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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:57:56 EDT
Reply-To:     Bob Oliphant <oliphant@BBN.COM>
From:         Bob Oliphant <oliphant@BBN.COM>
Subject:      Genealogy Meeting
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@Vm1.NoDak.Edu

MIDDLESEX CHAPTER
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS

Program and Business Meeting

Topic:	James StranaghanQBefore and After,
	Genealogical Research in Northern Ireland

Speaker:	Mr. Fred Allen

Date:	Saturday, September 12, 1992	1:30 pm

Place:	Latter-Day Saints Church, Rte. 119, Littleton, MA

Mr. Fred Allen from Belfast, Northern Ireland, has recently completed
extensive genealogical research on all branches of the Stranaghan family
of County Down.  His talk will be based on his research on James
Stranaghan, who was born in 1699 and emigrated from County Down to New
England in 1725, and his family.  He will give the background to the
coming of James' parents to County Down, talk about everyday life in
County Down at that time, and discuss the records available to
genealogical researchers in Northern Ireland today.  Mr. Allen is an
engineering management consultant in Belfast, and is an experienced
genealogist by avocation.  He has worked in Zrich and London, and in
1990 he retired as an engineer in the Northern Ireland Health Service,
where he had worked for 25 years.

The Middlesex Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists is an
organization of amateur, family and professional genealogists who meet
to exchange information about family history research.  Chapter meetings
are held on the second Saturday afternoon of each month (except July and
August) in various Middlesex County cities and towns.

There is NO admission charge and everyone is welcome.

Directions:  The LDS Church in Littleton, MA, is located on the west
side of Rte. 119 about one mile north of I-495.

For further information call (508) 485-3275, or contact me.

Bob Oliphant
oliphant@bbn.com

**Researching OLIPHANT, DAVIDSON, STRANAGHAN, HORTON, MAY, MILLER**
****GEIST, ROHRBACH, ALLEN, PORTER, BEARDSLEY, CANTLEY, CROSLEY****
Newsgroups: soc.roots
From: kathleen@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Kathleen Much)
Subject: Re: New Genealogy Program (IBM)
Organization: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:50:56 GMT

In article <92253.26457.6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> 6175190@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>
>THE MASTER GENEALOGIST (TMG) is the result of more than five years of
>design and promises to be the most flexible research environment
>available to genealogists and family historians today.
>
>SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
>            o           IBM compatible 386 or higher
>            o           2-3 Meg available RAM
>            o           Hard Drive
>            o           Mono/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA
>            o           Mouse (optional)
>            o           Printer (optional)
>            o           Scanner (optional)
>Plans are under way for TMG/Mac, TMG for Windows and TMG Light (for
>laptops).  If you are interested in these products or you would like to
>make comments or suggestions about their design we'd love to hear from
>you.
>The current retail price of THE MASTER GENEALOGIST (TMG) is $89.00.
>
>TMG is a product of:   Wholly Genes Software
>       6868 Ducketts Lane
>       Elk Ridge, Maryland 21227
>       (410)796-2447
>
>The author of TMG is:   Bob Velke
>                        CIS# 76366,1760
>
>We encourage your comments or suggestions by mail, phone, e-mail, or on
>the ROOTS forum.

This sounds too good to be true if it can print out both ancestor and
descendant "trees".  If only the Mac version were available!  Does
anyone know a projected Macintosh release date?


-- 
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Kathleen Much, Editor		|E-mail: kathleen@casbs.stanford.EDU
CASBS, 202 Junipero Serra Blvd.	|Phone: (415) 321-2052
Stanford, CA  94305		|Fax: (415) 321-1192
From: howie@cfarer.boeing.com (Howie Modell)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: MAC genealogy software
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:35:23 GMT
Followup-To: soc.roots
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group

> In article <9209032129.AA09442@EAGLE.MIT.EDU> Helen Raine 
> <hraine@EAGLE.MIT.EDU> writes:
> >I have a MAC computer and would like to enter my data into a genealogy
> >software program.  Can you advise me what program is available for the
> > MAC?

