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RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine
Vol. 5, No. 41, 9 October 2002, Circulation: 1,055,322+
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In This Issue:
1. News and Notes. (1a. Buried Treasures at RootsWeb;
1b. Quick Tip from Readers)
2. Connecting through RootsWeb: "Finding the Broken Links"
3. New User-contributed Databases
4. New Webpages at RootsWeb
5. New RootsWeb Mailing Lists
6. New FreePages and HomePages (personal webpages at RootsWeb)
7. RootsWeb Review's Bottomless Mailbag: "Watching Out for the
Bugbear," "Providing Perfect Pedigrees," "Errors Everywhere!"
and About Those Sources . . .
8. Ancestry.com News: Dorset Parish and Probate Records; Learn Online
9. Humor: Graveyard Jesters
10. RWR Reprint and Submissions Guidelines; Archives; Instructions
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1. News and Notes:
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1a. Buried Treasures at RootsWeb: Mining the Mailing Lists Archives.
The RootsWeb Mailing Lists archives contain the content of years of
discussion that have been carried on among researchers of the subject
matter of these various Mailing Lists. Thus buried in these archives
could be some treasures that might benefit you in your quest to learn
more about your ancestors. Someone at another time -- perhaps years ago
-- might have posted just the information you seek today.
Because the Mailing Lists archives' content is not included in the
metasearch results when you type in a surname on the main RootsWeb page,
a specialized search to find the treasures in the Mailing Lists archives
must be conducted. Such searches may result in finding some sparkling
gems pertaining to your genealogy that you will not discover elsewhere.
The archives of the individual Mailing Lists are both browseable and
searchable from two separate RootsWeb archives. Most Mailing Lists at
RootsWeb are archived. The Threaded (browseable) Archives is at:
http://207.68.164.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=9ed0aff0aa93700e6e652439fed5d708&lat=1034261369&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2farchiver%2erootsweb%2ecom%2f
and the Interactive Search (searchable archives) is located here:
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Both of these links -- Interactive Search and Threaded Archives can also
be found under the Mailing List section on RootsWeb's Home Page:
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In the Threaded Archives, responses to an original message are displayed
attached to the message to which they are replying in an outline format
with responses indented from the original message. Thus you can follow
an entire subject of discussion by tracing through a thread of messages
in the archives. Browsing the Threaded Archives also benefits new
Mailing List subscribers who may want to get a feel for the list before
posting to it or wish to check out whether their ancestors have
previously been discussed. It also aids current Mailing List members by
enabling them to check messages they might have missed while on
vacation, during e-mail delivery problems, or because of a computer
crash.
Starting at the Threaded Archives http://207.68.164.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=9ed0aff0aa93700e6e652439fed5d708&lat=1034261369&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2farchiver%2erootsweb%2ecom%2f type in
the Mailing List name of your choice to access an index page showing
each month and year included in that particular list's archives. View an
outline of the subjects of all messages posted to the Mailing List
within a given month (including the poster's name and date posted, if
desired) in either threaded (the default) or chronological order. Click
on a subject of interest to view the full text of the message.
The Interactive Search located here:
http://207.68.164.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=9ab2b0eaa0b8e499d119d4d7a443d9cf&lat=1034261369&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fsearches2%2erootsweb%2ecom%2fcgi%2dbin%2flistsearch%2epl
allows you to search a single Mailing List one year at a time by marking
the appropriate radio button. (Radio buttons are round circles which
represent choices within an list of options on a form.) Select a
keyword, name, or phrase to obtain results matching your search
criteria. The Interactive Search supports some Boolean operators (AND,
OR, ANDNOT) to help you establish the most effective searches to suit
your needs. Boolean expressions are used extensively by Internet search
engines.
By default, your searches will include every field in a message, but you
may narrow down your results by specifying that you want your search to
apply only to matches in a specific field. In the following examples all
Boolean operators are shown in capital letters while all search criteria
are shown lowercase. This is for explanatory purposes only -- as both
are case insensitive.
