In a message dated 9/23/2006 8:35:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
cgoltz(a)loretel.net writes:
I see it is developed by a Colleen. It isn't me! It has a "look" of
the official MN web site which is rather misleading.
On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Tim Stowell wrote:
I had this site posted to the Yellow Medicine county board and
wondered if
any of you have seen it too and what your thoughts were on it:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnbirths/minnesota.htm
OOps, I was looking at the wrong one!! This one is good if it is used for
the people who were born and died before 1900 which are the dates that are not
available on line unless the cemetery they are buried in has been
transcribed. I have contributed my early ancestors to it in the hopes that someone
will connect and contact me, but only those born before 1900. Anybody born
after 1900 in MN has a birth record available on line, well most, anyway. I have
done the same with those that died before 1900.
In otherwords, I am using it basically as a tool to hopefully connect with
others researching those families. I posted a part of my immigrating family
on a Czech board in 1992 and was still getting answers as late as April 2005
from other cousins researching the same family. In fact, that particular post
garnered me a brother to my ggrandfather who had immigrated that no one knew
anything about, and a copy of a family tree going back to 1564 done by a
professional Czech genealogist. It also garnered me at least one living cousin
for every sibling of my grandfather, the latest just 4 months ago, who after
reading that post, found some posts I had done on a GenWeb message board
about his particular line and answered it. I am hoping that this will work the
same way.
I also contribute to _www.findagrave.com_ (
http://www.findagrave.com) for
the same reason. Others also post to Find A Grave to memorialize people. One
gentleman has been putting in WWI soldiers from foreign burials and happened
to put in one of our people. Earlier today his burial was just a note, his
name and rank and which cemetery he was at. By contacting him and providing
info to him today, that burial has now become a real memorial for a young man
who from what is known at this time has no descendants. If you go to
_www.findagrave.com_ (
http://www.findagrave.com) and search for Philip Colyer
LADDS, you will see what can be done between people who work together and utilize
pages where info is contributed. The total sum of knowledge about this man
was nearly all contributed to the family researchers by people with access to
databases that we did not have -- a total of 6 strangers answered a post
about him and contributed all the info on the family in Canada, including the
link to the photo, which I was able to pass on to be used on Find A Grave.
Annie in Minnesota