Also, The LDS Church's "Personal Ancestor File" software is available for
under $50 (?) for the Mac.  I don't have a contact address handy .. sorry
8-(
The advantage of this package is that it communicates quite nicely with its
IBM counterpart and with the Church's db.

+----All opinions expressed are mine and *NOT* my employers!----+
   howard modell, Boeing Defense & Space group, Seattle, WA
         howie@cfarer.boeing.com, h.modell@online.com,
         h.modell@ieee.org,   72376.252@compuserve.com
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: what now?
Summary: file extracting etc
Date: 5 Sep 92 06:10:55 GMT
Organization: CompuData Inc.

Maybe somebody is home here over the weekend. I received lots of helpful hints 
and files from Matt Caprile as to how to use ftpmail from servers other than 
the Simtel/No Dak system which seems to be hopelessly out of date for the BK 
programs.

Anyhow, Matt is not working this weekend but maybe somebody here know. There 
are these files bk5a.exe - bk5d.exe which matt claims are selfextracting, 
whatever that means.

So I sucessfully brought the first set over which came as 9 email files. I 
then combined them and ran uudecode and wind up with one file called 
ftpmail.uu - now what? This is all UNIX, but I've moved this file to a dos 
box.

Anybody know?

    Fred
-- 
W. Fred Rump 	office:	   fred@COMPU.COM     'mans feet have grown/so big 
26 Warren St.   home: fred@icdi10.compu.com  that he/forgets his littleness'
Beverly, NJ. 08010                          		Don Marquis 
609-386-6846    bang:uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr
From: eggertj@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert x6127 g41)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Finding Peter Schubmehl in St. Wendel's Prussia
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Lincoln Lab - Group 41

In article <9209041648.AA08398@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Dave Schubmehl <daves@BRSPYR1.BRS.COM> writes:
>	  Another scrap of information that I have indicates that he came
>	  from "St.  Wendel's, Prussia".  Since the Schubmehl family has
>	  always been Roman Catholic, this might be either the name of the
>	  parish, or it could possibly be the name of a town in Prussia
>	  which is now modern-day Germany.

There is a St. Wendel in the Saarland, about 25 km NNE as the crow
flies from Saarbruecken.  Present population is 28000.  You can write
the local church using the German zipcode W-6690.

>	   3. A family legend states that one of Peter Schubmehl's sons,
>	      Nicholas, fought for Napoleon.  Is there any way I can
>	      research this to find out whether it is true or not?  Why
>	      would a Prussian fight WITH Napoleon?

You should remember that the geographic boundaries of Prussia depended
strongly on the year.  Prussia grew quite a bit over the centuries.
The Saarland is now very close to France, but in Napoleon's time it
was in France.  I think that before it was part of the French
Republic, St. Wendel was in the Archbishopric of Treves (up until 1798
or so).  It would have been taken away from France again after the
Congress of Vienna, and then would be Prussian.

If you are confused, well, German history is confusing.
--
=Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)
From: Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: PAF Text Editing
Date: 6 Sep 92 16:13:55 GMT
X-Mailer: mail-news newcastle perl version

In article <1992Sep3.233705.24064@casbs.Stanford.EDU>,
kathleen@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Kathleen Much) wrote:
 
| It's true that the Mac PAF lets you edit notes in a manner like
| Macwrite, but there are some differences.  For instance, you can't use
| the 'cut', 'copy', and 'paste' keys, but instead must use C-x, C-c,
| and C-v (the one-stroke commands print a little square to the screen).

I'm afraid I disagree. Though I normally use C-x, C-c, and C-v (since they
are so standard to all Mac applications, you can if you wish use the pop-up
menu versions, in for example editing information on an individual record
card, in a notes field, or between the two - I just tried it to make sure.
(I have release 2.11 of PAF - perhaps this is the difference.)
  
| No special formats (italics, underlines, boldface) are permitted.  You
| can't create macros or use a 'repeat-edit' command.  

