I will give them copies of our most recent newsletter by Ginnie Nuta and the 50 year history of the Foundation by Katharine Brown to show them that we are in this for the long haul - and trumpeting our reunion will help them as much as us! Marc Wheat President, The Germanna Foundation www.germanna.org Add your support with every purchase when you use the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc. Platinum® Visa Rewards card. Apply at http://www.cardpartner.com/app/germanna-foundation --- On Sun, 6/27/10, Virginia Nuta <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Virginia Nuta <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Ancestry.com > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 27, 2010, 12:13 PM > How about announcing our Reunion in > their on-line newsletter? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marc Wheat" <[email protected]> > To: "Germanna Colonies" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:10 AM > Subject: [GERMANNA] Ancestry.com > > > >A friend of the Germanna Foundation is arranging for me > to meet with a top > >representative of Ancestry.com. > > > > What would you like me to ask Ancestry to do that > would be helpful to > > Germanna researchers? > > > > We have long talked about developing a large database > of Germanna > > descendants so that new researchers can quickly > discover their Germanna > > heritage on-line.  I would like to explore with > Ancestry their suggestions > > on how we can build a virtual database by linking or > cross-indexing > > smaller databases maintained Germanna Family > Committes. > > > > George Durman has a great site with strength in the 2d > colony.  Google > > "Marc Wheat Database" for mine focused on 1st > colony.  I post mine on > > Rootsweb (free and well-indexed) and have links to the > Germanna Foundation > > and Flickr for images of ancestors and their records. > > > > Perhaps Ancestry will let us register our databases so > that they will be > > indexed as Germanna-related, which will help us all > edit our overlapping > > branches.  Other ideas?  It's a good > opportunity, and is likely to take > > place Monday over lunch. > > > > > > > > > > > > If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link > to your on-line > > data. > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, > version of virus > > signature database 5232 (20100627) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > If you refer to a Germanna descendant, include a link to > your on-line data. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >