Let’s Collaborate - Tools

• Challenges

• Traditional Tools

• Additional TFA Tools

Collaboration Challenges

• Size of Taylor Family - Association• Mobility of families• Expodential growth of families • Maintaining communication & connection • Challenge share family information, sources, pictures and histories, avoid duplication of research and temple work to hasten the gathering of our family.

Remember -Taylor’s are 11+ Generation Americans

• William Taylor (1787-1839) & Elizabeth Patrick had 14 children & 188 grandchildren.

• His father, Joseph Taylor Jr. (1751-1819) & Sarah Best had 12 children & 109 grandchildren

• His father Joseph Taylor Sr. (abt 1730-1808), & Nancy had 8 children• His father Richard III (1694-1734) & Dinah Bruce had 4children • His father Richard II (1672-1730) & Jenet Owen had 8 children • His father Richard I (abt 1641) & Margaret Manning had 8 children after

he came to America • We think Richard l was one of 3 children of John (abt 1621) & Dorothy

Traditional Family Collaboration• Visits• Sunday dinners and holidays• Reunions• Letters• Pedigree charts and family group sheets• Phone calls• Emails – Group email• Social media

Additional TFA CollaborationTools

• TFA Website• Google• Family Search etc.– Books and Journals– Family Tree & Resources– Certified Partners

• Puzzilla• Legacy Family Tree• Legacy Stories

• Social Networks

TFA Website www.taylorassociation.org

• Biographical & Historical sketches (over 300 available)• Pedigree – Dead are available to public/login for living• Online research library• Searchable Taylor Times• Digitizing Obituaries - Taylor Times etc.• To add: Online Library – Pictures, Artifacts

– Links to other sites – general and Taylor sites with date– Links to family and association websites of interest with date– Family websites with date

• Help us gather more.

• Private side - sign in• Journals and Books• Forums available – check bios etc.

Google

• Search• Drive

– TFA Database Transfers,– Computer Tools - application and computer support– Management for TFA– TFA policy issues, admin, collaboration and support– Slicer support – processes, job descriptions

• Hangouts – Collaboration, Sharing, Training• YouTube - TFA channel – “TFAPRES” • Google+ - Slicer/Sub-slicer groups or family groups

Family SearchBooks & Journals etc.

• Books and Journals– Digitized– Links

• FHL/FHC scanning and digitizing free• Provide links or reference location to Taylor

Website

Family Search – Family Tree• Do not make it your Primary family database

– Open site – WIKI - not authoritative “person” management– Not a complete Book of Remembrance– Growing but not a lot of Primary Sources

• Adding Resources – at over 1M a week from world wide sources

• New Database partner – free to LDS members– My Heritage- trees opinions– Ancestral Quest – changes, trees opinions – Find my past

Family Search – Family Tree

• Watch lists, - check who is changing your line• Photos, - historical photos not albums of pictures• Memories – Collaborate not duplicate stories • New Hints - sources for FS databases Demo

Family Tree – Certified Partners

• Puzzilla - cousins• Billion Graves – data accuracy• Find a grave –data accuracy• Legacy Family Tree• Legacy Stories – Pic-Oral memoir - living and dead

Legacy Family TreeGenealogy Software

• Version 8 - Features, Family Tree sync, Web links, Maps etc

• Plus digitized historical events, with: documents, pictures, audio, web linked multimedia and sources – Start with Book of Remembrance events, – Timelines and Maps (Google Earth)

• Many reports and projects– Anaylsis/Statistics, books

• Mobile application “Families”

Legacy Stories app

• Stores and shares stories from a cloud– Multimedia recorded family events– Link to Family History software applications

–Living & Dead• FamilySearch Link for Dead

– Tag with key words for searching

Social Media

• Facebook– Taylor Family Association

• Twitter• Instagram• Etc