BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'

Subject: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Bill D
Date: 29 May 07 - 09:26 PM

amazing place....http://www.refdesk.com/ You can either browse at random, or wait till you need a quick reference for something, but there is no end to the time you can waste realms of information you can find!

What...you didn't KNOW that there were listings of earthquakes by date & year?

Don't get lost, now.

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 29 May 07 - 09:33 PM

Bookmarked for later - only 'cause I trust ya' Bill.

(It does look good to a first scan.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 May 07 - 10:30 PM

Exactly! Thanks, Bill!

SRS
(Look at this--three of Mudcat's know-it-alls line up behind this product--it must be good!)

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 May 07 - 11:13 PM

ALL Mudcatters are know-it-alls.

~MCKIA

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: mack/misophist
Date: 30 May 07 - 09:51 AM

I use 3 browsers. It's the home page on firefox.

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Amos
Date: 30 May 07 - 10:41 AM

THanks for the neat link and reference resource!! In gratitude, I hereby cackle, chuckle, crow, giggle, guffaw, hee-haw*, snicker, sniggle, snort, tehee, titter, babble, blather, burble, chat, chatter, chortle, chuckle, cluck, crow, gab, gabble, gas, gibber, giggle, gobble, jabber, jaw, prattle, quack, run on, snicker, and snigger in your general direction!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 07 - 11:21 AM

Shucks, been usin' it for years. It's well known to the library crowd.

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 07 - 11:23 AM

Dang! I meant to add a link to another great source for facts,
The Internet Public Library.

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Alice
Date: 30 May 07 - 12:20 PM

Thanks for that link. My first search was for definitions of "fundamentalism" (no dinos in bible thread).
;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Bill D
Date: 30 May 07 - 12:25 PM

"......titter, babble, blather, burble, chat, chatter...."

much like usual, huh Amos? *grin*
I am honored by the volume!

(now it's 6 know-it-alls)

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 31 May 07 - 07:57 AM

Thanks Bill D. and Rapaire! I can now spend 24 hours a day instead of just 10 or so, searching genealogy sites for ancestor information...

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Bill D
Date: 31 May 07 - 11:21 AM

Lin...that IS dangerous! I just discovered geneology sites, and have added to MY knowlege of my ancestry quite a bit. But, if you can stick to JUST the geneology sites, you have more restraint than me.....I need a 36 hour day.

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 May 07 - 07:11 PM

Lin has it easy. Her US ancestors mostly came over quite recently, and she finds all sorts of ship manifests, immigrant lists, and census reports and stuff quite easily. She's working on 82d cousins 99 points removed at present.

Most of my ancestors have been here since before there were any records (here), and being honest business people they didn't report the locations and capacities of the stills or where they hid the "running irons" so there ain't much of any records to find.

I'm pretty sure a couple were buried under assumed names.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Bill D
Date: 31 May 07 - 10:02 PM

Yep...most of mine go back to the 1750s and further. I just found ONE branch (Anna Elizabeth is my direct ancestor) which goes back to England and Holland. Then,her branch goes on back...there is one branch, the Lowbers, which heads off to Holland in the 1690s.

On my mother's side, every generation is 100 miles closer to the Virgina colonies...back to the 1740s or so.

Complicated stuff to be sure you have it right!

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Bill D
Date: 31 May 07 - 10:04 PM

(I have about 4 pages of stuff open all the time now, as I copy the data into a .ged program...)

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 12:25 AM

Bill D. -

The most recent ancester of mine that I can find that died (confirmably) other than in the US is Henry Tugwell b. 1525 London, England, d. 1589 London, England.

His son, "William I Tugwell b. 1560 London England, d. unknown" provides:

(Note: In 1614 the Royal Garment Company of Bradford England sent William II as a representative of his father's company to the Virginia colony. He was accompanied by his younger brother, Benjamin who was sent as an assistant surveyor by the firm of Tuggle, Tarrant and Herndon.)"

This family apparently consisted of "travellin' men" as they seem to have wandered back and forth a lot, but within a couple of generations: Thomas Tugwell b. 04 Dec 1629 Bradford, Somersetshire, England, d. Dec 1684 Middlesex Co., Virginia, burial 04 Jan 1684/85. All later in that line were confirmably born and died here.

Several other of my lines turn blank within 3 generations back, as with g-g granny's tombstone (d. 1875) that says "wife of," but no other trace of hubby has ever been found - coming or going, except a marriage license that gives nothing but their names. His family name appears for many generations back in the US, but we haven't found any direct links to any of them. Apparently he didn't write home much, or the folks back home who kept the books didn't like to talk about him(?).

Sparse results tend to dampen enthusiasm.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 08:15 AM

John just THINKS I've got it easy--all my forbears were from either Germany or Luxembourg, and I don't speak the language. So trying to research overseas is a very thankless process. At least you guys can understand the documents you find!

But I tend to look at it as "solving mysteries" anyway, so... and occasionally, like this week, I find something by total accident: I'm proofreading a book and find a reference to Martin Brinegar's cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains--he was a cousin, fourth removed or some such, who knows--but definitely a long-lost relative. Check this out; scroll down a bit for picture.

Bill D., some days even 36 hours wouldn't be enough. But GOOD LUCK WITH THE HISTORY HUNTIN'--and let's keep using the free sites as much as we can before they start charging money for ALL the government records!

Subject: RE: BS: Bookmark! 'The Best Source for Facts'
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 09:04 AM

Wow, John...1614 puts those Tugwell brothers right in the early days of the Virginia colonies. Some of those excavations going on might find traces of them.

Yes, Lin...I keep being frustrated as half of all the 'hits' send me to 'Ancestry.com', where they want $$$$$ to tell me whether my G-G-G grandfather had any kids.

(Nice cabin, Lin...real elegant. And it's interesting that you found the picture!)

My family had some similar digs...here's grandpa in Oklahoma in about 1912, when he was trying to break into the oil business...and below is the hotel he ran in Lost Springs, Kansas after he gave up on the oil business). They were the first ones to leave Pennsylvania/Delaware.