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For those interested in further information on the Civil War Records
project, suggest you check out the following websites:
http://www.civilwar.org/cwt-exp.htm
or goto the Civil War Trust Homepage at
http://www.civilwar.org/
Good hunting - good luck!
Shirley
bobert(a)panacom.com
The following article, "Civil War soldiers on computer list" appeared in
the Sunday, August 1, 1993, edition of "The News Herald", Panama City,
FL.....byline: Connie Cass, Associated Press.
Quote -
WASHINGTON - The first name - Confederate soldier Edwin F. Jemison,
killed at age 18 - was punched into a computer Wednesday to launch a
database of the estimated 3.5 million Americans who fought in the Civil
War.
By early 1996, people who believe their ancestors found for the blue
or the gray should be able to look up their names in the Civil War
Soldiers System. Computers at the National Park Service's 28 Civil War
sites will be available to access the system.
"It's been estimated that up to 100 million people may be descendants
from Civil War soldiers," said John F. Peterson, project manager for the
Civil War Soldiers System.
With the database, those people will be able to learn the regiment and
battles their ancesters fought in, Peterson said, giving them "a
personal connection to a great, historical event."
The original handwritten records, on index cards, are stored at the
National Archives, which receives nearly 1,500 inquires each week
relating to Civil War records.
Hundreds of genealogists, history buffs, and others have volunteered
to use their home computers to type the names onto computer diskettes -
donating work that park service officials estimate is worth $4.5
million.
Jemison, a Louisiana soldier who died at Malvern Hill, Va., in 1862,
was chosen to begin the database because his photograph is so familiar.
The image of his boyish face, staring seriously into the camera from
beneath a Confederate cap, has frequently appeared in books and
documentaries.
Parks Service Director Roger Kennedy typed Jemison's entry during a
press conference at Ford's Theater, sight of the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
The Civil War Soldiers System marks a transition from "an obsession
with heroes" to "a new kind of history in which the common people who
built the place have their role," Kennedy said.
The Civil War Trust, a non-profit historical association, is raising
money to pay for computer terminals in the parks.
The National Archives, the Federation of Genealogical Societies and
the Genealogical Society of Utah, a corporation of the Morman Church,
also are guiding the project.
unquote -
--------------------- some 'odd' general Civil War trivia/info follows
- same newspaper, but outside the byline above.
Chattanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta.
Today you can travel the same distance in a little more than an hour on
Interstate 75, over land that was contested by inches, with massive
bloodshed, nearly 130 years ago in one of the pivotal campaigns of the
Civil War.
Along the way you can see:
A Taco Bell and a McDonald's at the entrance to Chickamauga Battlefield
Park, along with a "Battlefield Bike Shop, a "Battlefield Tire and
Muffler" shop, a U-Haul dealership and a golf driving range.
The broken stump of a highway historical marker beside Highway 41 at
Ringgold where the battle of Rocky Face Ridge was fought. Vandals have
wrenched the heavy metal sign off its post and lugged it away as a
souvenir.
So - you seekers who live near one of the National Park Service's 28
Civil War sites - or those of you who visit one - are in luck.
Good hunting - good luck! Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com
Hi, cuzzins - just sharing...and it's a mouthful!
Origin of the Cheney name:
Cheney is an English name (Place: Cornwall) which goes back to the
Norman...William the Conqueror invaded and conquered Britain in 1066
(Battle of Hastings). Norman - from Normandy in France. The British
name goes back to "Cornavia, probably derived from the tribal name -
'Cornovii'. Old English Cornwealas means "the Welsh in
Cornwall'. This folk-name later became the name of the district.
The following is from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English
Place-Names, 4th Edition, 1960 by Eilert Ekwall:
"Chenies (-ani, -eni) Bk [Isenhamstede 1196 Cur, 1197 P, 1232 Ep,
Iselhamstede 1232 Ep, Iselhamstede Cheney 1254 Val, Cheynes 1536 LP].
