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)
Shirley, The OHS (often know as the Ohio Hysterical Society in some circles) should NEVER be considered as an option, they are in history ONLY to make money! I have been an American Civil War reenactor and know many others. The OHS has HOSED many reenactors many times at Ohio Village in Columbus, Johnsons' Farm in Piqua and at Fort Meigs in Perrysburg as well as at other places they control or used to control. Time after time they have promised specific events and support to get reenactors, then changed the events and CHARGED for promised free support at the event (usually straw and firewood). They also destroyed several reenactments at the big Labor Day thing at Johnson's Farm in Piqua. THEY scheduled a Civil War Battle at a specific time on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and then POSTPONED, at short notice, the battle each day just to get one extra load of passengers each day on the canal boat! We tried to fill in for the 45 minute delay (that was actually one hour each time) but we could only do so much and we watched the crowd drop from over 100 to down around 30 each day. They just got tired of waiting and went on to other things or went home. The ONLY WAY they get reenactor support now is to promise the world to new units just forming, and that lasts till the first time they treat them like normal, ripping them off and raking them over. They have also abandoned major historical sites such Ft. Amanda south of Lima and, I have heard, Ft. St. Clair in Eaton, OH. Ft. Amanda was donated to the Johnny Appleseed Metropolitan Park district as was the Deep Cut Park on the Miami and Erie Canal in Spencerville, OH when it got to be too expensive for the OHS to keep. If you look at what they are doing now, they are ONLY keeping venues that they can get ADMISSION for! They did not invest ANY money (or at least they have never proven they fought it with any money, though they have CLAIMED TO at times) in trying to prevent development around the Fallen Timbers Battlefield near Toledo, and now very close to that pivotal battlefield we have a MALL, "The Shops at Fallen Timbers. I would be VERY AFRAID that anything donated to OHS would either be sold for whatever kind of profit they could get out of it (your work on a commercial CD of a giant list of names) or thrown away for not wanting to spend any money preserving it properly. Tim Tucker ----- Original Message ----- From: <Edythe98@aol.com> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Museum Question > > 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. 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Would there be an objection to donating the items and information to the Miami county Historical society? ....you know you are addicted when you have traced your ancestral lines all the way back to Adam and Eve, have it fully documented, and still don't want to quit..... www.tribalpages.com/tribes/holeton Pam Holeton Piqua,Ohio Miami County www.findagrave.com currently working on Forest Hill cemetery and several surrounding cemeteries. www.myspace.com/pamelaholeton --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
Pam , I saw that you had a tribalpages website below your name and took a look at it. I found some surnames that we have in common and wonder if we have common ancestors. I couldn't check since a password is needed. Would you e-mail me at dcarder2@woh.rr.com ? I would like to know particularly which Carter, Dobbins, and Steen you have. Thanks. Debbie Carder Mayes http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102 www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102 www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "pam holeton" <pam_39_1960@yahoo.com> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Museum Question > Would there be an objection to donating the items and information to the > Miami county Historical society? > > > ....you know you are addicted when you have traced your ancestral lines > all the way back to Adam and Eve, have it fully documented, and still > don't want to quit..... > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/holeton > Pam Holeton > Piqua,Ohio > Miami County > www.findagrave.com > currently working on Forest Hill cemetery and several surrounding > cemeteries. > > > www.myspace.com/pamelaholeton > > > > --------------------------------- > 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
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.