True - but I agree with Tom Lincoln's comment re Vantage.

| But the biggest
| hassle is trying to move text between documents (such as notes for two
| people, or notes from a letter to a PAF note field).  You have to
| 'copy' the text you want to the clipboard and then close the note
| before you move to the other document (or 'cut' from a document before
| you open the note, if you're moving that direction).  This is a real
| nuisance if you want to copy non-consecutive sentences, for example.

Perhaps I misunderstand, but you certainly can cut and paste text between
the PAF individual record card window or the Notes window, and other
applications - such as WORD, or the newswatcher program I'm typing this
response into, for that matter. On the other hand Kathleen is right in that
you can only have one record card or one notes window open on the screen at
once, and this is limiting.

However to my mind a bigger limitation is that although PAF does a pretty
good job in fitting in with the Mac standards for interaction with the
user, it doesnt fir in so well with normal standards for file interchange,
since its  outputs, such as descendants listings and pedigrees are sent
directly to the printer and cannot readily be fed into other text or
graphics applications - this is a major way in which REUNION beats PAF. 

Neverthless PAF is excellent (read amazing) value for money, and a pretty
good example of how to make an easy intuitive interface on the Mac - in
fact several of my colleagues when they saw my copy of PAF were so
impressed that they immediately bought copies, even though they had not
previously planned to document their family trees!

Cheers

Brian Randell

PS I should however add that Mac/PAF, which I don't think has been updated
significantly since 1989, lacks some of the facilities that have been added
to MSDOS/PAF - in particular those for comparing and merging databases.


Dept. of Computing Science, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU,
UK
EMAIL = Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk   PHONE = +44 91 222 7923
FAX = +44 91 222 8232
From: bill.good@GENIE.GEIS.COM
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: My edited TT
Date: 12 Sep 92 00:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: bill.good@GENIE.GEIS.COM
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Genie-Id: 6473633
Comments: To: roots-l@vm1.nodak.edu

Hello,

   I am fairly new to the list and just wanted to upload my TT.


