Okay Carpenter Folks, Slight correction. See below. John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: Faynjerrytoo2005@aol.com To: jrcrin001@cox.net Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] The Carpenter Museum and SAR Library John, CORRECTION: SAR Library will not receive entries for the Carpenter Collection directly. Such entries must go through Fay so they can be incorporated into the Carpenter Collection format and binding. This is the deal originally struck with the SAR Library. For additional information, please see the following e-mail. Please contact Fay if you have any questions. Fay and Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Faynjerrytoo2005@aol.com To: Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:06 AM Subject: Re: Carpenter Collection in SAR Library In 2001 Fay Charpentier Ford and her husband began the Carpenter Collection at the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) National Library in Louisville, Kentucky. The Collection was started with over fifty years of research on the Carpenter surname from Raymond George Carpenter, which required months of work putting the information into some order and then spine-binding books or volumes for library display and use. After the initial donation from Ray Carpenter, many other researchers have provided information for the Collection. The Collection now has over 120 volumes and some stand alone books with another major source currently being readied for inclusion. It will probably add another thirty volumes. The SAR Library permits the Carpenter Collection to be a part of its national library providing Fay Charpentier-Ford acts as the gatekeeper, i.e., only if she is responsible for the information presented in a consistent manner and if she is available for referrals from the librarians. In other words, the materials are received by Fay for preparation and binding (when necessary) and then presented to the SAR Library. Each donor receives a verifying letter of appreciation directly from the Library. Fay and her husband do not charge for their work. They pay for the copying, indexing, binding materials and labeling out of their own pockets. The goal is to gather one of the better centralized sources for Carpenter researchers. A couple years ago Fay arranged with the Carpenter Museum/Library in Rehoboth, MA to receive a few boxes of contributed materials for the purpose of evaluating importance, copying the information, indexing and binding that information one copy for them and one copy for the SAR Library. The original papers with orderly bound versions were returned to Rehoboth. It seemed like a perfect answer. They didn't have the staff or space to deal with the materials contributed over the years. Many of the papers were still in the original boxes, never opened. Additionally, the Museum/Library wanted to become more of a community center and actually wanted to reduce the genealogical information. As the initial phase was completed as agreed, the director of the Center moved to the mid-west with her husband, which gave way to a part-time director. The leadership of the board changed and a long-time board member decided that they ought not let any information out of the facility, although the board members had supposedly seen the betterment we made for their materials. It was a tremendous amount of work, gladly given had they only shown some appreciation for the improvements and benefits for them. The irony of the situation is that the facility was never intended as a "Carpenter" museum/library. It was called the Carpenter Library because a man in the community named Carpenter contributed land and money to build the structure. However, various materials have been sent to Rehoboth over the past forty years under the impression that is was established as a library for Carpenter information. The nature of private research will always include errors and perpetuation of errors. To help with accuracy, Fay and her husband now insist that people donating Carpenter families' information be verified or proven. For example, if the provider were to apply for membership in an hereditary society, he/she would be required to show proof, such as birth, marriage, death certificates, related census reports, Bibles with copy of the introduction page that shows date and publishing information, and if certain generations are already accepted in mainstream genealogy books and which books, etc. This benefits both the researcher and future users. For questions, write faynjerrytoo2005@aol.com. For the Bible being discussed and bid on eBay, the successful bidder ought to keep the Bible. For application to the Carpenter Collection in SAR, simply copy the cover, inside page showing date and publishing information, and the family information written in the Bible. The copies are better because most older books are too fragile to be handled by the public. Contact Fay for how to include it in the Carpenter Collection. It is okay to put this information on carpenter@rootsweb.com.