bennison@clt.DEC (Victor Bennison - DTN 381-2156) (12/20/85)
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I'd like to make sure everyone understands that I fully support the
ROOTS-BBS concept. I was only trying to make the point that there are
higher probability resources readily available. As the system grows
it will become more interesting. I don't want to discourage anyone.
Nor should anyone be discouraged if they dial up the ROOTS-BBS and
find absolutely nothing on their ancestors. In fact, they should dial
up the BBS with the expectation of finding nothing. A shot in the dark
seldom finds its mark. But I'd be lying to you if I said I had never
taken a shot in the dark.
Vick Bennison
...decvax!decwrl!rhea!tools!bennison
(603) 881-2156
---bennison@clt.DEC (Victor Bennison - DTN 381-2156) (12/26/85)
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I *NEVER NEVER NEVER* said I do genealogy for a fee. I do a lot of genealogy
for other people, if they are working on something in which I have an
interest, but I do NOT charge. I run a newsletter, and I do charge
a subscription rate, but it doesn't even cover my costs, not to mention
the hours and hours of my time I put into it. And I only charge 1/3 rate
to anyone who claims they are on a fixed income and can't afford the higher
rate, and would send it to them free if they still couldn't afford that.
This whole thing has gotten way out of hand. I support you for spending
your time in the interests of genealogical research. I, personally, don't
think your service is very useful. For what it could possibly provide ME
given the amount of money I would have to pour into it, I could get a lot
more information for the same money elsewhere. Other people may disagree
with me and that's fine. There is no CORRECT way to do genealogy. What
works for you is what is correct.
So I will agree that I did not read the bulletins. Usually the bulletins
on a bulletin board service are all the same and pretty worthless. They
may be different in your case. Also, I thought you had synopsized your
service in your note to the net, so rather then spend megabucks reading
instructions at 1200 baud I thought I'd just dive in. Mea culpa. Perhaps
someone for whom the ROOTS-BBS is a local call would like to give a thorough
review of the system. Or perhaps the operator would like to post to the net
a more complete overview of the system so that netters can save some money
when they are trying to get instructed.
I have been doing genealogical research for ten years now, and have been very
successful at it. I do good work. (And I don't charge.) I'm sorry I put
you on the defensive. But I still don't have any evidence that would convince
me that the ROOTS-BBS is cost effective for the long distance caller. And
I'm not going to spend any more money finding out unless someone else
convinces me first.
Vick Bennison
...decvax!decwrl!rhea!tools!bennison
(603) 881-2156rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) (12/30/85)
9
Available from ROOTS-BBS
FILE-NAME SIZE DATE-AVAIL SHORT-DESCRIPTION
Specialized software
AGECOMPA.BAS 6512 04/28/85 Compares ages for validity - APPLE
AGECMPAR.BAS 8006 05/20/85 Version for Xerox820-II
AGECOMPA.DOC 1920 11/22/84 Documentation for AGECOMPARE
ANYMONTH.BAS 6512 07/27/85 month calendar 15AD-20000AD (CPM)
CALCDATE.BAS 1280 11/22/84 Calculate birth from death - TRS80
CALCDATE.DOC 384 11/22/84 Documentation for CALCDATE.BAS
CHART .BAS 4004 11/22/84 5 generation pedigree chart - IBMPC
CHART .DOC 1920 11/22/84 Documentation for CHART.DOC
CHARTAT.LST 5376 05/26/85 CHART - Atari version
FAMGROUP.BQS 10112 12/31/84 Family Group Sheets - Osborne
FAMGROUP.DQC 2793 12/31/84 Documentation for FAMGROUP.BQS
FINDATE .BAS 4352 01/28/85 Finds BMD time periods to search (CPM)
FINDATEI.BAS 5376 06/03/85 DOS version of FINDATE.BAS
FUTRDATE.BAS 3584 08/03/85 Gives a date "n" days from any date.
