http://genealogy.about.com/od/basics/a/cluster.htm?nl=1

Our ancestors did not live in isolation, although we often research
them as if they did. They were part of a family, with siblings,
parents, aunts and uncles, cousins and other relatives. They were also
part of a community, with friends, neighbors, classmates, and
co-workers. This "cluster" of family, friends and neighbors can
provide valuable clues to the lives of our ancestors.

Cluster genealogy, sometimes referred to as whole family or extended
family genealogy, is the practice of extending your research on a
person to the individuals and families to which he was connected.
These connections could range from his brother or spouse, to the
neighbor who appeared as a witness on a land deed.

Why Cluster Genealogy?

Read more at

http://genealogy.about.com/od/basics/a/cluster.htm?nl=1

Hi members,

Early this year I asked the question:

          "Now that the major holidays are behind us I hope everyone
          is settling in for some genealogy. What are your plans for
          Badcock research this year? I hope to hear from many of you
          with data on the line you're working on. Perhaps your family
          lines will cross paths with those of other members."

... And I got fair to middling response in some of these lists.

So how did you do? Did you achieve those goals? Are you making
progress? Please tell us how you're doing. Remember to include
dates, places and names of spouses and children (and their spouses)
so that others will know if they are researching the same line.
Also any methods you've been using and in what locations
(libraries, web sites, cemeteries, etc.) are you searching.

For best results start with a new email addressed to
mailto:BadcockCousins@yahoogroups.com with names of the key
ancestors in the subject line. I hope to hear from you soon.


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all,

David




David Sylvester

A Onelist-Yahoogroups Listowner since 1998
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/

28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974

Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.

Members,

In the U.S.A. we celebrate the Independence of our nation every July 4.

Tell us a story about the hero or heroine in your ancestry. Was he
a soldier? Was she a nurse? A leader? A wife or other family member
who stayed home to run the farm? A political leader? A patriot?

If your ancestor helped to win Independence in another land we'd
like to hear about him or her.

If your ancestor was instrumental in gaining Independence in any
other way tell us that story.

If your ancestor does not fit any of the above criteria but was
just plain Independent we'd love to hear about that one!    :)

I look forward to hearing your story.


David

http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/badcock.html

Hi list,

Now that the major holidays are behind us I hope everyone is
settling in for some genealogy. What are your plans for Badcock
research this year? I hope to hear from many of you with data on
the line you're working on. Perhaps your family lines will cross
paths with those of other members.

Please send a post to this list telling us about your Badcock
ancestor. Remember to include dates, places and names of spouses
and children (and their spouses) so that others will know if they
are researching the same line. Also if you wish what methods will
you use and in what locations (libraries, web sites, cemeteries,
etc.) will you search.

For best results start with a new email addressed to
mailto:BadcockCousins@yahoogroups.com with names of the key
ancestors in the subject line. I hope to hear from all of you soon.


Best wishes,

David



David Sylvester

A Onelist-Yahoogroups Listowner since 1998
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/

28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974

Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.

Hi List,

If you're searching your Badcock ancestors in New England as I am
I'm sure you have heard of James Savage's "A Genealogical
Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England" more commonly
known simply as "Savage", and you've probably used it in your
search for New England ancestors. I've found many of my early
Colonial ancestors in that set of books. It's likely you used a
copy at a library, like I have, or possibly you own a set.
Unfortunately the set is again out of print, in paper version that is.

Now there are two ways you can use Savage's Dictionary, both in
electronic form, one on CD that you can purchase and one that you
can access online.


The online version is located at
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/ and is oddly
entitled "Image Map Page". Once you get past that look in the
middle of the page for Volumes 1 through 4 which the user can click
on to get to the meat and potatoes of the site. Volume 1 contains
an introductory page, a preface, and a list of abbreviations. The
user should become familiar with the abbreviations as they are used
throughout the volume just as they were in the original print
version. Please be aware that the data in these Volumes were
transcribed by humans and formatted in HTML for our ease of use so
there may be errors. I do not see a link to where one might report
errors other than the standard e-mail contact link(s).

As example some of my own ancestral names can be found at this
site. Joseph Merry can be found about midway down the page at
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk3/meriam-middleton.htm;
Some Dyers can be seen at
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk2/dunen-earl.htm
but unfortunately I haven't traced my Dyer line back far enough to
find an original progenitor here; My John Washburn can be seen
about 2/3 the way down at
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/warren-waterhouse.htm;
and my Richard Sylvester (spelled Silvester in those days) can be
found part way down at
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/bk4/sigourney-skeath.htm.