N William J. Good
 A 40 Chestnut St.
 A Waltham, MA 02154
 T 617-647-0626
 D /IBM/
 F Brother's Keeper 5.0
 Z 113 Brother's Keeper  MP
 A450 1642:1642 ALLEN\Salisbury, Mass/Salisbury, Mass
 A363 1813:1813 ATHERTON\England/England
 A600 1666:1666 AYER\Haverhill, Mass/Haverhill, Mass
 B600 1771:1771 BARRY
 B530 1593:1593 BENNET\England/England
 B242 1536:1536 BESSILES
 B425 1591:1591 BLESSING\England/England
 B160 1658:1680 BOOBYER\/Mass
 B350 1652:1846 BOWDEN\Gloucester?/Marblehead, Mass
 B631 1843:1843 BROADBENT\England/England
 B424     :1724 BULKELEY\Co Cheshire, England/Concord, Ma
 C410 1693:1693 CALEF\Ipswich, Mass/Ipswich, Mass
 C515 1769:1769 CANOVAN
 C500     :     CHENEY
 C356 1653:1653 CODNER\Mass/Mass
 C613 1390:1390 CORBET\Morton, Shropshire/Morton, Shropshire
 C650 1600:1600 CRANE
 C620 1606:1725 CROSS\England/Ipswich, Mass
 D400 1799:1799 DALY
 D120 1788:1788 DAVIS\Ireland/Ireland
 D000 1719:1719 DAY
 D525     :     DENISON
 D500 1829:1829 DENNEHY\County Cork, Ireland/County Cork, Ireland
 D535 1434:1434 DENTON
 D550 1788:1902 DINEEN\Ireland/ Easton, Mass
 D340     :     DUDLEY
 D320 1646:1850 DUTCH\Ipswich, Mass/Belfast, Maine
 E163 1590:1590 EVERED
 F314 1596:1596 FETTIPLACE\Shelford Parva/Shelford Parva
 G430 1570:1570 GOLD
 G300 1801:1987 GOOD\Queenstown, Cork, Ire./Randolph, Ma
 G340 1609:1609 GOODALE\Yarmouth,Norfolk, England/co. Norfolk,England
 G621 1377:1588 GROSVENOR
 H620 1665:1665 HARRIS
 H400 1586:1586 HAYWELL
 H150 1838:1838 HOBAN\Ireland/Ireland
 H150 1823:1823 HOPHAM\Pittsfield, NH/Pittsfield, NH
 H163 1594:1594 HUBBARD
 I610 1520:1520 IRBY
 J635 1606:1606 JORDAN
 K460 1818:1900 KELLEHER\County Cork, Ireland/ Mass
 K514 1591:1639 KIMBALL\/Ipswich, Mass
 L652     :     LAWRENCE
 L262 1347:1588 LE GROSVENOR
 L163     :     LEVERETT
 L520 1831:1831 LYNCH\Ireland/Ireland
 L520 1828:1828 LYONS\County Cork, Ireland/County Cork, Ireland
 M263 1798:1798 MCCARTHY
 M263 1768:1768 MCCARTY\Ireland/Ireland
 M610 1868:1868 MURPHY\Co. Mayo, Ireland/Co. Mayo, Ireland
 N620 1621:1804 NOURSE\England/ Mass
 O460 1788:1788 O'LEARY\Ireland/Ireland
 P534 1877:1977 PENTLETON\Mossley, England/ Mass
 R543 1827:1899 REYNOLDS\Ireland/ Easton, Ma
 R400 1797:1797 RILEY\Ireland/Ireland
 R262 1630:1630 ROGERS\Coggeshall/Coggeshall
 R160 1646:1646 ROPER
 S630 1850:1979 SHORT\NY/Boston, Mass
 S351 1695:1695 STANIFORD
 S350     :     SUTTON
 T500 1621:1621 TOWNE\Yarmouth, England/Yarmouth, England
 V514 1377:1377 VENABLES\Kinderton, Cheshire/Kinderton, Cheshire
 W420 1801:1801 WALLACE\Ireland/Ireland
 W420 1769:1769 WELCH
 W342     :     WHATLOCK
 W150 1750:1871 WHIPPEN\Ireland/ Mass
 W352     :     WHITTINGHAM\Southerton, Lincolnshire/Southerton,
 Y620     :     YORKE
 W 11 Sep 1992


 Please feel free to write or call. Info above.
Newsgroups: soc.roots
From: markey@cs.ucf.edu (Donna Markey)
Subject: Rublee family
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Distribution: USA
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:52:54 GMT


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Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:28:26 CDT
Reply-To:     Cliff Manis <cmanis@CSOFTEC.CSF.COM>
From:         Cliff Manis <cmanis@CSOFTEC.CSF.COM>
Subject:      Re: Brother's Keeper 5.0b
Comments: To: "(Genealogy Information)" <ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU>

READERS:

Reference part of this message and many other's:

To all of you who may be interested in using Brother's Keeper or
using it now.


> Luckily the net jumped in and Cliff Mathis sent me his copy via email and I
> successfully decoded and unzipped and all is well.
>
> I really love this new BK5.0b.
>
> Fred
> W. Fred Rump 	   office:	   fred@COMPU.COM


---->>> To all of you who may be interested in using Brother's Keeper.

Would you please "WAIT ABOUT 7 MORE DAYS" ....

That's all I can say for now....  but for now just study your family
history or something ... and more later about this in about a week.

Please do not send me messages about this - JUST WAIT ! ! !


   Persistence will PAY OFF in this case...  more later

Thanks..

