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>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:34:52 -0700
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>Ancestry HomeTown Daily
>"A Daily Dose of Genealogy"
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>March 27, 1998
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>In this issue:
>- Database of the Day - Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Allegiance, vol. 2
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>Pennsylvania Foreign Oaths of Allegiance, vol. 2
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>This database lists the names of immigrants who took the oath of
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>males over sixteen years of age were obliged to take this oath and
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>includes the individual's name, age, place of nationality, and
>occupation. Taking an oath of allegiance was a process undergone during
>early colonial emigration.
>
>Bibliography:
>Westcott, Thompson. Names Of Persons Who Took The Oath Of Allegiance To
>The State Of Pennsylvania Between The Years 1777 And 1789 : With A
>History Of The "Test Laws" Of Pennsylvania. Baltimore, MD : Genealogical
>Pub. Co., 1965 (reprint).
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Do we have any relations in Maury Co. Tenn.? If so we might consider
subbing to this list.
Tom
>Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 03:18:27 -0800 (PST)
>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:27:12 -0600 (CST)
>From: Glenn Gohr <ggohr01(a)mail.orion.org>
>X-Sender: ggohr01@orionc0
>To: dodson-l(a)rootsweb.com, hanks-l(a)rootsweb.com, wolverton-l(a)rootsweb.com,
> neville-l(a)rootsweb.com, LITTLEFIELD-ROOTS-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: Maury County, TN List
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>Chuck Demastus sent me information on this new list through Rootsweb. He
>is the list manager for the Maury County, Tennessee List. I am forwarding
>this message to the Dodson, Hanks, Wolverton, Neville, and Littlefield
>lists as each of these families lived in Maury County, Tennessee.
>
>Sincerely,
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>Glenn Gohr (List Manager for Hanks, Wolverton, and Neville)
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Some potential dark clouds have appeared on the horizion for us
genealogists. Read the article about the National Archives being closed,
and see what you can do to help.
Tom
>From: owner-hometown(a)list.ancestry.com
>Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:21:09 -0700
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>Ancestry HomeTown Daily
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>March 3, 1998
>
>In this issue:
>- Ancestry.com Featured on NBC's "Today" Show with Katie Couric
>- Database of the Day - Encyclopedia of Am. Quaker Genealogy
>- Today's New Maps
>- Win Airfare for Two to Your Ancestral Homeland!
> - National Archives Closures Threatened
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>Mary Kathleen Flynn who researched the topic for Today, chose
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> Sample dialogue between Couric and Flynn went as follows:
>
>Couric: "And you're here to tell us that there are thousands of Web
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>million Americans have started to trace their heritage. (Newsweek,
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>National Archives Closures Threatened
>
>(The following is the Editor's Note from the March/April issue of
>Ancestry Magazine, written by Loretto Dennis Szucs, Executive Editor.)
>
>According to a 1997 Newsweek article, "42 million Americans have started
>to trace their heritage." That reinforces an earlier USA Today poll in
>which 74.4 percent of the respondents indicated that they were
>"extremely/very interested" in learning more about their family trees.
>We've felt the surge in interest here at Ancestry, too - we recently had
>190,000 visitors to www.ancestry.com in one day.
>
>But all genealogists, whether long-time practitioners or new converts,
>have a dilemma. On the one hand, we are dedicated to saving the past,
>and this dedication has driven us to find ways to clean and store
>crumbling books and records. We have indexed miles of precious documents
>so that we can better identify them and have quicker access to them. We
>have taken a strong role in legislating record preservation.
>
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>exciting times. Technology is luring us into some quick fixes. We all
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>our eyes. Who doesn't want an immediate answer to the mystery that has
>frustrated our research for years? But technological advances open paths
>that are as yet untraveled, and family historians must reconcile doing
>research in old, original records with using computerized facsimiles.
>
>Our technology specialist, Mark Howells, sums up this fine line: "As
>with any genealogical resource which has been derived from original
>source material, computerized information should be used as a road sign
>pointing back to the original source records."
>
>The repositories of some of these original source records are
>spotlighted in this issue's article about the National Archives, which
>showcases incredible records that belong to all of us. Right now these
>precious pieces of our personal history are conveniently located in
>places most researchers can get to easily, maintained by archivists who,
>through years of experience, have come to know the collections
>intimately.
>
>While working on the staff of the National Archives in Chicago, I often
>saw the effect that touching original records had on researchers. There
>is a certain magic that takes place when someone can hold the very
>document on which an ancestor has signed his or her name or sees the
>photograph of a never-before-known grandfather affixed to a
>naturalization document. Federal court records and other agency files
>reveal facts about our ancestors' lives that are available nowhere else.