The site is great! My only request for improvement would be to make
the links to pages turn color, such as the standard violet, after
visiting them. This would make it easier to keep track of which
pages I  have already visited. Otherwise the site is great and
seems to be thorough based on comparison with some photocopied
pages I have of the print version.


The CD version of Savage is better described in an article found at
http://genealogyblog.com/united-states-research/new-england/a-genealogical-dicti\
onary-of-the-first-settlers-of-new-england-5377.
The article gives a short biography of James Savage and describes
the methods with which Savage gathered the data. A link in the
article takes you to the site where one can purchase the CD. The
data on the CD is in PDF format requiring the download of Acrobat
Reader a free reader.


Note that I have no financial interest in the sale of the CD nor am
I interested the number of clicks received at the site of the
online version. Best of luck researching your ancestors wherever
you do your searching.


Regards,


David Sylvester

A Onelist-Yahoogroups Listowner since 1998
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/

28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974

Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.

What is Domesday Book?



At Christmas 1085 William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey to
discover the resources and taxable values of all the boroughs and
manors in England. He wanted to discover who owned what, how much it
was worth, and how much was owed to him as King.

It was a massive enterprise, and the record of that survey, Domesday
Book, was a remarkable achievement.



More at
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/domesday.asp?homelink=domesda\
ybanner1

I thought this would be of interest to all who seek their roots thus
I'm sending this to all the lists I manage no matter what place or
surname.

I have just downloaded the software and I'm setting up and testing it
planning to be online a'chattin' with Dick this Thursday. I hope to
see... er.. hear some of you also.

Regards,

David


The article follows:


Announcing Genealogy Voice Chats

Genealogy chat sessions have been popular for years. These "chats"
have always been conducted keyboard-to-keyboard. That is, participants
type on their own keyboards and then look at their computer screens to
read the text entered by other chat room participants. I would like to
propose something different: voice chats.

The voice chats will operate in a manner quite similar to telephone
conference calls. These will be free calls, however. Windows,
Macintosh, and Linux users alike may participate.

I am not certain if there is any interest in voice chats within the
genealogy community. The only method of measuring interest is to hold
a few chat sessions and see how popular they become.

I am suggesting that the first few voice chats be "open chat sessions"
where we can talk about almost anything. I suspect one popular topic
will be, "How do I use this thing?" If enough genealogists join in,
the agendas can be expanded. We could eventually have live genealogy
lectures or classes, conducted by experts in some different
genealogy-related topics. It doesn't make sense to hold such live
chats, however, until the amount of interest can be measured.

While the chats will be free and the required software is free, you
may have to obtain just a bit of hardware. In order to speak, you will
need a microphone that plugs into your computer's sound card. To
listen, you will need either speakers or headphones that plug into the
same sound card. Most people use headsets - headphones that have an
attached microphone. Computer headsets are somewhat similar in
appearance to those worn by telephone operators.

The use of headphones or a headset in lieu of speakers eliminates
problems with echoes or unwanted "feedback." Have you ever heard the
squeal of a public address system when a microphone is too close to
the loudspeaker? Using headphones or a headset eliminates that problem
in computer chat sessions.

The voice chat sessions will be held on Skype, a free service that
allows anyone with a computer, microphone and headphones (or headset)
to make free telephone calls over the Internet. The Skype service
includes "SkypeCasts," a new way to have telephone-like conversations
with multiple people across the world who share your interests. A
SkypeCast allows for up to 100 people to be connected together in a
single conference call at no charge to the participants. All that is
required is a computer with an Internet connection and the free Skype
software, microphone, headphones or speakers (or headset). Dial-up
connections will work although audio quality will be significantly
better on broadband connections.

I am suggesting that we first try this on Thursday, August 10 at 10:00
PM Eastern U.S. Time, 7:00 PM Pacific. International


More at
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/08/announcing_gene.html

New Genealogy E-Magazine: Digital Genealogist

The following is an announcement from Liz Kelley Kerstens:

Ancestry has discontinued its magazine Genealogical Computing,
effective with the July/August/September 2006 issue that is currently
in the mail. As editor of GC for the past nearly seven years, I still
believe there's a need for a magazine devoted to genealogy and
technology. To that end, I am starting my own magazine later this
year. It will be called Digital Genealogist and will be delivered to
subscribers as a PDF. It will be similar in format and content to
Genealogical Computing. In fact, a lot of the authors and columnists
will continue to write for me in the new publication, including Drew
Smith, popular Cybrarian columnist. The first issue of Digital
Genealogist will be sent out via PDF attachment to subscribers in
November 2006.

