Welcome to the STRONG GENEALOGY NETWORK!
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A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE STRONG GENEALOGY NETWORK
The Strong Genealogy Network is an informally organized consortium of family historians and amateur genealogists researching the surnames below. The goal of the group is to share data about persons with the surname Strong or any similar surname: either phonetically similar, graphically similar, or etymologically similar. That is, names that sound similar to Strong, look similar to Strong in cursive writing, or which have a similar meaning or derivation as the surname Strong. Some of these names are Strong, Stronge, Strang, Strange, leStrange, L'Estrange, LesStrang, deLestrange, D'Estreng, d'Estreng, String, Streing, Strain, Strangeways, Strangman, and Strongman. Additionally, researchers of surnames sounding somewhat like Strong, such as Straughn, Strawn, Strachan, Straffen, are invited to share information re spelling changes of surnames perhaps misrecorded in official and private records.
A goal of the group is to find common ancestors and living "cousins". Other goals and purposes are suggested in the Proposed "Mission Statement"No fees are dues are assessed by The Strong Genealogy Network. Participation is free.
The following criteria for websites to join the Strong Genealogy Network was adopted by the site managers, acting as an ad hoc committee.
- (1.) The website is generic; that is, it is not restricted to a single line of Strongs.
- (2.) The website provides information of value to Strong researchers.
- (3.) The website contains links to all the other sites on the Strong Genealogy Network.
- (4.) The use of the website is free.
1. THE STRONG ROOTSWEB SURNAME MAILING LIST
This is an unmoderated List, which is part of the Rootsweb Cooperative, open to any Strong, et al., family researcher. (See "How to Subscribe" Procedure. Persons who submit queries or other messages are required to subscribe to the mailing list, to identify themselves [real names], and to provide an Ancestor Chart showing their descent from earlist known Strong, et al., ancestor. See also Guidelines)
List Owner: Russell Laird
Address for CONTACTING MEMBERS or submitting correspondence to the List: STRONG-L@rootsweb.com
Address for subscribing to the list or cancelling a subscription:
STRONG-L-request@rootsweb.com
Address to subscribe or cancel subscription for DIGEST-MODE:
STRONG-D-request@rootsweb.com
To subscribe, send 1 word message: subscribe
To cancel subscription, send 1 word: unsubscribe PLEASE NOTE: The STRANGE and STRANG ROOTSWEB SURNAME MAILING LISTS CAN BE CONTACTED THOUGH THE SAME PROCEDURE, SUBSTITUTING THOSE SURNAMES FOR "STRONG" IN THE ABOVE INSTRUCTIONS. NOTE ALSO: To Contact David B. Strong please use the above procedures, or
2. THE STRONG GENEALOGY NETWORK WEB SITE
This is the 'hub" or "relay station" that is the original "Grand Central Station" of the network. It connects the databases of many Strong researchers. Any Strong, et al., descendant or researcher may register their Strong, et al., connections here, including a hotlink to their personal E-Mail address and/or to their personal genealogy homepage URL. Data is organized by nation, by province or state or county (shire), and by full proper name. There is lots of "how to do it" info here, with good links to helpful sites on using HTML, GEDCOMs, as well as links to good Research sites.
Contact William L. ("Bill")
Strong
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/5744/
3. RESEARCHING STRONG(E)s AND STRANG(E)s IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
David B. ("Dave") Strong's manuscripts, titled "Book One: Researching for Strongs in Britain and Ireland", copyright © 1997-2003, and "Book Two: The Donegal Strong Puzzle", copyright © 1999-2003 are published on these websites, where it may be searched using your Browser. Particularily of general interest to all Strong researchers attempting to trace their roots into England and Ireland is Dave's Chapter Thirteen, Lineages Directory. Dave Strong has also attempted to catalog all references to Strongs in Ireland, in a recently updated Irish Strong Database, including those who migrated to Ireland from Scotland and England and including those who migrated on to Canada, Australia, and the United States. An Irish Strong Births, Marriages, and Deaths Index is also included. With the assistance of William L. ("Bill") Strong, this database is now online and can be searched using the "Find" feature on your Browser.
Contact David B. ("Dave") Strong
URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/
4.
This website was created by the late Robert T. Strong, Jr., who has now been succeeded by Russell L. Laird. The website serves as the "Administrative Office" of the Strong Genealogy Network Mailing List. Policies and procedures for the Strong Genealogy Mail List are posted on this website. A list of E-mail addresses of subscribers is posted and updated frequently.
Ancestor / Descendancy Charts of Strong Mail List Subscribers who have submittted their data are posted. This service has now been opened to any Strong descendant, regardless of whether they subscribe to the Strong Mail List. Links are also provided to the Ancestor / Descendancy charts (GEDCOM to HTML webpages) posted on the Strong Roots Database. See STRONG QUEST WEB SITE GUEST REGISTER DESCENDANCY CHART SUBMISSION FORM and SURVEY
Contact Russell L. Laird
URL: http://members.tripod.com/~RTStrong/Quest
A collection of genealogical databases showing direct descents from earliest proven Strong ancestors is displayed at this website. Family Origins 6.0 for Windows is used to create the HTML pages for this database; this genealogy database program highlights the direct ancestry of the root person in each database, allowing the root person's descent, as well as ascent, to be easily traced.
