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Hello BJ, Thanks for writing me back! Although Darlington is my last name, i do not research the line. Where are your Darlington's from? My ex-husbands families came from Colorado, West Virginia and are currently last time i heard still in Ohio. I subscribed to several lists like this for a few reasons. I write christian childrens books and am looking to have them published as well as doing a genealogical book for my parents. I figured i could figuratively kill two birds with one stone if any help came through on the lists. As for your question of a website, you can buy one or use one of the free ones. Most of the free ones have templates that will help you to make your site look nice, The ones you pay for are usually done in HTML format and if you dont know the language you may want to look into your local college for a student who does that could help you for a smaller fee then paying a web designer. My uncle does my mothers website from an aol page. Im not sure how he does it exactly, hes very computer smart, but there are ways to do all of the things that you want to do as he does it for my mother, himself and a kind of cousin. I do know that aol will give you free space in which to put your site on and that you can freely register with some sites for advertisement. I wish i could tell you which ones, but im not sure of that either. I will see what i can find out though. Hope this helps you a little! Emily Darlington Creator of the Molly Series and second generation genealogist Coralfishgirls@aol.com wrote: Hi, there, Emily (and others) First off, I noticed your surname and it startled me! I have so much on the Darlington family, who is not mine, of which I even have centuries old antiques that I use daily, passed down! But that is quite another (and as off-topic, appropriately needs to be offline) story... so you may contact me separately if I can help, although likely not one of your names of interest. I only subscribed to this group yesterday, as I am selective not to get too cluttered; and was hesitant to put forth inquiry for help immediately. As it is, my own family is wanting to get started in doing a book of sorts, too. We aren't sure where to start or who to ask. Our situation is different in that we have several individuals, but we are only doing a single surname. We realize there are different techniques and are open to all options, as the intent is to publish in some form later, after compiling all our data. Those folks who can offer their advice for you would likely help both of us! In our case, I we are thinking of possibly how to get a central location (of a website, perhaps?) and then others can contribute freely, with a team of us acting as editors to ensure proofreading against errors, as well as avoid duplication, taking the weight of just one person and providing better measure of accuracy and accountability. Has anybody done anything like this? We would like to keep costs minimal. Toying with coming into this age of technology, is there an inexpensive way to publish? Or in this high-tech era, is it more feasible to have a download with the finished product that others can put onto their own CD? How can either of these jobs be successfully managed? What is a good number for an editorial team? Are there other roles in organizing this who want to assist but cannot devote a lot of time save in bursts and spurts, how could we have then be advisors, typists, etc. How can we insure accuracy (not with proofreading for typos) of info? Should sources be indicated somehow to give credibility of work? That is, going against the usual style we have seen frequently that ends up as only a family guidebook (although these get used, or abused, as quoted as passed along as 'source', while no substantiating proof - sometimes erroneously). On that, too, most genealogy and lineage groups won't recognize such material, so wondering if best as to integrity of the finished product (since all the data comes, after all, from 'somewhere' - or we can look it up, check), to add those sources right from the beginning? We welcome any experienced guidance or any suggestions as to how to begin a collaboration of our materials that we hold individually; and then to put into a publication for the public, or family members? thanks for replies, BJ ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== RootsWeb's mailing lists are filtered and attachments are removed. A virus that is distributed as an attachment will not reach you through a RootsWeb mailing list. For further information about Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc., go please to: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html. ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

In a message dated 1/5/2006 8:01:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, GEN-EDITOR-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: -Message: #1 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:15:27 -0800 (PST) From: E Darlington <emily_warrior_princess@yahoo.com> To: GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060104231527.39687.qmail@web33609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: New to the List...Hello! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello! I have recently subscribed to your list. Could you please tell me more about it? I help my mother with her genealogy. She has been working on my fathers and her families histories for near on 30 years. I would love to be able to help them to put together a book of their own, though writing children's books is what i do mainly. Thanks in advance, Emily Darlington Creator of the Molly Series and second generation genealogist Hi, there, Emily (and others) First off, I noticed your surname and it startled me! I have so much on the Darlington family, who is not mine, of which I even have centuries old antiques that I use daily, passed down! But that is quite another (and as off-topic, appropriately needs to be offline) story... so you may contact me separately if I can help, although likely not one of your names of interest. I only subscribed to this group yesterday, as I am selective not to get too cluttered; and was hesitant to put forth inquiry for help immediately. As it is, my own family is wanting to get started in doing a book of sorts, too. We aren't sure where to start or who to ask. Our situation is different in that we have several individuals, but we are only doing a single surname. We realize there are different techniques and are open to all options, as the intent is to publish in some form later, after compiling all our data. Those folks who can offer their advice for you would likely help both of us! In our case, I we are thinking of possibly how to get a central location (of a website, perhaps?) and then others can contribute freely, with a team of us acting as editors to ensure proofreading against errors, as well as avoid duplication, taking the weight of just one person and providing better measure of accuracy and accountability. Has anybody done anything like this? We would like to keep costs minimal. Toying with coming into this age of technology, is there an inexpensive way to publish? Or in this high-tech era, is it more feasible to have a download with the finished product that others can put onto their own CD? How can either of these jobs be successfully managed? What is a good number for an editorial team? Are there other roles in organizing this who want to assist but cannot devote a lot of time save in bursts and spurts, how could we have then be advisors, typists, etc. How can we insure accuracy (not with proofreading for typos) of info? Should sources be indicated somehow to give credibility of work? That is, going against the usual style we have seen frequently that ends up as only a family guidebook (although these get used, or abused, as quoted as passed along as 'source', while no substantiating proof - sometimes erroneously). On that, too, most genealogy and lineage groups won't recognize such material, so wondering if best as to integrity of the finished product (since all the data comes, after all, from 'somewhere' - or we can look it up, check), to add those sources right from the beginning? We welcome any experienced guidance or any suggestions as to how to begin a collaboration of our materials that we hold individually; and then to put into a publication for the public, or family members? thanks for replies, BJ

Hello! I have recently subscribed to your list. Could you please tell me more about it? I help my mother with her genealogy. She has been working on my fathers and her families histories for near on 30 years. I would love to be able to help them to put together a book of their own, though writing children's books is what i do mainly. Thanks in advance, Emily Darlington Creator of the Molly Series and second generation genealogist --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.

Thank you Michael, This gives me some more good ideas to think about. One question, is there a way to edit PDF files with out losing the formatting? The compatibility of the word processor programs and operating systems of our computers, sometimes gets in the way. At times our editor would like to enlarge a margin, or use a different font, a little, barely noticed bit of editing to make the article fit the page better. Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith1@bellsouth.net> To: <GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:35 AM Subject: RE: [GEN-EDITOR] Original masters - What do you do with them? > Sorry! I see that I misunderstood the question! (It's pretty early in > the morning. . . .) > > The Society also has several publications in print, plus the quarterly > REGISTER, but there are no "masters." We publish by sending a PDF to our > local printing company, and the the originals remain in a folder on my > hard drive (plus a back-up). We've gone back to press on several of our > book titles, so we're not likely to give them away in any case. > > Michael K. Smith Smith Editorial Services > mksmith1@bellsouth.net > Editor, Louisiana Genealogical Register > work = http://smith_editorial.tripod.com/ses.html > play = http://book-smith.tripod.com/booksmith.html > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > THESAURUS (n.): An ancient reptile with > an excellent vocabulary. > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > NOTE: All outgoing email is scanned by NAV 2002, > to ensure that you will NEVER receive viruses from me. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wright4766@bellsouth.net [mailto:wright4766@bellsouth.net] > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:21 PM > To: GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GEN-EDITOR] Original masters - What do you do with them? > > > This is not really a question about a newsletter. This is a question > about what do you do with the original master copy of books, > newsletters, etc. Our genealogical society publishes several books per > year. We have the master copies of each one of them. Storage is > becoming an issue and we need to make some decisions about what to do > with them. > > > > In order to keep our inventory at a manageable number, we print a > limited number of each book. From time to time we will run out of the > books and, especially in a series, we find it is necessary to reprint a > small number of books. Our books are self published. > > > > Does any other society have this sort of problem? What do other groups > do about this? > > > > Nancy > > > ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list click on > mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) > or mailto:GEN-EDITOR-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (digest > mode) - Contact mailto:GEN-EDITOR-admin@rootsweb.com for list related > problems. For the GEN-EDITOR-L archives, go to > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/gen-editor. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > > ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb's mailing lists are filtered and attachments are removed. A virus > that is distributed as an attachment will not reach you through a RootsWeb > mailing list. For further information about Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc., > go please to: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html. > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

