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Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:31:24 CDT
From:         "Michael M. Miller" <NU021140@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Happy Easter holidays to all of you!
              10 Apr 1992 15:00:04 LCL from <achristo@ULRIK.UIO.NO>

Happy Easter to you also and to all on Root-L Genealogy List.  I continue
to be impressed with the many questions on roots relating to genealogy
and family history.

I will be in Salt Lake City for the Association of College and Research
Libraries Conference 4/11-15.  I also plan to visit with Gwen Pritzkau and the
Family History Center.  Mrs. Pritzkau is a specialist on the Germans
from Russia including Black Sea, Bessarabian, Volga Germans and others.

In March the archivists from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
visited the Family History Center while coming to Washington, D.C. for
meetings at the National Archives hosted by Patricia Eames, Director of
Public Programs and Volunteers.  This was a significant journey and we
are most interested to hear of the results.  I will inform our e-mail
readers once I receive information.  Further information should appear
in publications and at the convention of the National Genealogical
Association's convention in Jacksonville, Florida (May, 1992).

I am especially interested since we are hoping to uncover additional
Black Sea and Volga German records along with Mennonite records in the
archives of Russia and the Ukraine.  More later!  If I have not informed
our Roots-L colleagues please remind me in a note of response on e-mail.

Allyn Brosz of Washington, D.C. representing the Germans from Russia on
the national committee USA/CIS cooperative exchange programs in genealogy.
He is representing the Germans from Russia Heritage Society and the
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.  Mr. Brosz with
Bessarabian German heritage from South Dakota is a well known family
history researcher.  He presented copies of the annotated bibliography,
Researching the Germans from Russia which I compiled and published by
the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies.  It is the most
comprehensive annotated bibliography on the Germans from Russia published
in North America.  For further information please send your name and
full address given below:

Michael M. Miller
Germans from Russia Bibliographer
NDSU Libraries
Box 5599
Fargo, ND 58105-5599 USA
Tel: 701-237-8416
Fax: 701-237-7138
E-mail: nu021140@ndsuvm1

Have a nice weekend!
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:27:30 EDT
From:         Ken Herrmann <HERRMANN@UBVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Heartland Free-Net

I've attempted to get on the Heartland Free-Net via Telnet 136.176.10.10
and nothing happens.....have they changed their numbers, is it no longer
available via Telnet???  Anyone have any answers, ideas, suggestions ???
It looks like this net has some really interesting information that anyone
into genealogy could use and I'd like to try to use it.  Thanks for any help
anyone can offer.
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:06:42 CST
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From:         Kay Shireman <LKMEREDI@TWSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      wolcotts

Uh Oh!  Forgot the phone # for William Wolcott, (316) 343-2413.

Kay Shireman
From: thomase@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Thomas Stan England)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Alabama Springs
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:53:09 GMT
Reply-To: thomase@tekig5.pen.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.


The Alabama Springs was a resort area about 25 miles northeast of Birmingham	Alabama. The towns of Springville, Oneonta, Trussville and Ashville are all	nearby. The town the photographer was from, Canton Mississippi is about 20	miles north of Jackson, Miss. I can probably get you some more info about the	area if you need it. I beleive any records for that area are split between	the Ashville and Springville courthouses.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 08:15:44 EDT
From:         "J.P. Letellier" <jp@WIZARD.NRL.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: Laws of Genealogy
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Yup.  The "real gold mine" always appears just before closing time, when
copy services are no longer available.  Proberly stated, the value of the
source is inversely proportional to the time available to examine it.
jp
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:49:58 -0400
Reply-To:     ac853@medina.freenet.edu
From:         "Harry D. Liggett" <ac853@MEDINA.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE
Comments: To: roots-L@vm1.nodak.edu

Is the Pennsylvania Gazette now on CD-ROM?  I thought I read that
here.  Does anyone have information. What is the library and
location? Is it searchable by surname and can information be
downloaded either to floppy or printer? What years are covered?

--
Harry Liggett in Akron, OH. ac853@Medina.Freenet.edu.
Fidonet address: 1:157/100.13
From: au138@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John S. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Kennedy clarification
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:39:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr15.173932.10734
Reply-To: au138@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John S. Kennedy)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


Okay, I thought that the phrase "lineal male descendents" would pretty much
imply that everyone in that line would have the same last name -- seems
that I was wrong --

Also, part of my information was wrong -- my great-great-great-great
grandfather, James Kennedy, came from Scotland in 1796 to Lancaster, PA. 
He begat
Joseph Kennedy
who begat
Thomas Bailey Kennedy
who begat
Edgar Lincoln Kennedy
who begat
Stuart Blake Kennedy
who begat
William Warren Kennedy
who begat
John Stuart Kennedy -- me!