   Cliff

Cliff Manis         K4ZTF        Manis/Manes Family History
Researching: MANIS MANES WHITEHORN CANTER BIRD FRANCIS NEWMAN
USMAIL:   P. O. Box 33937, San Antonio, Texas  78265-3937
BITNET:   cmanis%csoftec.csf.com@NDSUVM1  Caretaker of GENEALOG
INTERNET: cmanis@csoftec.csf.com
 ! !  Generally, It is easier to obtain forgiveness than permission  ! !
  Standard Disclaimer:  We are not associated with anyone. (PERIOD). (.)
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Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:41:49 -0400
Reply-To:     "Frank (Chip) Dyer x9568 ..Electrical Design"
              <DYERFDF@HSDWL.UTC.COM>
From:         "Frank (Chip) Dyer x9568 ..Electrical Design"
              <DYERFDF@HSDWL.UTC.COM>
Subject:      Looking for info on DYER
Comments: To: ROOTS-L@VM1.NODAK.EDU

I am looking for Information on what I believe is the first man (on my
father's side) of my family tree to enter the United States.

	William Dyer , 1662, Maine from England.

	Came to America in 1662.  He purchased land in
	Massoemek, later called Dyer's Neck in Sheepscott, Maine.
	He & his family moved to Braintree MA about 1678-1679.  He
	returned to Dyer's Neck about 1683, and was killed by Indians
	about August 1689.  His surviving family moved to Braintree MA.
	His name appears on a list of those taking the Allegiance
	in 1665.

I am looking for specific dates on when he was born & when he was killed.  I
also am trying to find where in England he was from.

Thanks in advance for any help.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frank E. Dyer III       Researching:   DYER,  England, MA & ME
Enfield, CT 06082                      O'Shea, O'Connor  NY, NJ
(203) 745-1334
INTERNET: DYERFDF@HSDWL.UTC.COM
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Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:56:29 CDT
Reply-To:     Cliff Manis <cmanis@CSOFTEC.CSF.COM>
From:         Cliff Manis <cmanis@CSOFTEC.CSF.COM>
Subject:      Re: FidoNet geneal. echo <-> Internet (soc.roots)
Comments: To: "Genealogy Information" <ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU>

Readers:

Reference part of this message:
> From:     Brian Mavrogeorge <Brian.Mavrogeorge@P0.F30.N125.Z1.FIDONET.ORG>
> Subject:  Re: FidoNet geneal. echo <-> Internet (soc.roots)
>
> You can avail yourself of TMS through Internet. Post your
> tiny-tafel here and I will capture it. Give me the names
> you want matched and the dates and I will send you back
> the matching report.

This is a great opportunity for all readers of ROOTS-L, to post
your Tiny Tafel here.  We would get to see the names that others
of us are researching, and Brian would also capture your message
and mail you some info about matches from the TMS data.

Brian has really helped me over the last 3 years, and sent me
several different TMS matches and names of other who are researching
the same names as I am resesarching...

Why not give it a try.  Most of the current DOS based Genealogy
programs will produce a Tiny Tafel output file, and even if the
you are using does not, then you could request the GENEALOG
file "TAFELDOC", "TTSPEC" or "TTUGUIDE" and learn how to
produce you own.  How about trying it ?

To receive the GENEALOG files above, just send a regular message
to:  LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu with the following three lines as
text of the message:

get genealog tafeldoc
get genealog ttspec
get genealog ttuguide


>
> That is the quid pro quo. You participate by submitting your
> tiny-tafel and we give you the report.
>
> Brian Mavrogeorge - via FidoNet node 1:125/555
> UUCP: ...!uunet!hoptoad!kumr!fidogate!30.0!Brian.Mavrogeorge

Thanks Brian, and you are a real resource, hope some of the
group will post of .tt files here.

