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Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:29:32 MDT
From:         Mike Beier <LIBMAB@BYUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Geneaology as an academic subject
              14 Apr 1992 22:19:23 GMT from <davidson@AC.DAL.CA>

The Brigham Young University Department of History will offer a new B.A. degree
with the emphasis in genealogy.  The degree will train students not only as
historians, but also to become accredited as professional genealogists through
the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.  Students will learn the time
period, content, use, and availability of genealogical records.  They will also
learn to use computers to organize family data and learn how to use FamilySearch
the Family History Library's automated  system of family history information on
Compact disc.  Modern computer labs are available for student use on campus.
Advanced courses stress problem solving, report writing, and preparation for the
accreditation examination in a particular geographical area, such as New England
states, Midwestern states, England, Scotland, Germany, etc.  Foreign language
examinations require applicants to be able to read that particular language.  Fo
further information contact the program coordinator, Dr. David H. Pratt,  333
KMB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT  84602.

Selected class list:
     History 200   The Historian and His Craft.
     History 490   Historical Research and Writing
     History 397R  Writing Family Histories
     History 400R  Paleography
     History 405   Family History and the Personal Computer
     History 328   Fundamentals/Techniques for Family History
     History 496R  Internship (BYU or Family History Library)
     History 480R  Seminar (Genealogical accreditation)

Those seeking a Certificate may do so without seeking a B.A. degree.  16 hours
are required to earn a certificate.  It may be earned on campus or via
Independent Study.  The certificate will state the student's geographic area of
concentration.  Courses taken include 2 hours in religion labs, History 400R, 9
hours from the source courses, and a 2 hour seminar/internship, either on campus
of through Independent Study.  The certificate program can help prepare one for
certification or accreditation, but should not be confused with those two
separate, private forms of qualifying professional genealogists.

Mike Beier
General Reference Department Assistant
3228 Herald B. Lee Library, BYU, Provo, UT  84602
Searching: Northeast US/Canada; Sayers Beaulieu Fairbanks Ledeboer Miville
Chippewa indians at: White Earth, Crow Wing, La Point, Lac du Flambeau.
Russia (german colonies on Volga) Beier Bayer Meier Melchior Vogel Rolsing
Adair Co. Kentucky: Loving McGinnis Conely Connelly
Adams and Scioto Co's Ohio: Lucas Williamson Short
From: uhubb@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (Richard Hubbell)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: cemetary
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:29:12 GMT

In <ROOTS-L%92041320335265@VM1.NODAK.EDU> CMDARBY@SUVM.BITNET (Chris Darby) writes:

>I received a 6400 line message from uhubb@mcl.mclucsb.edu which was totally
>unreadable.  Complete gibberish, assume it was not translated.  If some one
>received it in readable form please forward to me.  Thanks
	Oops, I meant to send that to someone name boyd-rush but I obviously didn't 
	do it right.  I hope I didn't cause any problems for any of you.  The
	file was a zip (dos) file and was then uuencoded and mailed.  To use it
	first uudecode than move it to a dos machine and pkunzip the file.
	RH

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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 08:24:15 -0500
From:         Candy Wilmot <UNETCCW@UICVMC.BITNET>
Subject:      LDS records

 A question was asked here recently as to why some living persons are listed
 in the IGI and Ancestral file by name and some have only the word LIVING.
 If a living person is a member of the LDS church, then his/her name will be
 listed, although no other information will be.  A non-member will have only
 the word LIVING in the entry.

 bitnet:   unetccw@uicvmc
 internet: unetccw@uicvmc.aiss.uiuc.edu
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:45:09 EDT
From:         Olivier Bilodeau <OVESA@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
Subject:      QUESTION RE: MOUNT-JOHNSON

RE: THE QUESTION OF WHERE IS QUINTIN IN MOUNT JOHNSON, QUEBEC.

I LIVE IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CAN YOU GIVE ME MORE INFO
BECAUSE I LOOK AT A ROAD MAP AND CANNOT FIND MOUNT JOHNSON.