If any of these names ring a bell, let me know!  

           John
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John S. Kennedy (513) 541-3078 |  It is better to be hated
axinar@tso.uc.edu              |  for what you are, than loved
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72217.416@compuserve.com       |     -- Andre Gide
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:04:20 EDT
From:         "Alan T. Nichols" <3647QP6@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Subject:      Yorkshire genealogical societies

Several months ago a Roots-l posting listed some genealogical societies
in Yorkshire.  Unfortunately my download has since self destructed.

The original listing did not cover Wakefield.  I'm especially interested
in finding a genealogical society there.

So, I guess I'm asking if someone could re-submit the original list, and,
if possible, add Wakefield.

Any help greatly appreciated.
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:29:10 EDT
From:         DO Andrew Callahan <callahan@SUNBURN.EC.USF.EDU>
Subject:      RE: CEMETARY
Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

The file that was sent out over ROOTS-L that was over 6000 lines long
and named Cemetary appeared to be in uuencoded format.  I used
uudecode to decode this text file back into binary format.  I then
downloaded it to my IBM PC.  I tried to execute the file CRD301 as
both CRD301.EXE and CRD301.COM but received "Program to big to fit in
memory" errors each time.  (I am running DOS 4.01 and have 600K free
out of my 640K.)  I then tried executing CRD301 as a UNIX file on our
mainframe and received several error messages.  I have access to
a Macintosh, but do not really want to transfer it to the Mac and try
to execute it there.

The file appears to be a binary program of some sort, but I could not
get it to execute in either DOS or UNIX.
When uudecoded it was 284874 bytes.  Could the person who posted this
file please let me know what type of program it is and under what
operating system it is designed to run.

thank you.

Andrew

-------------------------------------------------
HELP!  I'm trying to reach my ancestors!
DYER, CASKEY, BAYS, BOOHER, FUGETT (all KY)
CALLAHAN, REVANE, STANTON (all MA and Ireland)
If you know them, please contact me.

	Andrew Callahan
	callahan@sunburn.ec.usf.edu  (Internet)
	as087@cleveland.freenet.edu  (Internet)

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From: dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: Software for Cemetery Inscriptions
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:54:26 GMT

In article <01GILLCV7RP48YAUJN@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU> FAC_DBOYDRUS@JMUVAX1.BITNET writes:
#I would appreciate learning about the availability of software (preferably
#inexpensive) for use in recording cemetery inscriptions.  I know nothing about
#this, so any information would be welcome, most welcome.

I haven't tried them out yet, but these are avaiable at Simtel20:

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.GENEALOGY>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
CRD301.ZIP    B  284874  910507  Cemetery Research Database, Ver 3.01
CRDLT11.ZIP   B  293543  910507  Cemetery Research Database for Laptops Ver 1.1

Douglas Krause                      One yuppie can ruin your whole day.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:33:55 EST
From:         KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU
Subject:      Connecting NEHGS (continued)
Comments: To: ROOTS-L%NDSUVM1.BITNET@NOC2.DCCS.UPENN.EDU

Thanks to those of you who have responded thus far.
My summary is included below. Some of you misunderstood
my position -- I am simply a subscribing member of the
New England Historical Genealogical Society (thus I am
able to use their excellent book loan service, and get
their periodical publications), and otherwise have no
connections with NEHGS. But I am anxious to see them get
connected to our valuable, if sometimes frustrating,
electronic world. Your continued, concrete suggestions
are most welcome (probably best sent privately).
Bob Kraft, UPenn
=====
Replies to R Kraft's query about the best way to get NEHGS
involved in electronic genealogical communications
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92
Subject: Mission to NEHGS

Summary: None of the 10 or so messages received thus far are
enthusiastic about Prodigy as the point of connection, and most
of them are explicitly negative. Other commercial and "free"
possibilities are mentioned, but the suggestion that seems to be
most appropriate is to try to find a Boston-locality University
Internet site (probably a Library) to which NEHGS can be
connected via modem. This would not only get them involved via
the Internet, but would also move them towards the highly
desirable Library connectedness. Related to this suggestion and
worth exploration in its own right is the possibility that a link
through or with the Research Libraries Info Net can be made.

