Well, I know that all of you must have, by now, given up hope on this
project but don't. The project is underway and I expect to be announcing
the address within the next couple weeks.
2 Computer crashes, a new system and many hours learning HTML have held it
up but I am finally getting there.
I am building the rooms, now it will be up to anyone interested to help
fill them.
I will be going over some of the particulars as we get closer to the grand
opening. One of the most important things is that I want all of you as
involved as you can be. We all need to work together on this. I know that
some of you will not be as active as others and that is okay. It will be
necessary to have some rules and I am sure some of us will disagree so
remember that they are all open to discussion but we will act for the best
of the whole and not a few.
One of the most important rules is the copyright thing and this is how I
plan to work it and why:
I want to assure all of you that this is strictly a research project and
not a for profit situation, I feel that it will help us all locate our
lines and maybe even connect them if we have a place to share our research
and ideas.
We do not want professional people using our information for profit,
therefore you will see a copyright symbol on each section. To keep your
information yours all you need to do is end all information you send to me
with a simple statement:
"This material is copyrighted by: YOUR NAME
I have given permission for it to be posted to the Cartmill Clearing house
sight, any further use must be asked for in writing."
I will keep all such statements on file and you should keep a copy for
yourself.
Another rule and this will be sticky I know so I have acquired an outer
shell and am ready for the flack!!!
We have all fallen prey to assumption and conjecture in our research. I
have one section title "Family Tree's" This section is reserved for only
those lines that have proven their theories with documented fact. All the
other lines or those that go beyond the proven lines will be placed on the
page entitled "Mystery Families"
If you would rather I could also leave the Mystery Page for the real
mysteries and break up the family Tree section into two categories:
Proven Lines:
Uproven Lines:
Which do you think is best?
I will also have a page entitled "Researchers" that page will list not
only the on-line researchers but the ones that are not, along with the
appropriate addresses. If there are any of you that do not want their
e-mail address or mailing address posted please stipulate that. Under your
address I will list the earliest line and any mystery line you are
researching (of course you have to send me that). Any of you that know off
line researchers please write them, tell them about our project, give them
my mailing address (later I will have a P.O. Box) and ask them to write to
me if they would like to be included. I am going to send by mail the
newsletter every three months and anything pertaining to their lines but
they will have to pay postage (they can send it to me by return mail).
Anyone not repaying the postage will be dropped from the mailing list. I
have already undergone costs in setting this up, which I don't mind, but I
think you can all understand that I cannot do it over and over. I could
have gone with free sights but then we would be under the control of those
projects and I wanted this to be an independent project so the information
collected stays independent.
That is enough for now, let me hear from all of you and what you think of
our project.
For further use and information will you all please change the e-mail
address that you use for me to:
earliene(a)wa.net
My mailing address is:
Earliene M. Kaelin
1118 156th Street East
Tacoma, WA. 98445-2324
Please feel free to give this to any off-line researchers you would like.
Earliene