Contents What is a BBS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 FIDOnet: AVAILABLE (FIDOnet) GENEALOGY-RELATED CONFERENCES (ECHOES). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Purpose of the Jewish Genealogical Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Jewish Genealogical Conference Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 DO's. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 DON'Ts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Jewish Genealogy Conference (JEWISHGEN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Genealogy Software Distribution System (GSDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Tafel Matching System (TMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Commercial Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 OCLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 RLIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Modem accessible libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 INTERNET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Access to Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 List of Internet Lists Useful for Jewish Genealogy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 JEWISHGEN List Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 JEWISHGEN Digest Mode Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 History Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Genealogy text files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Searching list archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Helpful Internet Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Library of Congress catalog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ALEPH (Research Libraries in Israel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 University of California (MELVYL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Transliteration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Appendix 1: Fidonet Nodelist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Appendix 2: Catalogs & Databases Accessible Without Charge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Appendix 3: Freenet Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Appendix 4: Commercial Providers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 What is a BBS? BBS stands for Bulletin Board System 1. Exchange Messages a. Private (E-mail, NETmail, etc.) b. Public (Echo, Conference, List, Forum, etc.) 2. Exchange Files a. Programs b. Text Files (GSDS, NGC/SIG Journal, etc.) c. Submit GEDCOM files to LDS ancestry file d. Submit Tiny Tafels 3. Access Databases a. Library catalogs b. Jewish Family Finder c. Phonefil AVAILABLE (FIDOnet) GENEALOGY-RELATED CONFERENCES (ECHOES) (from John Le Duc January 9, 1994) Note: Some of these echos carry distribution restrictions from their sources. T hose echos which are not on the backbone are available from several sites around the country. Also s everal of the echos have specific restrictions as to subject matter, languages, and/or format. ADOPTEES Adoptees Information Exchange AUS_GENEALOGY Australian Genealogy Echo BRONSCAN Bronscan Sysop'S Echo BS_USER Bronscan User'S Echo CIVIL_WAR Civil War FM-GENEALOGIE Franco-Media'S Genealogie Echo (French Only) GENDATA Tiny Tafel Database GENEA.BNL Genealogy Belgium Netherlands & Luxemburg GENEALOGY National Genealogical Conference GENEALOGY.CDN Canadian Genealogy GENEALOGY.EUR Genealogy And Family History International GENEALOGY.GER German Genealogy GENREPLY Tiny Tafel Reply GENSEARCH Wga Sysops GENSOFT Genealogy Software GENSYSOP Genealogy Sysop Echo GENSYSOP.EGA Wga Who'S Got What GEN_SQUARED Toadnet'S Genealogy Echo HERALDS Heraldry Echo HISTORY International History Echo I&UK_GENE United Kingdom And Ireland Genealogy ITALIANO.GEN Italian Genealogy JEWISHGEN Jewish Genealogy JOURNAL Pioneer Journal Entries MEDIEVAL Midieval Discussions MISSING National Missing Persons Echo MISSING_CHILD National Missing Children Echo MW_GENE Midwest Genealogy Conference NZ_GENEALOGY New Zealand Genealogy PAF Paf User'S Group Echo PAF_ADM Paf User'S Group Administrators Echo POLSKA.GEN Poland Genealogy SE_GENEALOGY South Eastern Us Genealogy Conference SOC_ROOTS Internet'S U.Soc.Roots News Group SPANISH.GEN Spanish Genealogy TEXAS_REUNIONS Texas Family Reunions Echo TIDEWATER_GENE Tidewater Genealogy Echo (Va.) TMSYSOPS WGA TMS Sysops Echo TRAIL Oregon Trails TSGS_GENE Texas State Genealogy Society WGA_GENEALOGY WGA Genealogy WGA_HAZADATA WGA WGA_HAZADATA_E WGA WGA_SYSOP WGA Sysops WGA_TAFELSONLY WGA TTs WGA_TEST WGA Test echo WGW Genealogy Forum: "Who'S Got What" (Wgw) Purpose of the Jewish Genealogical Conference by Susan King and Bruce Kahn - JEWISHGEN moder ators 1. Providing all researchers of Jewish lines a means of networking with ot hers on areas of particular interest to Jewish researchers to include: A) Jewish Geography; B) Identifying relatives lost in the Holocaust; C) Finding relatives misplaced during the Holocaust; D) Locating Yizkor Books and Landmanshaften from the old country. 2. Providing researchers of Jewish lines access to research materials both in the USA and abroad as they become available. 3. Providing an outlet for Holocaust survivors (the last generation) a mea ns of identifying their families and preserving the historical information that has been lost or forgotten because of the horror and fear that these people have had to live. 4. Providing a means of encouraging Jewish researchers to use this medium to open up research opportunities that they currently have not been using. 5. Providing a link between genealogy and the history of the Jewish People . 6. Providing a link between the Jewish Genealogical Societies throughout t he world. Jewish Genealogical Conference Rules by Susan King and Bruce Kahn - JEWISHGEN moder ators 1. All messages posted in JEWISHGEN must pertain to Jewish Genealogy. 2. Any message posted in JEWISHGEN must be of general interest (of interes t to more people than just who it is being sent to). The echo/list can not be used as a vehicle t o exchange purely personal messages. Many of the JEWISHGEN recipients pay to receive JEWISHGEN pe r message, and shouldn't have to pay for personal mail being exchanged between others. Specific examples of this are: Thank you notes. Very often, someone will answer your request or provide information. I strongly encourage you to acknowlege their help and thank them for their kindness, but please NOT IN JEWISHGEN. Thank you notes are almost always only of i nterest to one person, why should hundreds of people pay for them. The one exception to this is if you are thanking a large group of people. Then it is permissable to s ay "thanks to everyone who sent me the information about..." Many times, replies to queries posted to the echo are best sen t to the requestor privately because they are only of interest to the requestor. Just beca use the query was posted publicly does not mean that replies should be. In this case, the perso n who posted the original query is encouraged to summarize all of the private responses that t hey have received publicly to the echo. Replies to messages of the type "Am I getting through?", shoul d be sent privately. If you see someone post a clearly off-topic message like "Does anyone have a good recipe for knishes" and you have an award winning one, send it to them pr ivately! See rule #16. If you need help sending private mail, contact one of the moderators. 3. Since JEWISHGEN is gated between FIDOnet and Internet, it can be diffic ult for readers to know how to contact the people posting messages from other systems. For thi s reason (not to mention increasing the chance of getting replies to your queries!) everyone pos ting a message to JEWISHGEN should include a line at the bottom of your message containin g your FIDOnet net ID and/or Internet address. See the end of this message for examples of t his. 4. Every message that gets sent FROM FIDOnet that is addressed to an indiv idual (rather than to ALL) should have the To: repeated in the first line of the message. If you can include the FIDOnet net ID and/or the Internet address in this line, it is even better! Th is is because every message posted from FIDOnet appears in Internet addressed to ALL! So it can be very difficult for Internet people to follow threads. 5. Keep discussion as brief as possible, yet include enough information to continue threads. Quoting is encouraged IN MODERATION. Please only quote enough information (a line or two is usually plenty) so that readers can follow the discussion. DO NOT quote or app end entire messages! 6. All FIDOnet rules apply (no high ASCII characters, etc.) 7. Absolutely no prejudicial remarks or swearing will be tolerated! 8. Use of handles or aliases on this echo are inappropriate. Surnames are the lifeblood of genealogical research. If a person refuses to use his or her real name, then he or she really isn't that anxious to participate. Messages, therefore, must have the sender identified, pre ferably in the message header, but at least within the body of the message. 9. When discussing surnames, put them in CAPITAL letters. 10. Message text should not be in all capital letters. 11. Users who offer a product or service for sale may not use the Jewish Ge nealogy Conference to promote their interests. However, one-time announcements of new softwa re products or books are acceptables. Announcements by nonprofit genealogical or computer groups are welcome. Book reviews or "testimonials" by disinterested parties are appropriate. If in doubt, contact the moderators at the addresses below. 12. Please do not refer to messages by their number. Message numbers are u nique to each individual BBS, and will not mean anything to other users. Furthermore, the messa ge number for a given message on a given BBS can change every time more messages get posted, and won't even help users of the SAME BBS! 13. The moderators reserve the right to request that discussions on a given topic be terminated. 14. When in doubt, ask the moderators. 15. Use your best judgement, and think of the other users. Some of them (p articularly Internet) pay real money to get this echo! 16. The proper remedy for complaints about supposed indiscretions or violat ions of these rules is not another message within the conference. Let the Moderators moderate! W hen many people reply to such messages it only wastes money and space for all. If you have such a complaint you are welcome to contact the offender privately, or send a PRIVATE message to the Conference Moderators and a copy to the originating BBS sysop (if desired). FIDOn et users may ask your system operator (sysop) to contact the moderators via the Genealogy Sys op Conference (GENSYSOP). Bruce Kahn JEWISHGEN 1:260/204 bkahn@kodak.com Susan King co-moderators 1:106/270 Susan.King@trace. cgsg.com DO's by Dick Pence, National Genealogy Conference mod erator 1. PLEASE DO BE judicious in your use of thank-you messages. Acknowledge t o ALL if several have helped and use individual thank you's to provide or see k additional info. 2. PLEASE DO HOLD down the length of your "signature" to a line or two of the surnames you are searching. And no need to include it in every message or "dress it up" excessively. 3. PLEASE DO MAKE your queries as specific as possible. "Any BLANK researc hers out there?" won't net much (and is the most common reason for no respon ses). 4. PLEASE DO USE the right echo if additional ones are available. Queries and research questions here, software questions in GENSOFT, European, overs eas queries in International Genealogy (GENEALOGY.EUR), etc. Messages to your sysop or another local user should be entered into a local area, not in an echo. BBS questions should be local only. 5. PLEASE DO REMEMBER that the echoes on MISSING and ADOPTEES are better suited than this echo for finding missing persons or biological parents . 6. PLEASE DO FORMAT your messages correctly. Narrow margins or many-charac ter indentations add unnecessary baggage to be shipped around the world. 7. PLEASE DO USE normal caps and lower case characters and put SURNAMES in all caps. This aids those who scan messages. 8. PLEASE DO KEEP the chit-chat to a minumum. It's nice to be friendly, bu t please try to use another, more private medium to arrange vists and lunches. ( Voice phone is a wonderful and inexpensive tool for this!) DON'Ts by Dick Pence, National Genealogy Conference mod erator 1. PLEASE DON'T REFER to messages by their numbers in echoes. Numbers are valid only on the BBS you are using. 2. PLEASE DON'T MAKE (or respond to) blanket requests for phone book surna me searches. The results are spotty and create many unproductive messages. Users can obtain this information quickly and inexpensively in libraries or comme rcially. Requests for a specific number to one person are OK. 3. PLEASE DON'T USE the echo to follow up on your Tiny Tafel matches. Use the names and addresses in your research reports and make your contacts by mail. That's why they are there! 4. PLEASE DON'T ADDRESS messages to SYSOP in the echo. It will be flagged to the attention of about 100 sysops who won't appreciate getting a message in tended for a colleague. Sysop messages should be local only. 5. PLEASE DON'T USE "cutesy" sayings or political slogans as a closing lin e or as part of a "tear line." They contribute nothing except clutter. FidoNet rules discourage tear lines other than the system one. 6. PLEASE DON'T SEND "test" messages to ALL. Direct them to a single indiv idual and then only after you have checked with your sysop about mail flow. 7. PLEASE DON'T QUOTE messages excessively. A few lines are enough to iden tify what you are responding to. 8. PLEASE DON'T SEND the same message to more than one specific person or enter it in more than one echo. Send it to ALL or to one person. If necessary, r eference that message to the others. 