You may search for john OR smith by using the OR operator. You will
obtain all messages containing either the word John or Smith. However,
if you search on "john smith" or john+smith the results will only yield
instances where the words John and Smith appear in that exact sequence.
The use of quotes or a plus sign creates a complete phrase. Searching
for john AND smith (using the AND operator), or john smith (with a
single space separating John and Smith) will yield results where John
and Smith appear somewhere in the message, but not necessarily side-by-
side.
The ANDNOT operator may also be used as follows: john ANDNOT smith which
would yield all messages where the word John was found unless the
message also included the word Smith.
Grouping search criteria and the applicable operators within parentheses
will permit more complex searches. For example, (sarah AND jones) OR
(john AND smith) will yield results where Sarah AND Jones OR John AND
Smith appear somewhere in a message but the words are not necessarily
side-by-side.
Searching on a specific message field, such as searching for all
messages posted to a list by a specific poster during a year, is
accomplished by typing in the search criteria: from/http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=johndoe@anyisp.net&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
Only the "from" field will be searched. If you are looking for a
specific thread and you know the subject or partial subject you wish to
locate, you may opt to search the "subject" field only, as follows:
subject/"john smith in ohio" -- note that double quotation marks are
used to tie the entire phrase together when you are searching for more
than a single word. The phrase in quotation marks must match the
subject, or a portion of the subject, exactly to return a hit.
You may search for all messages posted on a given day without specifying
a field but you must use quotation marks to tie the phrase together. For
example: "02 may 2002" will get all messages posted on May 2, 2002 and
"22 may 2002" will get all messages posted on May 22, 2002. Searching on
"may 2002" will yield all messages posted within the month of May 2002,
and searching on 2001 will result in getting all messages posted to the
list for the entire year.
Interactive list searches support trailing wildcards only (wildcards
coming at the end of a word). Use an asterisk * to represent zero or
more unknown or variable letters at the end of a word after you have
specified a minimum of at least the first letter. Interactive list
searches work on whole words and not strings of letters. In other words,
if you search for john and a message includes johnson it won't come up
in your results -- but if you search on john* it will.
One benefit of the searches applying to words rather than strings of
letters is that a search on sy will pick up the given name or surname Sy
but will not yield words which include the string "sy" such as the word
"easy".
Exploring the Mailing Lists Threaded Archives and using the Interactive
Search capabilities in creative ways may reward you with some previously
buried genealogical treasures.
1b. QUICK TIP. Thanks to: -- Kate Johnson http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=kkkkaty55@yahoo.com&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
Perhaps this is obvious to others, but it wasn't (initially) to me. If
you are looking for a name, and use quotation marks to limit the number
of hits you get on the Web (i.e., "John Smith"), you should also reverse
the order and try the search the other way (i.e., "Smith John"). If your
ancestor is on a list somewhere that is alphabetized by the last name,
the second search may find him, but the first won't. I found my great-
grandfather on a list of documents held at the Museum of the
Confederacy, and without doing the search with the names reversed I
would not have found that reference.
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2. Connecting Through RootsWeb. Thanks for sharing your stories.
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Finding the Broken Links
--Patricia J. Guye http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=p_guyette@hotmail.com&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
I want to thank everyone at RootsWeb for allowing me to have the special
opportunity to find and meet my Uncle Wesley. I began compiling my
family tree as a gift to my newborn granddaughter Madison, so that she
would know her place in the world and how it came about. Along the way I
began to understand how much I didn't know about my own roots.
I never got to meet my mother's brothers while she was alive. I believed
that they were all deceased as is she. Through your organization I
received several e-mails after almost giving up hope of finding any
information about my mother's family. The e-mails came from Laurie, who
does some work on the Vermont mailing list. As we communicated I learned
that one of my mom's brothers were still alive. I now have the
privilege of knowing my Uncle Wesley and through him a side of my
mother as a person growing up that she never talked about. It has let me
understand some of her actions a lot better.
3. New User-Contributed Databases at Rootsweb
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There are no new user-contributed databases this week.
Who Has the Data? Ever thought about sharing information from your
grandmother's high school yearbook or the names from your dad's World
War II military roster? While precious to your family, the information
in such books and documents also can be genealogical treasures to others
whose family members are named therein.
