Folks: I am just as protective as you as regards privacy. That is why you always ask what you may or may not share. My data base has private perimiters. Sometimes I give only a name, source etc. if that is all I can give. However, if there is no data in the base for privacy, then I can share it. All of my data base is documented before entering with sources and or the original documents. That is why when you get into my personal lines, you get both living and those who have passed on. The living are real leads to others. Much of my data base started with who knew who back when. Many of the family lore tales are passed down by mouth so to speak. So making notes of that is most important to my data base also. Sometimes the notes I have now I read later and new info takes me farther down the road so to speak. One thing I now cherish about my data base is that some of the family I knew and who are listed as sources were first hand sources via interviews etc. Some are now gone. So running across that has brought me both happiness and sorrow. It is like revisiting with them and some of that I have on tape or video back up also. Which reminds me, I will tell all the young researchers to get a recording machine and use it when interviewing elder folks. Sometimes you have to just have conversations with them and put the pieces together later. Such has been my experience and when I visited with three of my fathers elderly cousins, I am thankful I did tape them. What a weath of information. But you had to write it out after taping, and tie the pieces together. Once that was done, it brought in quite a bit of information and tied up a lot of loose ends for me. So let them ramble, enjoy the visits, and when you are home review the information. You will be surprised at what you missed hearing when it was taping. SIN ----- Original Message ----- From: "svanwyk" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [MISSISSIPPI] Attn: Mary Ellen Ledford > I was questioning the actual dates and the fact that these are living > people. In my genealogy experience, living people are generally not > included in family charts and data. I'm protective of my group and am > careful with their information. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Edward Hall" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: [MISSISSIPPI] Attn: Mary Ellen Ledford > > > > Sandra: > > Yes the years are right, and yes they are living, and the lines are > > extensive to say the least. Anyone in particular you are interested in, > let > > me know and I will go forward or backward with others. Depends on how > much > > you want me to do on this. > > > > SIN > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "svanwyk" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 11:23 AM > > Subject: Re: [MISSISSIPPI] Attn: Mary Ellen Ledford > > > > > > > Is the year right for this family? Are these living people? > > > Sandra > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Edward Hall" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:13 PM > > > Subject: [MISSISSIPPI] Attn: Mary Ellen Ledford > > > > > > > > > > Mary Ellen: > > > > > > > > I have a Melissa Ann Livingston b. 11 Jan. l963 who married Elmer > > > Laverne Trey Smith III...b. 3 Aug. 1963, and their children are > Stephanie > > > Marie Smith, Jamie Elizabeth Smith, and Gregory Andrew Smith. Any of > this > > > ring a bell with you, give me a holler. 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I have some taped info from my daddy and uncle. everyone is dead now but my 91 year old mother. what she doesn't know is when I am speaking to her on the phone(she lives in a different city)if she starts talking and telling me things, I am listening and writing at the same time. I started so late in life with genealogy and by this time all my Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents even my daddy were dead so I have had to mostly rely on the internet and my cousin going to various states to gather sources and documents. sure wish I had known I was going to get so addicted to genealogy. Carlene