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 > > >