Here are the directions:
Provide your name.
Provide your e-mail address.
Provide your location (city & state).
Provide the URL to your web page if you have one.
Provide --ONE-- Family Group Sheet per submission. Group Sheets --MUST-- be in straight
text (ASCII) format to be entered into the database. At least -ONE- family member must
have a Blackford Co. event. Group Sheets need to follow these formatting rules.
Carefully review the sample below for format.
Use headings (first words in each line) as indicated in sample below.
Put all surnames in ALL CAPs, (e.g. John COX, Mary JONES, etc.) This is to permit
automatic surname indexing.
Put each event on a separate line.
Put a blank line between husband and wife and each child.
Sort and number children by birth date (when birth order is known).
Use the maiden name for all women. If the surname is unknown, leave blank or type UNK. Do
NOT provide the husband's name instead.
Do not include LIVING persons on your charts.
Do not list events with no information available.
List sources (not required) as notes at the bottom of the group sheet.
Example (the most basic format; variations may develop):
Husband: Newberry YORK
Birth: 6 Sep 1784 , SC
Death: 31 Mar 1866 York Twp, XXX Co., IN
Burial: 7 Apr 1866 Greenlawn Cem, XXX Co., IN
Marriage: 5 Jan 1804 , GA
Father: William YORK (b abt 1755)
Mother: Lydia BURSON (b abt 1762)
Wife: Nancy A. Slade
Birth: 9 Jun 1784 , MD
Death: 7 Oct 1874 York Twp, XXX Co., IN
Burial: Greenlawn Cem, XXX Co., IN
Father: Nicholas SLADE (b abt 1748)
Mother: Martha [?Amos?]
Children
1 M Joseph YORK
Birth: 12 Oct 1804 , Wilkes Co., GA
Death: 22 Nov 1862 , XXX Co., IN
Burial: Petrie Cem, XXX Co., IN
Spouse: Mary "Polly" BAKER (m 30 Jun 1825)
2 M William YORK
Birth: 17 Nov 1806 , Wilkes Co., GA
Death: 21 Oct 1877 York Twp, XXX Co., IN
Burial: Greenlawn Cem, XXX Co., IN
Spouse: Catherine WHITMAN (m 24 Sep 1829)
3 M Jeremiah YORK
Birth: 7 Apr 1809 , Preble Co., OH
Death: 27 Jan 1862 Wayne Twp, XXX Co., IN
Burial: Greenlawn Cem, XXX Co., IN
Spouse: Nancy WOODS (m 28 Jun 1830)
Spouse: Deidamia MENDENHALL (m 10 Oct 1846)
[...example truncated...]
Sources: Census for Blackford Co., IN, 1820-1880, Blackford Co. Marriages 1817-1850 and
1851-1898, Blackford Co. Cemetery Inscriptions, v.2.
Family Group Sheet formatting options:
COMPUTER PROGRAMS: most genealogy programs will produce a Family Group Sheet. However, in
most cases the format is printer-only or formatted as a graphical report so that it cannot
be submitted as is. If your genealogy program produces Adobe (.pdf) reports, you may be
able to view such a report on your machine and use the text tool in the Acrobat Reader to
copy the text to the clipboard so it can be pasted in NOTEPAD and thus converted to ASCII.
Another possible option is a report in Rich Text (.rtf) format that can be loaded in a
word processor and converted to text-only format. IT IS THE SUBMITTER'S RESPONSIBILITY
TO PRODUCE A GROUP SHEET IN THE CORRECT (TEXT ONLY) FORMAT.
The sample group sheet above was originally produced using the genealogy program Family
Origins. That program is no longer on the market, but if you have it, you can produce
compatible group sheets with it. It requires some further editing (deleting lines and
unused events) but produces an easily adapted text format file.
The genealogy program Legacy available for free download at
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ also produces text-format Family Group Sheets which can
be used for submitting data.
This will be also included on a seperate page on the website which I am developing right
now.
Please send all submissions to my e-mail address and I will get them posted to the
website.
Thanks everyone,
Sarah
AHAT(a)aol.com wrote:
Sounds great to me. What can we do.
Alma
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