EOGN: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

A Weekly Summary of Events and
Topics of Interest to Online Genealogists

Vol. 6 No. 49 – December 3, 2001

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IN THIS ISSUE:

- GEDCOM Files of Famous Folks

Do you think you might be related to a famous person? Or are you simply curious about possible connections? The odds are great that you are related to a movie star, an athlete, a U.S. President, or some other person of note. Remember that everyone has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. Altogether, you have about 8,000 ancestors in the past 300 years. So does everyone else, including movie stars, Presidents, and others. The generations go back in a mathematical progression, doubling with every generation. The odds are good that some famous person shares a common ancestor with you.

Genealogy.com has a "Famous Folk" section on their Web site that will give you information about the ancestry of famous people. You can download GEDCOM files from the site and import them into your favorite genealogy program. Note that you should always import into a new, empty database. Never import these files into your primary genealogy database! Once you have the data, you can do searches for names you recognize. In fact, a number of genealogy programs have automated merges that will search for likely duplicate entries in your data with data that you obtained from another source. A merge process will quickly identify possible candidates. My guess is that, if you download a couple dozen of these Famous Folks GEDCOM Files, you will find some matches with your database.

Paula Stuart Warren and James W. Warren have just released a new book entitled, "Your Guide to the Family History Library" and subtitled "How to Access the World’s Largest Genealogy Resource – In Salt Lake City, In Family History Centers [and] At Home." I had a chance to read this new "how to" book this week and must say that is an excellent guide.

The authors do not live in Salt Lake City. In fact, they live in Minnesota. They have written this book for the 99% of Americans who do not live within convenient driving distance of Salt Lake City. They tell how to use some of the resources of this huge library from the convenience of your own home. Then they tell how to use many more resources by driving to a local Family History Center near your home. Finally, they tell how to plan a visit to Salt Lake City, with advice for making the most of your time at the Family History Library. They even give advice on hotels, restaurants, and sightseeing attractions in the area.

The following is the Table of Contents of this new book:

Part One: Starting Points and Basic Information

What Is The Family History Library?

Basics of Family History Research

Part Two: Access to the Library Collection

FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service

Other Sources for Family History Library Information

The Family History Library Catalog

Family History Centers

Going to Salt Lake City

Part Three: The Records in the Family History Library

Major U.S. Collections

Resources for U.S. Localities

Records of the World

Part Four: Researching On-Site at the Family History Library

The Family History Library Building

Joseph Smith Memorial Building

Working In The Library

I Only Have A Few Hours!

Group Research Trips

Working With A Professional Researcher

Part Five: Making the Most of Your Trip to the Beautiful Salt Lake City Area

Salt Lake City Basics, A to Z

Accommodations

Restaurants

Attractions and Services

Temple Square

Other Area Repositories

Now What? After Your Trip

The book ends with a lengthy Appendix that lists other sources of information, several pages of blank forms that you can photocopy, and a full index.

"Your Guide to the Family History Library" is an easy read. The authors wrote this as a reference manual, not as a book that you read from start to finish. You can jump in at any place to learn about a particular topic of interest. However, anyone who does read the entire book from cover to cover will certainly become very knowledgeable about the Family History Library and all its many services.

One thing that I liked was a two-page checklist near the back of the book entitled, "Give Yourself A Tour." The idea is that you enter the Family History Library in Salt Lake City armed with this checklist and then seek out everything listed. Once completed, you will be very familiar with the facility. The checklist mentions such obvious things as computer workstations, locations of microfilm and microfiche cabinets and viewers, photocopy machines, the snack room area, water fountains and the restrooms. However, this checklist includes other things I never thought about. I have visited the Family History Library many times, and yet I still do not know the locations of the staplers, paper cutters and three hole punches. Anyone who follows this checklist will find them quickly.

