Unfortunately, if you look at the requirements for donating work to the LDS or genealogical societies, most don't have time to go through all your work and it has to be in a certain form. I was thinking that there may be someone on one of the boards or lists for a particular area or surname(s) who may be interested in all the work that can't be donated and turn it into a project to make it available to anyone who may be searching those lines. This person would probably need help doing that and would probably have to split it up by area or surname. Renee ----- Original Message ----- From: "tori counts" <shyfyre@msn.com> To: <INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] What to do with your genealogy files? The question was what to do with all your work, when you no longer can can do it. What your suggesting, should be done before hand, throughout your searching if you are of a mind to share. This gives a free look at our lineage, but sometimes, not a look at your sources, depending on your program. When all is said and done, who would you want to get ALL your notes and copies? Everything you have? I have been thinking about this since it was posted, and I've years (hopefully) to do my own research. But I now my family is ony interested in what I find, not continuing it, If I stop, it stops with me. And I am the only one researching one side of my family. I've found no connections to any others yet to my HANCOCKS in Kentucky and Indiana. I have tons of notes, Lots of files, and proven History, I don't want to go to waste. I truthfully have no answer to this question. And I am interested in those answers that do come along about this, I don't want my work to go to waste........ Tioraidh an drasda, Tori - shyfyre@msn.com Searching- COUNTS(Crouch, Sartain,Williams,Raper), HANCOCK(Adams, Abbott, Shepperd, Leach), MCNIEL(Gaddy,Brown,Lindsey,Mason,Moon)CAREY(Hancock, Catterton,Gibson,Dodder(Dobson),Leach), and any family connections.other Surnames are Speck, Sprunger, Crouch, Imel, Trotter, Sullivan, and Martin. >From: "Renee O." <renee@pconline.com> >Reply-To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com >To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [INDIANA] What to do with your genealogy files? >Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:07:56 -0400 > >I would suggest finding out what can and cannot be contributed and then >put notifications up on message boards and mailing lists asking if >anyone would be interested in having the rest. I would love to find >someone who has one of my lines having work they can no longer use and >that needs a home. Wouldn't it be great if someone or many someones, >who have the time and space could scan in or transcribe all that work >into USGENWEB or Rootsweb for those particular locations? I'd rather >volunteer a few hours a week to sort through and make public a project >like this or get the data into the hands of cousins the person may not >know, rather than see it all thrown away. > >Renee > > > >==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== >Firstmom's Genealogy Resources - Indiana >http://khuish.tripod.com/indiana.htm > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== To remove yourself from the list, type: unsubscribe in the first line of the message - NOTHING ELSE. Send it to: Indiana-L-request@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
If none of these suggestions work, donate to a local, regional, or state genealogical association. At least all of your research will be filed somewhere. If you download and use PAF (free from the LDS site), you can export a GEDCOM file that will include all notes. That file can then be uploaded to a RootsWeb database (www.rootsweb.com) and preserved there. -- Caroline Weddell Landrum "Renee O." <renee@pconline.com> wrote: Unfortunately, if you look at the requirements for donating work to the LDS or genealogical societies, most don't have time to go through all your work and it has to be in a certain form. I was thinking that there may be someone on one of the boards or lists for a particular area or surname(s) who may be interested in all the work that can't be donated and turn it into a project to make it available to anyone who may be searching those lines. This person would probably need help doing that and would probably have to split it up by area or surname. Renee ----- Original Message ----- From: "tori counts" To: Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] What to do with your genealogy files? The question was what to do with all your work, when you no longer can can do it. What your suggesting, should be done before hand, throughout your searching if you are of a mind to share. This gives a free look at our lineage, but sometimes, not a look at your sources, depending on your program. When all is said and done, who would you want to get ALL your notes and copies? Everything you have? I have been thinking about this since it was posted, and I've years (hopefully) to do my own research. But I now my family is ony interested in what I find, not continuing it, If I stop, it stops with me. And I am the only one researching one side of my family. I've found no connections to any others yet to my HANCOCKS in Kentucky and Indiana. I have tons of notes, Lots of files, and proven History, I don't want to go to waste. I truthfully have no answer to this question. And I am interested in those answers that do come along about this, I don't want my work to go to waste........ Tioraidh an drasda, Tori - shyfyre@msn.com Searching- COUNTS(Crouch, Sartain,Williams,Raper), HANCOCK(Adams, Abbott, Shepperd, Leach), MCNIEL(Gaddy,Brown,Lindsey,Mason,Moon)CAREY(Hancock, Catterton,Gibson,Dodder(Dobson),Leach), and any family connections.other Surnames are Speck, Sprunger, Crouch, Imel, Trotter, Sullivan, and Martin. >From: "Renee O." >Reply-To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com >To: INDIANA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [INDIANA] What to do with your genealogy files? >Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:07:56 -0400 > >I would suggest finding out what can and cannot be contributed and then >put notifications up on message boards and mailing lists asking if >anyone would be interested in having the rest. I would love to find >someone who has one of my lines having work they can no longer use and >that needs a home. Wouldn't it be great if someone or many someones, >who have the time and space could scan in or transcribe all that work >into USGENWEB or Rootsweb for those particular locations? I'd rather >volunteer a few hours a week to sort through and make public a project >like this or get the data into the hands of cousins the person may not >know, rather than see it all thrown away. > >Renee > > > >==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== >Firstmom's Genealogy Resources - Indiana >http://khuish.tripod.com/indiana.htm > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== To remove yourself from the list, type: unsubscribe in the first line of the message - NOTHING ELSE. Send it to: Indiana-L-request@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ==== INDIANA Mailing List ==== To remove yourself from the list, type: unsubscribe in the first line of the message - NOTHING ELSE. Send it to: Indiana-L-request@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 So instead of loving what you think is peace, love other [people] and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another. - Thomas Merton, from "New Seeds of Contemplation" Reply address: caroline_landrum@alum.emory.edu