More at
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/07/new_genealogy_e.html

DNAPrint Genomics' Ancestry e-Symposium Now Available for Streaming or
Download



http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=3622406

Hi List,

There's a great new resource for genealogists on the web that I
wanted to tell you about. It's called Linkpendium.com and it's
Free! I was going to write an article about it but I found that
Dick Eastman had already written a nice article about the site in
his newsletter at
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/07/linkpendium.html
. Since Dick has always given me permission to post his articles to
mailing lists I'm taking the liberty of including it here in it's
entirety.

FYI: Linkpendium.com links back from it's Badcock page
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/sur/surc-B/surc-Bad/sur-Badcock/
to our list homepage.

I hope you find this site helpful in your search.

Regards,

David Sylvester
Badcock Listowner



Linkpendium

One of the great unsung genealogy resources on the Web is
Linkpendium. It is a compendium of links to U.S. genealogy-related
information on the World Wide Web. Its home page proclaims that it
presently contains links to 4,987,236 genealogy sites.

Linkpendium was developed by Karen Isaacson and Brian Leverich, the
same two people who created RootsWeb some years ago. RootsWeb was
eventually acquired by MyFamily.com, the same company that operates
Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com. Obviously, Karen and Brian have not
been sitting on their hands since their RootsWeb days. They seem to
be indexing all sorts of genealogy information on the Internet.
Linkpendium has been online for close to three years now but
doesn't seem to receive much publicity.

At first glance, Linkpendium would appear to be a competitor of
Cyndi's List (which I love and use often). However, once you enter
Linkpendium, you quickly realize that it is a very different kind
of service. Cyndi's List contains 150 different categories,
including Beginners, Biographies, Births & Baptisms, Calendars,
CD-ROM disks, Clothing & Costumes, Family Bibles, Famous People and
many, many more categories. On the other hand, Linkpendium focuses
on U.S. state, county, and local resources as well as surnames.
Linkpendium doesn't have links to genealogy software or to
calendars. As a comparison, I would suggest that Cyndi's List
contains a broad range of categories whereas Linkpendium is much
more focused. In addition, Linkpendium seems to go much deeper into
those areas of its interests.

The Linkpendium links to family surnames are extensive. All the
links point to other web sites, and the quality of those other web
sites obviously varies. I found that quite a few of the links that
I tried led to message boards that seem to be inactive. A few led
to very active messages boards on RootsWeb, GenCircles, and
Genealogy.com.

Linkpendium's real strength is its pointers to resources at the
county level of all U.S. states. I suspect that is where the
majority of links are to be found. Indeed, I looked at Penobscot
County, Maine, as it is one county where I have significant
expertise. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of links there,
including many that I had never seen before. The list included
links to many cemetery transcriptions as well as to city
directories, published town histories, buildings listed in the
National Register of Historic Places, land records, libraries,
museums, mailing lists, maps, online obituaries, genealogy and
historical societies, and quite a bit more. In my casual perusal of
several other counties in other states, I saw similar lists.

Linkpendium also has excellent lists at the state level in addition
to those listed under each county. However, the site seems to focus
heavily on county resources. I found no information for locations
outside the U.S.

In short, if you are looking for U.S. genealogy or history web
sites and resources, Linkpendium should be on your checklist of
places to look. You will find many links there. In fact, you will
find more than two million of them.

To see for yourself, go to http://www.linkpendium.com




A Onelist-Yahoogroups Listowner since 1998
http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/

David Sylvester
28 North Searsport Road
Searsport, Maine 04974

Free Genealogy -- Roots should be shared.

Found at
http://www.dnronline.com/skyline_details.php?AID=5176&sub=Rural%20Pen



Ball is the name engraved across the top of a large headstone in a
cemetery I pass by often. It never meant anything to me until last week.

Now the past haunts me. Not my own life's past, but my antecedents
whose DNA and God-knows-what-else I carry. I have many questions.

Mom always told me, offering no evidence, our antecedents came over on
the Mayflower. As it turns out, that family legend was not far from
the truth. I recently contacted a long-lost first cousin who
investigated our shared genealogy. David was not lost and neither was
I, but we are a scattered family, with little contact beyond our
primary relationships. He seemed glad to hear from me and to share the
family history.