Of course, it is easy to focus on the services available in Salt Lake City. However, the authors devote a lot of space in this book to telling how to use the resources available there without ever traveling to Utah. The online databases are constantly growing, even though they do not yet contain more than a fraction of all the records available. A lot more information is available at a local Family History Center near your home. There are more than 3,400 Family History Centers worldwide. These Centers provide microfilm and microfiche access to most of the resources in Salt Lake City although certainly those resources are not as easy to obtain remotely. The Warrens describe the remote services available in some detail.

"Your Guide to the Family History Library" is an excellent book for anyone beginning his or her family tree research. In fact, some of us old-timers can learn a lot from this 258-page paperback as well.

- CD-ROM: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston 1630-1800

This week I had a chance to use a new Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM disk published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society. This electronic publication is the "Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800 & The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630-1822 by Annie Haven Thwing." Informally, it is called "The Thwing Index." This is a great genealogy resource for anyone searching for Boston ancestry. Quoting from the introduction to the CD-ROM:

When Annie Haven Thwing (1851-1940), the daughter of a Boston coal merchant, reached her mid-thirties, she became curious to know "where my ancestors lived, who were their neighbors, and what the neighborhood was like." She found it impossible, however, to contain her project, and she spent the next thirty years researching the geographic and built environment of Boston from 1630 to 1822. Tracing people and their properties through deed, probate, and the recently printed town records, enlisting church records, diaries, and graveyard epitaphs, Thwing painstakingly built an index consisting of some 125,000 catalog cards. These she used to publish, in 1920, her classic The Crooked and Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822. Four years before, she had given her card index to the Massachusetts Historical Society, where it occupied seventy-four library drawers in the catalog room. Although arranged only by subjects' names, the index has proved a valuable resource for historians and genealogists.

In 1993 the MHS decided to convert Annie Thwing's monumental work into an electronic database, which would be searchable not just by name, but by occupation, spouse, birth, death, property holdings—up to twenty different factors or any combination of them. The task, which included editing and adding to the original card index, was completed in early 1999.

Thwing's card index and this database are by no means comprehensive. The 62,000 records at your fingertips do not represent a census of all Boston inhabitants during this period. Thwing's methodology, and indeed the historical records themselves, were biased toward property holders. The creators of this database began to make records for the many spouses and children indicated in Thwing's index not given cards of their own, but could not finish that phase of the project. Additionally, the vast majority of Boston's African American and Indian residents lacked records; users will now find nearly 5,000 such records in the database, created by MHS staff.

While both Macintosh and Windows are supported, I installed the CD-ROM database on a Windows 2000 system. Installation of the CD-ROM database was simple: click on SETUP.EXE and follow the on-screen instructions. Less than a minute later I was looking at data.

The "Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston" CD-ROM uses Folio Views software, an excellent choice in my opinion. It fully supports copy-and-paste, creation of bookmarks, writing "sticky notes," and other advanced features. This CD-ROM also has an excellent search mechanism. Not only can you easily perform a simple search for a word or phrase, but you can also do full Boolean searches using terms such as AND, OR, NOT, EXCLUSIVE OR, wild cards by a single letter or multiple letters, and also search by proximity. For instance, you can specify a search for "all the entries for Adams that are in close proximity to the word Samuel but not near the word John."

As always, I first did a search for my own surname and found only one "hit." No surprise there, as I have never found any records of the family living in Boston during Colonial times. The family was mostly in northern Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with later generations moving to Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and westward. Sure enough, even the one entry in this Boston CD-ROM disk pointed to Maine with a brief mention of a daughter who married Thomas Eastman of Maine.

