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From: Bonnie Dannenberg <>
Subject: Re: [HOISINGTON-L] Another alternative
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 13:10:27 -0400


At 09:34 AM 4/4/99 -0700, Harriette Jensen wrote:
>Happy Easter! You all get up much earlier than I do
>and/or are further East <g>. And so energetic <VBG>.

Hi Harriette,

:)) We're a LOT further East, and plus it's
daylight savings time. :) Oh wait, that means
we lost an hour...

>Bonnie, I am the other one who was typing in Harry's
>book....

Right, but didn't you "add" it to your data base?
What I was doing was typing each page into the
word processor exactly as Harry had it, to get a
clear copy of his work.

>and I did finish. Took me about two months...that's
>why my family originally decided I was obsessive
>about the genealogy.

Wait, you mean we're NOT obsessed?!?!? :))))

>However, I have added to it

Right, that's what I thought.

>(I have just finished entering the supplement
>that Maida sent to me. That one was easy, only
>twenty pages.),

Yeah, I know. :(((((((((((( If the "supplement"
is done already, that would be a HUGE help!!

>corrected info when I could, and may have made some
>typos of my own, as I had no one to proof it.

Proofing is really difficult...I do think corrections
should be made if we can.

>I also have my other lines in the same database,

I think we need to do two things. First, get
Harry's book entered as is, then add our other
data on descendants since 1939.

>although I think I can create a gedcom that starts
>with John Horsington and includes only his descendants.

I can do a "Gen Report" in Family tree maker, starting
with John, and including only his descendants also,
with the final project. (But that doesn't isolate
Harry's work.)

>I have a couple of lines duplicated, so I have to do
>some cleanup, but I would be willing to do that and
>upload it to the Hoisington Web Site. You could download
>it from there. It's quite large (about 5M) and I don't
>know if I could divide it into smaller segments, so you
>would have to make sure that your e-mail storage can
>accept it.

O.K. We could do that. I don't think we'd have to
download it to e-mail. We should be able to download
it right to our hard drives from the web site?

>I would certainly appreciate having proofreaders!

We can do that! :)

>I can't offer to print it out because I'm sure it's
>several hundred pages by now, I have a slow printer,
>and it costs 50 cents a page at Kinko's to print
>material out.

Right. What we want is an alternative to printing.

>I also can't send it by disk....it's too large for a
>floppy and I have a MAC.

I have to call FTM about this. My data base is now
too large to fit on a disk. There has to be a way.

>This may not be the answer for everybody because of
>the size of the file, so any comments, suggestions
>would be appreciated.

If we start with just Harry's work, so we can get
that on disk, hopefully it will fit on one? Then
we can work out the problems about the additional
data later?

And THANKS!! :)

Bonnie -

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