty Land Records and Revolutionary War Records in the South. Details are available at: http://hiwaay.net/~white/TVGS/tvgs.html The Lawrence County (Tennessee) Genealogical Society will have as its speaker for the March 20, 1999 meeting renowned author Dr. Tony Mack McClure. Dr. McClure has authored two books on researching your Cherokee ancestry. For more information, contact: lcarchives@lorettotel.net. The Computer-Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois will present demonstrations of two event-linked genealogy packages, The Master Genealogist and Ultimate Family Tree on March 21, 1999 in Schaumburg, Illinois. For more information, send an e-mail to: lolson@mountprospect.com The Genealogy Society of Craighead County, Arkansas and the Jonesboro Public Library in Jonesboro, Missouri will present an all day genealogy seminar in Jonesboro on March 27, 1999. The guest speaker is Lynda Suffridge, President of the Arkansas Genealogical Society. Details are available from: nglies1@ibm.net The New Hampshire Society of Genealogists Spring meeting will be held April 3 in Concord, NH. The meeting will feature Clark Bagnall speaking on the NH Old Graveyard Association's comprehensive graveyard database and Craig Scott, professional researcher and author, speaking on military and pension research. For details visit: http://www.tiac.net/users/nhsog The Massachusetts Genealogical Council will present "Discovering Your Heritage" an Everton Publishers workshop on April 10, 1999 in Wayland, MA. For more information contact: Jim Holmes 76312.1377@compuserve.com The Bend Genealogical Society in Oregon will present John P. Colletta on Saturday, April 10, 1999. The seminar topics include: Passenger Arrival Records, 1820-1957; The Seventeen Million Stories of Ellis Island; How to Put Your Ancestors Into Historical Context; and Using Newspapers for Family History Research. For information, contact djburgess@madras.net The Northeast Alabama Ancestor Swap Meet will be held April 10, 1999 in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama. Attendance will be limited to 200, so make reservations now. For information e-mail: rhyatt@airnet.net Americans With Italian Roots, an all-day seminar on Italian Genealogy, will be held in Hempstead, New York on April 10,1999. It is sponsored by the Italian Genealogical Group and the New York State Order of the Sons of Italy in America. Details are available at: http://www.italiangen.org The annual conference of the Utah Genealogical Association will be held April 15-17, 1999. For details, contact: LINDATURNR@aol.com and look at: http://www.infouga.org/confrnce.htm ROOTS XV, "Family History: Basics and Beyond", the 15th annual all-day seminar sponsored by The Genealogy Workshop of the Huntington Historical Society will be held in Huntington, New York on April 17, 1999. For information, send an e-mail to: wchamber@suffolk.lib.ny.us An all-day joint conference of the Chester County Historical Society and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania is scheduled for Saturday, April 17, 1999. For more information. Send an e-mail to: GSPPA@AOL.com The Simcoe County Branch of The Ontario Genealogical Society will present "State of the Art", a colloquium, on April 17, 1999, at Canada Forces Base Borden, Angus, Ontario. For information, contact: claudia@planeteer.com The Monmouth County Genealogy Society and the Genealogical Society of New Jersey will present Sharon DeBartolo Carmack in an all-day seminar on April 17, 1999. The seminar will be held in Red Bank, NJ. For details see: http://nj5.injersey.com/~kjshelly/gsnjsem.html The 38th Annual Conference of the Ohio Genealogical Society will be held April 22-25, 1999 in Toledo, Ohio. Featured speakers are Dr. George K. Schweitzer, Ph.D. and Dr. John P. Colletta, Ph.D. For more information visit the OGS website at: http://www.ogs.org The "Computers In Family History Conference" will be held April 24, 1999 at Salford University, Manchester, UK. It is sponsored by the Society of Genealogists and the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society. Information is available at: http://www.mlfhs.demon.co.uk/conference The Genealogy Association of English Speaking Researchers in Europe (GAESRE) is putting on their third annual Genealogy and Family History Day on Saturday, April 24, 1999 in Mannheim, Germany. Additional details are available from: whit@jas-net.de The Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society will hold its spring seminar on Saturday, April 24, 1999 in Jessup, Maryland. For details, contact jsheviak@aol.com. The 14th Annual COFFEY Cousins Convention will be held April 29, 30, and May 1, 1999 in West Des Moines, Iowa. Details are available on the Coffey Cousins website at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6233/coffeycousins.html The Indiana Genealogical Society will hold its 1999 Annual Meeting and Conference May 1, 1999 in Fort Wayne. Details are available at: http://www.IndGenSoc.org The Alabama Genealogical Society Seminar will be held Saturday, May 1, 1999, at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject will be "Genealogical Resources Available at the National Archives, Southeast Division", presented by Director James J. McSweeney, Archival Director Dr. Charles Reeves and Archivist Suzanne Dewberry. Details are available from: lalinecanderson@juno.com The Third Victorian Family History State Conference will be held May 1 and 2, 1999 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Co-hosts are the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Genealogical Society of Victoria. The theme of the Conference is "Health, Wealth & Wisdom." Twenty-seven speakers will deliver papers. Details are available at: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~aigs/ Heritage Hunters of Saratoga County, New York will present a seminar by Henry Z. Jones, Jr. on Friday, May 7 and Saturday, May 8, 1999 in Saratoga Springs, NY. Several seminars are planned. For more information contact Alice Zetterstrom at zetter@juno.com National Genealogical Society’s Annual Conference in Richmond, VA, May 12-15, 1999. Information is available from: Macdonald@ngsgenealogy.org The Sonoma County Genealogical Society is planning an all day seminar on May 22, 1999 in Santa Rosa, California, featuring Dr. John Philip Colletta in a day-long program. For details see: http://www.rootsweb.com/ The Halton-Peel Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will present the OGS Seminar '99 from May 28 to May 30 1999 in Toronto, Canada. The theme is "Our