OLIVIER BILODEAU
OVESA@UOTTAWA.BITNET

RESEARCHING:   BILODEAU - GAUTHIER - HURTUBISE - LAURENDEAU
               AND MANY MOR FRENCH CANADINA NAMES.
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:42:00 EST
From:         FAC_DBOYDRUS@JMUVAX1.BITNET
Subject:      Bob Formica

Apologies to all but I keep getting "invalid user specification" when trying
to contact Bob Formica.  I would like to request a copy of "HitchHikers Guide
to the Internet."  Thanks for making it available.
Dorothy Boyd-Rush
FAC_DBOY@JMUVAX
FAC_DBOYDRUS@VAX.ACS.JMU.EDU
From: gilson@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Mike Gilson ............... x 3135)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Soundex for MN and MO
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:48:05 EST

The local genealogical library, Western Reserve Historical Society, 
does not have the Soundex for Missouri or Minnesota for 1900, 1910 
or 1920 census.  I am looking for someone who is willing to look 
up the following for me:

	MISSOURI, 1900 and 1910

	    John MATEJKA (M320) or MATEKER (M326)
	    Joseph MATEJKA (M320) or MATEKER (M326)
	    William MATEJKA (M320) or MATEKER (M326)


	MINNESOTA, 1900 and 1910

	    John LUXEM (L250)
	    Sophia LUXEM (L250)

I'll pay for copies and postage and am willing to reciprocate with
comparable research.  The WRHS has microfilm of all US census records,
including 1920.  They have Soundex for all states for the
1880 census and for IN, MI (I think), NY, OH, and PA for 1900-1920.

Please reply via e-mail.

Mike Gilson
gilson@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
gilsonm@odin.icd.ab.com

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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:14:33 EDT
From:         "Trembath" <jatremba@SYMMETRY.CS.MTU.EDU>
Subject:      Davenport family
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              92 11:59 pm

Ashley,

   I noticed that you are researching the Davenport surname.  I have Davenport's
in Monroe, Orange Co, New York around 1800.  Robert DAVENPORT (b 1808) married
Margaret EARL and moved to Lapeer Co, Michigan.  Their daughter Hannah married
Joseph PIERSON.  Roberts parents were Jesse DAVENPORT and Eleanor SLUYTOR.
Robert also had a brother named Oliver (b 1804) who also moved to MI.

   Any matches?

Jeff Trembath
Michigan Technological University
jatremba@symmetry.cs.mtu.edu
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:20:51 EDT
From:         "J.P. Letellier" <jp@WIZARD.NRL.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: PAF
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I had a disk of PAF data on an Apple -- the nice folks at Salt Lake
converted it to a dos disk in less than a week, no charge.  And, I
didn't lose any data!
jp
From: mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu (mark r rauschkolb)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Map of NYC Election Districts for 1870
Keywords: map ed 1870 ny
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:29:32 GMT
Reply-To: mrr1@Ra.MsState.Edu
Organization: Mississippi State University

I have been searching for people in New York City (Manhattan), and have found addresses
for them by searching City Directories.  Now That I know where they lived, I can find 
them in the census.  The only problem is that I can only find a map of 1900 Election
Districts, and they are different than the ones from 1880 (and presumably 1870).
(I have found my people in 1880 and 1900, and their ED's are different.  Their address
in 1870 is different than it was in 1880, so I can't just try the same ED as 1880)

Any Hints?

Thanks
Mark Rauschkolb
mrr1@isis.msstate.edu
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Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:50:30 MDT
From:         "K. Haybron Adams" <LIBKHA@BYUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Jewish Genealogy Bibliography
              10 Apr 1992 14:56:05 EDT from <wyzansky@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>

Thank you for the new citation.  I'll try and get the new edition.

Mr. K. Haybron Adams
Reference  Librarian
Brigham Young  Univ.
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From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Subject: Re: Genealogy software with sound and photos?
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:12:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.181650.13250@midway.uchicago.edu>, keho@quads.uchicago.edu (david kehoe) writes:
|> My father has tape recordings as well as photos of our relatives.
|> He has a Macintosh and is looking for genealogy software in which
|> he can include the photo, a sample of the person's voice (60 seconds),
|> and a text box with 100-10,000 words (with a scroll bar), and then
|> buttons to go to the person's relatives.

