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From: "Daniel and Mary Sackett" <>
Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] The Sackett Family: Its History and Genealogy
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 10:14:10 -0600


Dear Chris;
What a great sounding endeavor. I seem to have little time
this past year to do much in. I will help out where ever I can.
Keep up the great work.
Regards
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Sackett <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:19 AM
Subject: [SACKETT-L] The Sackett Family: Its History and Genealogy


> Dear Cousins,
>
> Older [that means earlier!] members of the List will recall that from time
> to time I have pondered the production and publication of a corrected and
> updated 'Weygant'.
>
> This will be a book containing details of all known Sacketts - and its
> compilation is obviously a mammoth task! Time constraints have always been
> a problem, but I have more of that now. And, with ALL members of the List
> helping, I believe I can see the way ahead. Here are my thoughts (I would
> welcome other ideas from anyone else who agrees this is worth pursuing).
>
> 1. Title: The Sackett Family.
>
> 2. Sub-title: Its History and Genealogy.
>
> 3. Mission Statement: "To compile and maintain for the historical archive
a
> history and genealogy of all known members of the Sackett family."
>
> 4. Compilers: The members of the Sackett Family Mailing List.
>
> 5. Project co-ordinator: Me! (Any other nominations are welcome!!)
>
> 6. Contents:
>
> 6.1 Introduction
> 6.2 Genealogical records
> 6.3 Family trees
> 6.4 List of sources
> 6.5 List of compilers
> 6.6 Appendices
> 6.7 Index
>
> 7. Persons to be included in the records: All known descendants of the
> Sackett family, female lines as well as male.
>
> 8. Sources: The source will be stated for every fact.
>
> 9. Format: The book will be produced using Family Tree Maker's (or other
> genealogy program's) 'Books' facility, with the genealogical records in
> 'Register' Genealogy Report Format.
>
> 10. Method of compilation:
>
> Stage 1: Compile an alphabetical file of family members. The co-ordinator
> will send to the List, by email, Genealogy Reports in Register Format, for
> one family group at a time, roughly in chronological order. List members
> will check these for completeness and accuracy and feed back corrections
> and additions. The co-ordinator will maintain a master alphabetical file.
> It is suggested that others may also wish to maintain such a file for
their
> own reference purposes, either by recording the data on their own
genealogy
> programs and filing genealogy reports or by simply filing the emails.
>
> Stage 2: Compile the whole file into a book using FTM's 'Books' program,
in
> line with Contents in 6. above.
>
> 11. Timetable: Completion of Stage 1 above will be an enormous task
> (indeed, by definition, it will never be finished!). It is intended that,
> at various stages when we reckon good progress has been made, we produce
an
> 'FTM book' as in Stage 2 above, even though we know there remains much
work
> to do. We might thus produce a 'progress report' [say] once a year. We
need
> a target date for 'virtual completion', and I suggest that we aim to have
> everything that we then know about the Sackett family available in book
> form by 2007, one hundred years on from Weygant's book.
>
> 12. Other matters [in no particular order]
>
> 12.1 Parents of spouses [where known] will be included in the Genealogy
> Reports, but no further spouses' family.
> 12.2 C20th (& C21st!) dates will be recorded as 'private' in accordance
> with usual procedure.
> 12.3 Facts. As much use as possible will be made of the 'fact' fields
> in FTM's 'more about' data sections. The co-ordinator will send to the
List
> a fact field list from time to time and will welcome suggestions for
> further use of this facility.
> 12.4 Introduction. The co-ordinator will submit to the List a suggested
> Introduction to the book. Again, suggestions and contributions will be
> welcome.
> 12.5 Sources. Sources will be quoted in a standard format: Lastname,
> Firstname, Publication/Source. The co-ordinator will send to the List an
> updated List of Sources from time to time.
> 12.6 Family Tree Maker. This program is suggested merely because I use
> it, and I know a number of others do too. I am not suggesting that we all
> go to the expense of equipping ourselves with FTM. I believe that data
> transfer between genealogy programs is relatively easy, and the method
> suggested above means that we would each be constructing our own files
> anyway, so it would appear not to matter which program we each use. If we
> find later that we do need a common program, I am open to persuasion as to
> which is thought to be the best.
> 12.7 Headings for Genealogy Reports. For ease of identification, we
will
> use a descriptive heading for each head of family in the genealogy
reports.
> E.g. 'John Sackett of Sackett's Hill, c1525-1592', rather than just 'John
> Sackett'.
> 12.8 Facts without sources. The general rule will be that every fact
> will have a quoted source. Where dates are estimated, this will be
> indicated in the notes, e.g. 'Birth date estimated from date of marriage',
> 'Death date estimated from date of Will'.
> 12.9 Primary sources. Whenever possible, we will research and quote
> primary sources - vital records, etc. Without wishing to diminish the
> enormously valuable work undertaken by Weygant, we will seek and quote
> earlier sources, thus reducing reliance on, and reference to, Weygant as a
> source.
> 12.10 Reference numbers. Reference numbers will not matter for Stage 1
[the
> compiling of an alphabetical file], but we will need to find a
satisfactory
> numbering system for the 2nd stage. Numbers generated automatically by
FTM
> do not seem to be much help. (They look to me to be random numbers).
> Numbering individuals sequentially and chronologically is easy if all
> individuals are known but re-numbering to allow for additions from later
> researches is hugely complicated. Numbering of individuals is especially
> useful, for example, in aiding the tracing of a family through several
> generations. There appears to be no way in FTM's genealogy reports of
> indicating a subject's parents through a reference numbering system. Does
> anyone know of a system that is flexible enough to allow for later
> insertions?
> 12.11 Generation references. Two systems are in use: British and American.
> Each will have a 'fact field' in 'more about' data. In the British system,
> generations are indicated by letters (in our Sackett files, we start
> somewhat arbitrarily with generation 'F' in the early 1500s, allowing for
> discoveries of earlier generations). The American system uses generation
> numbers starting with'1' for colonists.
> 12.12 Weygant numbers. A fact field will contain Weygant reference
numbers.
> 12.13 Email subject. To distinguish emails specifically concerning The
> Book, subject will be 'The Sackett Family, <name of individual>'.
> 12.14 Weygant copyright. It is likely that, eventually, our book, 'The
> Sackett Family', will contain just about everything that appears in
Weygant
> (subject, of course, to our having found primary sources where we can).
> Does anyone have any comment on copyright in this regard? Or, may we be
> relaxed that Weygant is more than 75 years old and we can do what we like
> with it?
> 12.15 Rule changes.
> 1. Not everything that needs to thought about has been thought about in
> this document.
> 2. New rules and procedures will be determined as the need arises.
> 3. This is a collective project. Please advise any suggestions at any
time.
>
> Summary
>
> It does seem to me that the real, big, task for the Sackett Mailing List
is
> the compilation of all our various records and researches into a combined
> record that can be passed to historical archives for future generations.
> The task is a big one but, with research resources now available, it is
> easier than it has ever been before.
>
> Collectively, we have a wealth of information. Technologically, we have
the
> means to assemble the data and to distribute it. Historically, we have a
> duty to make our researches available to future generations of our family.
>
> So, who's 'on board' for the big project?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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