Consider transcribing such valuable information for submission to the
RootsWeb's User-Contributed Databases where it will be made searchable
and others can find it. Just a few minutes of your time could bring
great joy to another researcher. A yearbook transcription for the Alumni
Lists, for example, can be as simple as listing the school, the year,
the country, county/town/city, state or region, last name (surname) and
first (given) name of each individual and any other pertinent
information the book may contain about each individual. Do it in
consistent, labeled fields.
Does your state, province, county, parish, church, old military unit or
alma mater have material or do you have access to lists of names or
databases that you think would be of interest to genealogists and
historians? If so, and you would like to share it, in most cases,
RootsWeb would be proud to host it.
See guidelines and detailed data formatting instructions at:
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When ready, submit your database(s) here:
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RootsWeb thanks the individuals and groups who contribute their material
to share with the worldwide genealogical community. See the full list of
contributors at:
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4. New Webpages at Rootsweb
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Some of these might not yet be accessible. If one that interests
you isn't up yet, please check again in a few days or next week.
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CANADA
nbnorthu -- Northumberland County, New Brunswick
U.S.A.
alcsilve -- Silverhill, Baldwin County, Alabama
ctcfarmi -- Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut
idadams -- Adams County, Idaho
misaghs -- Stockbridge Area Genealogical/Historical Society (Michigan)
molca -- Lobb Cemetery Association (Missouri)
okjeffe2 -- Jefferson County, Oklahoma
tnsevier -- Sevier County, Tennessee
txalhn -- Texas State site for the American Local History Network
vtaddiso -- Addison County, Vermont
vtcaledo -- Caledonia County, Vermont
vtchitte -- Chittenden County, Vermont
vtorange -- Orange County, Vermont
vtorlea2 -- Orleans County, Vermont
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5. New Mailing Lists at RootsWeb
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Note: These are Mailing Lists -- not webpages. For more information and
an index to the more than 25,600 RootsWeb-hosted genealogy Mailing Lists
and easy subscribing options, go to:
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To subscribe or unsubscribe to/from any RootsWeb-hosted Mailing List,
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NEW ETHNIC AND SPECIAL-INTEREST MAILING LISTS
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NEW REGIONAL MAILING LISTS
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NEW SURNAME MAILING LISTS
COOTE
DOUST, DUERDEN
GRALAPP
GREEN-MA -- The Green surname in Massachusetts
HARDWARE, HILTABIDLE, HOWSER
HANSELL-UK -- The HANSELL surname in the United Kingdom
HELTON-JOAB -- The descendants of Joab Helton of Knox County, Kentucky
KETSDEVER
LAMERAUX, LANCIANO, LANGIANO, LOEWENSTEIN
MCCREDIE, MCILEAVY
MACKLIN-ENGLAND -- The MACKLIN surname in England
NENONEN
RAFFENSPERGER, RINARD
SABINASH, SAHLBERG, SHEERS
TEDEN, THOENE
WIYRICK, WOODART
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6. New Personal Freepages and Homepages at RootsWeb
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[Note: When your new, updated, or substantially revised personal pages
located at RootsWeb (they will have "freepages" or "homepages" in the
URL) are up and ready for visitors, please send the URL (Web address),
along with a brief description of what is available on your site to:
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Comments and questions about any of these independently authored
webpages should be directed to their respective compilers/webmasters.]
ENGLAND. LIVERPOOL CEMETERY, ANFIELD. Contains more than 700 Memorial
Inscriptions online and more than 300 different surnames -- in a
searchable format, with grave and section numbers, plus a map of the
cemetery from the 1860s, a bit of history about it, and some grave
photographs that are available.
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FRYDIG/ FRIDIG, FRIDAY, FRIDY AND FRYDAY. The descendants and ancestors
of the FRYDIGs.
