Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Wendy Howard wrote 1 How do you deal with information that you just know but don't have any formal source for. I have a source called Personal Memory, snip Many thanks, Wendy, for some useful ideas. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
I agree. The owner should also consider donating the original to a local heritage library or museum that will value it, keep it safe, and make it available to researchers. Not only will the immediate family have it forever because of the digital copies, but so will all those 4th or 10th cousins out there who may care. I have transcribed, shared and then donated a number of diaries from the 1800s. The recipients are very grateful, I get a tax deduction, and I know my nuclear family will always have the info (nothing lost to us) while others can also gain it. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennie Goodwin Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:19 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions Jenny: If some relative has Grandmother's Birthday Book and is willing to share its information, she/he or someone local should scan it into a computer and distribute copies - at least distribute them in such a way as to prevent losing all copies. In other words, back the document up electronically and then save it in enough and far enough distant places so as to prevent its total loss. Jennie Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerized) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. She has listed all the names and indicated those where the person's signature is included, not just the name and listed the birthdates (day and month) given and the year, where this is included. . . Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp RE: Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
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Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
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RE: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Really, you get a tax deducton? I thought that had been abandoned decades ago; when did it get reinstituted, do you know? Pat I agree. The owner should also consider donating the original to a local heritage library or museum that will value it, keep it safe, and make it available to researchers. Not only will the immediate family have it forever because of the digital copies, but so will all those 4th or 10th cousins out there who may care. I have transcribed, shared and then donated a number of diaries from the 1800s. The recipients are very grateful, I get a tax deduction, and I know my nuclear family will always have the info (nothing lost to us) while others can also gain it. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennie Goodwin Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:19 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions Jenny: If some relative has Grandmother's Birthday Book and is willing to share its information, she/he or someone local should scan it into a computer and distribute copies - at least distribute them in such a way as to prevent losing all copies. In other words, back the document up electronically and then save it in enough and far enough distant places so as to prevent its total loss. Jennie Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerized) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. She has listed all the names and indicated those where the person's signature is included, not just the name and listed the birthdates (day and month) given and the year, where this is included. . . Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp RE: Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
So long as you donate to a non-profit, non regular public library our accountant said it is deductible. Don't know for the past or of changes. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:46 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions Really, you get a tax deducton? I thought that had been abandoned decades ago; when did it get reinstituted, do you know? Pat I agree. The owner should also consider donating the original to a local heritage library or museum that will value it, keep it safe, and make it available to researchers. Not only will the immediate family have it forever because of the digital copies, but so will all those 4th or 10th cousins out there who may care. I have transcribed, shared and then donated a number of diaries from the 1800s. The recipients are very grateful, I get a tax deduction, and I know my nuclear family will always have the info (nothing lost to us) while others can also gain it. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennie Goodwin Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:19 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions Jenny: If some relative has Grandmother's Birthday Book and is willing to share its information, she/he or someone local should scan it into a computer and distribute copies - at least distribute them in such a way as to prevent losing all copies. In other words, back the document up electronically and then save it in enough and far enough distant places so as to prevent its total loss. Jennie Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerized) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. She has listed all the names and indicated those where the person's signature is included, not just the name and listed the birthdates (day and month) given and the year, where this is included. . . Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp RE: Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp RE: Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Oh, tax deductions, how nice - which country are we talking about? gMary YoungOn 10/10/06, Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:So long as you donate to a non-profit, non regular public library our accountant said it is deductible.Don't know for the past or of changes.Cary[EMAIL PROTECTED] Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Certainly not the UK! Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: Mary Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:53:20 +0100 Oh, tax deductions, how nice - which country are we talking about? g Mary Young On 10/10/06, Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So long as you donate to a non-profit, non regular public library our accountant said it is deductible. Don't know for the past or of changes. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ The new Windows Live Toolbar helps you guard against viruses http://toolbar.live.com/?mkt=en-gb Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
I'd like to pick a few brains on the subject of Sourcing. 1 How do you deal with information that you just know but don't have any formal source for. For example, one of my Great Uncles was christened Reginald Percy but was always known as Rex. As I knew him well until he died when I was in my 40s I have always known this, it's not information I derived from some specific source. Is something like Personal experience or Family knowledge sufficient as a Source? If not, what? 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerised) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. She has listed all the names and indicated those where the person's signature is included, not just the name and listed the birthdates (day and month) given and the year, where this is included. Where information has been given by a relative I has Sourced it as Joe Bloggs email with the date. In this case, the document is a secondary source, with the Birthday Book being the primary source. However, it is unlikely that anyone inheriting my Family File would have access to the Birthday Book, so should I cite the Source as being Document from and give the filename so that anyone could access the document and see what the primary source was? Or should I cite the Birthday Book and my cousin as the Repository, but indicate that the extracted information is in my files? -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Hi Jenny, 1 How do you deal with information that you just know but don't have any formal source for. I have a source called Personal Memory, which I use for things like that. In the detail, I list *whose* personal memory it is (my own, usually, but included for clarification for others and in case my own memory is jaded further down the line!), and that's all. All other detail is recorded in the event itself, if there is any. 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerised) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. I've had something similar to this just recently, when an aunt forwarded to me an email she'd received from a distant cousin that contained family data that I didn't previously know. I recorded the source as Personal Correspondence, as I do for all emails, and in the detail I note something like: email from Anne Bellamy via Gaye Retter 05 Sep 2006 Gaye Retter being the aunt who sent the email to me on 05 Sep 2006, and Anne Bellamy being the distant cousin who sent the data. It tells me at a glance that Anne provided the information in the first instance, but if I want to locate the email I need to look for one from Gaye for that date. For your Birthday Book transcript, you could say something like email from [cousin], transcript of [grandmother's] Birthday Book, [date] I'd insert the people's actual names, rather than their relationship to yourself or each other, for clarity. Don't forget to use the Source Clipboard when you're entering the data from this source, so you can quickly enter accurate and identical source information for each item of data. All emails I receive containing family data that I enter into my Legacy database get saved to a particular folder, so I know when I'm looking at Legacy any email I've sourced will be found there. When I share my information with family, they get copies of these, too. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/ Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Jenny:If some relative has Grandmother's Birthday Book and is willing to share its information, she/he or someone local should scan it intoa computer and distribute copies - at least distribute them in such a way as to prevent losing all copies. In other words, back the document up electronically and then save it in enough and far enough distant places so as to prevent its total loss.JennieJenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:. . . 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerised) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. She has listed all the names and indicated those where the person's signature is included, not just the name and listed the birthdates (day and month) given and the year, where this is included.. . . Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] A couple of Sourcing questions
Good idea. Also it's the kind of thing that most local libraries with a local history collection would also like to have in their archives -- a copy if not the original. Often the library will make a copy without charge to the donor. Pat Jenny: If some relative has Grandmother's Birthday Book and is willing to share its information, she/he or someone local should scan it into a computer and distribute copies - at least distribute them in such a way as to prevent losing all copies. In other words, back the document up electronically and then save it in enough and far enough distant places so as to prevent its total loss. Jennie Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . 2 A cousin has sent me a document (computerised) in which she has listed information derived from her Grandmother's Birthday Book. She has listed all the names and indicated those where the person's signature is included, not just the name and listed the birthdates (day and month) given and the year, where this is included. . . . - Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