Sorry! I see that I misunderstood the question! (It's pretty early in the morning. . . .) The Society also has several publications in print, plus the quarterly REGISTER, but there are no "masters." We publish by sending a PDF to our local printing company, and the the originals remain in a folder on my hard drive (plus a back-up). We've gone back to press on several of our book titles, so we're not likely to give them away in any case. Michael K. Smith Smith Editorial Services mksmith1@bellsouth.net Editor, Louisiana Genealogical Register work = http://smith_editorial.tripod.com/ses.html play = http://book-smith.tripod.com/booksmith.html ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THESAURUS (n.): An ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NOTE: All outgoing email is scanned by NAV 2002, to ensure that you will NEVER receive viruses from me. -----Original Message----- From: wright4766@bellsouth.net [mailto:wright4766@bellsouth.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:21 PM To: GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GEN-EDITOR] Original masters - What do you do with them? This is not really a question about a newsletter. This is a question about what do you do with the original master copy of books, newsletters, etc. Our genealogical society publishes several books per year. We have the master copies of each one of them. Storage is becoming an issue and we need to make some decisions about what to do with them. In order to keep our inventory at a manageable number, we print a limited number of each book. From time to time we will run out of the books and, especially in a series, we find it is necessary to reprint a small number of books. Our books are self published. Does any other society have this sort of problem? What do other groups do about this? Nancy ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list click on mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or mailto:GEN-EDITOR-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) - Contact mailto:GEN-EDITOR-admin@rootsweb.com for list related problems. For the GEN-EDITOR-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/gen-editor. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

I edit the Louisiana Genealogical Register (quarterly publication of the Louisiana Gen & Hist Soc - 100p. per issue) and we get a fair number of review copies of books. We don't maintain any sort of research facility, so for about a decade now, when the review has been published, the review copies themselves go to the Louisiana State Library here in Baton Rouge for general use by the public, shelved in their Louisiana Collection. By the same token, we exchange publications with a couple dozen other organizations, and when we're through with the periodicals we receive, *those* go to the Louisiana State Archives, for shelving in their Genealogy Room. I deliver the accumulation to both facilities about four times a year. Michael K. Smith Smith Editorial Services mksmith1@bellsouth.net Editor, Louisiana Genealogical Register work = http://smith_editorial.tripod.com/ses.html play = http://book-smith.tripod.com/booksmith.html ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ THESAURUS (n.): An ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NOTE: All outgoing email is scanned by NAV 2002, to ensure that you will NEVER receive viruses from me. This is not really a question about a newsletter. This is a question about what do you do with the original master copy of books, newsletters, etc. Our genealogical society publishes several books per year. We have the master copies of each one of them. Storage is becoming an issue and we need to make some decisions about what to do with them. In order to keep our inventory at a manageable number, we print a limited number of each book. From time to time we will run out of the books and, especially in a series, we find it is necessary to reprint a small number of books. Our books are self published. Does any other society have this sort of problem? What do other groups do about this? Nancy ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list click on mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or mailto:GEN-EDITOR-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) - Contact mailto:GEN-EDITOR-admin@rootsweb.com for list related problems. For the GEN-EDITOR-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/gen-editor. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