The old name was Isenhamstede rather than Iselhanstede. The elements
may be a personal noun *Isa or a river-name (an old name of the Chess)
and Hamstede. The manor was held by Alexander de Chednete in 1232
(Ep). Chednete is a form of the family name CHENEY or CHEYNE, which
comes from one of the place names in France that go back to MLat
casnetum 'oak grove' (cf. Fr chene "oak")...as Chesnoy, Chenoy, Chenay.
Cheney Longville Sa. See Longville. Longville in the Dale Sa
[Longefewd 1255 RH, Longfeld 1291 Tax], CHENEY L - Sa [Langvefelle DB,
Langefeud 1242 Fees]. 'Long Field.' The f was voiced to v, and the
name was associated with the French ville.
Cheney-L (Cheney Longville) - was held by the Cheney family at least
from the early 14th century (FA). Cf. CHENIES.
Longville Sa - means Longville is in Shropshire.
Abbreviations used in the above:
Bk Buckinghamshire
cf continental French
Cur Curia Regis Rolls
DB Domesday Book. London, 1783-1816. This reference also includes the
Exon
Domesday Book - the date of both is 1086.
Ep Episcopal Registers
FA Feudal Aids. Rolls Ser. 1899 ff.
Fees The Book of Fees. Rolls Ser. 1920-31.
LP Letters and papers of the Reign of Henry VIII. London, 1862 &c.
MLat Middle Latin
P Pipe Rolls
RH Rotuli hundredorum. Record Com. 1812-18.
Sa Shropshire
Tax Taxatio ecclesiastica, Record Com. 1802.
Val The Valuation of Norwich, Ed. W. E. Lunt, Oxford, 1926
>From same book...English Place Names
Litton Db [Litun DB, Litton 1273 Ipm, Lutton 1302 FA], L~Cheney Do
[Lideton 1204 Cur, 1212 Fees, Ludeton 1204 cur, 1236 FF, Ludinton 1236
Fees], L~ So [Hlytton c 1050, Hlittun 1065 Wells, Litune DB, Lidtona
1176, Lutton 1245 Wells], L~ YW [Litone DB, Littuna 1148 YCh 179,
Lictona 1182-5 YCh 199, Lyttona c 1210 FC]. OE Hlydan-tun 'TUN on R
Hlyde' or 'TUN on a torrent'. See Lyd. Lictone YCh 199 is probably to
be
disregarded. If not, this Litton is OE lictun 'burial-ground'.
L~ Cheney was held by Ralph Cheyne in the late 14th cent. Cf. CHENIES.
Abbreviations used in the above:
Cur Curia Regis Rolls
D Devenshire
Db Derbyshire
DB Domesday Book. London, 1783-1816. This reference also includes
the Exon
Domesday. The date of both is 1086.
Do Dorset
FA Feudal AIds. Rolls Ser. 1899 ff
FC The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey. Chethan Soc. NS, 9 ff..
Fees The Book of Fees. Rolls Ser. 1920-21
FF Feet of Fines (Feet of Fines for the County of Norfolk 1198-1202.
Ed. Barbara
Dodwell. London, 1952 (Pipe Roll Soc.) Feet of Fines for the County of
Lincoln 1199-
1216. Ed. Margaret Walker. London, 1954 (Pipe Roll Soc.)).
Ipm Inquisitions post mortem.
LYD R D [Lide 1249 Ass]. OE Hlyde, a river-name derived from hlud
'loud' and
meaning 'roaring stream, torrent'. Hlyde must have been a very common
noun for
'torrent'.
OE Old English
R river-name
So Somerset
Wells Wells MSS. HMC 1907, 1914.
YCh Early Yorkshire Charters. Ed. Farrer. Edinburgh, 1914 &c.
YW The West Riding of Yorkshire.
Good hunting - good luck! Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com
Hi, Cuzzins: just sharing some general CHANEY data.
Copying a document from the - Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families -
which includes various names also found in VA [and the other 50!], so
this, hopefully, is of general interest to many.
-----CHANEY-----
[most Caps are mine for ease in reading]
CHANEY-(TALBOTT)-OWENS
Registrants: Under the dignity of MANORIAL RIGHTS on the Maternal
lineage, TALBOTT. Landed Gentry through CHANEY and OWENS.