I have been looking rather seriously for genealogy software for the
Mac.  The only software I found that handles pictures is "Reunion"
by Leister (although I remember someone mentioned to me that he was
currently working on a product that would be able to include pictures).
BUT:  there was no mention anywhere in Leister's literature about
handling sound.  That's a pretty neat idea, tho.

"Reunion" is not widely available.  I have only found one mail order
place (recommended by Leister) that carries it, and they are charging
about $115 for it.  The "Reunion" literatuyre also cliams that it handles
memos (a box containing text), and it can import/export GEDCOM files.

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:05:00 CDT
From:         Gary Merrill <EYSTEIN@KSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      McGlassy/Glassley; Shue/Schuh; Kepford/Goepfert (PA)

Does **anyone** have any information on the above families? There
was a John GLASSLEY, b 1802, d 1881, buried in the Penryn Cemetery,
Penn Township, Lancaster Co, PA with wife Elizabeth, b 1803,
d 1887. An 1875 map of Penn Twp has "J. McGlasley" and "E. McGlasley"
in Unionville, same general area. Possibly related to ...

The wife of John SHUE (b 1795, d 1883) was Mary, b 1801,
d 1879. The death certificate of their daughter, Martha (Shue)
Kepford, gives her mother's name as "McGlassy". John and Mary
are buried in a rural cemetery on the Ellstonville-White Oak
Road, 1/2mi E of Hwy 72, in Penn Twp, Lancaster Co PA.

Also, does anyone know anything about this SHUE/SCHUH family?
According an old county history, John Shue was the son of a
John Shue "who came to America from Germany".

The KEPFORD name is probably an englishing of "GOEPFERT", a Swiss
Moravian family living in the Mount Joy/Donegal area of Lancaster
County. I have reason to believe it is not "Gephardt" or variations
of that name, but I could be mistaken. Other variations are "Gepford"
"Gepfer", "Gepfers", etc

/-------------------------------------------------------------\
| Gary Merrill, Division of Biology, Kansas State University  |
|   Manhattan, Kansas 66506-4901, eystein@ksuvm.ksu.edu       |
|                   eystein@ksuvm.bitnet                      |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|    "...Where never is heard a discouraging word,            |
|    And the skies are not clouded all day."                  |
|          Brewster Higley, Smith Center KS 1873              |
\-------------------------------------------------------------/
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 09:21:40 EDT
From:         Olivier Bilodeau <OVESA@UOTTAWA.BITNET>

IN REPLY TO JASON WALLACE'S QUESTION OF APRIL 2 1992.

I HAVE FRIEND WHO IS WORKING IN QUEBEC CITY NOW IS A CHARTRAND
AND AS MADE AN INTENSIVE RESEARCH ON THE NAME CHARTRAND. I WILL TRY TO
MAKE CONTACT WITH HIM AND PASS ON YOUR REQUEST.

                                                OLIVIER BILODEAU
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:35:44 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      A lost Lucy
Comments: To: Multiple recipients of list ROOTS-L <ROOTS-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU>

I'd be interested in any ideas anyone might be able to give me about
searching for information about my great-grandmother.  Her first name
was Lucy, and her last name was, I think, Simons (but pronounced Simmons).
 She was born in 1850 somewhere in Arkansas, but I do not have the names
of either of her parents.  According to family legend, her mother died
when she was an infant, and her father brought her to Independence, Texas,
where they stayed with a family named Hood who ran the local hotel.
Lucy's father went off to Mexico to hunt for gold, leaving her with the
Hoods, and never returned.  The Hood family adopted her, and brought her
up as their own daughter.  Apparently she was too young to have known
anything about her real family, and it seems that her father did not
share any family information with the Hoods.

Any suggestions as to detective methods?
Nancy Harwood
harwood@tenet.edu
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Searching Ayers Broderick Davis Downey Evans Grayson Harwood Henry Hutchinson
Jones McGlathin/McGlothin Morris Roberts Simons/Simmons Thompson Vickers
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From: suej@microsoft.com (Sue JACKSON)
Subject: Is there an FAQ?
Date: 05 Apr 92 22:15:33 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Keywords: help

I'm new to this newsgroup and am excited to see that there is
network discussions/help in geneology research.  I've just
started trying to do this and would appreciate some
help in understanding what some of this mail is about.