9. PLEASE DON'T ENTER into "discussions" which involve legitimate differen ces of opinion. You won't solve them by echomail! 10. PLEASE DON'T ANNOUNCE strictly local events in a national echo. 11. PLEASE DON'T PUT "hi-bit" characters (ASCII characters numbered above 1 27) in your messages. These create problems for some non-DOS machines and are prohibited on FidoNet echoes for that reason. From: Su Jacobsen Date: 11 Jan 94 19:33:17 To: All Msg#: 283 -> 369 Subj.: KLAW/Kentucky Area: Jewish Genealogy Conference Helping a friend with an unusual project. Trying to locate any information on the family of Leopold Klaw and Caroline Blumgart. Leopold was born in Bavaria ca. 1825 and came to Kentucky pre 1850. He was supposedly a tinker by trade and settled in Padukah. What is know is that a son, Marc, was born there in 1858. He was the youngest of 4. This family does not show up in the 1840,50,or 60 census. Marc graduated from college in Louisville in 1878. We found a birth record in the IGI but nothing else. It is proposed that the Blumgart family originated in Boston. Kentucky seems an unusual place for research of early Jews. If anyone has any suggestions, we'd be most appreciative. p.s. Leopold can't be found on any of the passenger list books at our FHC. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Roots(SF!) San Francisco 415-584-0697 HST (1:125/30.0) From: Dan Leeson: LEESON@admin.fhda.edu Date: 14 Jan 94 17:30:31 To: All Msg#: 384 Subj.: KLAW and Su Jacobsen's request Area: Jewish Genealogy Conference From: leeson@aspen.fhda.edu (Dan Leeson: LEESON@admin.fhda.edu) Path: nuchat!nysernet.org!jewishgen@israel.nysernet.org Newsgroups: israel.jewishgen Subject: KLAW and Su Jacobsen's request Organization: Nysernet Reply-To: jewishgen@israel.nysernet.org Message-ID: <9401141712.AA12286@nysernet.ORG> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:30:31 GMT Further note: In Isaac Burnheim's book, "The Settlement of the Jews in the Lower Ohio Valley," page 25, the following quotation appears: "Mr. Leopold Klaw was the father of two sons and one daughter, all born in Paducah. Mr. Marc Klaw, the oldest son, perhaps the first male child of the Jewish faith born in Paducah, is now at the head of the theatrical syndicate of 'Klaw and Erlanger,' of New York, and is a factor in the AMERICAN DRAMA." Su Jacobsen and her friend have now to elevate their tip to my wife from a pizza to a dinner at Chez Panisse. If her friend can't find the Klaw family now, then s/he could not find their backside in a windstorm. ==================================== Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California (leeson@admin.fhda.edu) ==================================== --- * Origin: Trace!Gateway (trace.cgsg.com) * (713)862-6400 (1:106/270.0) From: D an Leeson: LEESON@admin.fhda.edu Date: 14 Jan 94 17:26:25 To: All Msg#: 381 Subj.: KLAW in Kentucky Area: Jewish Genealogy Conference Su Jacobson makes inquiry for a friend with respect to the Leopold KLAW. I foun d him in at least two references with respect to early Jewish settlers in Paducah and Su owes me a pizza (actually Su's friend owes me the pizza). (Actually Su's friend owes my wife a pizza.) Leopold Klaw is referenced in "The Stettlement of Jews in the Lower Ohio Valley" by Isaac W. Bernehim, as published for Temple Israel of Paducah in July, 1912. It is not an easy book to find, but nothing good in genealogy is easy. For an ext ra pizza, I might even give the page number and for 2 extra pizza's I could even be talked into quoting the reference (though Su's friend should do the work, get th e book, and read it -- that is what doing genealogy is all about). The book is in the Jewish division on the NY Public library. He is also referenced in a book called "Paducah, 1830-1980, a sesquicentennial history" by John Robertson (privately printed) and copies of this book are (or were and may still be) available from Roberston at 2541 Monroe, Paducah, KY 4200 1. There is a third book called "The Story of Paducah" by Fred Neuman, 1920, Young Printing Co., Paducah. I do not know if Klaw is mentioned in this book because there is no index. But that is more work for Su's friend. Now a zinger to Su (who lives nearby so zings are permitted). Sue says that "Kentucky seems an unusual place for research of early Jews." Fighting words, Su. Paducah is almost the center of a large geography that was explicitly to be "cleared of all Jews" by General Ulysses S. Grant during the civil war. It is the only case in American history where the Jews were to discriminated against as a class, by the U.S. government. A group of Jewish citizens protested the action, went to Washington, DC and saw president Lincoln. They told him of the action that had been demanded by Grant, and Lincoln in his response to them said, "So you come to father Abraham for help." Ain't that terrific!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Abraham Lincoln himself prevented the forced movement of the Jews by his countermanding of the order of Grant. In his later career, Grant evidenced no particular antipathy against the Jews and he never mentioned the incident in his autobiography (completed only 1 week before his death of cancer of the mouth). Paducah, KY had many Jews and my wife's family lies in repose in Temple Israel's cemetery. Wanna fight?? Wanna play??? ==================================== Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California (leeson@admin.fhda.edu) ==================================== --- * Origin: Trace!Gateway (trace.cgsg.com) * (713)862-6400 (1:106/270.0) GSDS - I ts Function The first question that is usually asked about GSDS is "what is it"? GSDS is th e Genealogy Software Distribution System. A system that was created in May of 1991 for the purpose of sharing genealogy related files with other systems, to keep existing files updat ed, to assist authors of genealogy software in updating existing programs, and to encourage new author s in their creative efforts. The following areas are included: GENEPRG Genealogy Programs - databases, Census database files, Calenda r Creation files, Helpful files, i.e. Brother's Keeper, Family Scrapbook, Censu s Research Tool, Cemetery Research Database) GENETXT Genealogy related Text files - (i.e. GBBS listing, informatio n about family's, catalog information, basic genealogy related text files, not in progra m format) GENEJEW Programs and text Files related exclusively to Jewish Genealog y Research. GENEDEMO Demo files of commercial programs available for the public. GENEFILE File listings, released monthly, from systems carrying GSDS. You do NOT have to hatch your files listing if you do not desire to do so. GENEPAF Personal Ancestral File utility files and information. (PAF i s a Commercial genealogy database available from the LDS Church) We do hope that this has helped in explaining just what GSDS is and, please, do not hesitate to ask questions - we are not afraid to answer them. John Grove Ancestry TBBS 1:18/230 GSDS Coordinator Jewish Genealogy files (GENEJEW) in Genealogy Software Distribution System (GSD S) (see also pub/genealogy/text/jewish/ @ ftp.cac.psu.edu) File name Size Date Description ============= ===== ======= ============================ ===== ACACIA_C.LZH 2169 4/14/93 Acacia Cemetery in NYC, subm itted by Florence Marmor. BAKALORO.ZIP 1878 5/30/92 Town of Bakalarove, Poland. From Yiddish. BAYSIDE.LZH 7251 4/14/93 Bayside Cemetery in NYC, sub mitted by Florence Marmor. BAYSIDE.ZIP 2375 12/23/92 List of plots in Bayside Cem etery, NY BOSTCEM.ZIP 6528 6/03/92 Boston Area Jewish Cemetarie s CLEVEMAR.TXT 6469 9/30/89 Marriages in Cleveland. Ans he Chesed 1861-1888. FELSEN.TXT 8946 5/08/88 History of Felsenthal's. Mue nchwiler, Germany FELSENB.TXT 18164 2/26/88 Letter. Rabbi Bernhard Felse nthal. GREHER.TXT 25192 11/09/87 Bio. information on H. Green ebaum-CA HEBREST.TXT 6210 6/04/88 Plot holders. Hebrew Rest Ce metery, Waco, Texas. HEBREWMC.ZIP 10560 10/27/91 Word Perfect Macros for Hebr ew HOLOCAUS.TXT 2628 11/12/88 List of major research cente rs on the Holocaust. HOLOCOST.ZIP 7354 6/14/93 List of Holocost information centers from Internet. HOLOLST2.ZIP 15488 1/03/90 Holocaust victims list by Ed die Geer. J-CEMTRY.ZIP 121565 1/12/94 List of Cemeteries/Arline Sa chs JBBS9306.ZIP 7084 6/20/93 List of BBS's carring Jewish Genealogy confs, files and JFF. JCAL7.ZIP 46000 3/16/94 Convert Dates to/from Jewish Calendar JEWGFAQ.ZIP 16624 1/11/94 (Rehatch) Frequently asked q uestions / W. Blatt JEWSOC.TXT 6220 5/30/92 List of Jewish genealogy soc ieties. JEWSOURC.TXT 5166 5/30/92 Bibliography of research boo ks for jewish research. JGSILL.TXT 777 8/09/87 Info on Jewish Gen. Soc. of Il. JGSNEWS.ZIP 4540 6/14/93 List of Jewish Gen. Newslett ers from Masspocha by W. Blatt. JGSOH.TXT 810 5/30/92 Info on Jewish Ge. Soc. of C leveland. JGSPA.TXT 723 8/09/87 Info on Jewish Gen. Soc. of PA. JGSSF.ZIP 260 5/08/88 Contact for J.G.S. of SF. JRYISKOR.TXT 19186 12/16/90 J. Robinson Booksellers list of Yizkor books for sale. MOGENDAV.ZIP 758 12/05/88 Officers of Mogen David Cong regation, Cleveland 1853-61 MOKOM_SH.LZH 3958 4/14/93 Mokom Sholom Cemetery in NYC , submitted by Florence Marmor. MOKOM_SH.ZIP 2057 12/23/92 Mokom Sholom Cemetery listin g in NY ODENBACH.ZIP 673 11/26/88 Members of Jewish Cong., Ode nbach, Germany 1845 ONLINFSR.ZIP 53306 7/27/93 Online Info Sources, from To ronto Seminar 6/29/93. WP 5.1 format ONLISASC.ZIP 39828 7/31/93 "Online Information Services " ASCII version. OSHER.ZIP 2146 1/14/90 Ahnentafel of Osherwitz fami ly. RDNTSA2.ZIP 4486 2/12/90 Town in Lithuania RUSSIA.ZIP 3355 5/08/88 Research sources for Eastern Europe. TRACEJR.ZIP 2991 1/22/94 Step by step to Jewish Genea logy, version 0194. Bernard Kouchel. YIZKOR.ZIP 2163 1/03/89 Listing of institutions with Yizkor book collections. The Tafel Matching System (TMS) by Brian Mavrogeorge, Sysop Ro ots SF! The Tafel Matching system is an excellent illustration that yes there -is- a fre e lunch! Why? Because for the cost of your telephone call to one of the participating TMS bulletin boards you get a report of anyone across the U.S. who has uploaded a tiny tafel with the same surnames as the ones you ar e searching. The report tells you the submitter's name and address and the details they listed about that surn ame line. How do you participate? First you create a tiny tafel. Most genealogy packages have that feature. A tiny tafel is a snapshot of your research. It lists one surname per line and tells when yo ur research starts (date/ location) and when it stops (date/location). Others looking at your tiny tafel can determ ine if it might be worthwhile to correspond and trade information. There is a set format for the tiny tafel. If your software wont create one you can do it with a word processor or you can use ttgen12.exe a handy utility avail able on lots of genealogy bbs. When you upload your tafel to a participating TMS BBS, it gets added to the loca l TMS database and is indexed. Then when others are checking for matches they go through the index. BUT IT GETS EVEN BETTER! All the BBS's that carry TMS are linked electronically so you have acces s not only to what is stored locally but to what is stored across the U.S. - there are more than 30 bulletin boards in the U.S. that have TMS. Big deal, so what. Well maybe the numbers would be impressive. Here locally in San Francisco on Roots-SF! there are 1,189 tiny tafels representing 48,254 surname lines. Yup, I typed tha t correctly - there are almost 50,000 surname lines here alone. I am but one of the 30 TMS bulletin boards. So upload your tiny tafel and request a report. There are a lot of tiny tafel s ubmitters out there who have information to share - and what the heck your phone call costs less than a stamp ! And so you know our hearts are in the right place -- we know that some of you ar e not a local telephone call away from a TMS bulletin board. YOU CAN STILL PARTICIPATE!! Put your tiny tafe l in a message and post that message in the National Genealogy Conference or in the GENDATA confere nce (specifically for tiny tafels). In the message put four surnames or soundex values that you would like a matching report for, the dates of interest for those names, and how much leeway to use if we find a name close to that date but not exact. For example, you are interested in Bonner in 1776 but we have Bonner in 1770, sh ould we list it too? That is called the overlap. Tell us how many years overlap to use. And most important of all - address your message to Brian Mavrogeorge and in the subject line put TINY TAFEL or TT. I will intercept your tiny tafel, request the report for you, and mail it to you free of charge. That is our way of saying thanks for contributing your tiny tafel to this growing database. Yes there is a free lunch sometimes...... Others charge mucho bucks for this ki nd of a system. The TMS genealogy sysops offer it for free as our effort to further the cause of researc h. Create your tafel now -- send it in now -- and then wait for the matching report. There may be some great sur prises on it!!! P.S. - yes that was right. Roots-SF! has 48,257 tafel lines and 1,189 tiny tafe ls in its database alone. Roots-SF! is but one of the over 30 tafel locations across the U.S. N Bruce Kahn A 265 Viennawood Dr. A Rochester, NY 14450 T (716) 271-2118 S CIS/72030,1720 S INTERNET/BKAHN@KODAK.COM B Flower City Central/(716) 889-2016 C 2400/B/X D 3/Amiga/880 Z 45 TTGEN-1.22 MP B655 1825*1963*Bernheim\Alsace (France or Germany)/St. Paul, MN B635 1900.1930.Burton/Michigan C500 1886.1980 Cohen\London, England/Cleveland, OH E251 