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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:14:43 EDT
From:         "John R. Stephens, Jr." <JSTEPHEN@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Gold Rush in Georgia
              13 Apr 1992 17:41:14 GMT from <steele@M2.DSEG.TI.COM>

Don't have a quick reference as my Georgia Materials are at home.  However,
There is a a Dahlonega Gold Museum, located in Dahlonega, Georgia.  There are
pamphlets, displays, tools, etc. of the gold rush era.  A telephone call or
note will probably get a handful of material, including references to reading
lists if I don't miss my guest.

If I remember my history the gold rush was in the 1820's-30's (don't count on
the dates-haven't been tested on these dates in 40 years).  The Ga. Capitol in
Atlanta has a dome covered with Ga. Gold.  There was a U.S. Mint in Dahlonega
which minted gold coins.  Ga. Gold is creamier in color than other gold, there-
fore Ga. gold coins are easy to spot.

Yes Jeri, there was a gold rush in Georgia before there was one in California.
If you can't get to the above references, let me know, I'll try to make a
call or two and get additional information.  John
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From: klein@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Charles A Klein)
Subject: Ads for "your last name" products.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:08:22 GMT

  Recently I received a catalog featuring sweatshirts that have
Klein Biergarten  on them.  Since my name is Klein I first thought it was
a coincidence but now I'm not sure. (In fine print the catalog says
that there is no such place.)  Several days later I got an advertisement
for the Klein family Visa card.  Have other people received ads
for products with their last name?  Is marketing able to make custom
catalogs like this?

Chuck Klein
klein@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu

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From: jmlake@grimm.cogsci.uiuc.edu (J M Lake)
Subject: Re: E-mail address for Urbana Technologies, Illinois
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:36:35 GMT

"Bill Veselik WCVESEB@VCCSCENT" <WCVESEB@VCCSCENT.BITNET> writes:

>...the former Soviet Union.

>The firm in the U.S. that acts as the go-between for research is
>Urbana Technologies
>2011 Silver Ct. E.
>Urbana, IL 61801
>There was a reference to e-mail, but no address. I believe this company
>may be on CompuServe. Can anybody locate an e-mail address for
>Urbana Technologies?

No luck.  The listed phone number (384-4260) has been disconnected,
but the phone company reports that calls are being taken by (217) 344-7923.  
There was no answer when I tried this number.

Mike
--
J. Michael Lake          Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Dept. of Comp. Science           jmlake@uiuc.edu             Urbana, IL  61801
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 08:11:34 EST
From:         BETH HAMM <hammb@RIMAIL.INTERLAN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Storage Area for GEDCOM files ?
Comments: To: WS.LAX2@XEROX.COM, ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU

  Bill, You didn't mention whether there was a way "we" could access the
  database? If it is possible , please tell all....

                                                   Beth Hamm

Elizabeth Butler Hamm                     hammb@rimail.interlan.com

Searching: Bancroft, Beals, Blanchard, Butler, Fessenden, Gore, Hamm,
           Kershaw, Reese, Soule, Sherman, Spahr, Stetson, Wann, etc.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 10:17:16 PDT
From:         Robert Paul Monschke <Robert.Monschke@ENG.SUN.COM>
Subject:      Genie on Internet information?
Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

Does anyone have a number for Genie other than the
800 number?

I would like to get on Genie as soon as they have it
available on the Internet.

I have called the 800 number and asked and have been
told clearly that they are not on the internet and
have no plans to be on it.

Thanks, Paul
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:45:33 EDT
From:         Robert Formica AMSTE-LG 4876 <rformic@APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      Previous Message
Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

My message subject:Afro-American Ancestors was for Georgette Brown only.
My apologies to the net.  I mailed 11 copies of HitchHikers Guide to the
Internet, and only Georgette's copy bounced back. I was trying to capture
her address from an old message and hit the wrong key.

					Bob Formica
					rformic@apg-9.apg.army.mil

PS: Anyone still wanting a copy of "HitchHikers Guide to the Internet" may
still drop me a private email for a copy.
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From: ecr2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Corp. Reed)
Subject: looking for name
Reply-To: ecr2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: | :noitazinagrO
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:47:37 GMT

Hi.

I'm trying to find information about my name.  I
was told that this was probably the right group
to try.  The name is Corprew.

I'm running into some difficulty because I'm
trying to research a first name rather than a
last.  I believe the name comes from Scotland,
but England may be possible.  

I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone
could give me.

