I think it's a wonderful idea however I would love to find out more about the Howson line as that is my line. Sarah Howson Calvert, daughter of Charles Calvert and Mary Howson married Nathaniel Jones, according to O'Gorman. Anyone know anything about Howson??? Debi ----- Original Message ----- From: GL Murphy <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 8:18 AM Subject: [CALVERT-L] Calvert Repository ok now i understand what you want to do....I am a Virginia Calvert...but not connected to Lord Baltimore Calvert....according to O'Gorman.....so how would my line be handled?? tho it is in the O'Gorman book.....(my line that is) tho i would rather see a book out rather than it be in any of the pay for things...with a book we can donate them to the local libraries and plus pass on our copies to our kids....and it doenst have to cost any more than if we were to print the pages....we dont have to make a profit out of it that is.....I have the FTM program and have not submitted my line on purpose...i would rather offer it for free rather than have ppl pay for it..... > Subject: [CALVERT-L] Calvert Repository > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 00:36:18 -500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Dear Fellow Calverts, > > I am suggesting a massive project of assembling and publishing information about > the Calvert family. The primary reason for doing this would be to help others find their > Calvert ancestors. Beyond helping others, we would also establish a permanent and > growing library or repository where information about the family would be catalogued. > Later, when our children and grandchildren became interested in family history, they > have a starting point to learn about great-grandfather, etc. (Anybody who thinks what > we are doing now is going to be passed-on to future generations, should stop and > think about where they began their research.) > > The concept would be for each of us to "collectively place" our family lines in > "Ultimate Family Tree". This would be done by sharing a "common file" and E-mailing > the file from person to person. My proposal would be to start with the Virginia > Calverts. The Virginia Calverts alone would create an "Ultimate Family Tree". with > more than 8061 records. After this, we could add in the Quaker Calverts, etc. > > To make this work, we would have to be very "fussy" about record numbers. For > example with the Virginia Calverts, we would be using the numbers assigned in > Descendants of Virginia Calverts. This would take us to at least 8061 records. When > we added in the Quaker Calverts, we would need to move to perhaps a 10,000 series > of record numbers. For loose branches of the family tree, we would need to list > "unknown individuals" to carry these lines back to their roots in the 16th century. > (This is all workable, however we can't have someone saying "Aunt Mytle" is record > no. 1 and she is going to take the place of the 1st Lord Baltimore.) > > The job won't be that difficult, if there are enough volunteers willing to "add" their own > family lines to the FTM program. Once this was up and going, we simply ask the > newcomers to add-in their newly discovered family lines. Also, the "old-timers" would > have a place for adding newly > discovered info about their families. > > For my part in doing this, I will add the complete text from > Descendants of Virginia Calverts, for the 1st Lord Balitimore and his > son Leonard, plus all the Calverts thru the 6th generation in > Descendants of Virginia Calverts. From this point on, we need > volunteers. Please share your thoughts about doing this, and let me > know if you are willing to help. > > George Calvert > [email protected] -- HUGS..... Ginger ICQ #1487139 http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/6969 http://nisland.signwave.com telnet://nisland.signwave.com:6969 http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Resort/1577 ==== CALVERT Mailing List ==== Any list problems or questions can be sent to the listowner, Christi Calvert Brogan at [email protected]