1880.1950.Eisenberg\Poland/Minneapolis, MN G616 1853*1990:Garber,Garver\Kovno(Kaunas), Lithuania/Minneapolis, MN G521 1923 1980 Ginsberg,Ginsburg\Grand Forks, ND/Minneapolis, MN G426 1866*1967.Glaser\Germany/Los Angeles, CA G431 1952.1983.Goldberg,Goldburg/Minneapolis, MN G650 1920.1990 Green\Columbus, OH/Lake Oswego, OR G620 1955 1989 Gross\St. Paul, MN/Minneapolis, MN H256 1890.1980.Hackner\Russia/Minneapolis, MN H626 1920 1940 Hargarten\Minneapolis, MN/Minneapolis, MN H155 1870:1983:Hoffman,Hoffmann\Minneapolis, MN J400 1910.1981 Juhl/Minneapolis, MN K500 1864*1990.Kahn/Minneapolis, MN L200 1902.1902:Laskow L100 1844.1844.Libbey L125 1936 1970 Lipkin\Peoria, IL/Lawrence, KS L124 1844*1967.Lipschultz\Germany/Los Angeles, CA L145 1912 1980 Lublin\Brooklyn, NY/Cleveland, OH M600 1806*1967*Mayer\Falls am Rhine,Bavaria,Germany/Los Angeles, CA N000 1880.1981.Ney\Russia/Minneapolis, MN N655 1880*1900*Norman P421 1949 1973 Polikoff/Minneapolis, MN P616 1930 1990 Prober\Duluth, MN/Minneapolis, MN R600 1878 1950 Rohr\Maryland S400 1872*1967.Saly\Germany/Los Angeles, CA S416 1840*1990.Schlupper,Schluper,Shlupper,Shluper\Slonim/Minneapolis, MN S160 1953 1990 Shapiro\St. Paul, MN/Minneapolis, MN S430 1900 1950 Shelt\Cincinnati, OH S416 1950 1981 Silver\Minneapolis, MN/Minneapolis, MN S550 1960 1989 Simon\St. Paul, MN/St. Paul, MN S455 1832*1967.Solomon,Soloman,Salomon,Saloman\Coblenz,Koblenz/Los Angeles, CA S152 1953 1990 Spencer\St. Paul, MN/Minneapolis, MN S132 1930 1990 Spitz\Milwaukee, WI/Minneapolis, MN U455 1825*1967*Ullmann,Ulmann,Ullman,Ulman\Alsace, France/Los Angeles, CA W416 1855*1990.Wolper\Russia/Minneapolis, MN Z265 1923.1983:Zuckerman\St. Paul, MN/Minneapolis, MN W 19 Jun 1990 Now that you have created a Tiny-Tafel, what do you do with it? Y ou want it to be read by others who might have information you seek. Placing an ad in the genealogy newsletters is one so lution, but you have to weed out a lot of responses that aren't what you are looking for. Conversely, you mi ght have information that someone else is seeking, but you have to personally read each ad and respond to every one that may be relevant. The computer is ideally suited to automate this process. By collecting many dif ferent Tiny-Tafels, a computer can build a database against which to compare each new submission and report any matches. Such a database has been set up on a computer bulletin board network called FIDO net. Each Tiny-Tafel added to the database improves the odds that you will connect with someone who has inf ormation you want. The success of the Tiny-Tafel database depends on you. SUBMITTING A TINY-TAFEL The Tiny-Tafel database can be accessed by a set of programs called the Tafel Ma tching System (TMS). TMS allows you to submit your own Tiny-Tafel and to search other Tiny-Tafels in the database. You may submit your Tiny-Tafel to any node on the NGC which contains TMS, or upload it into the GENDATA FIDOnet conference. A list of the current nodes with TMS can be found in the file GBBSy ymm available on most BBS's. SEARCHING THE TINY-TAFEL DATABASE The Tiny-Tafel database has been set up in the style of a distributed network - where each node containing TMS has its own version of the database. Each single database contains only those T iny-Tafels submitted directly to that node. To look for information that might be of interest to you, you can search the dat abase in one of two ways. A local search capability allows you to call any node with TMS and make an immedia te search of the local database. It enables you to quickly single out information you wish to pursue f urther with the Tiny-Tafel's submitter. Its drawbacks are that the search is limited to that single database and you may only search for one name or soundex code at a time. Also, if you wish to search databases on other nodes you must call each bulletin board directly, incurring possibly greater long-distance phone charges. The second search capability is called a batch search. You can use TMS to code specified search parameters with your Tiny-Tafel serving as a basis. The search is performed on all databas es linked in the TMS network. Within several days you will start receiving back reports listing all names (Sou ndex-equivalent) matching those in your Tiny-Tafel, within the limits you had specified. HOW TO USE TMS TMS is available on many bulletin boards participating in the NGC network. To u se TMS you must be signed on to one of the nodes which support the program. A current list of these nodes can be obtained by writing or calling COMMSOFT, Inc., or by checking the Genealogy-Related Files area of th e COMMSOFT BBS. TMS has three main functions: 1. Allow the entry and management of Tiny-Tafels into the local TMS databa se. (A single Tiny-Tafel file can contain more than one Tiny-Tafel - see the Tiny-Tafel spec for deta ils. Only one Tiny-Tafel file may be submitted at one time into a TMS database.) 2. Provide an Instant Match so the local database can be searched on line. 3. Provide an offline search so the contents of your Tiny-Tafel can be use d to search for connections throughout the TMS network. SOME SUGGESTIONS It is important to keep your Tiny-Tafel as concise as possible as a courtesy to other users of the system and to the Sysops. Large Tiny-Tafels will consume more processing time and slow down n ot only your system, but other systems which may be processing your reports. In addition, Sysops bear th e cost of transferring reports and queries, large queries and Tiny-Tafels will result in even larger reports wh ich can result in excessive telephone connection charges. There is nothing wrong with experimenting with the overlap date features of the TMS to shorten reports. Be sure to give those operations a try to help save telephone expenses. As TMS boards become linked, it is critical that you enter your Tiny-Tafel on a single board. If you have entered your Tiny-Tafel on more than one board unnecessary duplication will occu r, again slowing system response and raising costs. Please make sure you remove your Tiny-Tafel from al l boards except the one you want to personally use. Commer cial Systems 1. Compuserve a. ROOTS Forum (GO ROOTS) b. Files c. PHONEFIL (GO PHONEFIL) 2. Prodigy a. Genealogy message area 3. GEnie a. Genealogy & History RoundTable (real-time conferences and BBS messages) b. Text files in 16 libraries - divided into 1000 categories and topic covering geographic area, religious and ethnic groups, surnames, and mo re.) 4. America Online a. A Genealogy Club and on-line Forum area b. Files c. Usenet newsgroups d. Autoconnect to Library of Congress 5. Delphi a. Genealogy Forum (go cu 68) b. Autoconnect (telnet) to 5 Usenet sites and Freenets Bibliographic Searching Tools OCLC & RLIN are national bibliographic utilities. Rather than every library hav ing to individually catalog every single book that comes into the library, libraries ma y copy existing Library of Congress data where available, catalog the material themselves, or, i f they become a member library associated with one of these national utilities, they may copy th e format shared by another member library. In other words, rather than everyone cataloging mate rials on their own-- and duplicating the work done by others, member libraries can opt to share their cataloging work. It doesn't eliminate the need for original cataloging, but it does reduce the work load placed on each cataloger. Neither is particularly non-librarian friendly. Each has its own search protoco l, although RLIN may be more like MELVYL-- and each has its own quirks. The real advantage is th at you can verify the exact title, author, etc.-- and see who may have copies of the desire d item. The acronym, RLIN, is for Research Libraries Information Network. It is a conso rtium of primarily academic research (university) libraries. It does include New York Pub lic Library and a few other large libraries. RLIN headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, ne ar Stanford University. There are about 165 libraries contributing to the database, in addi tion to the Library of Congress records. Access to this database is by account only and members are charged for the information. It's quite expensive, so an individual's best bet for tapping into the database is via a member library. In any event, an individual cannot gain access to the database without logging into a valid passworded account. The advantage to using RLIN is that you can see who owns the book, its call numb er and shelving location, etc. This way you can explore alternate means of gaining acc ess to the item, e.g. interlibrary loan, driving to the closest library, etc. OCLC is a similar consortium and its membership includes most public libraries i n addition to college and university libraries. To some degree, membership is overlapping for research libraries. OCLC is based in Dublin, Ohio and the acronym is for "Online Compute r Library Center." Many libraries do have end user terminals available for searching the bibliograp hic database, called the Online Union Catalog. There is also the reference tool, FirstSearch, which is specifically geared to end-users and allows access to the Online Union Catalog a s well as other databases. Check with your local library to see if they have access to OCLC or to FirstSearch, an OCLC reference product. Linda Robinson, OCLC (Cataloging Services Section) Internet: linda_robinson@oclc.org FAX: (614) 764-0155 VOICE: (800)848-5878 Boston Library Consortium Union Li st of Serials. COVERAGE: Catalogs all periodicals and serials held by a number of libraries in the Boston area, including the ones above, the State Library and some others. Located in Colorado, because they use an existing system there (CARL) to help develop their own syste m. ACCESS: 303-830-1546, 1547, or 1548. 8N1. LOGON: Hit enter a couple of times, then enter terminal type. Hit enter for main menu. Boston material is located in area 17. SEARCH: Supports the Boolean AND function when y ou add words together. Type 'quicksearch' for other search co HELP: Boston University TOMUS. COVERAGE: Data for 710,000 books and publications ACCES S: 617-353-5000 (Baud: autodetect from 300 - 2400). 8N1. Connect commands: Upon connecting, a welcome message from the BU campus network will appear. At the end of the message there will be the campus network prompt: "BUnet>" At the prompt type: "telnet library". You will be connected to the library machine and a welco me message will appear. To exit from the online catalog, type: "quit". At the campus network propmt, type:"hangup". Y ou will be dropped from the line. HELP: 617-353- 3704 Brandeis University LOUIS. COVERAGE: Catalogs roughly 90 percent of the universi ty's two main libraries and most current periodicals. Older periodicals, government documents and most books and periodicals in Hebrew or Yiddish are NOT cataloged. ACCESS: 617-736-4690 (1200 baud). 8N1. LOGON: Hit ent er a couple of times, and you're in the system. To log off, type 'end.' SEARCH: ? HELP: 617-736-4670. Massachusetts Institute of Technology BARTON. COVERAGE: Includes all material ac quired since 1974 except for periodical articles, maps, pamphlets and non-MIT technical reports. Some pre -1974 publications are included. ACCESS: 617-258-6700 (1200 baud). 8N1. LOGON: Hit enter a couple of times. Uses same software as LOUIS at Brandeis. To log off, type 'end.' SEARCH: ? HELP: Call (617) 253-7018 or 253- 1617 for connection problems, (617) 253-5683 for other questions. Tufts University TULIPS. COVERAGE: Catalogs 300,000 books, 25,000 serials. Older publications and most government documents not included ACCESS: 617-381-3812 (1200 baud); 381-3824 (24 00 baud). 8N1. If you do not support VT100 or VT220 emulation directly your screen will begin to flash an d seem to go berserk. Wait until it stops, then type '??' (yes, two of them) and you will get a help screen. LOGO N: At 'enter selection' prompt, hit L and then enter. For 'username,' type 'TULIPS' and hit enter. It takes a few mo ments for the system to connect. SEARCH: Uses more complicated search system than other catalogs, so read directi ons carefully HELP: (617) 381-3345. University of Massachusetts at Boston ULYSIS. COVERAGE: Catalogs all of the libr ary's books and periodicals and some government documents and maps ACCESS: 617-265-3598 or 265-0393 (300 or 1200 baud); 265-0883 or 265-9882 (2400 baud). 7E1. LOGON: At 'enter service' prompt, type 'server' and h it enter three or four times. At 'server' prompt, type 'connect libra' and hit enter. At 'username,' type 'catalo g, hit enter. You'll then be asked for your terminal type. Make a choice and hit enter. SEARCH: Uses a more complicated search system than other libraries, so read on-line help screens carefully HELP: (617) 929-7622 or 929-76 35 Wellesley College INNOPAC. COVERAGE: Covers 350,000 books, 8,000 magazines. Does not include government documents ACCESS: 617-237-9010 (1200 baud). 8N1. VT100 emulation required. LOGON : At 'username' prompt, type 'library' and hit enter. At 'local' prompt, type 'connect lib-cat.' In addi tion to standard searches, lets you see what books are shelved near the one you originally requested. SEARCH: ? HELP: (6 17) 235-0320, ext. 2104 Harvard Detroit Area Library Network DALNET. COVERAGE: Holdings of: Wayne State, Oaklan d University, University of Detroit, Detroit Public Library. Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne County community colleges. Beaumont Royal Oak, Botsford, and Children's Hospital libraries. Center for Research Libraries, Chic ago. ACCESS: 313-577-0335 (300/1200), 313-577-0321 (2400). Access is via the MERIT network. See the entry for MERIT for further information. LOGON: At the 'Which host?' prompt on MERIT, type 'WSUNET' and pres s . Type 'LUIS' at the resulting menu, press . Type 'LUIS' again when prompted, press . Follow prompts thereafter. SEARCH: Keyword, title, subject, author searches. Non-Boolean. HELP: Network Con trol Center 313-577-4746. Consulting office 313-577-4778. MERIT. COVERAGE: Not itself a library, but provides access to the DALNET librari es, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University. ACCESS: 313-577-0335 (300/1200), 313-577-0321 (24 00). E71/N81/7mark1. There are over 20 MERIT nodes in Michigan. The above are the Detroit numbers. LOGON: O nce connected, press for all prompts until you see 'Which host'. Then enter the host name, or enter ' help' for further information, hosts, phone numbers, etc. SEARCH: ? HELP: MERIT central office 313-764-9430. User con sulting same number. Michigan State University MAGIC. COVERAGE: Michigan State University graduate an d undergraduate libraries. ACCESS: 517-353-8500 (300/1200/2400) direct, or via MERIT/Michnet. E71/N81. VT10 0 emulation, full duplex. Vadic 3400 series support at 517-353-8578 (300/1200). LOGON: When connected, pre ss till you see '%Terminal='. Press till 'Which host?' appears. Enter 'MAGIC' if calling direct, 'MSU-MAGIC' if calling via MERIT/Michnet. Enter your terminal type when prompted (usually VT100). Follo w prompts thereafter. SEARCH: Keyword, title, subject, author, Library of Congress subject. Non-boolean. HELP: MSU Libraries Information Desk, (517) 353-8700. University of Michigan MIRLYN. COVERAGE: All U of M libraries. Several million r ecords. ACCESS: 313- 763-4800 (300/2400), 763-6520 (1200 Bell), 763-6521 (1200 Vadic). E71/N81/7mark1 . Access is via the MERIT network; see the MERIT entry for further information. LOGON: When connected, pre ss till you see '%terminal'. Keep pressing till 'Which host' appears. Enter 'MIRLYN'. En ter your terminal type when asked (usually 'VT100'). Follow prompts thereafter. SEARCH: Author, title, subject. No Boolean. Same software as DALNET. HELP: ? New York Public Library The New York Public Library has dial-up access to its CA TNYP online card catalog, containing all their entries since January 1972. The phone number is (212) 391-0 808 for 2400 baud access. Hours: 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM M-Th; 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM F,Sa; 12:00 - 5:00 PM Sun. University of Kansas OCAT. COVERAGE: At least 25 percent of KU's holdings, espec ially items acquired since 1975. (The 25 percent figure is as of 1988.) ACCESS: 913-864-5300 (300/1200), 86 4-5350 (1200), 864-5370 (2400). 7E1. VT100 emulation preferred, many emulations available. LOGON: At the "*" pro mpt, enter 'C .LC'. Enter terminal type when prompted. Press for a list of types. At the KU networ k banner, enter 'OCAT' or 'LBRY'. At the CICS-VS prompt, enter a control-Z and re-enter 'OCAT'. Follow men us and prompts from there. SEARCH: Author, title, subject, and call number searches. No Booleans available. Combined author/title search HELP: Academic Computing Services, 913-864- 0410. Hard-copy write-ups available. University of Wisconsin NLS Network Library System. COVERAGE: 1.8 million titles at Madison, another 940,000 at Milwaukee. ACCESS: 608-262- 8670 (Madison), 414-229-4046 (Milwaukee). 300/120 0/2400 7E1. VT100, IBM3101, and HDCPY (hard copy, i.e. dumb ASCII) and other emulations. It is poss ible to access either catalog from either number. LOGON: No formal logon. Upon connecting, enter terminal type , then follow the prompts. To log off, simply hang up. SEARCH: Name, title, subject searches; keyword and bool ean searching. HELP: Automation Help Desk 608-262-8880 (for access questions). Memorial Library 608-262-3193 (fo r searching questions). Hard copy instructions available. University of Oregon JANUS. COVERAGE: University of Oregon library system. ACCESS: 503-346-4391 (300/1200) 346-3565 (2400). 8N1. LOGON: At "enter class" enter "uonet". At "UOne t>" enter "c janus". At "login" enter "janus" again. Keep everything in all lower-case, especially the "login" r esponse. Disconnect by choosing "X" for Exit System. When you get "UOnet>" hang up. SEARCH: Several search types ava ilable, details lacking. HELP: Knight Library Reference Department 503-364-3053. University of Illinois ILLINET. COVERAGE: Brief records on holdings at 28 academ ic institutions throughout Illinois. Full records at Urbana and Chicago, possibly others. ACCESS: 217-333-2 494 (Urbana 300/1200/2400) 312- 996- 8844 (Chicago 300/1200/2400). 7 bits, no parity or mark parity, 1 stop bit, half duplex. LOGON: On connect press . At "ILLINET Online" enter "B". Enter search commands from that po int. To log off, simply hang up. SEARCH: Command- driven. Author, title, subject, call number. Boolean search available. HELP: User Services (217-333-8340). Ask for printed guides. Difficult to use without documentation. University of Texas at Austin UTCAT. COVERAGE: 4-1/2 million records; covers UT Austin campus only. ACCESS: 512-471-9420. 7E1. VT100 emulation. LOGON: At connect, press . At "CLASS=" enter "UTCAT". At "Terminal Type" enter "VT100". At the University of Texas at Austin banner, enter "UTCAT" again. Follow menus thereafter. SEARCH: Author, title, title keyword, subject, call num ber. For additional information, use HELP, EXPLAIN, and NEWS commands. University of California MELVYL. COVERAGE: All University of California librarie s at all campuses, plus California State Library. ACCESS: 213-825-0941. 7E1. LOGON: After you connect, p ress . Enter "MELVYL" at the prompt. Enter terminal type if it asks you. TYPETERM gives you a dumb-ASCII emulation. SEARCH: ? HELP: ? Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute INFOTRAX. COVERAGE: Renssalaer libraries. ACCES S: 518-276-8989 (300/1200), 276-8990 (2400). 8N1. LOGON: At connect, press several times. At termina l type prompt, enter a terminal type or "HELP" for a list. At "which host" enter "InfoTrax". It may tak e as much as 60 seconds to get started. Follow menus thereafter. SEARCH: ? HELP: ? Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL). COVERAGE: ? ACCESS: 303-863-1350 (300/1200/2400). 8N1. LOGON: Follow prompts and menus. SEARCH: ? HELP: Dial user assistance 303-861-53 19. Ohio State University Library. COVERAGE: Also covers State Library of Ohio and O hio Historical Society. ACCESS: 614-292-3070. 1200 baud, 7 data bits, space parity, 2 stop bits. LOGON: User ID or "Host Name" is "LCS". Password is "ØLCS". Note this is not control-L, but a caret, i.e. shift-6 , followed by an "L". SEARCH: ? HELP: ? Dartmouth College. COVERAGE: Baker Library, Dartmouth College. ACCESS: 603-643-6 310 (300/1200), 8N1/7E1. LOGON: At the "@" prompt, type "connect library." "Help" at the "@" prompt will get you quite a list of services available. SEARCH: Command-driven. Help available on-line. HELP: Baker Library, 603-646-2999. University of Rochester. COVERAGE: University of Rochester Libraries. ACCESS: (716) 442-6210-8 or 442-7750- 8. (300-9600), 8N1/7E1. At CALL, DISPLAY, MODIFY type "c net". Calling 4XXXX w ill display on the screen. CALL COMPLETE will display on the screen. Press the enter or return key until t he screen displays LOCAL>. At the LOCAL> prompt type c chester. "Local - Session xx to Chester established " will display. Press enter or return. Type "cat". To exit chester type "end". At the local prompt, type "lo gout". Florida State University Libraries. COVERAGE: All state universities in florid a. ACCESS: (407) 823-2949 8N1 Full duplex. When prompted for USERID and PASSWORD just hit enter. At the comm and prompt type "dial vtam", then type "nerluis fclbaza". To sign off type "%off" then "undial". Library of Congress. (202) 287-9656. Public Acess M-F 7:30 AM-5:00 PM. University of Toronto. (416) 978-7239. When promted "SYSTEM" enter UTCAT. INTERNET The Internet is a collection of interlinked computer networks. It was born abou t 20 years ago, as a U.S. Defense Department network called the ARPAnet. The ARPAnet was an exp erimental network designed to support military research - in particular, research about ho w to build networks that could withstand partial outages (like bomb attacks) and still func tion. In the late 1980's the National Science Foundation (NSF) built its own network called NSFNET (primarily for making supercomputers more widely available) based on ARPAnet using telephon e lines. This network promoted universal educational access, whereas ARPAnet was limited to defense related purposes. With time, other networks have linked in to the Internet. It is now possible to exchange information between Internet and Bitnet, DECnet, Compuserve, etc. T he Internet is a truly international network, encompassing well over 40 countries including eastern europe and the baltics. What can you do with it? There are basically three things that you can do using the Internet. You can ex change messages (either publicly or privately), obtain files from remote sites, and obtain infor mation from remote sites. But you can also do this using other services (like FIDO). What disting uishes Internet is the size and some of the unique resources. Internet is truly a global computer network. What good is it to genealogists? You can send messages anywhere in the world, usually within minutes. In 1993, 6.1 BILLION E-mail messages were sent, in 1995, 14.3 BILLION are expect ed! You can access a very large number of library catalogs, including the Library of Congress, and Israel! You can read/participate in conferences on; Jewish Genealogy General genealogy (Roots-L) Sephardim (Sepharad) The Baltics (Balt-L) Holocaust History Ukraine and many more! You can obtain files from a HUGE number of locations. You can read electronic journals. Access to Internet 1. Corporate and Educational ("free" or minimal) 2. FREENET (0 - $75/yr.) (Appendix 3) Advantages Problems Inexpensive Busy Line s Standardized Appearance Computer problems (down) Faster upgrades Minimal h elp/documentation Gateways to other FREENETS and Libraries Access ma y be limited to e-mail Limited S torage Slow May requi re Residency 3. Bulletin Board (0 - $45/mo.) 4. Commercial Online Services (Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, etc.) ($9 - 125/m o.) (Appendix 4) 5. Commercial Internet Service Provider (Delphi, BIX, etc.) ($15 - 80/mo.) (Appendix 4) See Appendices 3 and 4 List of Internet Lis ts Useful for Jewish Genealogy ANN-LOTS Indexing Forum for Annotated Lists-of-Things listserv@vm1.nodak.edu ARCHIVES Archives and Archivists listserv@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu AUTOCAT Library cataloging and authorities discussion group listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu BALT-L Baltic Republics Discussion List listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu E-EUROPE Eastern Europe Business Network listserv@pucc.princeton.edu E-HUG Electronic Hebrew Users Group listserv@dartcms1.bitnet ESPORA-L History of the Iberian Peninsula listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu EUEARN-L Discussion of Eastern Europe Telecommunications listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu GEDCOM-L Genealogical Data Communications Specs listserv@vm1.nodak.edu GEOGRAPH Geography listserv@searn.sunet.se GER-RUS Germans from Russia listserv@vm1.nodak.edu GIS-L Geographic Information Systems Discussion List listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu HEBREW-L Jewish and Near Eastern studies listserv@uminn1.bitnet HISTORY History Discussion Forum listserv@earn.cvut.cz HOLOCAUS The Holocaust listserv@uicvm.uic.edu HOSPEX Home Hospitality in Poland DATABASE listserv@plearn.edu HOSPEX-L Home Hospitality in Poland DISCUSSION LIST listserv@plearn.edu HLIST Holocaust Research Distribution List listserv@oneb.almanac.bc.ca HUNGARY Hungary listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet H-WORLD World History listserv@msu.edu INGRAFX Information Graphics listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu INTGROUP DATABASE Searchable Copy of INTEREST GROUPS List of Lists listserv@vm1.nodak.edu JEWISHGEN Jewish Genealogy listserv@nysernet.org JEWISHNT Jewish Global Information Network Project listserv@bguvm.bitnet JEWSTUDIES Jewish Studies Electronic Journal (E-Journal) listproc@shamash.nysernet.org JUDAICA Judaic Studies listserv@uminn1.bitnet ILAN-H Discussion in and about Hebrew in the network listserv@taunivm.bitnet LINES-L LifeLines Genealogical System listserv@vm1.nodak.edu LORE Folklore List listserv@vm1.nodak.edu MEMOIR-L First-Hand Accounts listserv@vm.cc.latech.edu MENDELE Yiddish Literature and Language listserv@yalevm.cis.yale.edu MILHST-L Military History listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu MUSEUM-L listserv@unmvm.bitnet PLEARN-L Discussion of Polish EARN topics listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu POLAND-L Discussion of Polish Culture list listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu PUBLIB-NET Public Library Discussion Group listserv@nysernet.org ROOTS-L Genealogy List listserv@vm1.nodak.edu RUSHIST Russian (1462-1917) History Forum listserv@earn.cvut.cz SEPHARAD Sephardic Newsletter listserv@nysernet.org SLOVAK-L Discussion of Slovak issues listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu SOVHIST Soviet History Forum listserv@earn.cvut.cz SUEARN-L Connecting the USSR to Internet digest listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu TRAVEL-L Tourism Discussions listserv@trearn.bitnet UKRAINE Ukraine listserv@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu WWII-L World War II Discussion List listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu 2ND-GEN Discussion among children & grandchildren of the Holocaust listproc@shamash.nysernet.org JEWISHGEN may be accessed from any commerc ial service from a mailing list. The