-Edwin Corprew Reed
corp@cs.uchicago.edu

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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:13:01 GMT
From:         VIVIEN HICK <HICKC89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      Re: HitchHiker's Guide to the Internet

Could I also have a copy please?
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:48:51 EST
From:         KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU
Subject:      Mission to NEHGS
Comments: To: ROOTS-L%NDSUVM1.BITNET@NOC2.DCCS.UPENN.EDU

Opportunity Knocks! As a member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society for several years now, it has always
concerned me that NEHGS seemed uninterested, if not even
sometimes hostile, with reference to electronic research and
publication possibilities. So when the usual request for
additional funds came around a couple of months ago, I responded
that I would be interested in contributing to getting the NEHGS
connected to the rest of us who are using electronic tools.

A reply from Ralph Crandall, NEHGS Director, arrived recently
in which he expresses the desire to "hook up to nationwide
library networks" and shows an awareness "that many of our
members are using electronic networks in their genealogical
research," allowing also that "it makes a lot of sense for us to
participate at some level in the transfer of information over
these networks." Progress! Mirabile dictu!

Mr. Crandall then suggests that since "so many are already using
Prodigy," that it might be a good way to get started -- NEHGS
already has an IBM PC. He thinks that it would cost about $300
for the Prodigy disk, splitter, and year's subscription.

Before I respond to Mr. Crandall, I wanted to draw on the wisdom
of the networked masses. My impression is that Prodigy is not
necessarily the best route to go (is there a two-way gateway between
Prodigy and the Internet? I seem to recall that there was some
problem with this earlier), but I am not conversant enough with
the alternatives to make a clear alternative suggestion (Cleveland
FreeNet? CompuServe?). I do intend to give some funds to this
project, although I may not be able to fund it completely.
I suspect that some of you may also be interested in helping to
bring this marvelous resource into electronic contact (although
I suspect that at first, NEHGS will be a rather passive
participant, especially when they see the flow of communications
that come over the nets!). Please let me know, privately or
publicly, as appropriate, what seems to you to be the best way
to proceed: specifically, what service would you recommend to
get NEHGS connected to as many of us as possible (i.e., to the
Internet, I would argue), and what will it cost to do that?
And if you would like to contribute in other ways to this endeavor,
let me know that as well.
Bob Kraft, UPenn
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From: CREECH@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Teresa Creech)
Subject: Tombstone Rubbings
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:54:15 GMT

 
A friend of mine is making a trip to Washington DC this month and
he has volunteered to make a rubbing of my g-g-grandfathers tombstone
in Arlington National Cemetery.
 
What materials should he use?  Neither of us have ever done this
before!  The stone is in good shape - he has already taken pictures
of it.
 
Thanks,
Teresa
 
PS Please let me know if this gets posted.  I sent it on Saturday and
   it disappeared into never-never-land instead of to netland.
 
 
Searching: Abell, Beers, Black, Glass (Ohio/Penn),  Adams, Douglass,
           Gilbert, Hulsaver, Purcell, Todd, Wallace (NY), Creech (Ohio),
           and more.
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 00:28:00 EST
From:         EHRICH@VTCS1.BITNET
Subject:      Clarification on geographic nameserver

The US nameserver is accessed by

telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000

The 3000 is the port number, without which you'll need an account.  My telnet
from a VMS machine has the following syntax:

telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu /port=3000
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:38:00 +0100
Reply-To:     TUR_C@cism.univ_lyon1.fr
From:         Christine TUR <KIKI@FRCISM51.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Looking for Sutter in Switzerland

>I'm looking for information on Sutter's from Switzerland (the town
>Bretswil, canton Basiland in particular) from the 1700's.  I have a record
>of a Heinrich Sutter born 16 Jan 1762 who married Anna Maria Thommen on 19
>Feb 1788.

        Hello,

     It's quite easy to do researches in switzerland.I have done it for my own.
You must know the name of the canton (you're is BASELAND) and you write to
the "Archives Cantonales".Generally they are very kind and they will answer you
if they know some people originated from the one you are searching.

        Hope this help,

        Regards,


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                        Christine TUR
                                        Universite Claude Bernard
                                        C.I.S.M.  - Bat 101
                                        43,bvd du 11 Novembre 1918
                                        69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
                                        FRANCE

                                        Tel : (+33) 72 44 83 61
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:01:16 EST
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From:         "Bill Veselik WCVESEB@VCCSCENT" <WCVESEB@VCCSCENT.BITNET>
Subject:      Message to list members in Ireland

Hello,

This message is meant for any list members living in Ireland.

Does anyone have any info or access to info concerning a Sir John DUNGAN
and his father, Sir Patrick DUNGAN. John died in 1592. He lived in County
Kildare, Dublin, Ireland and is buried at St. John's Church. He was married
to Margaret Foster, daughter of Walter Foster and Margaret Whyte.


