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From: Terry Grant <>
Subject: Re: [HOISINGTON-L] Re: Updating Harry's book
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:36:43 -0400


Ok so if im reading this right then You have done All the work prior to
this. Copyed Harrys book in Computer Form? Harriette Please E-mail me.
This is going to the list again.

Harriette Jensen wrote:
>
> 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
>
> >X-Sender:
> >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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> >>Sumner Co. KS <http://www.rootsweb.com/~kssumner/kssumner.htm>;
> >>Kay Co. OK <http://www.rootsweb.com/~okkay/okkay.htm>;
> >>Logan Co. OK <http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklogan/oklogan.htm>;
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
> ============================================================
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> Sumner Co. KS <http://www.rootsweb.com/~kssumner/kssumner.htm>;
> Kay Co. OK <http://www.rootsweb.com/~okkay/okkay.htm>;
> Logan Co. OK <http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklogan/oklogan.htm&g

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