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knoxcotn-digest Sunday, June 18 2000 Volume 01 : Number 100
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:57:57 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Now THIS is sad... I just got a note that one of Knoxville's landmarks, Regas' restaurant on Gay Street, will be closing FOREVER before July 8th. No more prime rib. No more red velvet cake. Regas' even got its 2 minutes of national fame when A&E's biography did a piece on Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas, who began his restaurant career as a busboy at Regas'. Sigh.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 08:37:55 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] (Fwd) Heritage Quest Completes Digitization of entire U.S. Census As always, remember that the quality of digitized images is only as good as the original. They worked from microfilm...some of which was already illegible. I've seen some digitized film from another vendor and was disappointed. If you order any, be SURE you have a return policy.
- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date forwarded: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:17:31 -0700 Date sent: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:49:52 -0700 From: Cyndi Howells <cyndihow@oz.net> Subject: Heritage Quest Completes Digitization of entire U.S. Census To: CyndisList-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: CyndisList-L@rootsweb.com MEDIA RELEASE June 12, 2000 For immediate release Heritage Quest Completes Digitization of entire U.S. Census, 1790 to 1920 Bountiful, UT--Heritage Quest Genealogical Services announces the completion of its massive digitization project of the entire U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790 to 1920. This project, which has taken over two years, makes available to genealogists and other researchers enhanced digital images of all 12,555 rolls of census microfilm in easy-to-use CD-ROM format for home computer use. Each roll of microfilm has a corresponding CD that is numbered with the National Archive and Record Administration (NARA) number. The digitized microfilm images are stored as databases and are replicated as CD's on demand. Orders for the digital microfilm census CD's are processed within three days of the time they are received. To celebrate the digital census project completion, Heritage Quest is extending a special "buy-3-and-get-1-FREE" offer now through July 31. The development of digital census records on CD-ROM now makes available to anyone interest in family history research the single most important resource for finding and tracing ancestors. In the past, complete census microfilms have only been available at about 20 locations in the U.S., or by inter-library loan film rental. This has frustrated many genealogists and lengthened the research process. By making the census records available on CD-ROM, the ease and speed with which research can be done is greatly accelerated. Details and ordering information are available via the internet at http://www.HeritageQuest.com or by calling 800-760-2455. Indexes speed up the research process. To speed up searches even more Heritage Quest is creating name indexes for each census year and has completed indexes for 1790, 1800 and 1870. Indexes for some other census years will be completed in the next few months. In the process of re-indexing previously indexed censuses, like the 1790 and 1800, thousands of errors, missed names, townships, and counties have been added or corrected. Enhanced images make reading the records easier. Anyone who has used census microfilm will tell you that many of the images are too dark, too light, or too scratched to read. Through the enhanced digitization process, which Heritage Quest has developed, most of these problems have been eliminated. Names and other census information long un-recognizable are now available. Further ease of census research is possible through state-of-the-art software. Each census CD-ROM comes with state-of-the-art software that allows the user to enlarge the census image to any size, so that difficult letters or numbers can be examined. Images can be sized for easy scanning of pages, selected for copying to disc or printer, and cut and pasted into documents. By holding down the right mouse button, a special magnifier is activated and can be moved with the mouse for quick and easy reading of census images. Click on an icon and the census page changes from a positive (black on white) to a negative (white on black) image. The user-friendly software also features pointer navigation, left and right, top and bottom, and other useful features.
- ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:38:49 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] Fwd: "Dear Cousin" reply Thanks to the world's greatest genealogy cybersleuth, Doris Kinser Fountain, for sharing this one. It pretty much sums things up for me...especially since I spend my time rescuing and trying to place this kinda thing back in the family... ======================================================= Dear Cousin, In response to your letter, I am sorry to inform you that grandpa "Fred" died some time back and the stuff you asked about is not available. The personal property the family did not want was sold at an estate sale. All those boxes of junk did not interest a single buyer. We were able to salvage several binders for the kids homework after we sent all the paper to the incinerator. The kids really complained about having to lug all that paper and pictures of those ugly old folks to the dumpster. An old family Bible from the 1840's did bring $ 5.00. The one from the 1870's did not sell. There also was a bunch of floppy disks that we were able to reformat and download some games for the kids to play on their new playstation. At least SOMEBODY got some good from the three generations work. I saw the fellow at a flea market a couple of weeks ago and he said he threw the Bible in the trash after nobody was interested in it. He said he got an offer for fifty cents for it, but would rather burn it than give it away. He seemed to be having a lot of success with some very nice Elvis paintings at his booth. The two aunts you asked about are also dead. They were such a delight and could talk all day long about the things papa had written about. I remember them saying something about some records that were copied from two courthouses that later burned. Neither ever wrote down a single thing. The letter you referred to was one he typed up and sent to lots of folks who wrote him. He laughed about them never getting any of his hard work as well as his Fathers and Grandfather who was in the Civil War . He guarded all the information carefully to the bitter end. I wish I could remember some of the things to help you, but I was bored to tears listening to them talk about the family members who were in the civil war and those silly pieces of paper he showed so proudly. I vaguely remember they had some beeswax seals and something to do with the land grants that were destroyed in the courthouse fires. I wish I could remember the story about his grandfathers evening with Jefferson Davis when he was on the run. There are also some very juicy stories that were handed down, but I don't remember them very well. Another thing I remember after he got sick was some fellow calling him and he agreed to let him come down and copy all his material. He told him he would call him back when he felt better. Papa mentioned something about letting the society the man was from have all his work since nobody in the family cared anything about a bunch of people who had been dead for 200 years. Papa died the next week. I am so sorry papa and the two generations wasted so much of their life on such worthless hobbies and hope your family will follow something more interesting. We enjoy Bingo and bowling very much here in Pleasantville. I really enjoyed hearing from a long lost cousin and would like to hear back if you find anything important. The kids need the computer for their games and I need to watch the "Millionaire" show.
Thank you, Cuz, Tammy Jean. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:18:07 -0700 From: "Billie R. McNamara" <knox@tngenweb.org> Subject: [KnoxCoTN] go look! Rose-Anne found this treasure on eBay... There are some surnames listed that are in our subscribers' surname lists... The person who has the book has offered to scan individual pages. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360079070 If someone had the money to purchase and loan it long enough for us to scan, Rose-Anne and I could put it on-line...then you could get a tax write-off by donating it to the TN State Library or some other repository... Just a thought <g>. ------------------------------ End of knoxcotn-digest V1 #100 ****************************** |