>
>Yet there is a very real danger that these unique treasures will be
>taken out of our reach. The Archivist of the United States, John Carlin,
>released a report last year entitled "Ready Access to Essential
>Evidence: The Strategic Plan of the National Archives and Records
>Administration 1997-2007," which states: "We will consolidate archival
>holdings in a few repositories." Another alarming note on the same page
>of this report states, "To the extent that it is cost-effective, we will
>selectively reappraise the record material already in NARA's custody,
>seek ways to reduce archival holdings that duplicate those of other
>institutions, and review existing retention periods for temporary
>records."
>
>This "ready access" plan makes it clear: there will be consolidations.
>Some of the regional research centers of the National Archives will be
>closed. Ironically, one of the NARA facilities immediately threatened is
>the most-used of all the regions: that of New York City. A New York
>Times article from the past year suggests that "some of the New York
>region's most prized paperwork might be shipped out of state," and this
>has "sent a shiver through the community of archivists and historians."
>Any such move, it is said, would take a piece of New York's soul.
>
>In a conversation with me last year, Mr. Carlin expressed his belief
>that genealogists needn't worry because they will still have access to
>microfilmed and digitized records. But, as we all know, there is no
>substitute for having access to the original documents.
>
>We should know soon whether Mr. Carlin's cutting plans will become a
>reality: the first stages of his plan are to be implemented within this
>calendar year. Will we have our records removed to some remote storage
>area, or will they stay where we really do have ready access? It is
>possible that if enough of us speak up about this important issue, we
>might force him to stop and reconsider his plan. To make your voice
>heard, write to your local congressional representatives, and to:
>
>John Carlin, Archivist of the United States
>National Archives and Records Administration
>8601 Adelphi Road
>College Park, MD 20740
>
>Loretto (Lou) Szucs
>Executive Editor, Ancestry Magazine
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>
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Some more stuff you might be interested in.
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>From: owner-hometown(a)list.ancestry.com
>Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:10:38 -0700
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>Ancestry HomeTown Daily
>"A Daily Dose of Genealogy"
>www.ancestry.com
>
>March 2, 1998
>
>In this issue:
>- Database of the Day - History of the United States
>- Today's New Maps
>- Irish Records Now on Sale!
>- Headlines from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
>- Help Wanted for Ancestry Chats!
>==============================================
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>2 March 1998
>
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Some interesting stuff from RootsWeb.
Tom
>Resent-Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:46:54 -0800 (PST)
>To: ROOTS-L(a)rootsweb.com, usgenweb-all-l(a)rootsweb.com,
> rootsweb-help(a)rootsweb.com, listowners-announce(a)rootsweb.com
>cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.computing,soc.genealogy.misc
>Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
>Subject: RootsWeb in January -- 451,786,000,000 Bytes Served
>Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 19:42:03 -0800
>From: Brian Leverich <leverich(a)rootsweb.com>
>Resent-From: listowners-announce(a)rootsweb.com
>X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce(a)rootsweb.com> archive/latest/36
>X-Loop: listowners-announce(a)rootsweb.com
>Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request(a)rootsweb.com
>
>
>I guess this is a new first -- we're posting the January
>statistics after, in principle, we could have computed the
>February statistics.
>
>Oh well. It's been *extremely* busy around here, dealing
>with the explosive growth and the many problems caused by
>the El Nino storms.
>
>The executive summary is that we had about 33% growth during
>just the month of January:
>
> o 27,751,946 Web files (20,835,802 in Dec) from 2,400
> Websites (2,240 in Dec).
> - 8,308,561 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin)
> (5,903,137 in Dec).
> - 3,574,701 were cgi-bin database searches and such.
> (2,911,509 in Dec).
> - 15,784,790 were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs (1,255,586)
> (11,849,905 in Dec were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs
> (947,279).
>
> o 618,762 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb
> Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (472,838 in Dec).
>
> o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we
> shipped about 88,649,000 pieces of mail to the
> 2,600+ (2,300 in Dec) mailing lists we host.
>
> o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles
> to hosts on three continents (same as Dec).
>
> o Approximately 451,786,000,000 bytes in total
> (321,408,000,000 in Dec).
>
>Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists in
>January, we also added new servers and a third and fourth T1
>connection to the Internet. (A T1 is about 50 times faster
>than a standard modem.) These additions have significantly
>increased our costs of operation, but they were essential if
>we were to continue to properly support the Internet
>genealogical community.
>
>As always, RootsWeb remains supported by user contributions.
>Folks who would like to become a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor
>(the cost is very modest) are invited to visit:
> http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html
>
>*** You can become a Member easily using your credit card
> and our new secure server. ***
>
>Now is a particularly good time for folks to join, because we
>have had a huge increase in utilization since Christmas. Our
>bandwidth rate has jumped from 321 to 451 gigabytes/month, and
>we're having to do numerous upgrades to our servers to support
>the load. Your membership can help our capacity keep up with
>the demands of the Internet genealogical community.
>
>Thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb -- clearly folks
>are continuing to exchanging a great deal of information! -B
>
>
>--
>Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L
>RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/
>P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich(a)rootsweb.com
>
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