I<mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com> believe your original question was want to do with the masters.... if you are asking about the next level, the media the approach to take in order to keep the methodology to access the information viable then I do think that the expertise would be better answered by a group that does it now as part of their daily activities... godfrey.org... when you visited the site? did you look at how they handle books? how they display them? how the researchers gain access to them? did you write to the Director there for advice? I would think your goal is not just WHAT TO DO WITH THE ORIGINALS but what is your 5 year plan, 10 year plan, your 20year plan? In that the material is at a HOUSE and not with a society, I think that perhaps there needs to be some protocols put into place regarding your historical society materials... Personally, I would be making moves now as an officer of the society to get the information that is in a private home and under the control of that individual and heirs and have it moved to a SOCIETY location where each officer has full access to the material. and I would not ever let the material fall into the hands of an individual... should there be a terrible even, you might find your materials in the hands of children and grandchildren who will consider the collective THEIRS to do as they wish and that might be to toss it or burn it... regarding how to make it available... I would follow the lead of your local library and work with them as a cooperative... there is nothing worse than having two nearby organizations using equipment that is so different and not interchangeable... it works in both of your favor to have similar equipment and cataloging techniques... after all, I suspect that your librarian has a ML and could be of GREAT help to you in the chosen field... by chance is your local librarian a member of your society? as an honorary member? and do you regularly converse as to the latest in the field of library science....? Your expertise is history. Library Science is different. I would ask at your library... and if (horrors) you don’t have a local library, I would speak with the archivist at the library next up the chain in your county.... ----- Original Message ----- From: .... valentine53179<mailto:valentine53179@hotmail.com> To: 2Tomkempgodfreyorg<mailto:tkemp@Godfrey.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:45 PM Subject: Fw: [GEN-EDITOR] Original masters - What do you do with them? ----- Original Message ----- From: wright4766@bellsouth.net<mailto:wright4766@bellsouth.net> To: GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [GEN-EDITOR] Original masters - What do you do with them? Thanks for the reply. I don't have a scanner so some of my questions and thoughts may not be relevant. Are the OCR programs better than they used to be? We produced a 20 year index to our journal on CD. The early years were produced before any of us had computers, so the indexes were scanned. They spent many, many man hours proof reading and correcting the scans. Part of our problem is where do you store them? Masters or CDs. One of our members has just gone into the hospital and it looks like she will be there several weeks. Lots of our "stuff" is at her house. Keeping the media up to date would be an ongoing project. Everytime something newer, faster, more storage area comes out, those old 5.5, 3.25, CD and DVD disks would have to be updated. I will be looking forward to any comments. Nancy > GODFREY MEMORIAL LIBRARY > to see what they already have > go to the sige noted...click on the PORTAL > click GO on the login page..DO NOT TOUCH any of the BOXES...DON’T even TAB > thru them, JUST CLICK GO and see their catalog... > > > contact Director Tom Kemp regarding the originals.... > think along the lines of SCANNING and digitizing them and getting past the > PRINT version... ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== RootsWeb's mailing lists are filtered and attachments are removed. A virus that is distributed as an attachment will not reach you through a RootsWeb mailing list. For further information about Viruses, Trojans, Worms etc., go please to: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html<http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/virus.html>. ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx>