Through the right of descent -
CHANEY: Mr. Irving Drury CHANEY
Miss Elizabeth TALBOTT CHANEY
(*Asso. Memb. of The Sou. Md. Soc. of Colonial Dames)
Mrs. Irving CHANEY, nee--Olivia TALBOTT, widow of Dr. Irving CHANEY.
(*Assoc. Memb. of The Sou. Md. Soc. of Colonial Dames)
Address-Dunkirk, Calvert Co., MD
Lineage: Joseph OWENS m--Susanna, 1690; their son was Thomas OWENS,
who m--Ann -----; had son, Isaac OWENS, b.----1729, d----1823, m---1789
Elizabeth RAWLINGS, who son was Henry OWENS, b--1796, d---1854, m--1824
Eleanor CARR WELCH, b---1806, d---1866; had dau---, Sarah Jane OWENS,
b---1831, d--1911. She m---Fielder Bowie SMITH, a physician, b---1834,
having dau---, Nellie Welch SMITH, b---1859, m---Irving Drury CHANEY and
having son, Irving Drury CHANEY, Jr., who m---Elizabeth Olivia TALBOTT;
their children are Elizabeth Talbott CHANEY and Irving Drury CHANEY,
IIIrd.
Through the lineage of Eleanor CARR WELCH, who m---Henry OWENS, four
geneations trace back to the lineage of WELCH as follows: She was
dau--- of Benj. WELCH and Ruth DRURY. He was son of Robt. WELCH and
Eleanor CARR. He was son of John WELCH, b---1713, d---1817, m---Mary
RAWLINGS. His father was Robert WELCH, the progenitor.
Robert WELCH, who m---Eleanor CARR, 1777. She was the dau.---Benj. CARR
of the estate of "Carr's Hill", granted 1766; he d---1799. His wife was
Drucilla SOPER.
Benj. WELCH m---Ruth DRURY, b---1781, dau---of Samuel DRURY of "Drury's
Plantation", b---1753 and his wife, Ann IJAMS, b---1759 (dau---of
Plummer IJAMS, b---1715m d---1792, and his wife, Ruth CHILDS,
d---1794.) Plummer IJAMS was son of Eliz. PLUMMER and William IJAMS.
Another ancester, Charles DRURY, of the East India Co., d---1766;
m---1733; first, Alice ADNEY, and second, Miss COALE. Their son by
second marriage was Samuel DRURY, who m---Ann IJAMS.
Arms: As HERALDIC RIGHTS to Lord TALBOTT, etc.
Suggest, if interested, you look-up Heraldic/Family Crests. Any search
engine should do the job.
Good hunting - good luck! Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com
At 04:16 PM 10/5/97 -0700, you wrote:
>> Hi - is this CHEYNE list/group still active - maybe I'm just not getting
>> the msg. Don't know what's going on. Had this problem on one other
>> list I joined. Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com
>
> I too have not received much lately. I assume that we are all just busy
>and not tending much to email. I for one have had no time for anything but
>work for the last few months.
Hi all,
Like many of you, I have had a busy summer and haven't done much to
promote the page & list. I know there are many Cheyne cousins that
are not listed on the lineage page. If you would like to add you line to the
page ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~cheyne/list.htm ) please send me
an e-mail.
In the unlikely event that you haven't visited the CHEYNE page, it's at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cheyne/
Please feel free to post to the list. We have many folks that might be
either able to assist you or make your aquaintance.
Cheers,
--Derick
Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com wrote:
> Hi - is this CHEYNE list/group still active - maybe I'm just not getting
> the msg. Don't know what's going on. Had this problem on one other
> list I joined. Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com
I too have not received much lately. I assume that we are all just busy
and not tending much to email. I for one have had no time for anything but
work for the last few months.
Kaye and I hope that all are well. We hope to start a new restoration on
our hose this fall. We also hope to get to visit Scotland next Spring. If
so, I will be at the SRO for a day or two -- so if you have a Cheyne lookup
-- pass it along and I will try to accommodate you.
Cheers
Hi - is this CHEYNE list/group still active - maybe I'm just not getting
the msg. Don't know what's going on. Had this problem on one other
list I joined. Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com