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Rhonda's Genealogy Research FAQs - April 2, 2001.
Genealogy Research ~ Topic: The Legacy of My Research ~
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Topic: ~ The Legacy of My Research; Who Will I Pass It On to? ~ Q. ---> In order to preserve, protect and carry on my research who will I pass the families' "archives" to? What are my options to preserve the integrity of my research? A. ---> The following information, regarding this topic, concerns many who are in this exact same position. The RootsWeb's Gen-Newbie Mailing List was asked this question recently. The result is the following collation of answers submitted by several members of this most informative and positive research forum. There were a mumber of incidents related to that illustrated very clearly that one must share their information in order to maintain it as an up-to-date link for others to follow up in the future. MacLinks would like to thank; Sandra Gordon, Jabe Fincher, and several others from the mailing list for sharing their insights with us. Dave MacLennan - WebMaster"MacLinks' Family Connections Genealogy Website" ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- The following list contains some suggestions dealing with the topic;"Who will I leave my family documents to?" They have been organized within three areas of direction for your reading. You may find one or two or all helpful; your choice. It is hoped that they will give you an opportunity to preserve your family history for generations to come. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- You and Your Research Information Periodically edit and update your info. Make and keep yourself organized throughout all of your years of research. If it looks like a jumbled mess, no one will want to take the time to straighten it out. If it is in a good order, with good documentation, then they will be more likely to preserve what you worked so hard on. Give a disk to one of your relatives, and put one into an emergency pack (like a 72 hour kit) so that if you have to evacuate your house quickly, your research will not have gone up in smoke. To create hard copies from your computer files; download the files you want onto a disk and take it to a local stationary store during one of their copy sales. They will run it through their high speed copier and it will lessen the load on your printer. Create labels and printed them off on neon - yellow labels for all books, notebooks and research information you have collected. Place the labels inside the front cover of each of your books to remind others who and where these books should be relayed onto. This can done by hand or by using a label maker computer program. Here are three types of phrases you may possibly use: ~ Please donate this book to the "_______" Family History Center in the name of "_______". or ~ Please donate this book to the "_______" Genealogical Society in the name of "_______" . or ~ Please pass this book along to "_______" . The latter may be intended for a friend or family member. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- You and Your Immediate Family Even if your information is limited; create a copy of what you have for each one of your children, your siblings and their children. Find an interested family member and work with them while sharing all of your documentation and information at the same time. Enhance the interest of your children and grandchildren by teaching them who, what and where they came from. MacLinks has a teacher/student/parent resource page that offers excellent strategies in creating educational environemts for the teaching of family history. It can be referred to at; http://members.home.com/maclizard/tch.rsrc.html Create a website that all of your family local and distant can view and add on to by contacting you. Rootsweb offers the researcher a free platform to do just that. If you are interested go to http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/websites.html#Q1. This page explains the various categories of free web space at Rootsweb and how to register. Create artifacts of your family, i.e.; quilts with husbands family on one side and your family on the other side or wall hangings showing the ancestry back to wherever along with pictures of each family of my children. With your gathered information, make it into a Family Heritage Book with all the information, documents and "old pictures" that have been collected. This is an ideal gift for Christmas or for any occassion in which most of your family are involved. This book may or may not contain genetic illness{es} that all of the family should know and undertstand. A comment such as, "In our Family Heritage Book will not only tell you about Uncle "----" but the fact the he was ill with "---". Today we know this as a genetic condition." Not only have you have passed on "YOUR" family information but created a forum for health information to all family members. ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- You and Your Ancestors' Communities Write a note and include it in your WILL leaving directions as to where and who your family records are to go. Send copies {hard copy or disk} to State/Province Library and/or the historical society in the city where most of your ancestors lived. Leave copies of all supporting documentation. Send copies {hard copy or disk} to your local Library and Historical/Genealogical Societies. Put your information on a disk and send it to the Ancestral File at the Family History Department of the LDS Church. It will be preserved. ****************************** * For translation of the above document to a language other than English refer to the translators found at the top of the FAQs Index Page and follow the directions given within each link. ******************************** Back to Rhonda's --> Rhonda's FAQ Index: Back to Rhonda's --> Genealogy Microfiche Resources Index: Back to Rhonda's --> Information Resource Center: ********************************

Rhonda's Genealogy Research FAQs - April 2, 2001.