This collection of ancestor charts is the joint effort of the late Robert T. Strong, who prepared the web pages, and James E. Gilbert, who provides the web space and uploads the web pages.
Contact James E. Gilbert
URL: http://home.comcast.net/~jegilbert/main/srd-toc.html
6. THE STRONG MAIL LIST ARCHIVE WEBSITES These two websites are hosted by Russell L. Laird. The messages that were posted to the Strong Genealogy Mail List when the list was located on the Mail Server ["MAISER"] at the University of Indiana, Risk Management Office, were archived. When the Mail List was adopted by the RootsWeb Genealogy Data Cooperative, the archived messages were transferred. Russell Laird had the foresight to request a set of the archived messages for the Strong Mail List. Those messages, covering the period from December, 1996, through about April, 1997, exluding the month of February, are now available for searching with the Find feature on your Browser at the following URL.
Contact Russell L. Laird
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9853
STRONG
ARCHIVES (No Index)
Russell Laird is constructing a second website that will provide an index and cross-index to the archived messages, including those in February 1997 that were not archived by the Mail Server at the University of Indiana, and the messages that were transmitted during the period between the crash of MAISER and the adoption of the Strong Mail List by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative.
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9881
STRONG
ARCHIVES (Indexed)
The RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative has also provided a searchable archive of the messages sent on the Rootsweb Server. Go to: ROOTSWEB STRONG-LIST ARCHIVES
7A. THE STRONG FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA WEB SITES
There are two websites. The first website was created in late October, 1997; initially, the site includes articles authored by Mrs. Martha F. (Brani) Strong regarding the English ancestry of John Strong(e), 2nd, who immigrated to the Massachusetts Colony in 1635 from the Parish of Chard, Somersetshire (County), England. Queries may be submitted to the Strong Family Association of America (SFAA) Historian, Robert S. Strong, who maintains an extensive genealogical database of the descendants of the immigrant, John Strong, called "Elder John Strong. There is information about SFAA publications, particularly five books pubished by SFAA which update a genealogy of the John Strong family which was published in the late 1800s by Benjamin Dwight. Online forms are provided for joining the Association and for ordering books.
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4715/
7B. THE
STRONG FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
ON-LINE MEMBERSHIP SITE
The second website is more of a site for SFAA membership (again, largely descendents of Elder John Strong of Massachusetts) and friends of Strong's or other genealogists who might find benefit in viewing the site. It also provides a launching platform to offer the Strong History books (1990's reprints and updates in Five Volumes of the Benjamin Dwight "Descendents of Elder John Strong" Two Volume set first published in 1871), which they have in abundance and need to turn to cash. This website focuses on the SFAA Membership and it's membership.
Contact: Bruce Whittier, Secretary, SFAA
URL: http://http://www.sfaaonline.com
Martha F. B. Strong's personal research findings are published on this website, where it may be searched using your Browser. Particularily of general interest to all Strong researchers attempting to trace their roots into England, with special emphasis on the Strongs of Dorset, Somerset, and the rest of southwest England. These Strongs are followed into their emigration to North America.
Contact Martha F. B. Strong
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7905/
9. MARINERS AND IMMIGRANTS NAMED STRONG, ET AL. Two websites in the Strong Genealogy Network were initiated by Mrs. Tracy Vickers. One of Tracy Vickers' websites is dedicated to publishing information about Ship Captains and other mariners named Strong, Strang, Strange, etc. Both sea faring and inland sailors are included.
The second website is dedicated to publishing information about immigrants to North America named Strong, Strang, Strange, etc., primarily data found in ship passenger lists.
Tracy Vickers is especially interested in mariners and immigrants who settled in Canada, but her websites are not limited to Canada.
URL1: http://members.allstream.net/~vickerst/ships.html
SHIP CAPTAINS
AND OTHER MARINERS NAMED STRONG, ET AL.
URL2: http://members.allstream.net/~vickerst/passlist.html
IMMIGRANTS
NAMED STRONG, ET AL.
10. THE STRANGE WEB SITEand THE JOHN R. MAYER MEMORIAL WEB SITE
The Strange website was originated by the late John R. Mayer as a personal webpage on Broderbond's Family Tree Maker website. The site contains links to his personal GED2HTML as well as to two websites intiated by other members of the Strong Genealogical Network after John's unfortunate death on March 31, 1998. The additional websites included are a John R. Mayer Memorial Webpage, dedicated to preserving the memory of John R. Mayer and setting out the significance of his research work, which was truely of monumental proportions; and an Outline of Extraneus, John's extensive written detail of his research findings.
Contact: Barbara Way, John R. Mayer's sister.