What is Genealog?  What do you do with it or ask from it?

How can I get some info from the 1920 Census files?

What is Roots-L?

Is there a FAQ someone would be willing to email me?

Thanks for your assistance.

Suej@microsoft.com

Searching Jackson,Dye,McMillan,Wright,Thompson,Harris
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:14:12 EDT
From:         botteron@BU-IT.BU.EDU
Subject:      Everton's Genealogical Helper, March/April 1992
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This magazine (formerly The Genealogical Helper) arrived today.
Here's a quick list of the contents:

Guide and Celebration of Family Reunions
Preserving Personal History (questions to ask)
Success -- A Seven-Month Ancestor Quest
Family Associations and Their Leaders
Family Periodical Publications

Plus the usual columns, listings, etc.
I would be willing to check the lists of family associations and
publications (in moderation please!)

Not trying to sell the magazine but I've subscribed for several years
and have found it useful.  Genealogical libraries usually have it.

Carol Botteron          botteron@bu-it.bu.edu
(that's French Swiss)   Send me your New England Hixon/Hixsons!
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:59:24 EDT
From:         botteron@BU-IT.BU.EDU
Subject:      Laws of Genealogy
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Probably most of us have come up with "laws of genealogy" during our
research.  One of mine: "The availability of information is inversely
proportional to the cost of copying it."  Examples:

Information source    Copy cost   Availability of books
------------------    ---------   ---------------------
Genealogical society    $.25      instant (open stacks)
State library            .20      5 minutes for clerk to bring
Public library           .10      30    "    "    "   "    "
Drugstore                .05      none

Any more laws out there?

Carol Botteron          botteron@bu-it.bu.edu
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 10:03:00 EDT
From:         RUSSLER@UTKVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: TELNET ACCESS to IGI,
              FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY or FT. WAYNE LIBRARY

 Joni:
 The LA LDS library in West LA is the second largest LDS library in the
 world. They're open 6 days a week (including some evenings). They have
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 11:27:13 GMT
From:         VIVIEN HICK <HICKC89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      Re: Any europeans on soc.roots?
              8 Apr 1992 19:43:00 +0100 from <toron@CCUCVX.UNICAN.ES>

Dublin, Ireland here!
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:24:24 -0400
Reply-To:     ak385@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
From:         Bill Green <ak385@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      Linn County, Iowa
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For the next couple of weeks, I'm in possession of a book titled
"Portrait and Biographical Album of Linn County, Iowa", published in
1887.  It's biographical sketches of the residents about that time.

Anyone want someone looked up, give a shout, and I'll see what I can
find.  (Linn County is the Ceder Rapids area.)


--
* Bill Green, Minot, North Dakota    ak385@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu *
*                  green%milo@plains.NoDak.Edu                   *
*  Researching:  ANHORN, KOHOUTEK, KOTCHIAN, HAVLENA, MARSCHALL  *
*    WILSON, BROWN, REED, IDE, MASON, GLEASON, COOK, LAMB        *
From: keho@quads.uchicago.edu (david kehoe)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Re: Susannah Martin - Salem Witch
Date: 5 Apr 92 17:59:34 GMT
Reply-To: keho@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Mar31.231045.4092@PDX.MENTORG.COM> rikv@apd.mentorg.com (Rik Vigeland) writes:
>During the witchcraft trials of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, there was hanged
>one Susannah Martin, daughter of Richard North and wife of one George Martin.

