For my personal use, the following are important elements to include in an historical timeline.
- Events that may have affected the ancestor such as war, disease, mass migration, jurisdictional changes, etc. Events in a timeline may suggest new records to search that we may not have thought of previously. Different timeline sets may include presidents of the country, and other such compilations. While these types of databases may be a little less important for the researcher, they add nice information for historical sketches of an ancestor's life. You'll notice that one of the timelines included with Legacy is entitled "Early Tennessee History." This is one I compiled to help me understand the jurisdictional changes in Tennessee's early history. (Watauga Association, North Carolina, state of Franklin, then Tennessee.) Understanding these early jurisdictions helps me better understand the jurisdiction of the records. As Sherry mentioned earlier today, please feel free to share your timelines with us. As much as possible, however, please make sure that the source information is included. Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alastair Lack Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Timeline content - NOT technicalities of construction Ed, You're absolutelly right - Wars are just such events. The English Civil war (1640s - Cromwell etc.) killed a greater percentage of the population than the two world wars combined, I am told! The highland clearances were the takeover by landlords of the Scottish highlands in 18th C to make way for sheep and resulted in widespread emigration, particularly to N America - Many Scottish communities were founded at that time on the E Seaboard of the US. See http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/clearanc.htm Geoff is still very quiet - Geoff, do you have a view from Milennium Corp's end on what you would want to see in a Legacy Timeline? Warm Regards Alastair On 9/14/05, Ed Barnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:13, Alastair Lack wrote: > > I feel a significant difference between events such as the invention > > of the telephone, which though interesting would not have affected my > > ancestors survival very significantly, and epidemics of disease (the > > Influenza of 1919), Famine (Irish potato famine of 1847) or political > > events such as the Highland clearances, all of which changed my > > ancestors lives. Anyway - that's what I shall work on, and share the > > results with you all! > > I hope this isn't swaying off topic... > > In my view, there are *two* significant areas. One is as you noted, what > affects our ancestors' survival. The other area is those events which > induce a family or the more adventurous members thereof, to migrate > elsewhere. The economics of southern England early 1600's plus Cromwell > plus Puritan needs brought one of the primary migrations to the USA for > example. The USA Civil War killed people, obviously, but also wrought > catastrophic changes in families' fortunes and situations. (I don't know > what Highland clearances are; I might be repeating what you just said!) > > Ed Barnard, researching pioneers of Callaway County Missouri USA > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > -- Warm regards :-) Alastair Lack Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
