Jim, Many thanks for all you and others are doing to launch this. It will be a great asset to all of our collective research efforts. The Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library has its library committee on Oct 17th. I will strongly recommend we subscribe as editors to this at the meeting as an institution. I have already talked with Karen Hart, our Executive Director, about this, and I hope she has by now been sent an invitation. In the meantime, I will be sending out a personal email to all of the volunteers telling them about the project and how to contact you for their own personal invitation. Some will accept, a few others may think that computers will suck their brains out. Craig PS For you doubting Thomases....the only email I have received from ancestry.com as a result of being an editor but not having a PERSONAL ancestry.com account are when people have made updates to the database. Which is nice to know. It tells who me who was added, with dates of birth and death, but nothing else. Really kind of a waste of their time but I have not been flooded with emails from them. Their "trick" of course is to try to lure you in when you find a person of interest and they will immediately notify you of other links from THEIR web site where you can find them. Can't say it's all that invasive. On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > NNVF Tree info for all. > > All Editors of this tree are recognized by Ancestry and are linked specifically with this tree (and maybe others, by separate actions) with rights to add, change, delete - this includes people, records, stories, pictures, etc. even if you do not have an Ancestry subscription. If you do have a subscription, you can follow the Ancestry hints to other relatives (in other Ancestry trees), and hints to records in the Ancestry database - any and all of which you can then link to a person on our Tree. They are actually pretty good tools, but I don't want anyone to feel pressured by me to subscribe to ancestry (despite their tactics to lure you in) - we have a number of editors who are subscribers and any of us could, time permitting, find and attach an extant record for you - indeed, the Ancestry hint leaves point us to many of those records, and make them easy to attach. However, folks without an Ancestry subscription can attach any jpg or pdf or Word file (that they have on the! ir! > own PC) to individuals in the Tree and they can type in notes or stories, etc from scratch. There is a LOT the non-subscriber Editors can do to help build the NNVF Tree, and those with subscriptions can add on additional items found at Ancestry. > > Again - we have a great opportunity to build a robust, well-documented, peer-reviewed Tree. I think with our growing list of Editors, representing many NN family lines and treasure troves of documentation, we are well on our way. > > Congratulations to all for an enthusiastic start - it bodes well. > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Oct 3, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Craig Kilby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Update here: >> >> There are now 19 editors on the anestry.com database for the Northern Neck. Most of the pros and cons are being debated on the new facebook page. Not all editors are on the facebook page. Our very own Kathleen Much has signed up as an editor, though she eschews facebook. This list is the place to post all additions and corrections, and to discuss why. >> >> To become a guest or an editor of the Northern Neck Families Group --for FREE--send an email to Jim Bartlett at >> >> [email protected] >> >> Janean Skiles reports that for those who already have an ancestry.com account, the new tree is now on line when searching for private trees, under the name of Northern Neck of Virginia Families. >> >> Craig >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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