Here is a "copy and paste" of that record, showing the type of information that can be found on this CD-ROM disk:

LAST: Frothingham

FIRST: Nathaniel

BIRTH: 1746

PARENTS: Nathaniel Frothingham of Charlestown Mary Whittemore

SPOUSE: 1771 Rebecca Austin (1st) December 22, 1785 Mary Townsend (2nd) April 8, 1802 Lydia Kettell m(int) (TR 30:479) (3rd)

CHILDREN: Children of first marriage- 1779 Nathaniel of Boston 1781 Rebecca m1781 James Goddard of Boston Children of second marriage- 1787 Mary m Wm. N. Taylor 1792 Susannah m Thomas Eastman of Maine Ruth m John Redman

HOME: West St. (BD 1796) 5 West St. (BD 1800)

OCCUPATION: Chaisemaker Coachmaker (BD 1796-1800)

BUSINESS: Common St. (BD 1796-1800)

EVENT: April 3, 1793 Nathaniel Frothingham and Co. tenants of the Town in Labratory Building. (TR 27:201)

DEED: August 18, 1783 Nathaniel Frothingham, Jr. (chaisemaker) and Nathaniel Frothingham buy house and land of John Tufts. (SD 139:180) S.E. corner of West and Mason Sts.

TEXT: First marriage not recorded in Boston. Second marriage by The Rev. Peter Thatcher. (TR 30:79)

REFERENCE: father Nathaniel Frothingham is 20368 / mother Mary Whittemore is / first wife Rebecca Austin is 31961 / second wife Mary Townsend is / third wife Lydia Kettell is / son Nathaniel is 31962 / daughter Rebecca is 31963 / daughter Mary is 31964 / daughter Susannah is 31965 / daughter Ruth is 31966 / John Tufts is /

REFCODE: 20369

Not all records on this CD-ROM will have all of this information, while other records may have even more. However, this record is typical, with name, all known marriages and children, parents, occupation, residence, and biographical notes. Keep in mind that this CD-ROM contains the equivalent of seventy-four library drawers full of index cards! This half-ounce piece of plastic is much easier to store than those seventy-four drawers and is also easier to search.

The "Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800 & The Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston, 1630-1822 by Annie Haven Thwing" is an excellent genealogy reference, consisting of 125,000 transcribed records made from original documents by a trained and motivated genealogist. This CD-ROM disk is destined to become a standard reference for genealogists.

- CD-ROM: The First Maine Heavy Artillery

CW Publishing has a new CD-ROM available: "The History of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery." I haven’t seen the new disk yet but understand that it is an electronic reprint of the book of the same name written by Horace H. Shaw and Charles J. House in 1903. The press release says, "In addition to the historical significance of the material, this massive volume contains personal information for each of the 2200 men who served in the regiment and well over 120 photographs. In addition, there is a new Introduction by Joseph G. Bilby.

- CD-ROM: Monongahela Valley

Retrospect Publishing has released a new CD-ROM disk entitled "Monongahela Valley - Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland." I haven’t seen the CD yet but can quote from Retrospect Publishing’s press release:

This CD contains the images of the original pages along with a full text search capability for the following books:

• The Monongahela of Old: Sketches of southwestern PA to the Year 1800 (James Veech; 1910)
• The Old and New Monongahela (John S. Van Voorhis; Nicholson, Printer; 1893)
• Directory of Monongahela Valley in 1876-7 containing the principal towns and villages in the valley also a Directory of Westmoreland Co. (Wiggins & McKillop; 1876)
• The Tenmile Country and its Pioneer Families, a Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley Vol I-VII (Howard L. Leckey; Waynesburg Republican; 1950)
• Old Westmoreland: History of Western PA during the Revolution (Edgar Hassler; 1900)
• The county court for the District of West Augusta, VA, held at Augusta Town, near Washington, PA, 1776-1777; with an account of the county courts for Ohio, Yohogania and Monogalia Counties, VA, held 1777-1780 (Boyd Crumrine, Observer Job Rooms; 1905)
• Excerpts from the Annals of the Carnegie Museum pertaining to VA Court Records in southwestern PA, 1775-80 (Vol I, No. 4; Vol II, No. 1 & 2; Vol III, No. 1 & 4; Boyd Crumrine; 1902)