Ontario Families." Details are available at: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/sigs/ogshp/seminar.htm The Wayne County (PA) Historical Society will sponsor an Everton "Discovering Your Heritage" Workshop on Saturday, May 29. For information, send e-mail to: wchspa@ptd.net. The Stebbins Ancestral Society will hold a family reunion in Northampton, Massachusetts June 3 to 6. If interested, please contact: aligner01@yahoo.com. The DuVAL Family Association will hold its first meeting in over half a century on June 4-6, 1999 in Richmond, Virginia. Details are available at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/7508 The descendants of John Morgan MINTER (1792-1856) and Dorothy Brooks MATHIS (1792-1852) will celebrate their memory with a reunion at Hopkins County, Texas, June 11, 12, 13, 1999. For information, send an e-mail to: djr@swbell.net The Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, Wichita, KS will host the 24th Annual Conference of the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies on June 11 and 12, 1999 in Wichita. Featured speaker will be James L. Hansen, Reference Librarian of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. For additional information see: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/conference.htm The 21st annual reunion of the LILLARD Family Association will be June 12 and 13, 1999, at Benton, Tennessee. For details, contact rlill55941@wingnet.net The Descendants of Baron Christopher de Graffenried will hold their 1999 Reunion in Oklahoma City, OK, June 18-21, 1999. For information, contact: Jdegraf203@aol.com The LAY Family Genealogical Association (including Lay, Leigh, Lea, Leh, Ley, Loy etc. surnames) will hold a meeting in Branson, MO June 25 through 27, 1999. Details are at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8896 The 6th Annual Genealogical Institute of Mid America will be held in Springfield, Illinois, in July of 1999. Details are available at: http://www.misslink.net/neill/gima.html Dr. George K. Schweitzer will speak on German Genealogy on July 10, 1999 for a workshop sponsored jointly by the German Interest Group and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Area Research Center in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Details are at: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/origins1/gig.html The descendants of Abraham and Mary VANDAL of West Virginia will hold their 1999 National Bi-Annual Reunion July 25-27 in Nashville, Indiana. Details may be found at: http://www.startext.net/homes/chield/vandalreunion.htm The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Livesay Historical Society will be held in Duffield, Virginia, from July 29-31, 1999. Additional details are available at: http://hometown.aol.com/lhsociety/livesay.html The New Brunswick Genealogical Society will present its 20th Anniversary Conference "New Brunswick Ancestors - Arrivals and Departures" July 30 to August 2, 1999 in Moncton, New Brunswick. Details are available at: http://www.bitheads.ca/nbgs/conf.html Brigham Young University’s 1999 Genealogy and Family History Conference will be held August 3–6, 1999. Information is available at: http://coned.byu.edu/cw/cwgeneal/ BROWN/MCNATT/RICHARDS Reunion, Aug 7, 1999 in Clayton, Delaware. Details are available from: mbluehen@sensible-net.com The 75th annual PARKMAN Association Meeting will be held August 8, 1999 in Skowhegan, Maine. This association is for all descendants of Gideon and Mary (Vining) Parkman of Abington, Massachusetts and Skowhegan, Maine. Details are available by sending an e-mail to: klary-jr@hannaford.com. New York.... Gateway to America," the 19th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy, hosted by the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., will be held August 8-13, 1999. For information, look at: http://members.aol.com/nyc99conf The Federation of Genealogical Societies and the St. Louis Genealogical Society invite you to "A Conference for the Nation's Genealogists" in St. Louis, MO August 11-14, 1999. This is one of the major conferences of the year. The full Conference Registration Booklet is now on-line at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mostlogs/STINDEX.HTM The descendants of Catharine MAHONY and John McCARTHY of Prescott, Ontario will hold their second reunion August 13-15, 1999 in Ottawa, Ontario. For information, contact: grandpre@global2000.net The 1999 National HANKS Family Reunion will be held on August 20, 21, 22, 1999 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The reunion is to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the New England Branch of the Hanks family to America. More information can be found at: http://www.enol.com/~hanksdc/hanksplace/reunion.html The Searching For That Elusive Irish Ancestor 1999 Family History & Heritage Conference will be held in Belfast and in Dublin, Ireland September 7-14, 1999. The conference will concentrate on making practical use of the genealogical research sources available to the family historian in both cities. Delegates will have ample opportunity for guided research at the main archives and repositories in addition to lectures, tours and entertainment all at no extra charge. Details are available at: http://www.uhf.org.uk The Eli and Mae GARMAN Family Reunion will be held on September 12, 1999 in Independence, Kansas. Details are available from: cgarman@horizon.hit.net The 25th SEABOLT Family Reunion will be held in Vogel State Park, Georgia on September 18 and 19,1999. For information, contact harsea@aol.com If you would like to see your event listed, send an e-mail to: meetings@rootscomputing.com. You must include either a Web page that gives details or an e-mail address for the organization or for someone within the organization who is willing to supply the meeting details upon request. Please limit your listings to events where you expect 100 or more people to attend. 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: The Talbot Party from Cork, Ireland to Quebec City, Canada in 1818 - Includes information on a constructed list (not a manifest) of the settlers: Tazewell County (Illinois) Genealogical & Historical Society's website: The Templeton family of New Hampshire and Vermont, descended from Adam Templeton: Bronson, Brownson, and Brunson surnames: McKee surname origin, migration, links, discussion, etc.: Our Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home: 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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