For anyone interested in this material, please get in touch with Kay.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:42:37 -0400
From: Kay King <Kay_King(a)scudder.com>
To: gencap(a)libertynet.org
Subject: PAGENWEB
To whom it may concern:
First of all, I would like to tell you that of the several USGENWEB
state pages I have looked at, the PA site has struck me as the most
useful. (Apparently in no small part due to Viola Limric!)
The main purpose of this note, however, is to advise that I have teh
book "The McKinney-Brady-Quigley Families" by Belle McKinney Hays
Swope, published in 1905. Basically I input the entire book into
Personal Ancestral File so as to make the info it contains more
available to others (and to make it searchable). This has been
submitted to Ancestry World Tree and printouts of it were sent to Salt
Lake (they inquired about microfilming the Family Group pages so it
may now be on microfilm or eventually will be). The reason I
submitted it to SL in print form rather than GEDCOM for Ancestral File
was that I included in the Notes section any information I gleaned
that might assist in researching the names further (ie. religion,
political offices held, occupation, where they lived). Ancestral File
doesn't retain the Notes section and that would have been lost.
Because this book does not identify any sources of information, I view
it more as a research tool than a definitive end product.
Since then, I have gathered any more information that I run across on
any of the lines in the book (not just my direct line) and added that
to the Notes as well. I have broken it up into several smaller
databases to make it a more workable size for my purposes but
indicated where the databases cross-connect (sometimes in several
places - these people tended intermarry a lot).
I am wondering if there is a place to "announce" this to PA
researchers who might be interested in this book's information. I
know that SL has a copy of the book also though they don't send it out
to local FHCs. And possibly there are researchers who have not yet
checked out Ancestry World Tree for names. What are your thoughts on
this?
I also recently obtained a bound photoreproduction of a book called
"Thomas Robinson and His Descendants" by Thomas Hastings Robinson,
rev. ed. published 1902. I do know that Belle Swope acknowledges
Thomas Robinson so likely she obtained some/a great deal of her info
from him on the Robinson line. This book has not been input into PAF
(I may do it eventually) but it does have an index at the back.
And I also have copies of the History of Big Spring Presbyterian
Church and History of Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, both of which
give lots of data on births, baptisms, marriages and deaths. One is
indexed, the other is not.
For these latter 3 books, I would be willing to do lookups (at my own
speed!) if someone had need of that.
I hope to hear from you about how I might be able to further assist
your efforts.
- Kay King (Kay_King(a)Scudder.com)