FUTRDATE.BAS 3584 08/03/85 Documentation for FUTRDATE.BAS
GENPROG .TXT 12672 02/18/85 5/84 GEN. COMPUTING list of software
GENPROG .TQT 5611 02/18/85 Squeezed version of GENPROG.TXT
NAMEX.LBR 20224 10/17/85 Search ROOTS files via Soundex!!
READER.EXE 34688 11/24/85 Matches your surnames vs ROOTS files
SOURCES .TXT 2031 12/26/84 Magazine issues w/software listings
SOUNDEX.APL 1280 10/17/85 Apple version of SOUNDEX
SOUNDEX .BAS 945 01/01/85 Generates Soundex codes - NorthStar
SOUNDEX .DOC 2303 11/22/84 Documentation for SOUNDEX
SOUNDEX.PRG 4864 10/17/85 SOUNDEX for DBASE III
SOUNDEXA.COM 11392 09/02/85 IBMPC/COMPATIBLES version
SOUNDEXI.BAS 1128 11/23/84 IBMPC version of SOUNDEX
SOUNDEXI.DOC 2303 11/23/84 Documentation for SOUNDEXI.BAS
Genealogy systems
GENEPROG.DOC 1920 07/28/85 Documentation for GENEPROG.LBR
GENEPROG.LBR 28672 07/28/85 DBIII Genealogy system
GENE.DBF 3584 07/31/85 Data structure for GENEPROG.LBR
FAMHIST.DOC 7168 07/14/85 Introductory documentation
FAMHIST.LQR 197376 07/14/85 Complete FAMILY HISTORY system
FAMROOTS.ARC 87268 11/10/85 demo of FAMILY ROOTS by Quinsept
CNTRLTXT.BAS 530 05/01/85 Removes control characters
NAMELST.BAS 1597 05/01/85 Name list
FAMILY.EXE 68992 04/01/85 demo of FAMILY TIES software
FAMTREE.BAS 23808 08/03/85 FAMILY TREE (CPM) -no warranty-
GENIX.FIL 154373 09/02/85 UNIX based genealogy system
PCHRT.ARC 10752 11/24/85 LOTUS123 templates for ped charts
ONDISPLY.DOC 2634 04/01/85 GENEALOGY ON DISPLAY - brief descr
ONDISP1.LQR 154694 04/01/85 GENEALOGY ON DISPLAY - part #1
ONDISP2.LQR 121864 04/01/85 GENEALOGY ON DISPLAY - part #2
PAFTRANS.COM 31232 07/27/85 Copy DATA/HISTORY to another disk
PAFTRANS.DOC 1792 07/27/85 Documentation for PAFTRANS
PAFSTART.BAS 6015 01/31/85 So PAF will run on KAYPRO
PAFSTART.DOC 4224 01/31/85 documentation for PAFSTART.BAS
PROGEN1.ARC 92544 12/28/85 PROGENITOR, updated, complete system
COMMSOFT.DOC 26496 10/05/85 Users review of ROOTS/M & II
TRACER21.ARC 104832 11/14/85 Release 2.1, PAF compatible
IDXEDIT.COM 14720 10/17/85 Creates index file (for uploading!)
