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    1. Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Genealogy sites....
    2. Jeanne Fizell
    3. Cheryl Bless your heart for all the good you do! Thank you! Jeanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Siebrass" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Genealogy sites.... >I don't post?my family tree info online either.? However, >I?contribute?photos, scans?and transcriptions of?original?records?to the >USGENWEB project (www.usgenweb.org).??For example, I recently contributed >scans of an 1899 high school yearbook and am working on a transcription >of?the names.? Next I want to?scan and transcribe the Dec. 4, 1872 issue of >a?newspaper that I found in a box of my great-grandparents things (the town >burned down in the early 1870's, so the library and newspaper office don't >have copies of the newspaper prior to 1874 - this is likely the only copy >of this issue in existence).? > > So many historical records end up "lost" for one reason or another.? > Anyone doing serious research wants to see the sources?anyway - not the > family tree that?someone else has?put together.? A lot of us have old > source records (secondary and primary) that would be of interest to other > genealogists.? So I concentrate on that, and just share my tree with close > relatives. > > Cheryl S. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

    04/14/2009 11:13:48