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From: Harriette Jensen< >
Subject: [HOISINGTON-L] Re: Updating Harry's book
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:37:24 -0700 (PDT)


Hi, Group.

I guess I'm a little confused as to what it is that we're trying to do.
Bonnie mentions TWO projects in the following reply to my e-mail to her.
I'm not sure what the value to reproducing Harry's book in its original
form would be as we have come up with a LOT of new and corrected
information in the past two years and it has already been reproduced by
Higginson Books in its original form.

Please read both of the quoted e-mails below. In Bonnie's e-mail she asks
if I have completed transcribing Harry's book as a standalone. My answer
to that is a Yes and No.

1) I have input ALL of Harry's original manuscript AND the 1939 supplement.
It is not in Word format, but it can be produced as a Word report by my
database program.

2) Harry's info has been incorporated with my other lines, but can easily
be separated out by exporting John Horsington's descendants as a gedcom and
creating another database.

3) All entries from the original manuscript are cross-referenced to Harry's
numbering system.

4) Any changes I have made to it are referenced to footnotes, citing sources.

As I told Bonnie below, I do not want to put a damper on all the energy
this has created. I just want to have us use it in the most productive way
possible.

Harriette

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>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:43:13 -0400
>To: (Harriette Jensen)
>From: Bonnie Dannenberg <>
>Subject: Re: Updating Harry's book
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Status: U
>
>Hi Harriette,
>Can you send this through either to Hoisington-L or
>to the typing group list for discussion? (I need to
>get some things done here so I can leave for VT.)
>
>I'm still not sure we're talking about the same
>things. :) The first "project" was re-typing
>Harry's original "book" into the computer, so it
>was more clear and could be shared via e-mail or
>on diskette. Is that what you're saying you have
>completed, so that it stands alone? If so, then
>yes, it would certainly save a LOT of work re-doing
>it all.
>
>The second "project", was adding what we all have,
>to the original work and updating Harry's work, from
>1939 to present. (I may have sent you my descendant
>lines, but I didn't remember sending you everything?)
>If you do have all this data from everyone, then yes,
>that would also save tons of work.
>
>Anyway, please clarify for all the others, since I'm
>leaving, (probably tomorrow morning at this point.)
>And then we'll know what we have to do and what we
>don't.
>
>Didn't mean to start something here if it's really not
>necessary. :)
>
>Bonnie -
>
>At 06:39 PM 4/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hi, Bonnie.
>>
>>I wanted to write to you privately. I know everybody's really excited
>>about updating Harry's book and I certainly don't want to put a damper on
>>all that energy. I'm not sure I made myself clear in my e-mail to the
>>list, but I have already input all of Harry's info AND footnoted all the
>>changes that I made with my sources.
>>
>>I have no personal interest in being the organizer of this effort, but for
>>everyone to go to the effort of inputting it all again would seem
>>redundant. You certainly know how much work it is. Wouldn't it be easier
>>to take what I have done (minus all the unrelated material on my other
>>lines), and where there are changes, just substitute the original
>>information and use the updates ALL of us have as footnotes?
>>
>>Also, Harry had the disconcerting habit of putting partial info in one
>>place and partial info in another. It was for this reason that I
>>originally decided to input the material ... so that all info about each
>>person was in one place.
>>
>>I would be more than happy to organize the Hoisington info I have in my
>>database and send it to you either as a gedcom or as a report if you think
>>that would be useful.
>>
>>
>>
>>Harriette
>>
>>
>>
>>
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