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Just to let you guys know at May's meeting of the St. Mary's County
Genealogical Society [Leonardtown, MD], our topic was "Favorite Genealogical
Websites," giving our membership a chance to talk about sites that have helped us as
genealogists.
Instead of talking about "taking" from a website, I spoke on contributing to
and adding to a website and sharing our information with others.
What good does a bunch a data in my file cabinet do to help you, if you & I
don't personally know one another ?
I spoke about
http://longislandgenealogy.com and my ability to add my
research to the site. I've been sending in material on Huntington area cemeteries,
adding to my Thomas^4 Conklin [1704-1793] of Huntington descendants, and
other such projects. I told our group to think about adding what they know to
some site of family or local interest. Don't just take information you need; add
information you have.
I've worked with Mac Titmus for 3 years or so adding to his Conklin file. We
are FAR from done, but some of my material isn't just sitting in my file
cabinet, but is out there for your use. This is especially true of my death
abstracts from the Huntington paper the "Long-Islander" for 1891-1900.
Our former president is a Conklin descendant from Sullivan County, N. Y. She
from the "pre-1700 Mainland line" from Rockland up to Sullivan. Interesting
that our little society in Southern Maryland has had New York Conklins in
leadership positions; she from Sullivan County and me from Suffolk County.
My point ... no matter where you are, please add what you can to some
genealogical site. Certainly, we can use more info on the Southold and East Hampton
Conklins and related lines, plus more info on the non-Thomas^4 lines in
Huntington.
Thanks for whatever you can do to help the Long Island site or any site
anywhere. Genealogical is based on sharing with others.
I also spoke on finding my wife's Jennings ancestors quite by accident on
longislandgenealogy.com and all that Mac, Carolee, & I have done during the
past month to expand the Jennings file.
Then, too, we have our Confederate Forno relatives in Louisiana, who descend
from the Ketchams & Conklins of Huntington. That's kept us busy. I even
learned that the Louisiana Superdome sits on the site of a former New Orleans
cemetery, where our Conklin in-law Col. Henry Forno of Stonewall Jackson's
troops at Second Manassas [1862] was original buried.
No end to genealogy.
David
David Roberts
Hollywood, MD