internet mailing list is housed on NYSERNET.ORG and welcomes new subscribers. To subscribe to the JEWISHGEN List o n Nysernet, one must simply send an email message from their service as follows. ------------------------------------------- To: listserv@nysernet.org (saying nothing but) SUBSCRIBE JEWISHGEN Firstname Lastname ------------------------------------------- All messages posted to this list as well as those posted by Fidonet users will b e forwarded to your mailbox at the address from which you sent in your subscription. Be forwarned, the message base averages between 30-50 messages a day and has cau sed some subscribers to be overwhelmed with the amount of mail in their personal mailboxes. To offset this situation, the listserver at NYSERNET.ORG does have the MAIL DIGEST feature which we do recommend subscribers to use. This allows a days worth of messages to be consolidated in digest form and sent to you as one messa ge. After subscribing to the list and after taking care of the housekeeping tasks of changing your PASSWORD, you may change to the Mail Digest feature by sending email as follows: ------------------------------------------- To: listserv@nysernet.org (saying nothing but) SET JEWISHGEN Mail Digest ------------------------------------------- Messages can be posted from you as a subscriber at any time by sending email as follows: ------------------------------------------- To: jewishgen@israel.nysernet.org SUBJECT: Please be SPECIFIC! Body of your message -------------------------------------------- Please be advised also since this message base is being read by a "mixed bag" of users and read in a variety of "flavors" there are some "rules" we must abide by for the good of the message base. These rules will be sent to you after you have subscribed to the list. All messages posted to the list will be received by all the list subscribers and will also be gated into FIDONET and read by all those who read and post to JEWISHGEN on hobby BBS's. The same is true in reverse. All those who access FIDONET BBS's throughout the world will also receive all messages posted by subs cribers to the internet list. HERE are some other commands you might want to execute from the LISTSERV@NYSERNE T.ORG for future reference. They should be sent individually as follows: To: listserv@nysernet.org HELP SET (these will tell you the commands for controlling MAIL) HELP (these wil l tell you the commands for SUBSCRIBING and UNSUBSCRIBING) JEWISHGEN Digest 150 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: JEWS IN VIENNA by celticwolf@aol.com 2) Re: Names (animal and otherwise) by Isar Steinhardt 3) Re: Searching for: by CLARE@vms.cis.pitt.edu 4) Re: Free Sons of Judah by warren@warren.vis.com (Warren Blatt) 5) Re: MONEY TO ENGLAND by Joshua Stein (B.E.S.T.) 6) FYI: Transcription 2/2 by mugdan@obelix.uni-muenster.de (Joachim Mugdan) 7) FYI: Transcription 1/2 by mugdan@obelix.uni-muenster.de (Joachim Mugdan) 8) Re: Moisesville by CLARE@vms.cis.pitt.edu 9) Re: Searching for: by SXHK56A@prodigy.com (MR KENNETH C KAHN) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic No. 1 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 94 23:39:00 EST From: celticwolf@aol.com To: jewishgen@nysernet.ORG Subject: Re: JEWS IN VIENNA Message-ID: <9402092339.tn93827@aol.com> Steven Chernoff: Could you possibly look in your book "History of Jews in Vienna" for any information on the Gruber family? I would be grateful for any information you could possibly find. Thank you. CelticWolf ------------------------------ History Server HNServer is an information server located at history.cc.ukans.edu login: history . Thse who prefer gopher access may reach HNServer through gopher TISL.ukans.edu HNServer is maint ained by Academic Computer Services and the History Department of the University of Kansa s and, under the auspices of the History Network, has been given the task of serving as the centr al information server for the international community of historians. An information server is an electronic installation that provides lists, called "menus", of other electronic sites, allows users to select those in which they are interested, and switches u sers automatically to the site selected. Such sites include library catalogues; data bases; full texts of books, articles, reviews, reference works, computer software, and other materials; graphic image collectio ns; professional news; national and local weather reports; telephone and electronic address books; univ ersity news services; electronic journals; and much more. Users may retrieve electronically whatever m aterial they wish from these sites, free of charge. HNServer currently has connections to over two hundred library catalogues worldw ide; data bases in Kansas, Ohio, Minnesota, Mississipi, Missouri, Illinois, Washington DC, Australi a, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Nations, as well as connections to other information servers that provide the user with still more additional connections. Several Usenet usergroups of in terest to historians are presently on-line and more are being added. Electronic journals include CLIONET (Australia), Colegios, EconHist, REACH, and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and the holding o f GHETA, the Netherlands respository of historical journals. Johns Hopkins Press pre-publicat ion articles are now available, as well as the US National Archives catalogue of available files and the Library of Congress Information Files. Cooperative plans are underway to establish connections between HNServer and the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London, Carlisle Barracks' Center for M ilitary History, and planned national storage sites for historical data in Germany and Canada. The operators of HNServer are continuing to search for other useful sites, and h istorians in various parts of the world have been stimulated by the existence of a central server to begin to establish new sites in which to collect historical materials. Lynn Nelson LHNELSON@UKANVM lhnelson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu The Listserv@vm1 contains all the genealogy text fi les -- how-to files, a huge name finder file which is updated monthly with names being searched and names and addresses of research ers, FAQ file, resources, etc. There are hundreds (I'm guessing) available. The Listserve files are obtained by e-mailing request, not FTPing. E-mail to Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu; do not place a nything in the subject line. Send the following message and nothing else: Get GENEALOG FILELIST To get any of the listed files e-mail to Listserv..... with noting on the subjec t line and the following message: GET GENEALOG FAQ ROOTS-L FAMILY This archive contains software, text files, and GENEJEW section of GSDS (pub/gen ealogy/text/jewish). Access via ftp ftp.cac.psu.edu (the ftp is part of the address!) Login "anonymous" cd pub/genealogy On Roots-L you have the capability to search for a name, word, or a phrase which has ever been on Roots-L. To do this, send a regular text message to Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu with ONLY the following information as text of the message: // job echo=no database search dd=rules //rules dd * search jew in roots-l since 89/01/01 index This will return a message to you with the message numbers which have the word j ew or jews in them (there are 711 as of March 18, 1994). To request one of these messages, send the previous message to Listserv@vm1.noda k.edu with the following after the line "index" print 1234 print 3387 Helpful Internet Pr ograms Archie A system for locating files that are publicly available by ano nymous FTP. You ask it either to find filenames which contain a certain search string or suggest files whose description contains a certain word. It returns the actual fi lenames that meet the search criteria, and the name of the servers containing those files. Servers: archie.rutgers.edu Northeastern US archie.sura.net Southeastern US archie.unl.edu Western US archie.ans.net Sites connected t o ANS network archie.mcgill.ca Canada archie.au Australia and the Pacific Basin archie.funet.fi Europe archie.doc.ic.ac.uk United Kingdom Gopher A menu-based system for exploring Internet resources. Using G opher, when you find something you like, you can read or access it through the Goph er without having to worry about domain names, IP addresses, changing programs, etc . In order to access the Gopher system, you need a gopher client program for your c omputer, or use a public client (consultant.micro.umn.edu and gopher.uius.edu telnet to either of these and use the login name "gopher"). You can get this software from boom box.micro.umn.edu. WAIS Wide-area information servers; a very powerful system for look ing up information in databases (or libraries) across the Internet. WAIS is a tool for working with collections of data, or databases. Like Gopher you need a client program. To use the UNIX character oriented interface "swais", telnet to quake.think.co m or nnsc.nsf.net and login as wais. WWW World-Wide Web; a hypertext-based system for finding and acces sing Internet resources. Hypertext is a method of presenting information where selected words in the text can be "expanded" at any time to provide other information about t he word. To try, telnet to info.cern.ch There is a list of gopher telnet sites and archie sites around the world. This several page list is compiled by Scott Yanoff, and is updated bi-weekly. Scott Yanoff is at yanoff@c sd4.csd.uwm.edu - there are instructions that you can find ways of obtaining this list by typing "finger yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu". To obtain this list, send the following message to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu "GET GENEALOG INTERCON" The Library of Congress LC's catalog allows you to search by name, title, subject, series, classificatio n number, LC control number, and all of the other standard numbers. It has a browse function and supp orts boolean searching. The brief, full record, and MARC formats can be displayed. For furth er information, type HELP COMMANDS while in the LC catalog, and hopefully, later this summer manuals which can be either purchased or FTP'd will be available. To get to LC's To get files post ed in catalog: LC's public direc tories: Program: TELNET FTP Address: LOCIS.LOC.GOV SEQ1.LOC.GOV 140.147.254.3 Hours: M-F 6:30am-9:30pm (EST) 24 hours? Sa 8:00am-5:00pm (EST) Su 1:00pm-5:00pm (EST) Note, in the time above, EST=Eastern Standard Time... If you do not have access to TELNET or FTP, sorry you'll have to throw yourselves on the mercies of the discussion group to help you! :-) Melodie PS. If you have trouble with the backspace (and using VT100), try changing your terminal emulation to ANSI. Backspace will work then. ******************************************************************* * Melodie Sanders Internet: MES@VAX2.UTULSA.EDU * * Serials Cataloger/Reference Librarian * * McFarlin Library * * University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) * ******************************************************************* For more information get the file GENEALOG LCONLINE How to Access the Library of Congress (info) from Listserv@vm1.nodak.edu telnet ram2.huji.ac.il Trying 128.139.4.15 ... Connected to ram2.huji.ac.il. Escape character is 'Øš'. ***************************************************************** Welcome to RAM2 - Hebrew University Libraries Enter Username ALEPH for online ALEPH system. ***************************************************************** Username: ALEPH Welcome to VAX/VMS version V5.5 on node RAM2 Last interactive login on Thursday, 22-APR-1993 19:33 Last non-interactive login on Thursday, 22-APR-1993 19:23 ------------------------------------------------------- WELCOME TO THE REMOTE ALEPH SERVICE. TO HELP US EVALUATE AND IMPROVE THE USE OF THIS SERVICE, WE WISH TO RECORD HOW MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE USING IT, AND AT WHAT HOURS. To EXIT your ALEPH session, type STOP on any screen ------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME:bkahn@kodak.com THANK YOU Terminal selection 1. Visual 55/65 (block mode, Latin only, unless terminal has Hebrew chip installed) 2. VT100 (Latin only) 3. VT102 (Latin only, unless accessed using Israeli ALEPH KERMIT) 4. Visual 220 (block mode) 5. TTY (Latin only) 9. PC (used with special block mode ALEPH emulator) 10. Elbit DS2000 11. VT220 protocol (VT220,VT320,VT340,VT420,V603, etc. Display Latin only, unless terminal has Hebrew chip installed) ================================================================= Following types for use with ALEPH soft fonts (display Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Cyrillic) 17. VT320 18. VT420 19. Visual 603 Terminal types for Israeli terminals with Hebrew chip 27. VT320 28. VT420 29. Visual 603 Select from menu : 5 au/rafaeli Search Library UnionMon Access List - Authors 1. RAFAEL, RUTH KELSON (4) 2. RAFAEL, VICENTE L (1) 3. RAFAELI, ADA (1) 4. RAFAELI, ANAT (1) 5. RAFAELI, ESTHER (2) 6. RAFAELI, SHEIZAF (1) 7. RAFAELSEN, LISE (1) 8. RAFAIL, PATRICE A (1) 9. RAFAILOVICH, PNINA (1) Continue=C, Backward=R, Publications=P/line no., Save set=CS/line no., Print screen=PS, Print publications=PR/line no. p/5 Search Library UnionMon List of publications 5. RAFAELI, ESTHER (2) 1-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. RAFAELI, ESTHER RABBI AISEL HARIF........................................... 1991 1468930 2. RAFAELI, ESTHER RABBI AISEL HARIF........................................... 