I'm sure there is a good idea here somewhere but although I love genealogy and could talk about my families endlessly... And have.... Lol, I don't want "assigned" a family to handle. I too have just as many as you do, Northern Neck families I'm sure considering I'm a Chinn, Ball, Tarpley, Travers, Glascock, Dew, Sydnor, Atherold, Payne, Mitchell....... Etc. etc. etc. and that is just one region and only one part of my father's family... There is no way possible I would want to be responsible for then some possible 40 or more people on this list who might be related to say the Chinn family giving me all their info....... I can't find time enough to do just what I need to do personally. Sorry but that is a huge thing to ask of people. I have a full time job and don't often get on line when I get home from work.. I'd never be able to keep up and wouldn't want to let the members of this list down, nor would I ever have time to do any other genealogy on my own. I don't even have my own stuff at home organized or all of it documented yet on my database. Sorry but that idea can't possibly fly. Besides as indicated previously, some members of the list are not subscribed to facebook and will not be planning on joining therefore considering we've already had a suggestion to not discuss family lines on FB because some people won't subscribe and therefore miss good information which needs to be left to the list..... Those same people will not then be privy to all the family information, documents etc. I'm not exactly sure yet how facebook will benefit us. So we need to take it slow and see what ideas can come from using it once it gets going. Janean -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Burgess Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] We have a golden opportunity to build a lastinglegacy for Northern Neck Families. Dear Northern Neck Genealogist, Just a few suggestions on how to improve our group. C. With all of the members of the list I would like to suggest that we assign different people to take one or two of our families names and be responsible for that family name. Every one would send that person information on a family name. That family representative would be responsible to organize that a family and add the documentation to that family. D. The family representative would organize that family and add documentation to a family and would work with other cousins or interested members of the list off line. When the group felt that they had the family in really good shape the family representative would send in the family to Craig so that their family could be posted. E. I have a lot of information on the Conway family, but have seen a million email come through so that my old mind is boggeled by the number of comments. F. Craig or some one or the group could set the standards on how to set up a particular family. G. We could settle disputes off line in a friendly manner. H. We should post books, sources, wills, marriages, birth, death, etc etc. Face book is going to give us some wonder opportunities in this area. If we are organized from the start we could build a wonderful data base on our Northern Neck families. How many members do we have on our list? I picked the Downing family because several of my surnames appear in the family - Downing, Smith, Hudnall, Cottrell, Cockrill, Nutt, Blackwell etc. Thanks Jim Burgess [email protected] www.virginiasurnames.com ------------------------------- 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

Here is one idea if anyone is bold enough to try it. Not more than a month ago, George Durman of Kentucky posted his entire database of over 25,000 people on ancestry.com. The catch is that it is a private database. This mainly involved Germanna descendants. He issued invitations to the site to anyone who asked. He also made them co-administrators. One does NOT have to be a subscriber to ancestry.com to go in and see it, or to make edits. And one is allowed it at the invitation of George Durman. But he has thrown open the doors. It's been a very interesting experience so far, and is working fairly well. The web site interface itself is not exactly intuitive, and we've all been going through a learning curve. But, nobody is "assigned" a task and can work on anything they want. You can upload documents and photos. You can create source citations. This was announced and mainly is monitored, so to speak, through two rootsweb lists. One is asked to please report to those lists any changes you have made, or uploads you have done, and why. George says there have been a few people he had to change from administrator to contributor, and one person he had to just outright block, but other than that it has really gone much more smoothly than I would have predicted. My NN database is only about 1500 people and not large enough to even try this. It would take something on the scale of George's work....which he quite honestly--and quite correctly--said at the beginning that he knew it had many, many, many mistakes. As clunky as this site is, it is a 100% improvement of the totally user-unfriendly site at werelate.com I suspect it would need to be imported from an FTM file and no other genie program for best results. Craig On Sep 23, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Janean Ray wrote: > I'm sure there is a good idea here somewhere but although I love genealogy > and could talk about my families endlessly... And have.... Lol, I don't want > "assigned" a family to handle. I too have just as many as you do, Northern > Neck families I'm sure considering I'm a Chinn, Ball, Tarpley, Travers, > Glascock, Dew, Sydnor, Atherold, Payne, Mitchell....... Etc. etc. etc. and > that is just one region and only one part of my father's family... There is > no way possible I would want to be responsible for then some possible 40 or > more people on this list who might be related to say the Chinn family giving > me all their info....... I can't find time enough to do just what I need to > do personally. Sorry but that is a huge thing to ask of people. I have a > full time job and don't often get on line when I get home from work.. I'd > never be able to keep up and wouldn't want to let the members of this list > down, nor would I ever have time to do any other genealogy on my own. I > don't even have my own stuff at home organized or all of it documented yet > on my database. Sorry but that idea can't possibly fly. Besides as > indicated previously, some members of the list are not subscribed to > facebook and will not be planning on joining therefore considering we've > already had a suggestion to not discuss family lines on FB because some > people won't subscribe and therefore miss good information which needs to be > left to the list..... Those same people will not then be privy to all the > family information, documents etc. I'm not exactly sure yet how facebook > will benefit us. So we need to take it slow and see what ideas can come > from using it once it gets going. > > Janean > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Burgess > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] We have a golden opportunity to build a > lastinglegacy for Northern Neck Families. > > Dear Northern Neck Genealogist, > > > > Just a few suggestions on how to improve our group. > > > > C. With all of the members of the list I would like to suggest that we > assign different people to take one or two of our families names and be > responsible for that family name. Every one would send that person > information on a family name. That family representative would be > responsible to organize that a family and add the documentation to that > family. > > > > D. The family representative would organize that family and add > documentation to a family and would work with other cousins or interested > members of the list off line. When the group felt that they had the family > in really good shape the family representative would send in the family to > Craig so that their family could be posted. > > > > E. I have a lot of information on the Conway family, but have seen a > million email come through so that my old mind is boggeled by the number of > comments. > > > > F. Craig or some one or the group could set the standards on how to > set up a particular family. > > > > G. We could settle disputes off line in a friendly manner. > > > > H. We should post books, sources, wills, marriages, birth, death, etc > etc. > > > > Face book is going to give us some wonder opportunities in this area. If > we are organized from the start we could build a wonderful data base on our > Northern Neck families. > > > > How many members do we have on our list? > > > > I picked the Downing family because several of my surnames appear in the > family - Downing, Smith, Hudnall, Cottrell, Cockrill, Nutt, Blackwell etc. > > > > Thanks > > Jim Burgess > > [email protected] > > www.virginiasurnames.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >