Sharon, I won't contribute to any site that requires a subscription. They are making money off of my or our research, and I just won't participate in it. Tim Tucker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Specht" <mudd2sunflower@yahoo.com> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Museum Question > How about a Public Family Tree on ancestry.com with the photos, etc. > available online to anyone with a subscription? > I am very fond of this site and how easy it is to find relevant > information. > Sharon > > Edythe98@aol.com wrote: > > If you are referring to data, you might consider donating your material to > OGS in Mansfield. Once their new building is finished they will much more > room > for family histories. I have made notations on each of my family notebooks > and file folders to donate my material and have made a notation with my > Will. > > Also - all genealogy publications I have purchased for researching will be > donated to my local library's genealogy dept. with the stipulation if they > already have to try to find another nearby library - such as a more major > city, to > accept the duplicates. > > On my maternal side I have many photographs from the 1800s as well as > family > bibles from mid-1800s and was concerned about them. Fortunately, I have a > cousin who has a son very interested in family history and have stipulated > for > those items to be given to them. In fact, due to my age, I have already > begun > giving them some of the original photographs and keeping the scanned > copies. > > On my paternal side, there is no one to pass photographs on so they will > be > included with the family notebooks to be given to OGS. > > Personally, I prefer these options vs the LDS Church as more people will > be > able to access them at all times. I have had one problem with the LDS > Church > in Wyoming that has documents and photographs that I am unable to access. > I > also prefer to keep everything as local as possible. > > OHS [Ohio Historical Society] in Columbus has been cut back so drastically > due to budgets, they do not seem to be able to maintain material well any > more > but that is also another option. At least you would know the information > would > be preserved. > > I hope this gives you some ideas. > Shirley > > > > In a message dated 2/11/2008 3:19:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, > buckshot@ohiolink.net writes: > > Also, where do you put this information for safe keeping? I have no > children, two nephews and a niece, none with the Tucker name, and I am not > sure how interested they will be in preserving it. > > I have heard that you can turn it in to the LDS Church, but I have never > heard how to do this and I have NOT been able to get back information that > I > know was compiled on the Mitchell side of the family mentioned above by a > cousin of mine who did that work. I can't seem to find anyone who will > tell > me how to get a copy of that information back to our branch of the family, > so I am hesitant to deposit any information there. > > > > > > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. Go to AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) > tdn-net.com/genealogy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > tdn-net.com/genealogy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Tim, I am just looking at it from the point of view of an amateur genealogist, who thinks it a real bargain as compared to the price of travel expenses, not to mention time involved in traveling to libraries, family history libraries, etc.etc. Does anyone else here have an opinion on this, just out of curiosity? Sharon Buckshot <buckshot@ohiolink.net> wrote: Sharon, I won't contribute to any site that requires a subscription. They are making money off of my or our research, and I just won't participate in it. Tim Tucker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Specht" To: Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Museum Question > How about a Public Family Tree on ancestry.com with the photos, etc. > available online to anyone with a subscription? > I am very fond of this site and how easy it is to find relevant > information. > Sharon > > Edythe98@aol.com wrote: > > If you are referring to data, you might consider donating your material to > OGS in Mansfield. Once their new building is finished they will much more > room > for family histories. I have made notations on each of my family notebooks > and file folders to donate my material and have made a notation with my > Will. > > Also - all genealogy publications I have purchased for researching will be > donated to my local library's genealogy dept. with the stipulation if they > already have to try to find another nearby library - such as a more major > city, to > accept the duplicates. > > On my maternal side I have many photographs from the 1800s as well as > family > bibles from mid-1800s and was concerned about them. Fortunately, I have a > cousin who has a son very interested in family history and have stipulated > for > those items to be given to them. In fact, due to my age, I have already > begun > giving them some of the original photographs and keeping the scanned > copies. > > On my paternal side, there is no one to pass photographs on so they will > be > included with the family notebooks to be given to OGS. > > Personally, I prefer these options vs the LDS Church as more people will > be > able to access them at all times. I have had one problem with the LDS > Church > in Wyoming that has documents and photographs that I am unable to access. > I > also prefer to keep everything as local as possible. > > OHS [Ohio Historical Society] in Columbus has been cut back so drastically > due to budgets, they do not seem to be able to maintain material well any > more > but that is also another option. At least you would know the information > would > be preserved. > > I hope this gives you some ideas. > Shirley > > > > In a message dated 2/11/2008 3:19:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, > buckshot@ohiolink.net writes: > > Also, where do you put this information for safe keeping? I have no > children, two nephews and a niece, none with the Tucker name, and I am not > sure how interested they will be in preserving it. > > I have heard that you can turn it in to the LDS Church, but I have never > heard how to do this and I have NOT been able to get back information that > I > know was compiled on the Mitchell side of the family mentioned above by a > cousin of mine who did that work. I can't seem to find anyone who will > tell > me how to get a copy of that information back to our branch of the family, > so I am hesitant to deposit any information there. > > > > > > **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy > Awards. Go to AOL Music. > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) > tdn-net.com/genealogy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > tdn-net.com/genealogy > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message tdn-net.com/genealogy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.