For those people researching southwestern Pennsylvania from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s, they will find this an invaluable collection of material. Within minutes you will be able to search for well over 40,000 Monongahela Valley residents. Search transcribed deeds and court minutes from the 1770's or locate a pioneer family and their descendants in the well documented Tenmile Country. The author of this book, Mr. Leckey, took great effort and pride in combing through court, bible, cemetery and many other types of records in order to provide accurate and well documented accounts of the people and families of the area. Whether you are searching the list of settlers in Fayette County and contiguous parts of Greene, Washington, Westmoreland Counties in 1772 or viewing maps related to the boundary controversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia you are bound to learn more about this region of the country. (2267 pp maps included)

- CD-ROM: World Immigration Series

The following is an extract from a press release issued by ProQuest Information and Learning:

World Immigration Series Completed

Powerful New Tool for All Immigrant Households in 1870 America
A Practical Resource for Serving All Your Library's Patrons

North Salt Lake, UT, 28 November 2001. 

World Immigration Series.

ProQuest Information and Learning has announced the completion of the World Immigration Series based on the 1870 census. It is now possible to locate all immigrant households living anywhere in the US in 1870 by name or by place of origin. The completion of this long awaited resource provides libraries with a practical resource for assisting genealogists researching lines from every country in the world. Public Libraries will find it an essential tool for working on multicultural genealogy and academic librarians will find it essential for ethnic studies research. This is a must purchase for public and academic libraries.

These 5 CD's and the previously issued 3 CD's document every immigrant household in the US in 1870 and can be searched by country of birth; city, county or state of residence; by name, age etc. Researchers search and sort on all data fields, use age ranges, perform wildcard searches etc. and easily copy, save, or print search results.

A companion CD to this series, African Americans in the 1870 Census was issued earlier this year.

For example, the Canadians in the 1870 Census CD contains data on the 223,981 Canadian households living anywhere in the US.

With the Europeans in the 1870 Census CD researchers can quickly find all households from each part of Europe, including, Alsace (418); Alsace Lorraine (355); Austria (12,916); Azores (982); Belgium (5,793); Bohemia (17,384); Bosnia (7); Bulgaria (2); Canary Islands (40); Croatia (1); Czechoslovakia (33); Dalmatia (117); France (70,109); Galicia (4); Gibraltar (102); Greece (299); Holland (18,223); Hungary (2,067); Isle of Corsica (48); Italy (11,256); Liechtenstein (57); Lithuania (3); Luxembourg (5,830); Malta (88); Montenegro (9); Moravia (52); Netherlands (3,352); Poland (7,941); Portugal (3,136); Romania (18); Russia (2,783); Serbia (9); Spain (2,813); Switzerland (41,873); Ukraine (3); Yugoslavia (33)

The Asians, Australians, Mideasterners and Africans in the 1870 Census CD contains: 61,472 entries from Asia (Ceylon - Sri Lanka (36); China (60,658); East Indies (238); India (270); Japan (50); Philippines (129); Shanghai (2); Siam - Thailand (15); Bengal (8); and Burma (32). There are 2,060 entries from Africa (Algeria (30); Egypt (17); Morocco (10); Tripoli - Libya (1); Cape of Good Hope - South Africa (28). From the Middle East there are 280 entries (Arabia (16); Jerusalem, Israel (16); Syria (12); Turkey (132); Ottoman Empire (34); Palestine, Israel (10); and Persia (63). There are also entries for Australia (607); New Zealand (40); Polynesia (11) and Guam (2)

The Scandinavians in the 1870 Census CD contains entries for Scandinavians, including: Denmark (17,107); Finland (381); Iceland (15); Norway (55,227); and Sweden (55,292).

The Central and South Americans in the 1870 Census CD contains entries for nearly 40,000 households who immigrated from: Antigua (14); Bahamas (587); Barbados (98); Bermuda (311); Cuba (2,838); Grenada (6); Guadeloupe (42); Haiti (112); Jamaica (476); Nevis Island (1); Puerto Rico (68); Santa Cruz (25); Santa Domingo (224); St. Croix (46); St. Kitts (10); St. Martin (6); St. Thomas (71); St. Vincent (15); Trinidad (21); Virgin Islands (11); West Indies (1,655); and from Central America (21,235 total entries); Costa Rica (19); Guatemala (5); Honduras (14); Mexico (21,068); Nicaragua (33); and from South America (2,762 total entries); Argentina (74); Brazil (187); Chile (1,230); Colombia (50); Ecuador (57); Guyana (35); Madera (488); New Granada (42); Paraguay (19); Peru (97); Surinam (16); Uruguay (10); and Venezuela (39).

