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Ok, off topic, but very necessary at this point! I hope to save allot of
people on my lists the problems of contracting a virus at the same time
enlightening some of you to the how's and why's of them, along with a little
of what to do with them.
The last few days there have been a rash of them coming back again, such as
the Stuart Deskmate one and Melissa and Pretty Park as well. We have to
watch very carefully with these as they are on the move again and moving
very fast! First of all, Rootsweb does not allow attachments to their
lists, so if you get one from Rootsweb, it's not coming from Rootsweb! They
get in through an attachment, then steal the address book, up to fifty
names, then sends itself to all of those and hoping that some of those will
open it and do the same thing again and again! So just because it came from
an address that is listed, does not mean that is where it came from. The
last one that I had personal dealings with, came from France and was bounced
off of two different satellites to an address in Des Moines, so don't jump
to conclusions that so and so sent me a virus. As a general rule, do not
open attachments unless you know the person that sent it to you and you know
in advance that they are going to send you one. If you are a brave sole,
then at least make sure that you have an up to date antivirus program that
is upgraded on line at least every third week or more. Most good antivirus
programs are under twenty-five bucks and are cheap considering that you
could lose all of your data from years of research or lock your computer up.
Also, be informed about viruses and hoaxes! If you aren't sure, look them
up! I will post a list of sites that I personally use most of the time that
are very good! Again, please do not post virus warnings to the lists! Send
them to me and I will determine whether to post them or not.
I am posting this to twelve of my lists, that I own and on that I
administer, so if you receive this more than once, I apologize. Just delete
the extras.
Here are the sites that I use:
http://computingcentral.msn.com/Topics/SafeComputing/DBList2.asp?ForumID=30&
CategoryID=3789 This is all one site address on two lines just because it
is so long.
http://www.avpve.com/http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.htmlhttp://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.htmlhttp://www.datafellows.com/vir-info/http://www.mcafee.com/http://www.cheyenne.com/security/avirus.htmlhttp://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/http://www.stiller.com/http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/http://www.norton.com/http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default.asphttp://www.virusbtn.com/http://csrc.nist.gov/virus/http://www.virusbtn.com/WildLists/http://www.getvirushelp.com/main.ssi
Last but not least, be sure to back up all of your material that you can't
afford to lose! Good luck and be careful please!
Fred
There have been some questions lately on why so people died at a given time
or whole families died at the same time and obviously not from car accidents
way back when! Here may be some help to some of you that have family that
are in that categories in a given time frame. I am sending this to all of
my lists, so if you are on more than one of the nine, just delete the
extras.
Fred
Year(s) / Region, Area, City or State / Disease
1657 / Boston / Measles
1687 / Boston / Measles
1690 / New York / Yellow Fever
1713 / Boston / Measles
1729 / Boston / Measles
1732-1733 / Worldwide / Influenza
1738 / South Carolina / Smallpox
1739-1740 / Boston / Measles
1747 / Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina / Smallpox
1759 / North America / Measles
1761 / North America and West Indies / Influenza
1772 / North America / Measles
1775 / North America (especially in North East) / Unknown
1775-1776 / Worldwide / Influenza
1783 / Dover, Delaware (was extremely fatal) / Bilious Disorder
1788 / Philadelphia and New York / Measles
1793 / Vermont / (a "putrid" fever) and Influenza
1793 / Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks) / Influenza
1793 / Philadelphia / Yellow Fever
1793 / Harrisburg, PA (many unexplained deaths) / Unknown
1793 / Middletown, Pennsylvania (many mysterious deaths) / Unknown
1794 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
1796-1797 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Yellow Fever
1798 / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the worst) / Yellow Fever
1803 / New York / Yellow Fever
1820-1823 / Nationwide (started at Schuylkill River & spread) / "Fever"
1831-1832 / Nationwide (brought in by English Immigrants) / Asiatic
Cholera
1832 / New York and other major cities / Cholera
1833 / Columbus, Ohio / Cholera
1833-34 / Kentucky / Cholera
1834 / New York City, New York / Cholera
1837 / Philadelphia / Typhus
1841 / Nationwide (especially severe in the South) / Yellow Fever
1847 / New Orleans / Yellow Fever
1847-1848 / Worldwide / Influenza
1848-1849 / North America / Cholera
1849 / New York / Cholera
1850 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever
1850-1851 / North America / Influenza
1851 / Coles County, Illinois, The Great Plains, and Missouri / Cholera
1852 / Nationwide (New Orleans 8,000 died that summer) / Yellow Fever
1855 / Nationwide / Yellow Fever
1857-1859 / Worldwide (one of the largest epidemics) / Influenza
1860-1861 / Pennsylvania / Smallpox
1865-1873 / Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore,
Memphis, Washington DC / A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox,
Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, and Influenza
1873-1875 / North America & Europe / Influenza
1878 / New Orleans (last great epidemic) / Yellow Fever
1885 / Plymouth, Pennsylvania / Typhoid
1886 / Jacksonville, Florida / Yellow Fever
1918 / Worldwide (high point year) more people were hospitalized in WWI
from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death
camps, with 80% death rate in some camps. / Influenza or Spanish Flu
I am searching for anyone who might be working on the Southern Illinois
Cleveland,s . My line is Mahala Cleveland B. 1816 who M. Nathaniel Jones and
lived in Franklin Co.Il.
I believe she had some brothers who also came from Tn. to that area .We know
that one brother is listed as coming from Sumner Co.Tn. They are Andrew
J.Cleveland , Jesse Cleveland and posibly Evan Cleveland . They settled in
that area and some in Saline Co. Il , just across the county line .
Catherine