Hello Marilyn and Dan,
I am *so* pleased that you "got it"! That you now understand and share my
enthusiam for DNA testing. It truly is going to help resolve some of the
knottiest problems in CARRICO genealogy.
As for data sharing, my inclination is to have Linda continue in her roll as
"archivist" for CARRICO documents (not having consulted her, forgive me,
Linda).
She has done far more than I have in gathering primary data and, to tell you the
truth, the DNA project and web site are as much I can handle. So, if I may be
so bold as to suggest to send whatever you have in the way of primary
documentation to Linda, I presume (being presumptuous here) she would be willing
to upload it to her web site, making it available to everyone. That way, I can
*link* to the documentation from my web site, without duplicating it (or the
effort) at my web site. And, yes, posting to the CARRICO list (not this list,
but Linda's list) is really the best way to share it because that way archived
at Rootsweb. Whatever happens to me (or Linda), if the data are sent via the
list, they are preserved by Rootsweb -- and indexed by Google. Whenever you
post (any message anywhere), think about what keywords need to be in the message
for interested parties to find it via Google.
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KEYWORD TIP: an example of keeping search engines in mind when posting would be
something like... posting a list of children. Instead of saying, "John & Mary
had these child: Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane," say, "John JONES & Mary SMITH
of
Charles Co., MD, had these children: Tom JONES, Dick JONES, Harry JONES, and
Jane JONES." That way, someone doing a Google search on
"Dick JONES" "Charles Co" MD
will find your message at the top of the hit list. Otherwise a search on
Dick Jones Charles MD
will bury your message among thousands of useless hits. This is also a tip on
searching strategies as well, of course.
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The exception with regard to sending documentation would be census records. I
have subscriptions to the census at both
Genealogy.com and
Ancestry.com, and I
have embarked on extracting all CARRICO/etc. census records. I'm going to do it
anyway, regardless of what you do, so there's no need to send me census records:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/Census/Carrico/CarricoCensusHub.shtml
the exception being any records I have overlooked because, as you know, CARRICO
records are often badly mis-indexed. (If you feel I've mis-read a census
records, please alert me, too.)
As for submitting your genealogy to me, the easiest form for me is family group
sheets, either PDF, word DOC, or hard copy. I can use GEDcoms, but they are not
necessarily easier for me because I will simply print them out as family group
sheets. I'm afraid, because of the way I've constructed my web site, there is
no way around my entirely re-keyboarding what you send me. My pages are not
generated automatically by a genealogy software program. I do not use genealogy
software, though I have an old copy of FamilyTreeMaker, so I can at least open
GEDcoms. My pages are manually keyboarded with an HTML editor. Had I imagined,
when I began my web site nine years ago, that it would be exceeding 11,000 pages
(!), I wouldn't have done it this way, but now I've got a tiger by the tail.
I consider the family group sheets at my web site for the early generations of
CARRICO to be very bad quality. Bad because I created them from secondary
sources, always with the intention of finding primary documentation to support
them, but mostly not having the time to do so. I caution everyone to always
view my pages in conjunction with the Sources listed below the family data. If
you don't see primary documentation for a datum, assume it is unsupported by
more than secondary sources. The quality of my pages gets better once the
families cross the threshold of the 1850 census, because most of the time, the
census will tell you whether you've made an error.
So, please feel free to send me your material, though please first check your
line to see what I have. It may be a matter of simply supplying some additionas
and making corrections to what I already have. There's no hurry in doing this,
unless you spot an error. I'm already backlogged, so if y'all send everything
at once, I'll just be more backlogged. I give priority to working on lines for
our test subjects, because it is imperative that they be as correct and complete
as possible.
Bottom line: yes, this is a cooperative effort. The more we share out data and
the more test subjects in the project, the faster we will progress. I have some
comments on that score, which I'll post in another message.
Thank you again for the encouraging words. If only every genealogist could
"get" how valuable the testing is!
Diana
P.S. Hoping I live long enough, too.
-----Original Message-----
From: carrico-dna-bounces(a)rootsweb.com On Behalf Of Genealogy4999(a)aol.com
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 3:58 PM
To: carrico-dna(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CARRICO-DNA] Node Chart for Peter CARRICO I
18 August 2007
Good Morning Diana,
Wow! We were blown away when we opened your last DNA posting.
Now we can see the potential bringing together all of the data that
each of us has gathered over the years. You, Linda and others have
worked so hard to be the catalyst that we have needed. Your
willingness to do the manual labor involved in gathering and
compiling the data in an easy and readable database is
outstanding. We just hope we live long enough to be around in the
end that is, if there is ever an end.
How do you want each and every one of us to submit our own
data? As you and Linda have said for years, a lot of information
and misinformation has been passed down over the years. We
would think as a first step each of us would send you information
concerning our own family connection and then follow up with
individual pieces of hard data such as pages from bibles, wills,
marriage records, court documents, census records, birth
and death data, and so on.
What is the best method to do so for you to be able to incorporate it
into your database with the least work? Most of us can send
gedcoms, family group sheets, descendant's charts, and so on in an
email or PDF. The best thing would be something that you would not
have to retype into your records. Of course, we would hope that
everything would be posted on the message board as they are sent
to you so we all may be kept up to date on the progress.
Out here on our tiny speck of sand, we have no Carrico family that we
know of and we rely others to be able do any "hands on" research
back on the mainland. On top of that, Marilyn is from a maternal link
several generations ago so we do not know of any male Carrico to
be tested.
Aloha,
Marilyn and Dan Devaney in Hawaii