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GEORGIA PHOTOS. 20 unidentified photos that are believed to be those of
relatives of James Morgan RICHARDSON and his wife, Nancy Catherine
MCBURNETT, probably taken in Haralson and Polk counties or in
surrounding localities. James Morgan "Jim" RICHARDSON was born 1883, in
probably Floyd County, Georgia, and died in 1953. Nancy Catherine "Kate"
MCBURNETT was born 1883 in Carroll County, Georgia and died in 1972 in
Cedartown, Polk County, Georgia. She was the daughter of Stephen Joshua
MCBURNETT (1858-1927) and Millie Elizabeth WINKLES (1851-1941.
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HESTON FAMILY ASSOCIATION. For the descendants of Zebulon HESTON and
Dorothy HUTCHINSON, who were married on 3 December 1698 in Hutchinson
Manor, Burlington County, New Jersey.
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JANE'S GENEALOGY SITE. Surnames include: SANFORD, BOSKILL, COULTER,
DYER, ANDREWS, GALBRAITH, PEDDICORD, and OSTERHOUT.
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KAISER, JOHNSON. The ancestors of William KAISER and Jane JOHNSTON,
Edward I. WARREN and Susan Amelia FOREMAN; Ross P. FENTON and Edna Rose
FELLOWS, all of Wexford County, Michigan, plus other assorted ancestors
of allied families of the area.
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NEW YORK. Documented information on the following Central New York
families: BOYD, MARRIOTT, PILLMORE, ROWBOTTOM, and WALL of Oneida
County; MEAD of Oswego and Wayne counties; and the Mystery of Joram
ROBERTS of Monroe County.
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7. From Rootsweb Review's Bottomless Mailbag
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Watching Out for the Bugbear
Your article in last week's RootsWeb Review was very valuable. Just
yesterday I received a huge file [attachment] from [what appeared to be]
one of the genealogy mailing lists -- one that I'm not on . . . so I
deleted it without opening, but didn't understand what it was. So often
we get e-mails from our friends warning us about viruses and are never
sure what and who to believe. But getting this [Bugbear warning] from
RootsWeb Review adds a lot of validity to it and makes me want to take
it very seriously.
I've had my hard drive crash once and lost many of my genealogy records
that I hadn't made hard copies of. I'd hate to have it exposed to
viruses that could crash it again. Thanks for helping us out!
--Barbara Jensen http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=robinette17@hotmail.com&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
[Editor's Note: Many victims of computer crashes have discovered that
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they are housed away from your computer and away from your home.
WorldConnect provides an excellent means of disaster recovery should you
ever lose your genealogy files on your own computer. At WorldConnect you
determine if others can download your file, and if so, how many
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Providing Perfect Pedigrees
Recently, there have been a lot of discussion about the importance of
verifying information before adding it to your database. While I agree
that verification of data is extremely important, I disagree with those
that say that one should not add it to his or her database until it has
been verified.
To begin with, not all information is verifiable. Information may have
come from interviews with individuals who are no longer living or from
records that are no longer accessible. But just because information
cannot be verified does not mean that it is without value. In fact,
adding unverified information to my database and posting it at RootsWeb
has been the means of connecting with relatives that have helped me in
my research. I have been contacted by dozens of people over the past
few years because I have posted unverified information. Some of them
have been adamant about not posting their unverified information on the
Internet, but they didn't complain when I was able to connect them with
other relatives.
In a couple of cases in my research, both of which are in a county whose
records have been almost completely destroyed by natural disasters, the
only records that I have is early genealogical research done by someone
else. The documentation is sometimes good, but often poor. In some
cases, we have been able to verify or discount the information in those
genealogies. But if I hadn't included the incorrect information in my
database in the first place, I wouldn't have been able to collaborate
with others to find the correct information.
I have three suggestions on how to deal with the problem of flagrant
copying without regard for accuracy. First, I have a disclaimer in my
WorldConnect database, in all capital letters, that states that data
without source information should be considered unverified. (I use the
Header and Footer options.)
Secondly, I do not set my WorldConnect GEDCOM to be downloadable. If
someone wants a GEDCOM, they have to ask me for it. Then I only send
them the portion of the data that pertains to them. This also gives me
an opportunity to warn them about those portions that I think still need
some follow-up research, as well as to ask them for their information on
the same family.