I've been using something Ms. Martin said as a .signature for
eight years now, and people send me e-mail asking about it.
She was cross-examined by Cotton Mather, and her responses were
rational and almost as if a modern woman had been accused of
witchcraft.  I may be confusing witches, but I think the charges
were that a neighbor's herd of cattle had suddenly stampeded into
the ocean and drowned one day, therefore she must have bewitched
them, and that she was seen walking into a house with dry feet
on a rainy (&muddy) day, therefore she could fly.
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692.
Thomas David Kehoe    keho@midway.uchicago.edu    (312) 753-0119
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:21:00 EDT
From:         RUSSLER@UTKVX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: TELNET ACCESS to IGI,
              FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY or FT. WAYNE LIBRARY

dear roots-folks,
  sorry about the semi-message earlier today.  I didn't really say anything
momentous there -- just that the LA LDS library is the second largest around,
has lots of information in various formats (a good, eclectic collection of
telephone books, for instance), as well as the IGI, Social Security Death
Index, Ancestral File, etc., in CD-ROM format.  They have a policy of only
ordering films 'indefinitely,' so if any patron orders any film, it stays
there forever.  Thus they have the 1837-forward birth indexes for St. Catherine'
   s
house in England, for instance, and many years of the the Hamburg passenger inde
   xes. And they have all the censuses through 1910, so far as I know.
  They're open 6 days a week, various hours, free parking. Presumably they will
have the 1920 census once LDS itself is ready to start lending it (September
is the date I've heard).
  It is located in the Mormon Temple complex in West Los Angeles; an Angeleno
could provide a more specific address, I'm sure. I was last there in the spring
of 1991, so my information isn't current, but I doubt it's particularly
obsolete.
   Nicki Russler
   russler@utkvx or russler@utkvx.utk.edu
    6900 Woodland Lane
    Knoxville, Tennessee  37919
    615/584-6422
    searching AMBINDER, BELFERMAN, BOROFSKY, BULKIN, CHAIMSON, NECHAMKIN,
      PEREVOSKIN, to name a few...
From: WCVESEB@VCCSCENT.BITNET (Bill Veselik WCVESEB@VCCSWEST)
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Gallia County, Ohio
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:58:32 GMT
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Hello all,
One of my ancestors, Daniel S. Mottesheard, lived in Monroe County, WVA up
until the 1860s or so and then disappeared from the Monroe records. I believe
he and his wife, Sarah, move out of the area, but I can't prove it.

The only record I have is a Confederate service record in which one of their
two sons told his Union captors that he desired to "go and live in Gallia
County, Ohio." Since his only sibling, his brother, was still fighting in the
war, I am making the assumption that he would not have picked Gallia County
out of thin air and that he may have planned to go and live with his parents.
Unfortunately, he died in a Union prison camp before his release.

Does anyone have access to the Gallia County, Ohio census records or indices
for the years 1870 and 1880? I am hoping Daniel S. Mottesheard may be listed
there. From my experience, the Mottesheard name is fairly rare, so it would
probably stick out like a sore thumb.
Regards,
Bill Veselik
From: LORI@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: soc.roots
Subject: Looking for Hoglund
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:01:22 GMT
 <1992Apr8.105916.12940@pcsbst.pcs.com>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Any information regarding Swedish family that left
Sweden approx. 1901 for Wisconsin area.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:12:27 MDT
From:         Mike Beier <LIBMAB@BYUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: John and Anna Phillips VA-1700s?
              8 Apr 1992 20:59:12 GMT from <brian@HPCVLX.CV.HP.COM>

I wanted to ask about the BECK surname. My wife has a Henry BECKE with
his wife Hannah who came from Germany sometime in the early to mid 1800s.
Some of the kids kept the final "E" but William F. BECK born 1848 in Bethel,
Missouri, didn't.  He married Flora A. Finck (b 1849 Cincinnati Ohio) in
Portland, OR on 29 Dec 1870.  They were part of a religous community that
traveled en mass "From Bethel to Aurora" (there is a book by that name
written about the trek.  If you think there may be some ties contact me
directly and we'll compaire notes.

Mike Beier libmab@byuvm.bitnet
Searching: Russia (Volga Germans): Beier Melchior Meier Wisner Vogal Seamon
  Adams & Scioto Co Ohio: Williamson Knight Lucas Burris
  Canada: Hudon Beaulieu Miville Durand Gobeille Thibaut Baudet Rolsing
  Adair Co. Ky: Loving McGinnis Conley   Lenawee Co.Mich: Bartley/Barkley
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