- Online: Waterford County Council Web Site

The Waterford County (Ireland) Council recently launched a new Web site that includes a lot of information about the county. Best of all, it also contains a bit of genealogy information, including County Waterford death records from 1864-1901, World War I War Memorials, memorial inscriptions from a published source, and details from the Griffith's Valuation of Co. Waterford.

My thanks to Judy Wight for telling me about the new Waterford County Council Web Site.

- Online: Augusta, Georgia Archives

The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle newspaper has created an electronic archive of all issues of their newspaper going back to 1912. Even better, they plan to soon have all issues available back to the 1780s. The Augusta Chronicle is the south's oldest newspaper. Every page of every issue has been scanned, including the comics and advertising. And, yes, it includes all the obituaries.

The Augusta Chronicle Archives does not have every word indexed. However, major keywords have been added for the articles on every page. You can find old newspaper articles by searching for the words or phrases that appear in those articles. If that word or phrase was added as a keyword, you will be presented with a list of dates and editions. You then select the date that you are looking for and click on the link to view an image of the entire page.

While most of the pages have been preserved, older editions are damaged, and searching is not as easy. The best way to narrow your search is to know the specific date that you are looking for. It helps to use a date range to narrow your search. You can even select the exact page of the paper that you are looking for by selecting browse by date.

Mike Baggett was the person who told me about this new online archive, and he reports great results. Mike writes, "It's a real boon for genealogists with ancestors in this area. I was able to locate dozens of obituaries with detailed information on the deceased and on living and dead family members. Even if you don't have ancestors in this area, it's fascinating to read contemporaneous accounts of historical events such as the Civil War. I would recommend this service very highly."

The Augusta Archives is a commercial site that charges rather modest rates for access. You can obtain a "Day Pass" that gives you unlimited access to the data for twenty-four hours for only $4.95. Longer passes are also available: $12.95 for one week, $19.95 for one month $199.95 for an entire year.

My thanks to Mike Baggett for letting me know about this valuable online archive.

- Hotel Rooms at GENTECH2002

Planning to attend the GENTACH2002 conference in Boston next month? As of the day this article was written, the conference hotel has a few rooms left at the conference rate. However, there aren’t many rooms left in that block so you need to call now to make your reservations. Otherwise, you will pay a higher rate or else end up at a different hotel.

You can call the Sheraton Boston Hotel reservations at 800-325-3535 or at 617-236-2000 to obtain the conference rate. You can also make reservations at Sheraton’s Web site but the conference rate isn’t available there. You will pay $20 to perhaps $50 more if you make your reservation online. Remember that you can walk from your room in the Sheraton Boston Hotel to the conference seminars and to numerous local restaurants and stores via indoor walkways without wearing a sweater or jacket.

- Something New from Ancestry.com

- You May Have a Virus in Your Computer

More than 300 readers of this newsletter have PCs infected with the new W32.BadTrans@mm virus. Are you one of them?

You might wonder how I can tell the number of newsletter readers with virus problems. The answer is simple. I send thousands of e-mails every Sunday evening. Every week a handful of the e-mails bounce back to me as "undeliverable." These e-mails come back for a number of reasons. Often it is because someone has canceled his or her Internet account and the e-mail address is no longer valid. Sometimes it is because an e-mail server happens to be down or because a network connection some place in the world is inoperative for a bit. These "bounces" are normal, and I typically ignore them (the mailing list software automatically deletes the invalid addresses from the mailing list for me).