Next, when someone sends their GEDCOM to me, I review the information,
particularly in those areas where they seem to have overcome a brick
wall and ask them for their sources, if they're not clear from the
source records and notes of the GEDCOM. If they cannot give me a
credible source, I either do not include the GEDCOM in my database or I
write a message in the notes of that individual or family that the
information is questionable.
My point is that we should be careful about perpetuating errors, and we
should endeavor to educate new researchers about the problem, but we
shouldn't be so rigid in our rules that it actually hurts our research.
--Tracy Polyak http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=tracymirko@hotmail.com&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
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Errors Everywhere!
I read with amusement in recent RootsWeb Reviews concerning documenting
and sourcing your data. In my particular case, I was applying for my
Canadian passport and naturally applied for my birth certificate -- a
mandatory required document in the application process.
Well, lo and behold, the copy of the birth certificate I received showed
that I was born on August 6 instead of what I thought was my birthday --
October 6. To make a long story short, the minister of the church some-
how in his copy of the register wrote in the wrong date, all the
witnesses signed it and the government now had the incorrect date. I had
to go to the hospital where I was born and obtain a letter from them
stating that their birth records indicated that I was born on October 6.
It just goes to show that you can not trust all sources. Even on the
Canadian censuses which show birth dates besides everyone's names that I
have personally viewed I have noted that individual birth dates are not
accurate and they can vary widely from one census to another.
The bottom line: Check, recheck and check again. Never assume a date is
right until it has been verified, especially in the older documents.
--Richard Pollock http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=rpollock@videotron.ca&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
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About Those Sources . . .
[Editor's Note: Which source is correct? How do you know? Learn how to
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See also these excellent (free to access) articles:
"Evidence and Sources--And How They Differ," by Donn Devine, CG, CGI
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"Building a Case When No Record 'Proves' a Point," by Elizabeth Shown
Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
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"Information, Evidence, and Proof," by Donn Devine, CG, CGI
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"It's on 1,000 Web Sites," by Michael John Neil
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"Copyrights, Plagiarism, and Ethics: Rights to Use Information," by Donn
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sources. You can take advantage of the various speciality lessons online
that are offered by Ancestry.com (see details below in Section 8).]
8. Ancestry.com News: Dorset Parish and Probate Records.
Parish and Probate records provide invaluable tools in discovering your
ancestors. Prior to 1837, registration of vital records was not required
in Great Britain. As a result, these parish and tax records remain
particularly important to British genealogy. In recognizing this great
value, Ancestry.com has added, and continues to regularly add, various
Parish and Probate Record databases. One such addition is Dorset.
Dorset is located on the southern coast of the England with great
geographical contrast ranging from hilly woodlands, to lowlands, and
pebble beaches. Although Dorset is one of the smaller English counties,
more than 136,000 records ranging from the early 1500s to the mid- to
late-1800s are available to help you locate your ancestors.
Click here to view United Kingdom Parish and Probate Records.
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LEARN ONLINE. Class fees ($29.95 per class) include a 30-day
subscription (including online census images) to Ancestry.com.
GERMAN ANCESTRY RESEARCH CLASS ($29.95) Starts Thursday, October 17.
FINDING FERDINAND: Learn how to research your German ancestors; identify
key words and phrases in German, how to search, find and interpret the
different types of German Records.
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SCOTTISH ANCESTRY RESEARCH CLASS ($29.95) Starts Monday, October 21.
Learn how to research your Scottish ancestry with Janet Reakes, who
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Join Georgeann Malowney and learn new techniques for sharing your
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9. Humor: Graveyard Jesters
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Thanks to Jenny http://sea2fd.sea2.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=9337ddc5b571d8e57c67e23cebd34cb2&mailto=1&to=joats@cei.net&msg=MSG1034241977.55&start=1444094&len=34667&src=&type=x
My grandmother and I were in a graveyard researching dates on
tombstones when she politely said:
"Something smells dead."
I just smiled.
As we were leaving I told her.
"Grandma, make sure you close the gate -- people are dying to get in."
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