1,000,000th Visitor Trivia Quiz!!

Thanks to everyone who made this celebration a lot of fun!

Cyndi's List Trivia Quiz Rules

These rules are now here for reference only. Now that the contest has ended, please do not submit any more answers to the e-mail address shown below.

• Submit entries by e-mail to markhow@oz.net.
• Only one entry per person allowed.
• The subject line in your e-mail entry MUST contain the words "Trivia Quiz". Otherwise your entry will not be registered for the contest.
• The answers for each of the five questions must be numbered to correspond with the trivia question numbers on this page.
• The first 10 people to answer all five questions correctly will win a free copy of my new book. The book will be shipped to the winners after it becomes available on October 14, 1997. Winners will be asked for a postal mailing address in order to receive their copy of the book.

Cyndi's List Trivia Quiz

The 10 winners are:

1. Mary T. Schmidt Taylor
   Herndon, Virginia
   mttaylor@sprynet.com
   Surnames:
   Brennan, Broadbent, Catterson, Clemmer, Clinebell, Dever, Dull, Eagen, Everett, Fauver, Jones, King, Lees (Liss), Malone, McCann, McCarron, McDaniel (McDannald), McGeady (McGady), McGrath, McQuaid, Menzies, Moses, Parker, Robb, Schmidt, Staunton, Sweeney, Taylor

2. Lynn K. Searcy
   Anchorage, Alaska
   LKSearcy@micronet.net
   Names I'm researching:
   Albert, Apouey, Bain, Bernadou, Courbet, Ellsworth, Gilbert, Howell, Irwin, Ostrom, Searcy, Spencer, Troubat, Whitchurch, White, Wilkinson, Yager, Yelverton, Zwick
   Areas:
   CA, Alameda, Los Angeles, Napa, San Francisco, Sonoma; IL, Marion, St. Clair; KS, Cowley; MI, Clinton; MO, Daviess, DeKalb; OK, Beaver, Kingfisher; TN, Knox, Montgomery; France, Basses-Pyrenees; Canada, Ontario - Hastings.

   Comments: "Cyndi's List is by far the best site for genealogy help. I'm excited about her new book - good luck!"

3. John Flora
   Los Gatos, California
   ProFamHistServ@bigfoot.com
   Professional Family History Services

4. Vicki L. Olive
   Anchorage, Alaska
   phalene@alaska.net
   Phalene's French-Canadian Genealogy

   Comments: "Cyndi's web site is my most often visited web page. I try and visit at least 4 times a week. If I am ever searching for a particular genealogy web page, or genealogy subject, this site is my first, and usually only, resource. If anyone ever asks me for help in finding genealogy information, I always point them to this site. It is definitely first rate! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication."

5. Rick Crume
   Glyndon, Minnesota
   crume@rrnet.com
   CRUME/CROOME, England, esp. Gloucestershire & Dorsetshire, 1700s & 1800s.
   EVANS, Plainfield, Windham Co., CT & Harpersfield, Delaware Co., NY, 1750-1870.
   HALL, Chenango Co., NY, early 1800s.
   HOOPER, Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., MA, 1790-1815.
   JONES, Garthbrengi, Llan-ddew & Talgarth, Breconshire, Wales, 1723-1820.
   MORGAN, Merthyr Cynog & Llanigon, Breconshire, Wales, 1748-1851
   PENNINGTON, Lancashire, England, 1700s.
   SLIP/SLIPP, England, Germany or The Netherlands, 1700s.
   WIEST/WEIST/WIST, Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co., PA, 1770-1820.
   I would love to exchange information with anyone researching these lines.

   "Congratulations on your new son and for giving him such a good name. My grandfather was also named Evan Morgan. Over the last couple of years I've had great luck and traced this family back to Thomas Morgan, born in 1748 at Merthyr Cynog, Breconshire, Wales, a son of Morgan Thomas and his wife Elinor Price. After generations of patronymics, Thomas Morgan was the first in our line to adopt the fixed surname Morgan which was carried on down to my mother. The name Evan in our family goes back to Evan Jones, born in 1789 at Llanigon, Breconshire, Wales. Evan's family immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1819 and he and his son John Buttrick Jones became Baptist missionaries to the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina. In 1841 Evan accompanied the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears when several Indian groups were forcibly resettled in Oklahoma. He and John learned the Cherokee language and served as advocates for Cherokee rights. Evan died in the Cherokee Nation at Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Oklahoma in 1872. I have found that even a family with a common name like Jones can be successfully researched if you take advantage of all resources available, including Cyndi's List."

   Comments: "I am truly delighted to be a winner of Cyndi Howells' new book, "Netting Your Ancestors - Genealogical Research on the Internet." Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet makes order out of the vast, but chaotic, family history resources in Cyberspace. Using Cyndi's List as a stepping stone to the Net, I've quickly located useful genealogical information which might otherwise have eluded me--that is, if I even knew what to look for. I expect that "Netting Your Ancestors" will serve as an equally indispensable Internet guide for family historians."

6. Pam Wolak
   Clemson, South Carolina
   fwolak@clemson.campus.mci.net
   HYNDS of Co. Westmeath Ireland, DUFFIN and O'HALE of Co. Antrim, Ireland, and STURDIVANT.

7. Hazel E. Thornton
   Poulsbo, Washington
   hazelt@prodigy.net
   The Leise/Lease Family Home Page
   Surnames I am researching are:
   Leise / Lease, (VA, WV, MD, IL), McDowell / Rohrer, (MD, KY, IN, IA), Lynn, (VA, OH, IA), Stilson, (MN, IL) Buckley, Frith, Tasker, Tattersall (England).

   Comments: "I use Cyndi's List all the time. I think it is wonderful and so informative. I find something new to look at every time I sign on."

   "I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful book "Netting Your Ancestors". I have already read it cover to cover and found it quite informative and easy to understand."

8. Janet E. Tabares
   Sugar Land, Texas
   janetaba@wt.net
   Janet's Genealogy Page and JET Genealogical Research
   I am researching these families: Allen, Avery, Baker, Beatty, Beamer, Brewer, O'Brien, Boyd, Crary, Doan, Doutt, Downer, Easton, Ellis, Fisher, Fry, Gallup, Gates, Gibson, Gilstrap, Grafton, Graham, Guerra, Hamilton, Harman, Hoover, Hughel, Kelley, Kiser, Knight, Lazell, Lynch, McFate, Partridge, Rowan, Rix, Shawgo, Smith, Sparks, Sweitzer, Tracy, Wager, Waugh, and Zeigler (Ziegler).
   I'd love to here from anyone researching these families. My e-mail address is janetaba@wt.net

9. Wanda Payne
   North Edwards, California
   windsor56@ccis.com
   I am doing research on the following surnames:
   PAYNE, WEAR, TUCK, OGLE (these names are in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia). MCCARTIN, CRABILL, DODSON ( these names are in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) If anyone has any info on these names, please e-mail me at: windsor56@ccis.com

   Comments: "Also, I would like to applaud your great genealogy site. It has helped me greatly in my research. I have found a distant relative that had information on my 4great grandfather that I have been researching for 8 years! Thanks again and keep up the great work!"

10. Allison Stanley
    Rushworth, Victoria, Australia
    allieliza@geocities.com
    Allieliza's Genealogy Homepage
    Surnames : Ball, Batman, Best, Brooks, Cubitt, Daly, Dobson, Goodson, Haines, Kircup, Locking, Mitchell, Nelson, Osbourne, Simpson, Smith, Stagg, Stanley, Tetley, West.
    Areas : Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk
    Also : A one name Study of the surname Cubitt. All areas, worldwide.

    Comments: "Cyndi's list is brilliant. I'm a public librarian in a small rural community and the list allows local genealogists to make full use of the library's public internet terminal for family research. They can access records that could have otherwise have meant a long trip into Melbourne or hours using search engines. (The Librarian makes heavy use of it as well!) I can't wait for my copy of Netting Your Ancestors - I know it'll have dog eared pages in no time!"