Marilyn, I use John Blankenbaker as my guide. HE considers the THOMA/THOMAS family as a 2nd Colony family. I don't know of anything that would preclude that family to continue to be a part of the Germanna Tree at Ancestry. As far as publishing, I don't have a clue. I posted my original database at Ancestry and allowed it to be "Shared". Since no one else had done the same thing, it seems that now everyone is using the database I posted, my database with all its errors. Keep working with the Ancestry Tree. I suspect that since so much work has already been done on it, it may become the de facto database. Keep correcting, keep editing. Sarge At 9/3/2011 09:33 AM Saturday, gneolog@aol.com wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Since my life has been overtaken the last week or so with finetuning the early Thomas family to input on the master page, and adding land patents, signature marks, stories etc. I thought I better ask before I continue -- what are the plans, if any, for this tree? Will it eventually be printed and kept at the Library at the Museum and if so, is there a time period that I need to set for a goal. The next thing -- will the Thomas family be included? I know that we are not considered as "legitimate" 2nd Colony members but we consider ourselves as such. If not included through Johannes Thomas, we would certainly be included under Blankenbaker. My goal is to get as much correct, documented info available to try to counteract all of the EXTREMELY BAD info posted on the trees at ancestry. I hope that people will "steal" my work and don't mind if they claim it as their own -- just get it right. Take care. Marilyn > >TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html

George, I guess you call it the "base" database. To touch lightly on copyright, do not be surprised if ancestry.com claims that anything on that tree is "their" property. So, if you don't want to see your research sold on a CD, or show up Lord knows where, etc, DO NOT ADD IT IN. That being said, I think most of us want to produce as accurate a picture as we can, with the best documentation we can. Frankly, I see it as an opportunity to at least get ONE on-line version of my own tree as right as it can be for now. I think the reputation of this tree will get around quickly and I foresee good things for it. George may have to limit the number of people he has editing it, however. I know we are all in a learning curve right now, and that is to be expected. There's that can't be fixed if we make blunders or delete someone instead of unlinking them (how do I do that?) Craig On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:33 AM, George W. Durman wrote: > As far as publishing, I don't have a clue. I posted my original database at Ancestry and allowed it to be "Shared". Since no one else had done the same thing, it seems that now everyone is using the database I posted, my database with all its errors. > > Keep working with the Ancestry Tree. I suspect that since so much work has already been done on it, it may become the de facto database. Keep correcting, keep editing.

Yeah, you can be assured that Ancestry WILL claim anything posted there as "their" property. I don't have a problem with that. The folks out in Utah are trying to get everyone in the world "sealed" and make a profit to boot, or at least break even. I do hope the reputation of the Tree will get around and that many others will want to participate in adding to the Tree. And, yes, I may, sooner or later, have to limit the number of people with "Editing" rights. I've already seen that some participants just don't know how to navigate in the database and have made mistakes, or (tell me it isn't so), don't care what's in the Tree and add, delete, edit the data to suit what they "believe". I've already restricted some to "Contributor" (they can't Edit), and one to "Viewer" (he/she can only "look"). Yes, there IS a "learning curve". IMPORTANT! If you aren't sure what you're doing or HOW to do it, send me a personal email and ask me. No, I'm not by a long shot an expert at this Ancestry "Shared Database" thing, but I've had to correct so many errors already that I "think" I have somewhat of a handle on it. What really ticks me off is that, again, the people at Ancestry who programmed the part of their domain for the "Shared Databases" don't know diddly-squat about anything having to do with parsing text entries. I've fought for the past 2 hours over how to format text in "Stories" and just gave up. If you or anyone else has tried to enter formatted text, like entering Census data in "Courier New" font so that columns line up, you may have given up already. I tried to format some Census data for some people, using "Courier New" font so the columns would line up, and the damned program at Ancestry keeps inserting blank spaces, seemingly at random. All I can say is, "DO NOT DELETE ANYONE FROM THE DATABASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Repeat, "DO NOT DELETE ANYONE FROM THE DATABASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Do you get it? You can Edit, Add, etc., but if you delete someone, he/she is gone forever in the Tree! You can "detach" wherever you think necessary, but DO NOT DELETE ANYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unlinking is easy. Just do it and don't delete anyone. That way, things can later be corrected. Craig, you're not the only one who totally deleted someone, several people have done the same thing. And, dang it, I have to go back in and add those deleted people and their known children. If the wife or husband is wrong, DON'T DELETE A SPOUSE! DETACH THE SPOUSE! Sorry, it's late and I'm wrung out with this Germanna Tree at Ancestry thing. How would you like to have several hundred emails every day to deal with, all having to do with the Tree? I'm just tired, Sarge At 9/5/2011 01:17 AM Monday, Craig Kilby wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >George, > >I guess you call it the "base" database. To touch lightly on copyright, do not be surprised if ancestry.com claims that anything on that tree is "their" property. So, if you don't want to see your research sold on a CD, or show up Lord knows where, etc, DO NOT ADD IT IN. That being said, I think most of us want to produce as accurate a picture as we can, with the best documentation we can. Frankly, I see it as an opportunity to at least get ONE on-line version of my own tree as right as it can be for now. I think the reputation of this tree will get around quickly and I foresee good things for it. George may have to limit the number of people he has editing it, however. I know we are all in a learning curve right now, and that is to be expected. There's that can't be fixed if we make blunders or delete someone instead of unlinking them (how do I do that?) > > > >Craig > >On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:33 AM, George W. Durman wrote: > >> As far as publishing, I don't have a clue. I posted my original database at Ancestry and allowed it to be "Shared". Since no one else had done the same thing, it seems that now everyone is using the database I posted, my database with all its errors. >> >> Keep working with the Ancestry Tree. I suspect that since so much work has already been done on it, it may become the de facto database. Keep correcting, keep editing. > >TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html