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Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Sources
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:42:58 EDT
In a message dated 7/25/2007 3:03:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
writes:
I wish we were related !
Most of the people I "meet" online don't have any of their docs scanned into
the computer.
Courtney
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I find that the most efficient way to sort and store them. I keep
hardcopies of only my direct line. The rest are stored tree fashion on my second 100g
harddrive as well as family oriented backups.
With the COOPER family I have a folder called COOPER. Within that folder I
have one called CooperThomasMaryCripps. In that folder I have copies of the
obit for Mary, from the first ever paper published in that area and of their
marriage record . Photos of their gravestones and the church where they are
buried. A photo of the painting of the house they lived in that was done in
1858 and is owned by one of my cousins here in town. Since my mother had the
photo made of the painting, I also have the negative and each of my siblings
and myself have a photo of the house as to my kids. They all have the
scanned copy also as do many cousins all over the world. Since we are talking the
1700s here at this time I don't have too much else, (although with the
Medway stuff going up, I am now getting more copies of PRs for the families)
except folders for each of their six kids. Within each of the kids folders are
copies of any records we have, birth, marriage, death records, copies of the
census returns they appear on, photos of gravestones that we have, etc. plus
folders for each of their kids, and on down the line for each generation.
Since the family, at least my direct line did not leave England until the mid to
late 1800s, ancestry putting the census images on line has been a big boon
to me.
By exchanging images, whether documentation or photos we are insuring that
even if the originals perish, there are surviving copies around the world.
And here we are talking the original document from one of the Canadians for
their passage to Canada in 1885, another painting, this from either Australia or
New Zealand of the property that another descendant was the overseer for. A
photo of the first house that my ggrandparents built shortly after they
immigrated in 1884, right after it was built, without a yard, and no other houses
around it so since it was built on a hill on the west side of the Mississippi
you can see the skyline of downtown St. Paul on the east side of the river
behind it. A photo of the first Canadian who immigrated in 1864 when he was
in Dartford, Kent, England in 1884 lecturing on immigrating to Canada. All
these things are priceless and need to be with the research of the family tree,
but since only one copy of each exists, scans sent to all related
researchers with the proper identification insures the images themselves will not be
lost.
To me, this is the true value of my research. The contact with other family
researchers and the exchange of copies of documents, plus the knowledge and
the photos. And to me that value is priceless.
Annie in Minnesota
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