Good luck to all....

  later..cliff
--
Cliff Manis         K4ZTF        Manis/Manes Family History
Researching: MANIS MANES WHITEHORN CANTER BIRD FRANCIS NEWMAN
USMAIL:   P. O. Box 33937, San Antonio, Texas  78265-3937
BITNET:   cmanis%csoftec.csf.com@NDSUVM1  Caretaker of GENEALOG
INTERNET: cmanis@csoftec.csf.com
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Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:06:00 EST
Reply-To:     JMFREED@OWUCOMCN.BITNET
From:         JMFREED@OWUCOMCN.BITNET
Subject:      The Cousin Riddle

A few days ago, Ellen Seebacher shared the following:
"Once my mother's father's mother and my mother's mother's father were
dead, my mother's father's father married my mother's mother's mother
and proceeded to have several children.  Three generations on, none of
us have yet figured out what relationship they are to us..."
This riddle DOES have an answer, and my suggested answer at this moment
is that those individuals in the same generation
as "you" are 1st cousin, 2nd cousin, etc., the same as if the above
riddle was not in place; these conclusions are based on the amount of
"heriditary information" shared by these cousins.  Let give examples below:
siblings (except identical twins) share "hereditary information" (hereafter
abbreviated as HI) from 0 to 100 %, with 50% being the average.  Half
siblings (half-brother, half-sister) share HI from 0 to 50%, ave is 25%.
First cousins, 0 to 50%, avg, 25%; second cousins, 0 to 25%, avg., 12.5%.
These calculations ignore sex chromosomal interactions and activities.
The key to the problem is who much HI the individual's grandparents share
with their common half-sibling.  Since the couple are not blood related to
each other, but each share the half-sibling, I suggest that the relationship
between the "grandparents" of the individual in question and the grandparent's
half-sibling is 50%; i.e., 25% plus 25%.  Consequently, then the first
cousins share HI of 25% and the second cousins, which is the particular
concern of the writer share 12.5%.  Any Comments?  I'm going to share this
"riddle" with my 40 undergraduate genetics students tomorrow and give them
a week to work on it, so if any of your who have training, experience, and
interest in both genetics and genealogy wish to offer comments in support
or disagreement, please let me know.  It would be so much easier to explain
these relationships if I could draw pedigree charts for this note, but such
is not the case.     THANKS for reading these details, if you have gotten
this far......  Jim Freed, Delaware, Ohio.
From: Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Starter kit
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 06:30:47 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7104/1.16 - The Catalyst BBS 1, Port Elizabeth

In a message of <Sep 07 21:46>, WEILAND@UPS.EDU (5:7104/2) wrote to All:

 DS> Don't know what that kit is, but a very interesting collection of 
 DS> files for somebody starting is the archive MYRA.ZIP (or .lzh or 
 DS> whatever).  It is a collection of articles that appeared on 
 DS> Prodgdy (SPELL?), and heve some good info for Americans.

Hi again Larry,
I received a lot of Email warning me that Myra Vanderpool Gormley's articles are copyright (No flames, only warnings - thanks).  To put everybody's minds at rest, here's the first paragraph from the Index to MYRA.ZIP:
==========================================================================

The following is an index to weekly articles written by Myra Gormley for
PRODIGY(R) Interactive Personal Service.  The articles are the property of
PRODIGY and may not be marketed without their permission.  They have granted
non-profit organizations permission to re-print articles provided that the
Copyright notice remains with the article, and full credit is given to their
service.  The articles were transcribed by J. Richard Wright of the PAF-Finders
User Group of Cary, NC. (Prodigy ID = HRDH26A).

         ********* INDEX TO MYRA GORMLEY's PRODIGY COLUMNS **********

  GORMLY__.TXT
        01 First Column ....................................... 07/06/90
        02 Tracing Your Family Name ........................... 07/13/90
        03 Write Down All the Names ........................... 07/22/90
        04 Societies Can Help in Search ....................... 07/29/90
===========================================================================
 
    ETC, for 81 articles!!  Good Stuff!!

So, all I can say is.... Look for it - except if you're interested in calling Africa <GRIN>

Groetnis (=cheers)
Deon


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