However, after sending last week’s newsletter, I started receiving an abnormal number of messages back. More than 300 e-mail messages were received in my Linux mail server over the next few days. When I looked at the messages received, I realized that they weren’t the normal "bounces." In fact, almost every one of them carried the new W32.BadTrans@mm e-mail virus. That particular virus first appeared only a few days earlier. Such Windows viruses don’t affect a Linux system such as my e-mail server, so no harm was done to my systems. However, it does show that more than 300 readers of this newsletter do have viruses on their Windows systems.

Actually, the W32.BadTrans@mm infection is not a virus; it is a "worm." A "worm" is a piece of coding that gets into a computer as the user downloads an infected file or opens an infected email and then does some mischief. W32.BadTrans@mm is a mass-mailing worm that can infect any Windows computer. However, if that computer has Microsoft Outlook configured for its e-mail program, the W32.BadTrans@mm worm also looks for any unread e-mail messages, including this newsletter. The worm will then send replies to each of the unread e-mails, and each reply will include a copy of the W32.BadTrans@mm infection. That is what happened in the days following last Sunday’s mailing of the newsletter: more than 300 computers sent virus-infected replies to my newsletter. Each of these computers had become infected sometime prior to the arrival of this newsletter. The computer owners involved probably never realized that their PCs were sending these e-mails.

When run, the W32.BadTrans@mm worm displays a message box entitled, "Install error" which reads, "File data corrupt: probably due to a bad data transmission or bad disk access." There are several variants of this virus/worm; some of them will log keystrokes for the purpose of stealing personal information (such as credit card and bank account numbers and passwords). This information is later emailed to the virus author(s) via Microsoft Outlook. Again, the computer’s owner probably will never know about the e-mail sent via Outlook.

How about you: is your system infected? Are you sending virus-infected e-mails? Even worse, are you sending bank account information and other personal information to strangers? If you don’t know, I would suggest that you better find out! 300 readers of this newsletter are doing just that.

Unless you have a virus detection program, there is a strong possibility that your Windows system is infected. (Macintosh and Linux users need not worry.) Luckily, it is easy to determine if your system is infected or not, and it is also easy to remove the W32.BadTrans@mm virus.

I strongly suggest that you go to one of those sites right now and have your hard drive scanned for viruses.

Whether you use McAfee, Norton, VCatch, or some other anti-virus program, your computer is only protected against the viruses recognized by the program’s definition files. The producers of these programs are constantly putting updates on their Web sites so that users can download them, keeping their protection current. Some of the programs automate this process for you, making it easy to keep your PC inoculated against the latest strains of viruses that proliferate across the Internet. The word to the wary is this: with any anti-virus program, you must make sure that you update the definition files (sometimes called "signature files") frequently to provide protection against new viruses.

Keep in mind that the W32.BadTrans@mm virus/worm only infects Microsoft Outlook. It does not infect other e-mail programs. Many other viruses infect Outlook as well. Microsoft’s popular free e-mail program has proven to have more holes than a pound of Swiss cheese. It is a virus writer’s delight. While the above virus prevention programs are good, I would also suggest that another method of reducing your virus exposure is to switch to another e-mail program that isn’t as risky. By using a different e-mail program you are still exposed to some viruses, but at least you won’t be spreading them to your friends by some automatic re-mail process. You also won’t be mailing your personal information to unknown virus authors.

You do not need to spend any money to switch e-mail programs. Even though your Internet provider may specify that you use Outlook, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that you can switch to almost any other modern e-mail program. The other e-mail programs work with almost all Internet providers except AOL. There are several free e-mail programs that are more powerful than Outlook, and they are much less likely to send viruses to all your friends. To be sure, there are no guarantees involved here. Theoretically, a virus writer could exploit a different e-mail program. However, history has proven that Outlook has been the major target of these outlaws.

A combination of a free e-mail program and a free or low-cost anti-virus program can minimize your virus exposure.

- Upcoming Events

The Upcoming Events section of this newsletter is published once per month, usually in the first newsletter of each 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:

If you would like to see your event listed in future newsletters, send an e-mail to: meetings@rootsforum.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.

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