Thanks for the reply. I don't have a scanner so some of my questions and thoughts may not be relevant. Are the OCR programs better than they used to be? We produced a 20 year index to our journal on CD. The early years were produced before any of us had computers, so the indexes were scanned. They spent many, many man hours proof reading and correcting the scans. Part of our problem is where do you store them? Masters or CDs. One of our members has just gone into the hospital and it looks like she will be there several weeks. Lots of our "stuff" is at her house. Keeping the media up to date would be an ongoing project. Everytime something newer, faster, more storage area comes out, those old 5.5, 3.25, CD and DVD disks would have to be updated. I will be looking forward to any comments. Nancy > GODFREY MEMORIAL LIBRARY > to see what they already have > go to the sige noted...click on the PORTAL > click GO on the login page..DO NOT TOUCH any of the BOXES...DON’T even TAB > thru them, JUST CLICK GO and see their catalog... > > > contact Director Tom Kemp regarding the originals.... > think along the lines of SCANNING and digitizing them and getting past the > PRINT version...

think along the lines of GODRFEY.org to see what they already have go to the sige noted...click on the PORTAL click GO on the login page..DO NOT TOUCH any of the BOXES...DON’T even TAB thru them, JUST CLICK GO and see their catalog... contact Director Tom Kemp regarding the originals.... think along the lines of SCANNING and digitizing them and getting past the PRINT version... ----- Original Message ----- From: wright4766@bellsouth.net<mailto:wright4766@bellsouth.net> To: GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: [GEN-EDITOR] Original masters - What do you do with them? This is not really a question about a newsletter. This is a question about what do you do with the original master copy of books, newsletters, etc. Our genealogical society publishes several books per year. We have the master copies of each one of them. Storage is becoming an issue and we need to make some decisions about what to do with them. In order to keep our inventory at a manageable number, we print a limited number of each book. From time to time we will run out of the books and, especially in a series, we find it is necessary to reprint a small number of books. Our books are self published. Does any other society have this sort of problem? What do other groups do about this? Nancy ==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list click on mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe<mailto:GEN-EDITOR-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe> (list mode) or mailto:GEN-EDITOR-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe<mailto:GEN-EDITOR-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe> (digest mode) – Contact mailto:GEN-EDITOR-admin@rootsweb.com<mailto:GEN-EDITOR-admin@rootsweb.com> for list related problems. For the GEN-EDITOR-L archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/gen-editor<http://archiver.rootswebcom/th/index/gen-editor>. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx>

This is not really a question about a newsletter. This is a question about what do you do with the original master copy of books, newsletters, etc. Our genealogical society publishes several books per year. We have the master copies of each one of them. Storage is becoming an issue and we need to make some decisions about what to do with them. In order to keep our inventory at a manageable number, we print a limited number of each book. From time to time we will run out of the books and, especially in a series, we find it is necessary to reprint a small number of books. Our books are self published. Does any other society have this sort of problem? What do other groups do about this? Nancy

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Dear fellow genealogist, I am currently working on a manuscript with my sister for Spring Creek Books and collecting inspiring family history stories to include in the book. We're currently naming the book "Whispers From Beyond". It's designed to be an inspiring book that includes a collection of true stories by people who have searched their family roots and discovered much more than names and dates. Their experiences testify that searching for our ancestors' records is much more than a passing hobby, and that there is something very spiritual about it that compels us to continue our quest. Some experiences could be called miraculous or coincidental, but the researcher feels a special unseen hand guiding his efforts. I wondered if you might have a story or two that you would like to share in this book format. Of course, I can't guarantee that your story would be included in the final manuscript due to the Editor's discretion, but I would definitely include your name in the book if it does. You may have already written down some of your special experiences in your journal and find this an opportunity to finally the take the time to record those memories for your posterity. If you would rather tell me your stories I would be happy to write them for you. Please submit any stories to me by April 30, 2005. Thank you for considering this project. If you have any questions at all or would like to discuss your stories with me please feel free to e-mail me at: longforhome@cox.net Please feel free to share this letter with others who may be interested. Thanks again! Respectfully, Tracey Long RN, MS, BSN, CDE (Genealogy aficiando!) P.O. Box 80282 Las Vegas, NV 89180-0282

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