Interestingly, noone has yet asked about contributing to the
project, to supplement my planned contribution.
[RAK 7 April 1992]
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:47:32 EST
From:         KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU
Subject:      Pennsylvania Gazette CD
Comments: To: ROOTS-L%NDSUVM1.BITNET@NOC2.DCCS.UPENN.EDU

Over the weekend I managed a quick look at the CD-ROM of the
1728-1750 Pennsylvania Gazette, produced by Accessible Archives
in Malvern PA. I was able to use its adequate (indexed) searching
software to look for some items of interest. To illustrate:
I searched for "Pierpont" and got no hits, but the alphabetic
index displayed items below and above where this name would have
been (if there were any instances), so I was able to see the entry
"Pierpoint" without first searching specifically for it. Thus I
encountered an otherwise unknown to me "Sam. Pierpoint" who apparently
was master of the "Sloop John & Eliz." that had arrived from
"St. Kits." on or around 3 July 1729. The software allowed me then
to call up the graphic reproduction of the Gazette entry, to confirm
spellings, etc. I also searched for any reference to the ship
the "White Swan" in the Philadelphia area during that period,
on request from a fellow ROOTSite, but found none (sorry), although
I did learn that "swan shot" for firearms was readily available
from the importers. This looks like a useful tool for various
types of interests. I have no idea what it costs, etc., although
that should not be too difficult to ascertain.
Bob Kraft, UPenn
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From: steele@m2.dseg.ti.com (Jeri Steele)
Subject: Gold Rush in Georgia
Organization: TI-DSEG Spring Creek
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:41:14 GMT


I was in Tyler Tx this weekend copying lots of genealogical info at
a cousin's house.  I had previously received some 'word of mouth' 
information that my 3-g grandfather, Thomas Smith (NJ/GA/TX) had
presumably made the California Gold Rush since he always seemed to
have plenty of money.  However, she pointed out that he was in Georgia
about 1849 (not California) and that Georgia also had a Gold Rush.

Does anyone have a reference where I could read about the Gold Rush in
Georgia?

	Jeri



-- 
*--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--
Jeri Steele              steele@dseg.ti.com		(214)575-6410
Texas Instruments - Defense Systems Group
In my 'spare' time doing genealogical research on names:
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From: dlp@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (dan.l.philen)
Subject: What is HGPL????
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:22:18 GMT
Keywords: graphic language



Question:  What _is_ HPGL format?

HPGL is Hewlett Packard Graphics Language.  When plotting big charts 
(or small charts) the computer must talk to the plotter (printer) in a language
that the device and understand.  HP for years, developed its own 
proprietary communications protocol.  The protocol is the
"handshake agreement" that is used to send the "buffer full", interrupts,
and resume data transfer signals.  
Further, the data must be formatted in a way that the plotter can use.
There are MANY HP plotter devices so this is not usually a problem.
Most software supports HPGL.  However, if you are only supporting
HP and want to plot on another plotter then you have problems.
ie. My RootsIII plot routine for doing pedigree charts has buffer
overflow problems when using a small buffer.  The Calcomp plotter
that has the big buffer has (you guessed it) protocol 
communications problems with the plot routine because it is only configured
for HP.  Calcomp is not supported.
I am talking about 36X48 inch charts here, not your garden variety printer.
In my opinion, the BIG ADVANTAGE of postscript is it is so universal to
go between postscript output devices.

Gee! I think I rambled on and told you more than you wanted to know.
Oh well.

Dan L. Philen
Editor , Philen Family News
Work - AT&T Bell Laboratories, Norcross Ga. 30071
att!akgua!dlp
     PHILEN, WALKER, CLARKE, KIRK, LASSITER, ROSS, MCELROY, DAVILA, LOZANO
From: dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause)
Subject: Re: cemetary
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:38:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.212719.5195@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
#From article <01GITWBMNHE895N8CV@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU>, by FAC_DBOYDRUS@JMUVAX1.BITNET:
#> I have tried Zip and PkUnPAk to no avail.  What has worked?  Thanks.
#
#Well, I tried to email you, but it bounced.  Enclude in this is a
#zipped version of uudecode.com, I don't know if it'll work or
#not.

Not.  You need to uuencode a binary file before you post it to the net.

Douglas Krause                      One yuppie can ruin your whole day.
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:58:00 EDT
From:         RUSSLER@UTKVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Locate Reutowo, Russia

roegel --
 sorry to send this through the list,but e-mail didn't seem to work.
 I found "Retovo" see Rietavas reference in my Where Once We Walked.
 It says Rietavas is at 55 deg. 44', 21 deg. 56', in Lithuania.  It's
nowhere near Bryansk, in the USSR, or Bransk, in Poland. But maybe
"Retovo" isn't "Reutowo."
   good luck.
    Nicki Russler
From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: cemetary
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:27:19 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University

From article <01GITWBMNHE895N8CV@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU>, by FAC_DBOYDRUS@JMUVAX1.BITNET:
> I have tried Zip and PkUnPAk to no avail.  What has worked?  Thanks.

Well, I tried to email you, but it bounced.  Enclude in this is a
zipped version of uudecode.com, I don't know if it'll work or
not.
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"Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath
Though all the world betrays thee.
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas More)
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:52:37 CDT
From:         Cliff Manis <cmanis@CSOFTEC.CSF.COM>
Subject:      GENEALOG: New File, hallc1in
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get genealog hallc1in		Genealogy files on hallc1

This 7430 byte ASCII file is available now on GENEALOG.

Contains : This is a listing of files which are presently available
via ftp only from the hallci.cebaf.gov system.
    ^^^^^^^^
Some really good files available on this system.....

This file may be requested by sending a message to: LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu
and only the following one-line of text

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      Please send your GENEALOG requests for files to address above
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:48:58 EST
From:         Business Group <JOHNSON@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
Subject:      Taping for Christmas

One thing that I found helpful in taping my relative was to kind
of pull out some of the information that I had and watch them
discuss it.  They got excited and wanted to tell me what they knew.
Not only that but it often triggered names and people that they
had long forgotten....

Boy some of the tail I heard.  Don't know if they were all true
but they were enlightening...

Larry
From: jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: NY Adoptions
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:21:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: brainiac.1992Apr15.212141.26119
Organization: Sewer of Source Code

In article <ROOTS-L%92041318081698@VM1.NODAK.EDU> EYSTEIN@KSUVM.BITNET (Gary Merrill) writes:
>Jack Wallace (ae299@cleveland.freenet.edu) writes 

>simply be gone. Is it possible that x-ray photography would show up
>the writing underneath, since this is used in museums to detect
>original brush strokes in paintings which have been painted over?

There where some scrolls made of calfskin found in the Dead Sea area which
were written around 150 BCE.  Some of them had turned black, and the 
writing was completely unreadable.  When viewed using infra-red 
photography, the writing was completely readable, in fact the documents
looked new.  This is different than words covered with ink, but I-R
photography isn't really that difficult to do. Heck, maybe your local
Fotomat has I-R film :-).....


-- 
Jeffrey R. Comstock 
INET  jrc@brainiac.mn.org
CW    -. .-. ----- -..

Searching for DELBERT COMSTOCK around Galesburg MI about 1894..........
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:39:24 PDT
From:         Tom Lincoln <lincoln%iris@RAND.ORG>
Subject:      Milk leg
Comments: cc: essin%phad.hsc.usc.edu@usc.edu

Finally have had time to pursue this issue:

Tried to find milk leg under milk leg in a 1958 medical dictionary..
no luck

Then I tried:
leg   milk

bingo! equated to phlegmasia alba dolens (another antique term)

looked up phlegmasia alba dolens...


milk leg -- being a painful swelling of the leg beginning at the ankle and
ascending or at the groin and extending down the thigh... its usual cause
is infection after labor


note: it looks like the diagnosis of "euphoria" is similar... I recall
 that it was related to the Civil War (between the states).. Here the
issue (as someone has already responded) is inappropriate affect --
laughing when you shouldn't. In a wartime context, the stress of battle has
been given different names in every recent war: shell shock, battle
fatigue, post engagement stress syndrome... looks like a variant of the
same..


Other issues: Sometimes a disease is rephrased in terms a layman thinks
he/she hears: Example -- "Simple Smiling Jesus" = spinal meningitis
the grimaces that often accompany the disease make the interpreted name
seem reasonable -- and it is no more obscure than phlegmasia alba dolens..

Happy hunting for old diagnoses..


 p q
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 /|\   TOM LINCOLN  lincoln@rand.org
 \|/  "Life is short, art is long, opportunity fugitive,
 /|\   experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult."
From: Steve.Hayes@p0.f20.n7101.z5.fidonet.org (Steve Hayes)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Connections
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:04:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: catpe.1137.29E5E7FC
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7101/20.0 - Unisa Editorial, Pretoria

There hasn't been anything in this newsgroup for some time -
is anyone else reading it?


... Steve Hayes, searching for Hayes, Growdon, Vause, Hannan, Stooke, Cot

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