EXPERT GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Family History Centers Subject: Ancestral File - Corrections Anyone may make corrections to the Ancestral File - whether it is your work or not. I strongly recommend two things: 1. Submit to the Ancestral File. 2. Submit corrections to the Ancestral File. Working together, we can strive to weed out the errors and make for more accurate genealogies. Many of us submit our "working" genealogies, only to later learn of contradictions in our own information. So, it is incumbent upon us to make corrections. I don't believe that we should take a "give up" attitude, because errors exist. Rather, that we use the Ancestral File as a guideline to our own research efforts. When submitting corrections, do so on a diskette and include sources for all your corrections. Sitting at the computer in a family history center, use the edit key F3....this allows you to make corrections in the file and copy them to your diskette. Then mail the diskette to: The Ancestral File 50 East North Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 The corrections will appear in the next updated cd-rom sent to family history centers. A specific guide is located in the family history center. Ask the librarian for "Correcting Information in Ancestral File". ====================================== BOOK REVIEWS ====================================== I will be happy to review your books and newsletters in this column. Send to: Jeannette H. Austin, 175 Thornton Drive, Fayetteville, GA 30214 and mark it "for review in Expert Genealogy Newsletter". Your book will not returned, rather donated to the Jonesboro Family History Center, Jonesboro, Ga. ====================================== EXPERT GENEALOGY is sponsored by Genealogy Books Homepage: http://www.mindspring.com/~jha/gbooks.htm ======================================= ==== DURMAN Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from DURMAN, send an e-mail message to: DURMAN-L-request@rootsweb.com (for individual messages) DURMAN-D-request@rootsweb.com (for Digest mode) Subject: unsubscribe In the body include only one word: unsubscribe (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command)