Trying to contact the owner of a genealogy site (VTAndrew) that I got info from years ago, but email address is a dud.

Question

Two-part question: 

Part 1: The site that I used is named the Ross D. Andrews Genealogy Site (at least it is now). There is an email address at the bottom, but my email bounced back. I have several pages of information that I printed out in 1998, and I wanted to dig into this source a bit more. The original web address has changed (the one that printed at the bottom of my papers doesn't work). The new web address is: http://www404.pair.com/vtandrew/ Can anyone help me find a way to contact the owner of the site?

Part 2: Or do you know how to find the information that was compiled on the Beach family by Eugene Beach? There is a broken link to Eugene Beach on the VTAndrew/Ross D. Andrews website that I mentioned above. He did a lot of work on the Beach tree and wrote the Beach Family Journal (different than the Beach Family Magazine). According to the Highland Township Historical Society, Eugene Beach Jr. passed away in 2007. http://highlandtownshiphistoricalsociety.com/Personal%20Narratives/Beach,%20Eugene%20H.%20-%20Dunham%20Lake.htm (text at the bottom of the page) I did not find a record for him on WikiTree.

Answer 1

If you want to access the old pages have you tried typing the old address into the wayback machine at https://archive.org/index.php

Tim

Comments

Thank you. I found VTAndrews' site. I'm not sure where to go from here, but maybe this is a start. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20120507054617/http://www404.pair.com/vtandrew/beach/index.htm#xxxBEACH

Answer 2

A statement that I found in the archived website of VTAndrews (Ross D. Andrews): "I am aware of some problems with the early generations in this report, including multiple marriages and multiple children. This is the result of downloading from the Ancestor File at an LDS library back in my early exploits and merging GEDCOM files without checking them first."

Comments

And I'm finding other errors at Family Search. 

Answer 3

There are several Beach Family Genealogies mentioned in this Sources for Family Genealogies page.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sources-Family_Genealogies#B_-_Families

• Beach: Beach, Mary E., The Descendants of Thomas Beach of Milford, Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Conn., 1912)
• Beach: Beach, Rebecca Donaldson. The Reverend John Beach and His Descendants (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, 1898)
• Beach: Beach, David Nelson. Beach Family Reminiscences and Annals (Journal Press, Meriden, Conn., 1931)
• Beach: Beach Family Journal
• Beach: McClaughry, Charles. Genealogy of The Beach Family of Connecticut (n.p., 1900)
• Beach: Pabst, Anna C. Smith. The John Beach & John Wade Families (The Blade Publishing Co., Ohio,1960)
• Beach: James, Alma Eloise Lewis. The Ancestry and Posterity of Obil Beach (James, Fairbury, Illinois, 1936)

Comments

Linda, I had never heard of that page before.  Has it been publicized?

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My point is that I am trying to find out where the authors of the two compilations that I mentioned got their information. One of these is in the list you provided (The Beach Family Journal by Eugene H. Beach Jr). His website (no longer online) was one of the sources of my printouts.

The other one that I mentioned, VTAndrews (Ross D. Andrews) is not in that list. I did find some archived parts of his website. He mentions that he made some mistakes early on by just uploading some GEDCOM files without checking things first. I wish I could find out where he got his information. My grandpa's notes mostly match Ross Andrew's compilation. But both have errors. Did one copy from the other? I'm not sure if Ross Andrews is still living.

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There are 2 space pages that are an index for other spaces pages that Rick created in 2014.  One that has Family Genealogies and another that is Genealogies by Location.  If you find others online, space pages can be created and add to these indexes. I have both pages bookmarked and use them often.

Family Genealogies sources

 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Sources-Family_Genealogies

Genealogies by Location 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Category-Source

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Thank you.