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From: John MayBee <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Storing data
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 14:13:45 -0800

Brian Bigmore wrote:

> I suggest that we are by collecting just about every conceivable detail of our
> respective families since records began and then generously setting them aside to be
> handed down to our as yet unborn relatives to come - in what ever form - will
> certainly kill stone dead for a good few hundred years at least any participation by
> those who come after us and wish to pursue this enjoyable pastime for themselves.

Brian,
I am third generation of 'very thorough' genealogists. Each of us has found new
documentation to prove (or disprove) work done by our predecessor; but some of the
information collected by those before us can no longer be found unless it is recorded
(e. g. - oral histories written down by my grandmother over a hundred years ago). My
grandmother had no way to travel to England to visit archives, but I have. Now the
internet has opened up new avenues of information, and church records from New
Netherland are on the net, BUT the originals are gone. My mother transcribed
information from the originals (including the fact that one ancestor had a mother, but
a line was written where the father's name should have been; and another where the
edge of the page was gone and only an "er" was readable) This is much more instructive
than the typed copy that just has the father's name missing.

> Remember that the best way of learning about something is by doing. Surely future
> relatives will get a lot closer to 'their family' by researching it for themselves.
> Why spoil their possible enjoyment?

We reach new heights only by standing on the shoulders of others.

Let's publish!


John MayBee

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