At 6/27/2010 12:10 AM Sunday, Marc Wheat wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >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. **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Marc, thanks for the "plug". But, I'm expanding and am adding more and more 1st Colony people to the database. I just need more input for those 1st Colony people. What's the matter people? Afraid to have the 1st Colony people added to my database? After all, it's entitled "Germanna, 1st & 2nd Colonies". Give me data! Won't promise it will be added soon, but will be added eventually. This danged Census work has crimped my database work, but I'll try to add your 1st Colony data. Just send me a GEDCOM (.GED file) and I'll add to my main database. (Fortunately, since I use RootsMagic, I can pull up my main database, and your database, and "drag and drop" people from yours to mine.) Marc has a great database on the Internet, but I'd like to have input for the 1st Colony from all you cousins. Don't expect to see your contributions right away. It not only takes time to copy the data to my main database, it also depends on how much time I have to do such editing. Marc, as far as Ancestry is concerned, I'm all for what you're trying to do. I don't have any suggestions, unless it's for cross-indexing "Germanna" surnames from all of Ancestry/Rootsweb databases into one central database source. Ha-Ha! As if that would happen. But... on reflection, why not! At least 75% of the people in the US today have at least one Germanna ancestor. We Germanna users could "take over" Ancestry/Rootsweb! Just kidding. Hope the July Reunion goes well. Sorry I can't be there, but work precludes it. Yer Cuz, George ======================================================= 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/~george/index.html