1991 1818133 Back to Access List=AC, Bibliographic record and Location=B/line no., Save=S/line no., Sets=LS, Print screen=PS, Print publication=Pr/line no. b/2 Search Library UnionMon Location of Book **1818133** SYSNO 1818133 Title RABBI AISEL HARIF Author RAFAELI, ESTHER File-YR 1991 Lang ENG Holding BAR BAR 0208521 Alg key fhlsbr fil1991 For full details, type: LB/CODE.CODE/H/DOCUMENT NO.(i.e. LB/TAU.AAC/H/1023452) ------------ Holding Library Codes=HELP, Publications=P, Access=AC ------------ lb/bar.bar/h/0208521 Search BARCAT **LIBRARY** BAR ILA Location of Copies Year System no. Rabbi Aisel Harif........................................... 1991 208521 -LIBRARY- -CALL NO.- -LOAN PERIOD- -RETURN DATE .1 Stacks A509.2 SHA(RAB) 1991 Four weeks Next= N Sub-libraries List = HX Location= H//Sub-lib.code To Order = HD Short Descr.= P Full Descr.= B Issues= IS To Access list (AU,TL,SH) = AC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- te lnet pac.carl.org >>> Systems That Inform <<< Welcome to the CARL System (Release A.101) A Computerized Network of Systems and Services Developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Marketed and supported by CARL Systems, Inc. 3801 East Florida St., Suite 300 Denver, Co. 80210 Voice: 303-758-3030 Fax: 303-758-0606 Internet: help@carl.org LIBRARY CATALOGS 6. Auraria Library 17. Regis University 7. Colorado School of Mines 18. Luther College Network (IA) 8. Univ Colo at Boulder 19. Northwest College (WY) 9. Univ Colo Health Sciences Center 20. State Department of Education 10. 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Morgan State Univ (MD) 79. Arizona Libraries (Arizona State 117. Solano, Napa & Partners (CA) Univ. & Northern Arizona Univ. telnet melvyl.ucop.edu MELVYL SYSTEM DATABASES Library databases: TEN For faster searches, type TEN; Ten-Year MELVYL Catalog - materials published from 1983 - 1993 CAT Full MELVYL Catalog - UC libraries and the California State Library PE Periodical Titles - California Academic Libraries List of Serials Indexes to recent articles: (for UC users only; password may be needed) MAGS Magazine & Journal - 1,500 magazines and journals NEWS Newspaper Articles - five major U.S. newspapers CC Current Contents - 6,500 scholarly journals CCT Current Contents - tables of contents of 6,500 scholarly journals INS INSPEC - 4,000 physics, electronics & computing journals MED MELVYL MEDLINE - 4,000 medical and life sciences journals COMP Computer Articles - 200 computer-related magazines and journals DATABASES OUTSIDE THE MELVYL SYSTEM: Some systems are available only if you use a VT100 terminal or emulation. Type EXPLAIN VT100 for information. ASIA Asian and Pacific studies - UC Davis DIALOG DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (account required) EEA Earthquake Engineering Abstracts ERIC Education article & report citations (database on Stanford system) GEOREF Geology and geophysics citations (database on Stanford system) HAPI Hispanic American Periodicals Index (database on ORION system) LEGISLATE Daily US Congressional and regulatory information NASA Space and earth sciences - NASA Online Data & Information Service OCEAN Oceanography - OCEAN Information Center RUTGERS Reference materials and campus information - Rutgers University WEATHER Weather forecasts and information - University of Michigan CALIFORNIA CATALOGS/CAMPUS-WIDE INFORMATION SYSTEMS OUTSIDE THE MELVYL SYSTEM: GLADIS UC Berkeley HAYSTAC California State University, Hayward (VT100 only) INFOCAL UC Berkeley Campus-Wide Information System INFOSLUG UC Santa Cruz Campus-Wide Information System (VT100 only) NRLF Northern Regional Library Facility (for Microterm ACT5A, Tandem, Televideo, WYSE, and VT100) ORION UC Los Angeles (account required) POLYCAT California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo (VT100 only) SFSU San Francisco State University InvestiGator system (VT100 only) STANFORD Stanford University UCSFCAT UC San Francisco (VT100 only) LIBRARY CATALOGS OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA: ASU Arizona State University BOSTON Boston University CAMBRIDGE Cambridge University, England CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries CFN Cleveland Free-Net DARTMOUTH Dartmouth College DRA Digital Research Associates - Library of Congress (VT100 only) EPIC OCLC, Inc. (account required) HARVARD Harvard University HOLLIS Library System (VT100 only) LIBROS University of New Mexico General Library MICHIGAN University of Michigan MIRLYN Library System (VT100 only) MONT Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Mexico (VT100 only) OXFORD Oxford University, England PRINCETON Princeton University PSU Pennsylvania State University RLIN Research Libraries Group (account required) RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic University UDEL University of Delaware UMD University of Maryland UNM University of New Mexico (VT100 only) UTENN University of Tennessee VATECH Virginia Tech YALE Yale University ORBIS Library System (VT100 only) Transliteration References At present, in the United States, there is one standard system for the "descrip tive cataloging" (i.e., transliteration) of Hebrew books. The best source that I know of on this subject is HEBRAICA CATALOGING, by Paul Maher (Washington, D.C., 1987). AKADEMYAH LA-LASHON HA-IVRIT by Dotan and Ketko, Jerusalem The Academy 1963 US Dept State, Office of the Geographer Romanization Guide - Publ Wash The Offic e 1967 Notes based on the systems as used by the US Bd on Geographic Names for Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Faeroese, Greek, HEBREW, Icelandic, Japa nese, Korean, Laotian, Mongolian, Nepali, Persian, RUSSSIAN, SERBO-CROATIAN, Thai and UKRAINIAN. Are you aware of the Family Attic program, available from Up-A-Tree Software? I t's by David Kleiman (who spoke on genealogy and computers at the JGS conference in Salt Lake City a couple of years ago) and his partner. He demonstrated it at a recent JGS Boston meeting and several of us purchased it. You can contact Up-A-Tree at P.O. Box 2270, West Pat erson, NJ 07424, 212-721-9382. It does some basic transliteration for Hebrew, Yiddish, and a couple of other languages. It also has a glossary of genealogy-related terms in 8 or 10 l anguages. It will also generate Soundex codes for names you input. Plus a few other convenient ut ility functions. It's shareware; $25 to register it. If you use a laptop or notebook computer wh en at the library, for example, it's handy. Warren Blatt, who is in charge of our local effort to catalog cemetery records, uses Family Attic to transliterate gravestone inscriptions. "The thing I like about standards, is that there are so man y to choose from!" Miscel laneous Blairs Book Service 1661 Strine Dr. McLean, VA 22101 (703) 883-2510 Geographic Name Server has state, county, latitude, and longitude for US cities, parks, etc. Also has 1980 census population, elevation, area code, and ZIP code . telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu Questions to Tom Libert Libert@citi.umich.edu (313) 936-0827 It is now possible to correspond electronically with the Family History Library staff for answers to such basic questions as locating a town, learning if records are available, or using FamilySearch. Vefore asking a new question, check the store d questions and answers to determine if your query has already been addressed. Following are the bulletin boards and addresses required: Bulletin Board Addresse s GEnie (research questions) F.H. Lib rary GEnie (FamilySearch questions) FamilySe arch America Online (AOL) FamHistL ib Prodigy FHLS98B through FHLS98F CompuServe 70007,32 53 National Video Text (Research questions) FHLibrar y National Video Text (FamilySearch questions) FAMSearc h Acknowledgements Susan King - Houston TX "Mother" and co-moderator o f JEWISHGEN Dave Johnson - Rochester NY my sysop Dick Pence - co-sysop of the National Genealogic al Echo John Le Duc Genealogical Software Distribution System (GSDS) John Grove - zone 1 coordinator Tafel Matching System (TMS) Brian Mavrogeorge - San Francisco CA Bill Korroch Jewish Family Finder (JFF) Dan Garnitz Internet George Archer Bea Cohen Marty Miller Florence Marmor Transliteration Patrick Gordis Herbert Unger Sharla Levine Joachim Mugdan Institute of General Linguistics University of Muenster Germany "If you copy from one person it's plagiarism, If you copy from many people it's research!" References 1. General Files available on most genealogy BBS's: NGCPROT2.ZIP, MONITOR.ZIP, COMPGEN1.ARC, 2. Research Worldwide with Your Home Computer, March 1993, by Brian Mavrog eorge, 109 Stratford Dr., San Francisco, CA 94132 3. TMS: a. What is a Tiny-Tafel, January 1993, by Brian Mavrogeorge. b. TMSUSER.ZIP 4. Online Library Access: a. "Dial-in 1992" by Michael Schuyler, published by Meckler b. Internet Libraries by Art St. George and Ron Larsen. get libr ary package from listserv@umnvma.bitnet, or ftp internet.library from ariel.unm .edu in the directory library. c. Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases by Billy Baron, avai lable by anonymous ftp from ftp.unt.edu in the directory called "librar y" as library.xxx where xxx is txt, ps, or wp5 for the text, PostScript, or Word Perfect v.5 versions; or get genealog lib-addr from listserv@vm1.nodak.edu 5. Transliteration: a. Hebraica Cataloging, by Paul Maher, 1987, Washington DC. b. Akademyah La-lashon Ha-ivrit, by Dotan and Ketko, Jerusalem 19 63, The Academy. c. US Dept. of State, Office of the Geographer Romanization Guide , Washington DC, 1967. d. Family Attic program by David Kleiman, Up-A-Tree, P.O. Box 227 0, West Patterson, NJ 07424 (212) 721-9382. Shareware, $25. e. Rosen, Haiim B.: A Textbook of Israeli Hebrew, 2nd edition. Ch icago, London: Univ. of Chicago Press 1966. f. Wellisch, Hans H.: The Conversion of Scripts - Its Nature, His tory and Utilization. New York etc.: Wiley 1978 6. Internet a. The Whole Internet by Ed Krol, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 19 92, $25. b. Zen and the Art of the Internet 2nd Ed. by Brendan Kehoe, Pren tice Hall, 1993, about $23. The 1st Edition is available in PostScript v ia anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.widener.edu in the pub/zen subdirectory as fil e zen-1.0.PS c. The Internet Companion by Tracey LaQuey and Jeanne Ryer, $11. d. Gaining Access to the Internet by Greg Notess, Online Septembe r 1992, p. 27. e. Searching Online Database Services over the Internet by Thomas Keays, Online, January 1993, p. 29. f. Searching Internet Archive Sites with Archie: Why, What, Whe re, and How by Curtis Simmonds, Online, March 1993, p. 50. JGC GSD S JFF TMS Node Number AL Huntsville Pot Of Gold 205-534-7981 X 1:373/5 AL Mobile The World According to 205-633-5875 X X 1:3625/462 AL Montgomery Starscan (sm) 205-279-7313 X 1:375/1 AZ Sun City West Sunwise 602-584-7395 X 1:114/78 AZ Tempe Rare Readers 602-756-2855 X X X X 1:114/22 CA Elk Grove Dynasty 916-686-6946 X ? 1:203/10 CA Anaheim Christian Central 714-971-1564 X 1:103/138 CA Eureka Larry's World 707-441-4927 X 1:125/46 CA Fairfax EpStar 415-454-8206 X 1:161/103 CA Fontana Just Do It Marketing 909-428-7648 X 1:218/404 CA Modesto Root Connection 209-576-1606 ? X X 1:208/104 CA Pleasant Hill No Name Yet Genealogy 510-827-5714 X X 1:161/911 CA San Diego The Family Historian 619-459-5886 X ? 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UNI-KONSTANZ.DE ISRAEL InterUniversity Computerized Catalog System--ALEPH RAM2.HUJ I.AC.IL MEXICO Instituto Tecnologico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey MTECV2.M TY.ITESM.MX Library of the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla bibes.pu e.udlap.mx (140.148.1.5) NEW ZEALAND Victoria University of Wellington LIBRARY. VUW.AC.NZ SWITZERLAND Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Library ETHICS.E THZ.CH THE UNITED KINGDOM A full guide to this service can be retrieved by mailing info-server@nsfnet-rela y.ac.uk with the following text in the message: Request: janetpad Topic: userguide In summary: 1. telnet to sun.nsf.ac.uk - currently 128.86.8.7 2. login as janet - in lowercase; there is no password 3. enter the NRS name of a JANET host when prompted. 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If you don't know this, your pleasure in using Internet will diminish rapidly as you encounter the "costs" of long- distance te lephone charges, on-line services' limitations and hidden costs, and the steep learning curves to master arcane Internet commands. There are several ways to access Internet's resources of e-mail, conferences, an d files. Before you select your method of getting on Internet, you should know: >> How comfortable you are with computers and telecommunications >> How Internet will serve non-genealogical interests >> How much time and money you want to spend So let's talk dollars and cents; I can't help you with the other questions. The Internet is free, but you have to spend time and/or money to get access to it. Unless you are fortunate enough to have access where you work or study, you will have to choose how you get onto the Int ernet: 1) direct access (you set up the hardware and software and have the phone company put in a dedica ted line all for several thousand dollars - not likely!) or 2) dial up service using your computer, modem and phone line to access Internet using one of four choices in order of increasing basic cost: a Freenet ($0-75/yr), a Bulletin Board System (BBS) ($0-45/mo), a commercial Internet service provider ($15- 80/mo) or a commercial on-line service ($9-125/mo). Since the topic is saving money as you do your genealogy us ing Internet, I'll start with the cheapest of the alternatives, Freenets, and save the others for future articles. What are Freenets? The Freenet movement began in 1986 in Cleveland and has begun to spread to other cities around the US and abroad sponsored by the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) that ha s the goal of making computer telecommunications and networking as accessible to people as the public libraries. The individual Freenets are funded from private and public funds and staffed by indi viduals and volunteers. A Freenet provides the public limited access to the Internet so anyone can use a phone and modem to dial into it directly or from another point, such as a public library in some other c ity. Ultimately all Freenets will be interconnected so you can log onto any of the sites from another site. S een from a software point of view, a freenet is a community-based bulletin board system that provides e-ma il, information services, interactive communications and conferencing among Freenet members and with the l arger Internet community. My Experience with Freenets I have accessed a Freenet three ways: 1) Dial direct and pay long distance charg es when necessary; 2) dial locally to a local library or university computer center and then use its menu t o log on a Freenet (see Exposed! below for some tips); 3) use a commercial on-line service to telnet (lo gon remotely) to a Freenet. In my search for cheap Internet access, I joined a Freenet here in the Washingto n, D.C, area, CapAccess, for $35 a year. CapAccess is jointly funded from public and foundation grant mo ney with hardware and software loaned to CapAccess by George Washington University. I soon found that CapAccess' modems ran at a slow 2400 bps (now replaced with 9600 bps models), the lines were busy (worse now), the computer was often down and the menus were hard to navigate with no shortcuts. Worse, there is still no published documentation and minimal on-line help to use the system. Access to Internet is limited to e-mail that has to be written on-line with a choice of 3 very hostile Unix edito rs (vi, emacs, pine) because no uploading of any files was allowed for security reasons. Discontented, I bega n to look elsewhere. I admit that my experience was prejudiced by high expectations and lust for unli mited Internet access at almost any dollar cost, sins I have since repented, but for those of you with m ore patience and economic sense, Freenets can be very accommodating and easy to use and may be a half-way house for familiarization while deciding how to access Internet for genealogy or be your u ltimate choice. Freenets - the Upside: cheap, easy and accessible Freenets have some advantages over on-line commercial services beyond the obviou s lower cost. Freenets use an NPTN-sponsored bulletin board software program ensuring a standardize app earance and sequence of functions no matter which Freenet you use as part of NPTN's plan for seamless connections between Freenets. Despite software uniformity, there is a wide range of choices on Free net menus reflecting their sponsorship and accessible local resources. So it pays to look at several Freene ts in your calling area to compare access, internet services, and cost. At a minimum all offer local files and conferencing, internet access using ftp, telnet (via menus), e-mail, and sometimes other services like usenet's genealogical newsgroup, soc.roots. You then can use e-mail to post messages for everyone in s oc.roots or just send messages directly to invidivuals anywhere in the world. Freenet menus will insulate you from the forbidding Babel of mainframe commands that Internet is notorious for. Your learning curve will be gentle and short so you can immediate ly get to use Internet resources. In fact, I believe the Freenets' menus are superior to many on-line s ervices, because they include as menu selections clear instructions on many difficult technical "how-t o" subjects like addressing e-mail to and from different on-line services or nets on Internet. Also voluntee r networks like Freenets improve their services faster than commercial services because testing and installation can be done in shorter time. For example, Heartland is a pioneer among Freenets in mixing both a conventional menu and a hypertext version of telnet called Hyte lnet executes embedded telnet commands in files that makes telnetting easier. In Hytelnet menus, the us er easily navigates up and down sub-menu levels using the arrow keys to jump from one linked item to item r ather than typing menu numbers. Freenets let you download files from remote Internet sites using File Transfer P rotocol (FTP) . FTP is both a function and a software program resident on the Freenet's computer . FTP lets you go out to a computer on Internet, logon and then explore the public directories for fil es, downloading those you want to your host computer, Freenet in this case. The downloads to the Freenet w ill be at very high speed depending on the kind of connection the Freenet has with Internet, measured in b andwidth or the size of electronic pipe through which data flows. Most Freenets use a store and forward method for file downloads, a two step proc ess. The Freenet will allow a user about a megabyte of disk space for one day's use where FTP'd files are stored until the user downloads them to their personal computer at home as a second step using one of the PC protocols such as XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM, or KERMIT. The store and forward method makes better use of Internet resources, but requires the host computer to have more disk space. Oth er on-line services that have many users and little free disk space use direct downloads from the remote site to your computer with no storage on the service provider's disk. This means transfers are a one step operation but are slower, limited more by your computer's hardware and the transmission speeds sup ported by the telephone line than by the Freenet's equipment. Freenet menu systems are gateways to other sites of interest to genealogists suc h as other freenets and especially on-line library catalogs like the CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, MELVYL (Univ. of California), ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) and LC Ma rvel (Library of Congress). To get you to a library in Colorado, the Freenet menu uses an Intern et feature called telnet that dials up and logs you onto a remote computer as if you were physical ly at the distant site. If it is necessary to logon manually after you connect at a remote site, you are given on-screen prompts how to do this. A single Freenet membership gives you access to other Freenets or on-line resour ces in the US and abroad greatly expanding your access to research resources at no additional cost. The B uffalo Freenet is a real crossroads, connecting with 15 other Freenets in the US and several in Canada, G ermany and Finland. The Buffalo Freenet offers unique library access for New York researchers with on-li ne access to the catalogs of the New York State Library and Archives and the Buffalo and Erie Co., NY libr aries. The Youngstown Freenet promises access to most of the public and research libraries in northeas t Ohio in the near future. The Canadian National Capital Freenet has a particularly strong genealogy sectio n. To access it, look for Item 8 which is "Hobbie SIGs" under the SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS menu, and then p ick no 12, "The Genealogy SIG." In "THE GENEALOGY SIG" sub-menu select no 3, "soc.roots" n ewsgroup. Freenets - the Downside: Slow, Crowded, Limited The Freenets are very hard to get onto during peak daytime hours. Your cost-fre e access will be limited by overwhelming public demand for a "free" service. All Freenets require some ki nd of registration and may discriminate against non-residents of their immediate area by charging them a fee. Heartland Freenet has a 50K e-mail disk storage limit and charges $15 per year out of state member s limiting their time to 30 minutes. This increases to 100K storage with $35 annual memberships plus a 4 5 minute logon time. Most Freenets are free to residents of the local area and don't charge more than $10 per year to out of state users. Freenets have limited disk space so you cannot subscribe to newsgroups and newsl ists like soc.roots or ROOTS-L as you can with commercial services. Cleveland Freenet, for instance, allows 1 Mb of temporary e-mail storage for three days but warns users this is subject to chang e without warning as disk space became scarce. To maximize disk space, Freenets subscribe to newsgroups li ke soc.roots and let you read them on-line and save the messages you want to your PC. Menus have a downside. Following menus is a bit like Alice in Wonderland followi ng the rabbit down tunnels. You will soon become lost in the labyrinth of sub-menus either on the F reenet but more so when telnetting to remote sites. Here is a not-so-unusual scenario: you select a libr ary from the menu and go there only to discover a more interesting library selection on one of their menu s. Before you know it, you are lost in cyberspace, two or more sites and many menus removed from your Freen et home. Then feeling alone in a new place with different menus, entirely different help menus and fun ction keys strange things begin to happen: >> You cannot back out of the 15th sub-menu on the ultimate computer to return i n an orderly fashion to the intermediate menu system of the second library because the help menus are no help or don't seem to work, so you have to break the connection or "hang up" on the entire session and log on again in a new session on the Freenet. The phone is busy. >> The remote computer where you are visiting suddenly "dies"; your commands don 't echo on the screen, and you have forgotten the opening screen's instructions on how to "esca pe" (usually something "friendly" like Ø š or Ø // and then type "quit.") >> The Freenet time limit of one hour has run out, your modem clicks, and softwa re tells you that your are "off line," that is, the connection is broken and you just lost the 100K fil e you were downloading. Try again tomorrow. On line time limits are usually one hour per call with some Freenets allowing up to 20 calls per day, but some of that time is lost in making telnet connections through an extended path of several sites where the Freenets do not offer a direct connection. Computers under high load and/or exte nded connection paths reduce response time or stop response for extended periods of up to one or two m inutes. Long distance charges to the Freenet begin to equal monthly charges to a commercial online ser vice. Be prepared. You may get what you did not pay for -- frustration and lost time. Despite these cautions Freenets are a very easy and economical way to get starte d using Internet They offer virtually all the basic services to access Internet that you pay a great d eal for from commercial service providers. If you use them only for e-mail, they will save you a bundle over commercial services. Moreover, they offer specialized conference areas where users can exchange infor mation on almost any topic including how to use the Freenet and Internet resources, without paying co mmercial services' premiums to access comparable services. Many users are professionals in their f ields, and you can benefit from this free expert advice. So check them out by dialing into one, following the prompts to log in, register for an account and use it for a while to familiarize yourself with Internet resources. Unregistered use rs have no access to the Internet or e-mail resources. Pick one or several Freenets that satisfy your res earch needs pertaining to that region. PHONE TIP: Calling out of state can be cheaper than calling in-stat e. Here are some Freenet telephone numbers in different parts of the country. You need a modem, telecommunications program generally set for 2400 bps (8-N-1) and a telephone. W atch the opening screen after you connect for on-screen instructions for login and passwords (if any). State/Locale Phone Nos. Internet/IP Address AK Anchorage 907-345-0034 AL Tenn. Valley 407-833-9777 CO Denver 303-270-4865 freenet.hsc.colorado.edu ( 140.226.1.8) Login: guest DC CapAccess 202-785-1523 Login: guest; Password: vi sitor FL Tallahassee 904-488-5056 freenet.fsu.edu (144.174.1 28.43) Login: visitor IL Heartland heartland.bradley.edu (136 .176.5.114) Peoria 309-674-1100 Login: bbguest Bloomington 309-438-2300 MO Columbia 314-884-7000 bigcat.missouri.edu Login: guest MT Dillon 406-683-7680 (192,231.192.1) Login: bbs NY Buffalo 716-645-3085 freenet.buffalo.edu (128.2 05.3.99) Login: freeport OH Cleveland 216-368-3888 freenet-in-a.cwru.edu Logi n: #2 on first menu OH Cincinnati 513-579-1990 cbos.uc.edu Login sequence: cbos, visi tor, 9999 OH Lorain Co. 216-366-9721 freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu (132.162.32.99) Login: guest $5 voluntary contribution OH Medina Co. 216-723-6732 medina.baldwinw.edu (192.1 50.115.23) Login: fnguest OH Youngstown 216-742-3072 yfn.ysu.edu (192.55.234.27 ) Login: visitor Canada National Capital 613-564-3600 freenet.carleton.ca (134.1 17.1.25) Login: guest Victoria 604-595-2300 freenet.victoria.bc.ca (13 4.87.16.100) Login: guest New Zealand Wellington +64-4-801-3060 kosmos.wcc.govt.nz There are many more Freenets being formed, but I don't have the phone numbers ye t. See Genealogical Computing, Oct/Nov/Dec, 1993, pp. 24-26 for a chart with voice phone numbers and addresses. If you already have Internet access and can telnet, use the addresses above to d o so. Some of these Freenet menus will give you leads to on-line library catalogs that you can pursue from y our own Internet site. EXPOSED!!! MY SECRET SITE FOR INTERNET ACCESS I'll share my secret site that I used to explore nine Freenets in preparing this article all for the cost of a local (area code 301) phone call. If you call long distance, the best time to call is at night, especially to connect with the Ohio Freenets. You can run up some horrend ous phone bills waiting for a response from the Freenets typically connecting at 2400 bps. If you must call during prime time, try the Canadian Freenets, National Capital and Victoria. These Freenets are le ss used and run faster. 