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ACROSS MY DESK & READERS' FEEDBACK
- Natchez conference explores Free Blacks in the
Antebellum South
- Ancestors' deaths stump researcher
- One woman left to tell story of town
- Dick Eastman: Security of your mother's maiden
name
- AOL Help
- Much Ado about Mailing Lists & Newsgroups
NATCHEZ CONFERENCE EXPLORES FREE BLACKS IN THE
ANTEBELLUM SOUTH
http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2976992
JACKSON, Miss. "Natchez, a virtual
epicenter of free blacks in Mississippi before the Civil War, this week is
hosting a five-day seminar exploring the topic. "Between Two Worlds: Free
Blacks in the Antebellum South" begins Wednesday with speakers, movies and
musical performances. The conference marks the 16th year the Natchez Literary
and Cinema Celebration has hosted a convention of this caliber. Carolyn Vance
Smith, NLCC founder and co-chairman, said this year's theme was selected to
coincide with the opening of the renovated William Johnson house in Natchez.
Johnson, considered by historians as Mississippi's best known free black during
slavery times, owned a barber shop and bath house in Natchez during the early to
mid 1800s."
ANCESTORS' DEATHS STUMP RESEARCHER http://www.ldnews.com/Stories/0,1413,139~10142~2724118,00.html
"Ancestors who just seem to disappear
are always the most frustrating people. Edwin R. Sessamen of the Corning, N.Y.,
area knows what this is all about. Edwin R. Sessamen of the Corning, N.Y., area
knows what this is all about. He knows that his ancestor Thomas Sessamen, born
Oct. 13, 1805, and his wife, Susan Ream, born July 7, 1807, lived in Annville
Township in 1830. According to information in a family Bible, the couple were
alive in 1848, but he speculates that they died shortly thereafter since their
children seem to scatter."
ONE WOMAN LEFT TO TELL STORY OF TOWN
http://www.steamboatpilot.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/28612
"History stays around as long as there is someone
to tell it. Today, there is only one woman left to tell a piece of Routt County
history, and she lives in Craig. Maxine Turner, whose maiden name is Maxine
Trull, holds the history of the town of Trull in a pile of family photographs, a
few stories she heard from her parents and a couple newspaper clippings full of
conflicting information. The site of a small town that once was a bustling
stagecoach stop now is nothing more than pasture. Long ago, grass and the
elements took what was left of Trull's saloon, post office, boarding house and
livery stable."
SECURITY OF YOUR MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME
http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/02/the_security_of.html
Dick Eastman - Eastman's Online Genealogy
Newsletter [Warning: This article contains personal opinions of the author.] I
was driving down the road today, listening to a local news station on the car
radio. The newscaster was interviewing a so-called security "expert"
about proposed legislation supposedly designed to prevent identity theft and
credit card abuse. This "expert" claimed that we needed legislation to
prevent access to birth records by "unauthorized" individuals. Sound
familiar? Yes, we have heard and seen this song-and-dance act before. This guy
wants to lock genealogists out of the records that we have used for the past
century or so. The so-called "expert"
claimed that the Internet makes it too easy for someone to find your mother’s
maiden name, and that, of course, is the foundation of all security systems,
right? Let me press the button for that obnoxious sounding buzzer. BZZZZZ! Wrong
answer!"
AOL HELP FROM DICK EASTMAN
From his most recent newsletter Vol. 10 No. 8 – February 21, 2005
AOL 9.0 users: If the hotlinks in [Eastman's] newsletter do not work for you,
add the newsletter's e-mail address to your "Persons I Know" buddy
list. AOL members may want to read more about AOL's other e-mail problems at: http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2004/08/aol_mail_proble.html
MUCH ADO ABOUT MAILING LISTS & NEWSGROUPS
From: Teresa Elliott
DearMYRTLE,
[...] as those of use trying to administer rootsweb lists can attests, most
bounces come from AOL. I was thankful for your information as I am sure 99.99%
of your readers are. .01% nuts on a tree aren't too bad. LOL.
From: B M SPAGUE
DearMYRTLE,
You tell em'! I used AOL for about 2 weeks before I cancelled and they tried to
give me 3 months of free service and I still said no. You are so right, if they
don't like it, leave it. Thanks for being the honest person you are and letting
us "talk it out" like adults and not like children fighting over the
same toy.
From: Tom Herson
DearMYRTLE,
Time-Warner's Road Runner ISP doesn't deliver the Ancestry Daily News. It did
intermittently, for a short time, but nothing has come through in months. Both
Ancestry and Time-Warner are aware of the problem but neither company cares
enough to do anything about it. Purely, out of the kindness of her heart,
Juliana Smith, editor of Ancestry Daily News does send quite a few of us the
newsletter everyday directly from her. However, it shouldn't have to work that
way. I continue to get porn mail, ads for Viagra and offers of mortgages (none
of which I want) but I can't seem to get Time-Warner to allow the things that I
want to be delivered to me.
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