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From: "frank dillman" <>
Subject: Re: [Bklyn] Advice, Please
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:58:39 -0600
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Carol,
Your comment about who would be interested in your research after you are
gone is a valid concern. Some time back I believe it was on this site that
someone posted a Genealogical Will Codicil written by Mr. Carl Mobley. You
may find this MS Word document on www.dillmanfamilyassociation.org . It is
a easy form to use and if I can fill it out then anyone can - it is my best
bet that my research will not wind up on eBay or worse. Frank


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Subject: Re: [Bklyn] Advice, Please


> Hi,
>
> I have everything on one tree (except for a friends family which is no
> relation to me, I am doing research for him), my side, my husbands' sides
> (both of
> them), my childrens and
> step children's familes and their in-laws and out-laws, the families of my
> cousins, second cousins, third, fourth fifth, etc. etc. etc.
>
> I also have my half sister's and brother's families including their
> mother's
> family which is no relation to me except through our children who are
> half
> cousins.
>
> If you are related to me or mine in some way - you make the tree.
>
> I know some people keep only close relatives - while that is nice it
> doesn't
> get interesting.
>
> My grandfather led a revolt over food in Camp Adams in RI before he was
> shipped out into
> to PR during the Spanish American War.
>
> My daughter in law's great grandfather was in the same regiment (the 47th
> NY
> volunteers) as my grandfather in Brooklyn and PR.
> I wonder if they knew each other.
>
> They now have common great great grandchildren.
>
> Her great grand aunt at age 20 married an 85 year old who promptly
> committed
> suicide when she wouldn't move in with him. No one in the family knew
> that
> (but the Brooklyn Eagle did)
> even my son's father in law who remembered her as an old lady who never
> married.
>
> I have found 10 or 20 cousins and second cousins, of both myself and also
> a
> great many people in my family that I would never have known.
>
> I have found all sorts of information about things and places and people
> that I would never had known.
>
> I don't know how anyone could not do genealogy.
>
> My advice, put them all together. Family tree maker will let you
> separate
> them if you want later.
>
> My computer crashed last month. Luckily from spyware not a virus and my
> HP
> doesn't destroy itself when you "recover it". It has partitions, so I
> could
> get my backup files back into a new installed family tree maker. I did
> have
> a disc that was about 6 months behind.
> While I would recover most, I would never be sure.
>
> I have over 3700 people and their histories (as much as possible) and I
> wonder who will want any of this after I am gone.
>
> Oh well.
>
> Carol
>
>
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