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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [2NDST] CDs for family reunions
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:44:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060721232141.01c8e5c0@sprynet.com>


Good point. I really was thinking of a nominal fee just to cover basic
costs. If I wanted to recoup my investment, they'd have to be $500 a piece,
and who would buy them. My main concern is getting the information into the
younger generation's hands so that they will continue to come to the annual
reunion, and will continue to submit FGS each year with new children as they
are added.
In the past I have printed books and photocopied them and sold them for a
nominal copying fee. But the last time I tried that, we were talking a full
blown book. When you figure 800 people with at least 6 tags each, (and my
sentences <G>) plus scans of images, you are talking a lot of data. Even in
SS it was 1200+ pages. (One page per person)
Like most of you, I do genealogy for me. It is my stress reliever, my
hobby, my friend, sometimes, my video game (TMG <G>). I hope my children
will someday see an interest in carrying it on, but if they don't hopefully
one of the people who get my work will.

AT any rate, we have a lot of cousins who are interested in this generation,
and I know they are going to be excited to see it in CD form. Plus this is
my first year as Reunion coordinator, so I want to have something new and
fun to add to the usual lunch, talking and picture taking.

Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG
TMG sentences
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG/TMG.html
Genealogy, Organizing and other thoughts http://cheasas.blogspot.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell A. Martin [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:32 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [2NDST] CDs for family reunions

At 05:26 PM 7/21/2006, Teresa Elliott wrote:
>I am working on editing our CD for our family reunion. I am wondering, do
>you charge for your CDs and if so, how much? This CD will be all the known
>descendants of my 3rd great grandfather born in 1816. It will have scans
of
>all the documents I have found in 16 years of research on this line.
>
>Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG

Hi, Teresa:

I do not charge for my CDs. I don't see any moral reason why I couldn't; but
it has not occurred to me to do so. I regard each CD in the hands of someone
else to be an "off site backup" of my data. In some cases I have even tucked
away out of sight a full backup of my TMG data, a copy of my 2nd Site user
data folder, full install files for each program, and a text file with
instructions and registration codes for both. In the root of the CD is a
file "How_to_use_this_CD.txt" that has "in the event Darrell A. Martin is no
longer walking this earth, here is what you could do to continue his work"
instructions. The more years that pass, the less relevant the programs and
raw data will be; the more important getting everything into the HTML will
be.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Illinois
http://www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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