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From: Lauren Boyd <>
Subject: [SCGS-L] GIVING TREE FOR GENEALOGISTS
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 08:28:34 -0800


GIVING TREE FOR GENEALOGISTS

by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG

You know what we tell our children and grandchildren: "It is
better to give than to receive." Here are some ways that we
genealogists can give back to this wonderful hobby of ours.

1. Donate genealogy books, CDs and periodicals to our libraries.

2. Give our time and talents and provide financial support to
local genealogical and historical societies. They depend on us.

3. Index a genealogy book or records compilation -- especially
old county histories.

4. Share our knowledge about research in a particular locality
by posting the information on Web pages, message boards, or to
genealogy newsgroups.

5. Help a newbie online discover the joy of genealogy.

6. Make copies of those family photographs and old home movies
to share with our cousins.

7. Create a family cookbook of old favorite recipes to give as a
present to family members.

8. Compile a family history and publish it in 2003.

9. If that is too large a project, compile what we have on one
of our grandparents or great-grandparents and share that chapter
of the family history with our relatives.

10. Start or join a surname mailing list and share our data
with others.

11. Update our GEDCOMs to make sharing easier and faster in 2003.

12. Create a personal home page on the Web and post our
genealogy data to make it easily accessed by online genealogists.

13. Join the "Friends of ______" (state archives and libraries).

14. Compile some (any) records that a genealogist might use and
publish them -- in print or electronically or both.

15. Do random deeds of kindness to librarians, archivists,
county clerks and other officials with whom we come in contact
this year in pursuit of our roots.

["Giving Tree for Genealogists" first appeared in MISSING LINKS,
Volume 2, No. 2, 19 December 1997.]

Previously published in MISSING LINKS,
Vol. 7, No. 51, 24 December 2002 http://www.petuniapress.com

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