10. October 2011 E-Magazine Essence Issue
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Transcript of 10. October 2011 E-Magazine Essence Issue
October 2011 Featured Forms:- Drop Chart Template
- Photo Dating Template
- Genedocs Feedback Form
BONUS Form:Animated Timeline NEW!
Essence Exclusive:Virtual Cemetery NEW!
It is surprisingly already October 2011 with only two months until 2012!
This issue concludes the 2011 Essence Issue so I wish you the
readers a safe and happy holiday season throughout the next
few months and look forward to bringing more improvements to
family research and legacy preservation through Genedocs in
2012.
Thank you for your continued support and feedback on this
worthwhile endeavor to keep family trees a high priority in
peoples’ ever increasingly busy lives. Please enjoy this issue
and many more to come.
Sincerely,
Eric / Founder
Begin by narrowing the identity of someone in the photo – Cousin Ronnie
Luna advised me this had been confirmed by his mother as a family group
photo of ancestors William G Tucker wife Mary I Pool Tucker and daughter
Bertha M Tucker in the back row.
Census records for the
Tuckers in Hopkins
County, TX revealed
the names of William
and Mary’s children in
birth order as follows:
William Ira b 1885
Bertha Mary b 1887
Molder Harvey b 1889
Jocey Lue b 1890
Jessy Marvin b 1893
Homer Johnson b1898
Myrtle Ethel b 1892
Etter Gladys b 1897
Marion Francis b1900
Dollie Emmie b 1902
This can be used to date this photo to about
1902-3 since Dollie is no more than 1 year
old in mother Mary’s arms and helpful in
identifying an earlier photo of the same
family from cousin Edith Hicks…
Probably 1893-94 with Jessy M in Mary’s
armsI was especially delighted by the recent sharing of this photo of
Bill and Mary’s headstone from findagrave.com
Recently I surmised that, other than dates and audio-visual items,
everything else in genealogy is name based!
Names of people in our family tree are personal NAMES!
Names of places where events occurred in our tree are place NAMES!
Names of events are also simply event NAMES!
This realization emphasized for me the importance and great
simplicity of timelines for our ancestors and our family tree as a
whole.
So I decided an animated
timeline or two would be great to
share…
Begin with
Birth date
Raised and
Educated
Military Svc /
Employment
Marriage /
Children
Retirement
Death
Born 10 Nov
1923 to
Richard Jelle
and Dorothy
Nelson
Raised
Yankton & Hot
Springs, SD
Worked VA
Laundry at Battle
Mountain
Sanitarium
Enlisted Army Air
Force 1943
Served with 410th
Bomb Wing in
Europe WWII
Born 10 Nov
1923 to
Richard Jelle
and Dorothy
Nelson
Raised
Yankton & Hot
Springs, SD
Worked VA
Laundry at Battle
Mountain
Sanitarium
Enlisted Army Air
Force 1943
Served with 410th
Bomb Wing in
Europe WWII
Honorably
Discharged 1945
Used GI Bill Attended
Chadron Teachers
College, NE and in 1951
Graduated Magna Cum
Laude
1951 Began
career with Social
Security
Administration in
Pocatello, ID
Married Sandra L
Edlund 6 Sep
1966 in Montana
Daughter Lisa
Ann born
Son Eric Ray born
This month I had a challenging run in with a Findagrave.com
submitter who was also a volunteer with Random Acts of
Genealogical Kindness also known as RAOGC.
The situation involved a memorial page for my 2nd great
grandfather on the Tucker side interred in Oklahoma. She
(volunteer) had already created a page for him, was not a relative
of him, and I had requested a transfer in March of his memorial to
me to link his direct family members (ancestors and descendants)
graves which I was already maintaining. There had been no reply
so when I re-requested it after another cousin posted his newly
found marker photo with his wife, I instinctively sent another polite
request to transfer without even remembering I had previously
asked for it months earlier from her. Most findagravers would
transfer without any issue…
The volunteer disappointingly replied stating she would not transfer
as I did not fit into the Family First policy of findagrave.com which
states they will side with any descendant within four generations of
the person which the memorial is for to determine who should
manage their page. I then advised her I was removing all of my
photos of this ancestor from her pages for him and his wife and
would handle the matter in another way – adding a duplicate
memorial for him and another memorial for his wife under her
maiden name so I could address a certain date of birth error. The
volunteer responded by threatening to have his duplicate memorial
removed.
So after considering my options carefully, I removed the duplicate
page for my 2nd great grandfather and began a virtual cemetery
photo album on facebook in my Genedocs Wetpaint profile.
1. Start by determining the scope of your desired cemetery; ancestors
only, siblings of ancestors, certain surnames, female ancestors, etc.
2. Continue by scanning and organizing all graphics you want to
include; headstone / marker photos, portraits of deceased
relatives, 3D images, flowers, etc.
3. Pick a visual format and program that works well such as walking
tour using Microsoft Power Point.
4. Begin designing your virtual cemetery and customize it to your liking.
2011 has been a very important and special year as I struggled
moving to a new state, finally landed a new full time job with the
National Archives in Fort Worth, and somehow managed to not
only keep up with Genedocs deadlines, but add the astounding
interactive dimension of facebook, the Genedocs blog(s), my
first Genedocs books on Lulu.com, and actually fit in some
research.
I am pleased to take this opportunity to sincerely thank
everyone who followed Genedocs during the 2011 Essence
Series in some fashion or another whether at the wonderful
wetpaint wiki web pages, the phenomenal facebook profile,
blossoming blog at blogger, the literary launches at Lulu.com,
the essential E-Magazine issues, or elsewhere as I was able to
post.