So my many-greats grandfather John Ball did move from Wiltshire,
England, to Watertown, the third large settlement in Massachusetts, in
1632. His son, John Ball, married an Elizabeth Peirce, who was deemed
to be insane. That explains that.

After the death of Elizabeth, John married another Elizabeth. Both
were killed in Lancaster, Mass., in an Indian raid that was part of
King Phillips War in 1675. I remember learning about that war in
history class.

In the meantime, my many-greats grandfather William Still moved to
Coram, N.Y., and had a family farm there. Both he and another John
Ball (the Stills and Balls would eventually merge) fought in the
Revolutionary War, Still in the Battle of Long Island, and Ball in
Quebec and at Fort Ticonderoga.

David had lots of information on the Still family, which is his last
name and was my mother's maiden name. Her mother, Florence Still, was
a Storms before she married my grandfather. We joke about that change
in name.

In the meantime, my Dutch Storm (the `s' was added later) ancestors,
Dirck and Maria, sailed from Amsterdam in 1662 to New Amsterdam. A few
years later, the English captured New Amsterdam and changed the name
to New York.

David has many stories about Dirck and Maria Storm. Dirck worked as an
innkeeper, the town clerk of Brooklyn and Flatbush, the secretary of
Orange County, N.J., and was precantor at the Brooklyn and Flatbush
Dutch Reformed churches. The couple eventually settled in Sleepy
Hollow, a few miles north of the city.

One thing that's striking in these pages of genealogy is the number of
children these folks had. Dirck and Maria Storm had nine. John and
Lydia Ball had 13. In all those hundreds of years, the couple with the
fewest children had four.

Even though these folks were farmers, clerks and carpenters, with not
a whole bunch of money or means, the primal instinct to perpetuate the
race was strong. That's the opposite of nowadays, when working couples
are (relative to history and the rest of the world) rich, well able to
raise a large family, but prefer to remain childless or have a child
or two.

What happened, Darwin? Your theory has broken down in the wealthiest,
healthiest nation in the earth's history. The fittest have no interest
in survival, just appearances.

My grandmother, Florence Elizabeth Storms, was an only child, born on
March 3, 1897. Her mother, Mary Elizabeth Smith Storms, died three
days later. My grandmother was raised by her aunts, her mother's
sisters. I met some of these women, Aunt Mae and Aunt Caroline and
others, a few times growing up and at my grandmother's funeral. They
all lived upstate, along the Hudson. I have no contact with any of them.

David has also included lots of information and stories on the
families that married into the Balls. I can see now why he has a
"love/hate" relationship with genealogy, because that raises questions
about all those who married into the Storms and Stills as well.
Curiosity could drive you down every genealogical trail along the
path. It's clear he's spent an awful amount of time at this, visiting
cemeteries, churches, county seats.

So what do I do with all this?

In biology class a few years ago, I learned we all carry our mother's
mitochondria. It is passed down generation after generation.

I wonder, do we inherit other non-physical aspects of our foremothers
and forefathers? What about memory? What about the things I think and
ways I feel that I do not understand? Is who I am today a result of my
own life experiences or is it tied in to my mother's and grandmother's
and great-grandmother's and great-great-grandmother's experiences,
emotions, decisions?

How can I know? Does it matter?

Hi List,

This is my Badcock line that I'm researching. To save space per
line I'm giving only brief dates and omitting name prefixes such as
Deacon, Capt., etc and places. If you also follow this line I will
be glad to provide any further details that I may have. If I have
an incorrect date or if you can provide a missing date or missing
name or if you have any corrections on family lines I'd like to
hear from you.

1-- Samuel Badcock (____-____)    Hannah Eames (____-____)
2-- Hannah Badcock (1675-1732)    Thomas Vose (1667-1722)
3-- Jonathan Vose (1704-1760)     Mary Field (1701/2-1775)
4-- Seth Vose (1734-____)         Rachel Copeland (1729-1745)
5-- David Vose (1776-1845)        Alice Lewis Eastman (1780-____)
6-- Sarah E Vose (1809-____)      Nathan Smith Haskell (____-1844)
7-- Alice Ann Haskell (1841-1911) Parris Dyer (1840-1929)
8-- Edgar Willis Dyer (1867-1931) Anna May Dolloff (1874-1916)
9-- Sadie Jane Dyer (1899-1973)   John Herbert Merry (1895-1993)
10--Living Merry (1924-)          Living Sylvester (1917-)
11--David Wayne Sylvester (1951-) Living (1955-)
12--Living Sylvester (1991-)