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From: William Hoisington <>
Subject: Re: [HOISINGTON-L] Re: Updating Harry's book
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:02:20 -0400


Hi All --
A quick note to say that Birdie has really summed it up well. We do have two
projects. I "vote" to proceed on making the transcribed version of HH book
available as is -- the point Bonnie made about copies of copies of copies is
well taken (especially with us folks with bifocals!). The other project, I
truly believe, needs to have the references and updates, in whatever format we
decide as a team. I find that the references in any research often lead to
other discoveries and important info that may help researcher's find other
sources. That's one reason why I subscribe to the VT/NH/MA/CT list serves in
addition to the Hoisington list. Even tho' many of the names don't apply, I
find very valuable suggestions and sources.
With the work split between two projects, each researcher can have the
opportunity to add whatever talents they have....
Got to scamper off to class, but wanted to put in my 2-cents worth....
Darcy

Birdie McNutt wrote:

> Hi Harriette,
> You are right, I believe we do have two projects here. The main one was
> to reproduce the HH Book exactly as printed for the present/future
> HOISINGTON researchers so that they can have this research tool to
> verify, compare, find out "How we Know" _where_ some of this information
> on our families came from. I don't know about the other cousins, but I
> for one like to research and check out the information for my self, not
> go on blind faith that what is presented is proof/fact. We need to
> "Know, how we know" where and how our research was obtained. By
> typing this HH book, as a TEAM effort, and putting it on a CD we can
> save a lot of work for Bonnie who is the ONE who has been sharing the
> book with us cousins AT NO COST to us, but A LOT of time, paper,
> postage, ink etc. on Bonnie's part. At the same time the information
> could be available to researchers wanting a clearer, cleaner copy, that
> would be easier to read than some of the faded text we strain our eyes
> to read from the original HH book.
> The second project was to also update and show documentation of
> additions or corrections to the original HH book.
>
> Birdie
>
> Harriette Jensen wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Birdie.
> >
> > In answer to your questions:
> >
> > snip<
> > So, maybe we do have two projects here:
> >
> > 1) to get a historical record of the research done by a previous
> > researcher (Harry) to those who would like a copy, and
> >
> > 2) to provide the most current and complete information that all we, as
> > a group, have.
> >
> > I fully acknowledge that, although it is more up-to-date than Harry's
> > version, I probably do not have a "complete" and "fully accurate"
> > version in my database. I had hoped that by sharing the information with
> > the people on the list, we could all participate in making it as much
> > so as possible.
> > Harriette
> >
> >

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