Contact David B. Strong, hosts the John R. Mayer Memorial Webpage and Outline of Extraneus
John R. Mayer Memorial Webpage URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/jrmmem.html
Outline of Extraneus URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/outline.html
11. STRONG BIOGRAPHICAL AND ANECDOTAL WEBSITE
This site is an extension of all the other Strong Genealogical Web sites. It is used as a posting site for information of interest from e-mails sent through the Strong Mailing List. Also kept on this site are copies of historical letters found by various researchers, together with anecdotes about Strongs gathered from various places.
Contact: Bill Garcia Strong; his ICQ # is 11476982 if anyone wants to instantly chat about the site in real time; Bill's day phone # is (804)924-1000
URL: http://www.wdstrong.com/strong/
12A. STRONG GENEALOGICAL FORUM
GenForum, in an exclusive partnership with Family Tree Maker Online, has created a
conglomeration of message boards (some people call them queries; GenForum calls them forums).
Anyone can post to these forums and immediately have their data shared with other researchers.
From GenForum's home page, you can access over 8200 forums devoted to specific
surnames, states, countries, and general topics. The URL below is the link to the forum for the
Strong
surname. Help build this community by posting messages; just follow the instructions.
URL: http://www.genforum.com/strong/
12B. STRANGE GENEALOGICAL FORUM
GenForum, in an exclusive partnership with Family Tree Maker Online, has created a
conglomeration of message boards (some people call them queries; GenForum calls them forums).
Anyone can post to these forums and immediately have their data shared with other researchers.
From GenForum's home page, you can access over 8200 forums devoted to specific
surnames, states, countries, and general topics. The URL below is the link to the forum for the
Strange
surname. Help build this community by posting messages; just follow the instructions.
URL: http://www.genforum.com/strange/
An Independant Strange Mail List... apparently quite prolific. It covers all of the alternative spellings (including Le STRANGE), but does not include STRONG. Every message with source or connection information is added to the web site.
Contact: Mike Strange;
Researcher, Mike Strange of Biggleswade,
Bedfordshire, England
URL: http://www.yourtotalevent.com
Descendants of James "Schim" Strong or Strang, of York County, Pennsylvania, who was POSSIBLY from Ireland, according to certain family legends.
Contact: Emmett W. Bratt;
Researcher, Emmett W Bratt 4228 Edgefield Ave. N.W., Canton, Ohio 44709-1619
+330 492 1019 Home
+330 284-0772 Business
ebratt@geocities.com
ebratt@consultant.com
http://www.geocities.com/~ebratt (direct line)
http://geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/9881/jstrong/jstrong.htm (Descendents of James "Schimn" Strong/Strang)
http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Emmett-W-Bratt-Ohio (All records, GedPage format)
Email: Emmett Bratt ; Website and GEDCOMs: Emmett Bratt's Home Page GEDCOM: Emmett Bratt
URL: http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Emmett-W-Bratt-Ohio
15. South Carolina
Descendants of James Strong, of County Antrim, Ireland and of South Carolina.
URL: http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Emmett-W-Bratt-Ohio
16. Lestrange
Descendants of _____ Lestrange, who was a companion of William the Conqueror, including descendents in England and Ireland. Links to many good websites.
Contact: Patrick Harris;
Researcher, New Zealand
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Stage/7818/lestrange/genealogy/ls13.htm
17. OTHER GENEALOGY HOMEPAGES FEATURING STRONGS
As indicated above, the Strong Genealogy Network is a distributed database which consists of numerous personal genealogy homepages that are linked electronically over the World Wide Web. Additional personal homepages will be registered on the Strong Genealogy Network Homepage as they are discovered. If you have a personal genealogy homepage that contains data about Strong, et al., surnames, please register your connections and your E-Mail and URL addresses at Strong Genalogical Network Registration Submissions.
Individuals are invited to "cut and paste" the HTML codes contained in the
"HTML MEMO" block which may be viewed HERE utilizing the "View" and
"Source Code" options on your Internet Explorer tool bar onto your personal
websites in an appropriate location where it will serve to connect viewers to this
Strong Genealogy Network Home or "switching" site.
Note one: You can vary the location of the sgnlogo7.gif on your page simply by
changing the values "LEFT" to "RIGHT", or "CENTER"; and you may also wish to delete the "line" symbol,
which is "left carat hr right carat" to suit your personal tastes.
Note two: you will need to capture a copy of the sgnlogo7.gif image and install it on your website as well.
(Right click your mouse pointer on the image, and choose "Save the Picture" as "sgnlogo7.gif").
Contact David B. Strong for assistance if needed.
Individuals are invited to complete the STRONG QUEST WEB SITE GUEST REGISTER DESCENDANCY CHART SUBMISSION FORM and SURVEY, and to help place your particular lineage in the Lineage Directory
Please let us know if this page has been helpful! We would also appreciate being advised of any possible additions or corrections to the information set out here.
The Image Map was Created: June 10, 1998, and modified Tuesday 1 December 1998, by Email:Contact Martha Strong
This Page Created: Sunday 29 November 1998, with the assistance of Email: Contact Matthew R.C. Strong
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 3:46 PM, by Email: Contact David B. Strong
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