"How To" articles
ENGLISH. TXT 12430 11/25/84 Research tips for England
GERMANY .TXT 7777 11/24/84 Research tips for Eastern Europe
IRISH .TXT 5948 11/26/84 Research tips for Ireland
IRISHCEN.TXT 5989 12/15/84 Irish Censuses & substitute records
IRISHCHU.TXT 5227 11/27/84 Irish Church Records
IRISHCIV.TXT 4395 12/02/84 Irish Civil Registration tips
IRISHPRO.TXT 3950 12/15/84 Irish Land & Probate Records
ITALY .TXT 10476 11/25/84 Research tips for Italy
SCANDA .TXT 5214 12/31/84 Scandanavian Research Tips
USCENSUS.TXT 9838 12/23/84 How to use US Fedl Census information
USMILITA.TXT 5684 12/15/84 US Military Records
AFROSPAN.TXT 6710 11/11/85 Afro-Spanish marriages, Mex. 1646-1747
CENSUSCA.TXT 5888 06/14/85 Avail of US Census info in SF Bay area
JOURNAL .TXT 12288 12/09/84 Excellent "beginner's" story
KINOLOGY.TXT 3310 02/01/85 One page "What is Kinology"
LDSIGI.TXT 4248 06/22/85 Some of what avail at LDS Library SLC
LDSREC .TXT 10240 12/30/84 LDS Church Records
ORALHIST.TXT 10229 12/26/84 "How To" for oral histories
REFBOOKS.TXT 12350 06/14/85 Suggested basic reference books
Surname queries (* indicate searchable online)
198501.DIR* 31704 11/17/85 Master index of 1st QTR 85 section
198502.DIR* 60442 11/17/85 Master index 2nd QTR 85 + Surname
198503.DIR* 87673 11/17/85 Master index 3rd qtr + surnames
198504.DIR* 75533 11/17/85 Master index 4th qtr (no SURNAME)
198505.DIR* 451 11/27/85 Master index to late 1985 (no surname)
(master indexes contain soundex, surname,
and citation for queries appearing in the
genealogical society publications for NY,
New England, PA, OH, IN, IA, NE, CA, as well
family research submitted by ROOTS-BBS users.
FROST.DIR* 20510 12/19/85 Charles Frost family research
SURNAMES.DIR* 25016 11/27/85 Surname inquiries from ROOTS-BBS users
TREESHAR.DIR* 3232 07/27/85 TREESHARE (Houston) Queries
TREESHAR.MSG 8832 11/24/85 TREESHARE (Houston) messages
--many other geographic specific not listed.
Indexes to vital records, books
PATTERSN.FIL 3328 12/25/85 "Reminiscences/Recoll Ben Patterson"
1900WARD.CHI 1920 10/17/85 Xref Chicago Wards to census district
1910WARD.CHI 1280 10/17/85 Xref Chicago Wards to census district
CHARLES1.FIL 29471 06/30/85 CharlesCoMD Inventories 1791-1808
CHARLES2.FIL 22016 06/30/85 CharlesCoMD Probates 1673-1753
CHARLES3.FIL 24320 06/30/85 CharlesCoMD Probates 1673-1753
CHARLES4.FIL 39040 07/07/85 CharlesCoMD Inventories 1753-79
CHARLES5.FIL 10368 09/02/85 Index - CharlesCoMD Inventories
GERMAN.FIL 2520 07/09/85 Index - German Immi Texas 1844-47
KERR.FIL 39268 07/09/85 Index - Kerr Co TX History 1856-1976
NACOG.FIL 41720 07/09/85 Index- NacogdochesTX BioDict 1773-1849
TITUS1.FIL 6496 07/08/85 Index - TitusCoTX Pioneer Heroes V.I
TITUS2.FIL 12765 07/08/85 Index - TitusCoTX Pioneer Heroes V.II
-- plus usual public domain utilities that would be helpful to a
genealogist. steiner@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Dave Steiner) (01/14/86)
I found the message about the list of programs available on ROOTS-BBS
very interesting but I can't seem to send a message back; so I'll have
to ask the net. Can someone send me info on how to use the ROOTS-BBS,
esp the number to call? Also, does anyone know if these programs,
etc. are on either available on Usenet or Arpanet? That would be much
easier for me.
thanks,
ds
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uucp: ...{harvard, seismo, ut-sally, sri-iu, ihnp4!packard}!topaz!steiner
arpa: Steiner@RUTGERS or Steiner@RED.RUTGERS.EDUrooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) (04/29/86)
The correct number for ROOTS-BBS is 584-0697 -not- the 586---- one. Please make the correction if you find it listed elsewhere. And thanks to the kind soul who stayed on the line long enough to tell me where she got the 586 number.