Genealogy Research ~ Topic: The Legacy of My Research ~

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Topic: ~ The Legacy of My Research; Who Will I Pass It On to? ~
Q. ---> In order to preserve, protect and carry on my research who will I pass the families' "archives" to? What are my options to preserve the integrity of my research?
A. ---> The following information, regarding this topic, concerns many who are in this exact same position. The RootsWeb's Gen-Newbie Mailing List was asked this question recently. The result is the following collation of answers submitted by several members of this most informative and positive research forum. There were a mumber of incidents related to that illustrated very clearly that one must share their information in order to maintain it as an up-to-date link for others to follow up in the future. MacLinks would like to thank; Sandra Gordon, Jabe Fincher, and several others from the mailing list for sharing their insights with us.
Dave MacLennan - WebMaster"MacLinks' Family Connections Genealogy Website"
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The following list contains some suggestions dealing with the topic;"Who will I leave my family documents to?" They have been organized within three areas of direction for your reading. You may find one or two or all helpful; your choice. It is hoped that they will give you an opportunity to preserve your family history for generations to come.
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You and Your Research Information

Periodically edit and update your info.

Make and keep yourself organized throughout all of your years of research. If it looks like a jumbled mess, no one will want to take the time to straighten it out. If it is in a good order, with good documentation, then they will be more likely to preserve what you worked so hard on.

Give a disk to one of your relatives, and put one into an emergency pack (like a 72 hour kit) so that if you have to evacuate your house quickly, your research will not have gone up in smoke.

To create hard copies from your computer files; download the files you want onto a disk and take it to a local stationary store during one of their copy sales. They will run it through their high speed copier and it will lessen the load on your printer.

Create labels and printed them off on neon - yellow labels for all books, notebooks and research information you have collected. Place the labels inside the front cover of each of your books to remind others who and where these books should be relayed onto. This can done by hand or by using a label maker computer program. Here are three types of phrases you may possibly use:

~ Please donate this book to the "_______" Family History Center in the name of "_______".
or

~ Please donate this book to the "_______" Genealogical Society in the name of "_______" .
or

~ Please pass this book along to "_______" . The latter may be intended for a friend or family member.
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You and Your Immediate Family

Even if your information is limited; create a copy of what you have for each one of your children, your siblings and their children.

Find an interested family member and work with them while sharing all of your documentation and information at the same time.

Enhance the interest of your children and grandchildren by teaching them who, what and where they came from. MacLinks has a teacher/student/parent resource page that offers excellent strategies in creating educational environemts for the teaching of family history. It can be referred to at; http://members.home.com/maclizard/tch.rsrc.html

Create a website that all of your family local and distant can view and add on to by contacting you. Rootsweb offers the researcher a free platform to do just that. If you are interested go to http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/websites.html#Q1. This page explains the various categories of free web space at Rootsweb and how to register.

Create artifacts of your family, i.e.; quilts with husbands family on one side and your family on the other side or wall hangings showing the ancestry back to wherever along with pictures of each family of my children.

With your gathered information, make it into a Family Heritage Book with all the information, documents and "old pictures" that have been collected. This is an ideal gift for Christmas or for any occassion in which most of your family are involved. This book may or may not contain genetic illness{es} that all of the family should know and undertstand. A comment such as, "In our Family Heritage Book will not only tell you about Uncle "----" but the fact the he was ill with "---". Today we know this as a genetic condition." Not only have you have passed on "YOUR" family information but created a forum for health information to all family members.
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You and Your Ancestors' Communities

Write a note and include it in your WILL leaving directions as to where and who your family records are to go.

Send copies {hard copy or disk} to State/Province Library and/or the historical society in the city where most of your ancestors lived. Leave copies of all supporting documentation.

Send copies {hard copy or disk} to your local Library and Historical/Genealogical Societies.

Put your information on a disk and send it to the Ancestral File at the Family History Department of the LDS Church. It will be preserved.

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*** For translation of the above document to a language other than English refer to the translators found at the top of the FAQs Index Page and follow the directions given within each link.

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