Regards,

Bill Veselik
From: roegel@loria.fr (Roegel denis)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Locate Reutowo, Russia
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:32:02 GMT
Organization: CRIN (CNRS) Nancy - INRIA Lorraine

Hello everybody,


I would like to locate "Reutowo", where one of my ancestor died 1943.
It was then in Russia. It is the only place mentionned in his death 
certificate, but his brother mentions the town of "Brjansk".

Are these two towns neighboring? And where precisely?

Thanks for everything,

Denis

e-mail privately at roegel@loria.crin.fr
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 08:18:00 MST
From:         MARLEYT@ARIZVMS.BITNET
Subject:      Re: FTM (Family Tree Maker) by Banner Blue

Fred i have FTM. i love it . It is very easy to use, the question about
the printer. I don't know

marleyt
From: Robert.Haack@p242.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Haack)
Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: associations
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 18:17:18

 M> Does anyone have a book on family associations?  A book on
 M> the descendants of
 M> Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel was written with the help of
 M> the "Henkel Association
 M> ", but I have been unable to find an address.  Any help
 M> will be appreciated.
  Ashley, try:
      Mrs. Bert Harter
      717 East Ridge Village Dr,
      Miami FL, 33157

          and

      Henckel Genealogical Bulletin
      12816 Lampton Lane
      Fort Washington, MD 20744
      Nedra D Brill, Editor
  Both are listed in Directory of Family Associations, by Elizabeth Petty
  Bentley (1991, Genealogical Publishing Co)
  Robert.Haack
  rdh@ocitor.fidonet.org


GTPN RIME FIDO GENIE UUCP

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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:43:00 EST
From:         FAC_DBOYDRUS@JMUVAX1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Geneaology as an academic subject

Local history is a recognized option at James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia as an MA in history.  Local history has been taken, and rightly so
to encompass genealogical pursuits.  I would also like to know what else, and
what more, is being offered.
Dorothy
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:15:19 CDT
Reply-To:     streeter@jemima.b23b.ingr.com
From:         Elisabeth Green Streeter <streeter@JEMIMA.B23B.INGR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tombstone Rubbings
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU
              7, 92 1:54 pm

I have had a lot of success using dressmaker's interfacing (the plain kind,
*not* the fusible kind) and a black crayon.  The interfacing stays in place
better than paper and it took the rubbing very well.  I used a large black
crayon from a box of toddler-sized crayons.  I would like to find one of the
large black rectangular crayons such as are used with brass rubbing in
England, but I cannot find anyone that sells them!

Elisabeth
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Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:31:14 MDT
From:         "K. Haybron Adams" <LIBKHA@BYUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: associations

If you are looking for a list of family associations, use Encyclopedia of
Associations  REGIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS set.  It is published
by Gale Research in Detroit.  Also try Newsletters in Print, by the same
publisher.  The former is arranged by geographic region, i.e. Vol 1 is
Ill, In, Mi, Mn, Wi and OHIO, yeah (my home),  There is an index to the
associations in each vol.  Use it for Hinkle family.

Mr. K. Haybron Adams
Reference  Librarian
Brigham Young  Univ.
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:52:22 -0600
From:         gdyck@CCU.UMANITOBA.CA
Subject:      PAF
Comments: To: ROOTS-L Genealogy List <ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU>

I am just getting started and am choosing a genealogy program for my Mac.
I have some relatives using dos computers.  I understand that PAF is
available in both dos and mac.  Are the files from these two programs
easily transferable?
Are there any other suggestions re: programs with files that could be
easily transfered from mac to dos and dos to mac?

Thanks
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:28:39 BST
From:         Dunstan_Vavasour <dunstan@GEC-EPL.CO.UK>
Subject:      BIRTH PLACES
Comments: cc: ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.edu

   >
   >|>  I always thought the birthplace should be where they were born,
   >|>as in the village or city of the hospital where they were born.  What is
   >|>the real answer??
   >
   >Why should those necessarily be different?  Up until the 1940's, especially
   >in rural areas, it was far more common for people to be born at home than in
   >a hospital.
   >
   Well... things have always been more complicated than that. In the last
   century, if the occassion arose, children were born where the best help
   could be had -- at the house of the woman's mother (who might have
   servants) or an older sister. This could be in another town. People were
   more mobil than we sometimes think.

   What are we looking for when we write down where? Apart from completeness,
   we are generally interested in where verifiable records can be found. I do
   not know if a child was more likely to be registered where it was born, or
   where the family lived, perhaps some weeks later. Anyone know how it was in
   the last century??

Well, back in the bad days before registration of births and deaths,
the surest source was the baptismal records.