1. Call the Univ of Maryland (UMCP) Computer Science Center: 301-403-4333 2. At the prompt type: telnet 3. At the "telnet:" prompt type: open seymour.md.gov 4. Select menu item 10 (Search the Internet), then sub-menu item 1 (Freenet Systems) (use arrow key or type in the menu item number and hit .) 5. Select one the 9 Freenets from the menu: Heartland, Lorain Co., Medina Co ., National Capital, Tallahassee, CapAccess, Victoria, Youngstown (see above) 6. When finished, exit the Freenet (see on-screen prompts) and q (quit) to l ogoff UMCP. Break your phone connection by typing "hangup" (no quotes) or use your telecom program's f unction keys. CAUTION: Remember, using this number or one like it gets you a free connection t o the distant Freenet but you are logged in as a "guest," and you will have to register to get any Interne t access. After you register and want to use a local access number like this one, it may not work because the men u you used to log onto the Freenet may be a dedicated connection that excludes the use of personal user IDs or passwords. Experiment on this one; it might save long distance charges. At worst it is a cheap way to exp lore some Freenets. Appendix 4: Commercial Providers From: The Genealogist's Guide to Internet by George Archer, Contributing Editor, National Genealogical Society, Computer Interest Group "Digest". Sources: Users' comments on FidoNet , Internet, Soc.roots, Computer Shopper Jan-Mar 1994, PC Magazine 12 Nov 1991, pp. 553-556, Ibid. 23 Fe b 1993, pp. 303-323, Ibid. 15 Mar 1993, pp. 110-158 (Rates Cited in PC Magazine articles not necessar ily current) On-Line Services Comparisons of Cost and Features for Genealogy (as of 1 April 1 994) These are the only on-line services with genalogical message and/or file areas. CompuServe Cost: $8.95/mo. Online charge for Basic service: 300/120 0/2400 baud: $4.80/hr; 9600-14,400 baud: $9.60/hr Navigation software: CIM or WinCIM or shareware: TAPCIS, OZCIS, AutoSIG (ATO), WinNav (offline Windows reader) (all for PC) and GoldCommPass (OS/ 2) Internet connections: Yes; $.15/message @7500 characters; $.05 each adde d 2500 characters. E-mail: Yes - 60 messages (7,500 characters each)/mo - fre e; over 60, $.05/per 2500 characters). Genealogy: Roots Forum (on-line, messages, files) Extended Se rvice for extra depending on your baud rates: 300= $6; 1200/2400= $8; 9600= $16. U se of a long-distance service (Tyme, Sprint, PC-Pursuit, etc.) is added charge Forum Moderator - Richard W. Eastland, PO Box 5273, Billerica, MA 01822; 508-663-65 10. Contact: 5000 Arlington Centre Blvd, PO Box 20212, Columbus , OH 43220; Tel. Modem Registration: 800-848-4480 (1200/2400 bps); 800-331-7166 (6400 b ps) - 7 data bits, even parity 1 stop bit; full duplex (7-E-1). Press Ctrl-C and en ter ID and password (from your subscription kit) Voice: 1-800-484-8199; 1-800-848-8990; 614-457-8650; 614- 457-0802 - call for a subscription kit. GEnie - General Electric Information Services Cost: $8.95/mo Online charge: First 4 hrs are free @2400 baud; over 4 hrs $3/hr @2400 baud; add $6/hr for any online time @9600 baud. A ll times non-prime time. Navigation software: Aladdin (PC, Mac, Atari ST). Windows and Mac vers ions to ship in 1st Quarter 1994. Internet connections: Yes - E-mail only. Services: Archie. E-mail: Yes; $3/hr; $9.50/hr 6AM-6PM Genealogy: Genealogy & History RoundTable (real-time conferen ces, bulletin board messages, text files in 16 Libraries, divided into 1000 Categorie s and Topics covering geographic areas, religious and ethnic groups, surnames and m ore.) RoundTable Moderator: Rhonda R. McClure, PO Box 700295, St. Cloud, FL 34770-0295; 407-957-9676 Modem Registration: 800-638-8369 (8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit ( 8-N-1); local echo on, half duplex. After connected, Enter: "HHH" and press Enter, the n type "SIGNUP" and press enter. Follow the prompts thereafter. Voice: 1-800-638-9636; 301-251-6421. Prodigy Cost: $14.95/mo per household (5 users); 25 hours CORE a nd/or PLUS time $29.95 Online charge: 2 hrs/mo. per household free 2-3 Hrs, then $4.80/h r; 3-6 Hrs: $4.20/hr; Over 6 Hrs: $3.60/hr; No surcharge for 9600 baud. Navigation software: Pro-Master (for PC and Mac - available when subscr ibing with Prodigy); Prodigy for Windows and DOS (2 programs) and Mail Manager ($4.95) Internet connections: E-mail only; read off-line; $.10 per 6,000 charact ers to receive and send messages. E-mail: 30 messages/month; $0.25 each message over 30, if read. Read messages off line only; messages kept 7 days. You must use Mail Manager to send Internet e-mail messages with file size limit of 6 0K. Genealogy: Genalogy message area. (No upload or download avai lable-Aug 1993) Modem: You must use Prodigy's software to log on; call vo ice line for information package and software. Voice: 1-800-776-3449; 914-993-8000 America on Line Cost: $9.95/mo (first 5 hours free, then $3.50 over 5 hr s; ex-Prodigy users 10 hours free, setup kit and no memberfee for the fir st month). No added charges for other services. Navigation software: You must have the software for PC, Mac and Apple t o register on line. Call the voice line to get the software. Mac versi on limited to 2400 baud. On-line registration: The number is automatically dialed by the software : supports 300/2400/9600 baud (N-8-1); no extra charge for 96 00 baud. Use local numbers for dial up. Voice: 800-827-6364 Internet: Yes - no additonal charge - 32K - $3/hr. maximum s ize with no larger size files permitted. E-mail: Yes - no charge for messages to AOL members Genealogy: A Genealogy Club for messages and files; on-line F orum area. Usenet newsgroups available in Jan 1994. Other: Autoconnect to Library of Congress. Coming: Usenet newsgroups, gopher and WAIS. Delphi - A service of General Vid eotex Corp. Cost: (In US 48 states only) 1. 10/4 Plan: $10/mo with 4 hours free and over 4 hrs @ $4/hr or 2. 20/20 Plan: $20/mo with 20 hou rs free and over 20 hrs @$1.80/hr. Adds $19 signup if 20/20 plan not t aken in first month but if taken in first month, signup is $9. Dial up phone services with "business hours": Sprint (6AM-6PM); Tymnet (6AM-7P M), free @1200/2400 bps during non-business hours, otherwis e $9/hr (M-F) during "business hours." Introduction offer: 5 hr s free access time @ $1.80 connect time during evenings/weekends. Telne t ("delphi.com"): 24 hrs/day @$1. PC-Pursuit: no add charge any time. Navigation software: No special software needed, but there is a sharewa re ($29) telecommunication program "D-Lite" by Circular Log ic with customized features for Delphi's mail, files and bulletin boa rd available for download from D-Lite SIG on Delphi. On-line registration: 800-365-4636 and use (8 data bits, no parity, 1 st op bit (8-N-1); when connected, press RETURN once or twice. At Usernam e enter: JOINDELPHI; at Password enter: FREE. For on-line i nformation: 800-695-4002. At the Password: enter INFO. Follow the menu prompts. Direct call without dial-up phone services (Tymnet or SprintNet): Kansas City, MO 816-421-6938; Boston, MA 617-576-0862. Voice: 800-695-4005 or 617-491-3393 E-mail info: INFO@delphi.com Internet: Yes, but $3/mo charge plus file storage: up to 25, 600 bytes free for 1 week; add $.16 per 1024 over free storage. Servic es: FTP, Telnet, Gopher, usenet newsgroups. File downloads 2400/960 0 bps; 1 wk storage. Internet Special Interest Group with menu -driven access to "Internet Auto-Connect Services" and forum for use r help. E-mail: Yes, no message limit or size constraints Genealogy: Custom Forums for conferences, files and on-line c hats. Genealogy Forum: "go cu 68" with Brenda Esslinger, Host. In vestigative Forum with topic section on Genealogy formed on 6 Oct 19 93: "go cu 122. Irish Genealogy Forum "go cu 124" with Andrew J. M orris, Host. Soc.roots available in usenet newsgroups. Other: Autoconnect (telnet) to five Usenet sites: Clevela nd Freenet, Tri-State Freenet, Youngstown Freenet, NYX (Univ. of Denver, UNC (Univ. of North Carolina); Internet Relay Chat and Usenet n ewsgroups on Delphi with nn news reader sited at Delphi. Archie, Finge r, Gopher, Hyteln WWW available. What service do I use for Internet - Byte Information Exchange (BIX) I have an account with BIX (Byte Information Exchange) for $20/20 hrs per month. I use the Tymnet or SprintNet 9600 (14,400 is coming later in the year) and this costs 1.6 cents/hr under 20 hours, then the connect times go to $1.80/hr. The conect time is inclu ded with the $20 charge from BIX. BIX is better anyone comfortable with the command line, more so than AOL, Delphi or other services with conferencing because: BIX has its own host programs for Internet access (ft p, telnet, gopher, finger plus e-mail) and what you can't use at BIX, you can telnet out to get (ve ronica, world wide web, on-line library access). You are NOT limited to e-mail access to Internet. BIX has a very liberal on-line storage arrangement: 10mb free for one month then $1 per 100k over the 10mb. E-mail messages are kept for 3wks before scrolled off from "unread" s tatus. BIX has a number of help conferences on BIX' services and internet if you need i t. They sell a manual separately and it is avalable for d/l if you can find it. The printed ver sion is worth it; get it when you register or later. BIX has a netnews reader (very creaky right now but will improve) so you can rea d soc.roots (for those items that don't get mirrored to ROOTS-L. You can configure this reader so it wi ll pre-load the newsgroups that you want to read in a menu for ease of access. I have yet to fi nd a way to globally mark and down load or mail them to me. BIX has a bunch of conferences and file areas but none on genealogy (maybe somed ay). It is aimed at the technical-minded and very good for programmers looking for code libraries and other tools. It has back issues of BYTE magazine on line and it has a keyword search (Join Index ) utility that uses a menu to guide you through a search of every text file in every conference back to 1984. In a matter of moments I had an 800K file in my outbasket ready to download on all the keywo rds associated with Internet (ftp, gopher, telnet, internet, archie), something that CI$ charges an arm and a leg for in extra charges. All in all a very good deal and growing all the time in tools and serv ices. They increasingly cater to the Window crowd with a front end program (none for DOS like TAPCIS for CI$) but no matter, I can suffer the manual operation for an hour a week. When you ftp, files can be downloaded to your computer using Zmodem (not the slo wer protocols like Compuserve B) that others offer in one operation. You don't have to save them to an intermediate buffer on the host and then exit ftp, fool around with more switches and protoco ls to download to your home computer. Further, while ftp'ing you can change the file names on the fly from the long UNIX names that DOS finds illegal to your own file names, thanks to BIX' version of f tp. Downloads are at the fastest baud rate supported by the Tymnet (or other service's phone line) 9600 bps. Downloads of conference messages and e-mail are equally direct with b atches of 99 messages sent to the download buffer with a "FILE ALL" command, then a "DOWN" to download them to your computer directly with Zmodem. The buffer (Clipboard) holds 2mb max. Convinced? I'm beginning to sound like an ad for BIX . Do NOT sign up for th e unlimited time at $13/hr as there is a $2.80/hr connect charge. I ran up a $60 bill in one mon th before I went to the 20/20 plan. You default to $13/unlimited time unless you take steps to sign up f or 20/20 (see below). They have a $5/5 hr introductory offer if you want to explore it. Before you call them for any trial, go first class and find the fastest dial up phone service line you can (9600 bps) in your immediate dialing area. I don't think Savannah or Augusta wi ll be cheaper than Jacksonville or a Florida number, as interstate rates are cheaper than intrastat e, almost always. Anyway to find the nearest 9600 bps numbers with your modem call 800-937-2862 (Tymnet) or 800- 877-5045 (SprintNet) 8-N-1, 9600 bps. BIX has a special deal with these services so that BIX meters the calls and then charges you the monthly charge plus anything over your minimum for the 20/20 plan or at the flat, maximum rate for the $13/mo plan. At the beginning of the month, call BIX using one of the two services and follow the rather arcane logon procedure to connect with BIX in Boston, MA. The monthly $5/5hr deal runs for one calendar month; be careful not to go over or you will be charged at the higher telephone rates. Before the end of the month, call them by voice at 800-695-4775, Mon-Fri only (don't use their on-line messages, notorously bad commo) and tell them to switch to the 20/20 plan, if you want to stay on. There is no extra charge if you do it before the end of the month, otherwise you default to that very expensive $13/mo unlimited time at higher phone rates. So much for the economics. If you have the dial up number for Tymnet or SprintNet use it to call BIX. BIX Logins TYMNET: when connected, type letter "o" Login: "bix" If you get garbage, try 7-1-E SPRINTNET: at prompt (I don't see one usually after I connect, so do following) Type : @ Terminal= at @ prompt: c bix (I use 7-1-E, as a default, but I'm told 8-N-1 is ok but never tried it) George Archer Internet: garcher@bix.com PO Box 6233 CompuServe: 72530,1645 McLean, VA 22106 FidoNet: 1:109/302