 Dunstan  | Systems Design Division           |dv@gec-epl.co.uk
 Vavasour | CEGELEC Projects                  |From JANET:
          | Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU, UK |dv%uk.co.gec-epl@uk.ac.uknet
          | Tel: (+44) 788 563535             |Fax: (+44) 788 560767
From:  (Douglas Toelle)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Genealogy software w/sound and music
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:48:08 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska

In article <ROOTS-L%92041412124320@VM1.NODAK.EDU>, MLADAIR@MTUS5.CTS.MTU.EDU (Matt Adair) writes:
> 
> I don't know how many have been keeping up with the Mac scene, but
> with Apple's new QuickTime, it is possible to digitize picture and
> sound and paste them into ordinary wordprocessing, etc, documents.
> It's very impressive to see a digitized video clip run on computer.
> I just recently saw a demonstration of it where the put color pictures
> into Hypercard.  The file contained about 25 compressed pictures and would
> fit onto a single floppy disk.  I am seriously thinking about the
> possibility of using this to make a family album that would work on
> computer.
> 
> - Matt Adair    mladair@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu
> 
I've been using Quicktime for over a year now. The video stuff is not very
practical yet, but the compression of pictures and sounds seems to have some
real use in a computer "family album". The HyperCard example Matt mentions
takes up 8000K uncompressed and 800K compressed. 
QuickTime is a system extension and is free from Apple. Quicktime some movies
and other examples are available on the net.

Matt, have we ever compared Perry's?

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Douglas Toelle                               sndat@orca.alaska.edu
University of Alaska                         sndat@alaska.bitnet
Fairbanks, Alaska                            907-474-5545
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How, Hoblit, Perry, Sharp, Delaney, Wheeler, Ogg, Hallgren, Kent...
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:18:58 EDT
From:         Me <BIHINKLE@ECUVM1.BITNET>

I would like to thank all of those who replied to my question on what FTP
stands for and how to use it.

                                       Many Thanks,

                                       Ashley Hinkle


P.S.: Would like to hear from anyone living in Shenandoah Co., Virginia.
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:03:52 CST
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From:         Kay Shireman <LKMEREDI@TWSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      wolcotts

I am very new to BITNET (like just yesterday) but I love to do family research
in my spare time! Ha!  In our Emporia, KS phone directory I found a listing for
WILLIAM O. WOLCOTT, Rt. 4, Box 98, Emporia, KS 66801.  I hope this gets to you
alright!                                Sincerely,
                                        Kay Shireman
From: pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charlie Towne)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: New book on the Sultana disaster
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:17:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: eagle.1992Apr13.171742.24533
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland, Ohio]

I know some people in this group are interested in the Sultana disaster.

A couple of weeks ago, R. M. Price posted a note to soc.roots/ROOTS-L
about a book on the Sultana, titled "Cahaba Prison and the Sultana
Disaster".  I haven't looked for that one, but I came across (and bought)
another one over the weekend:

     "The Sultana Tragedy"
     Jerry O. Potter
     Pelican Publishing Co., 1992
     ISBN 0-88289-861-2
     $19.95 at Waldenbooks

This one includes the names of 2317 Union soldiers who were on board,
including one from my family, with their rank, company, regiment, and
state.  The author cautions that the list is incomplete and inaccurate.
I haven't read most of the book yet, but it looks well done, with
extensive source citations and a six-page bibliography.

For those who don't already know, the Sultana was a steamship carrying
around 2400 passengers, mostly Union soldiers on their way home from
Confederate prison camps.  Most of the troops were from Indiana, Kentucky,
Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.  The ship exploded on the Mississippi near
Memphis in 1865, and nearly 1800 died.  This is still the worst maritime
disaster in U.S. history.


-- 
Charlie Towne                        Email: towne@lerc.nasa.gov  
MS 5-11                              Phone: (216) 433-5851
NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, OH 44135
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:51:31 PDT
From:         Karen Isaacson <karen%monty@RAND.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Larry Johnson where are you?
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              13 Apr 92 23:24:56 EST. <9204140331.AA01769@rand.org>

> You can obtain a list of all subscribers and their e-mail addresses by
> sending the following message:
> tell listserv@NDSUVM1 REVIEW ROOTS-L.

This will work if a) you're on BITNET and b) the person you're looking
for is subscribed to Roots-L (rather than participating from the Roots-L
side of the house.)  You can also get the Roots-L subscribers' list by
sending e-mail to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu with the single line message:
REV ROOTS-L

If you're looking for someone who is NOT on Roots-L, it gets trickier...
Though don't forget to check the address list associated with the Roots
Surname List.  Lots of folk listed in there...

Karen
karen@rand.org
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