I know this is getting off topic; however, anyone interested in doing an area genealogy, should take a look at "York's Fentress Couny" on Roots Web.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bruceyork Bruce has included not only the inhabitants of Fentress County, Tennessee but also as many ancestors and descendants that he can verify. As a member of the LDS Church he started this several years ago using PAF and continues with PAF. Marilyn On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Bob Vary <[email protected]> wrote: > I hadn’t thought of community projects. That could be interesting in a > very small, rural town such as where I grew up. Virtually everyone who > lived there when I was growing up (things have changed drastically in the > last 40 years) were related by blood or marriage if you go back far enough. > Don’t think it’s ever been documented. I should also have mentioned that I > have just started researching my son-in-law’s family at my daughter’s > request. So that will start adding a lot of new names.**** > > ** ** > > Bob**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:38 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file**** > > ** ** > > I am not one that has a super large database (and I am the one that started > this conversation). I do know that there are people that will research > entire communities to see how everyone relates to each other. I only add > unrelated people if I am fairly sure I will be able to hook them in at some > point. Right now I have 14 individual trees (many of these are single > people). I don’t limit myself to my direct line only though, I will go off > on a spouse tangent [image: Smile]**** > > **** > > michele**** > > **** > > *From:* Bob Vary <[email protected]> **** > > *Sent:* Sunday, July 03, 2011 5:15 PM**** > > *To:* [email protected] **** > > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file**** > > **** > > This may open a can of worms, but I’m having a hard time understanding the > point of having so many people in a database. What is you purpose in doing > your genealogy? Is it to have every single person in any way related to > you? Personally, I have no interest in some 13th cousin, 10 times > removed. I am only interested in my direct ancestry and possibly the > siblings or cousins of those I descend from if they have some historical > significance. And at the risk of sounding elitist, I don’t use any online > databases submitted by amateurs. In my experience they are so full of > errors as to be useless. I would rather have a small database built from > original research using primary, or reliable secondary, sources. I don’t > mean this as a criticism because everybody has their own goals and gets > their enjoyment from doing thing their own way. Just wondering.**** > > **** > > Bob**** > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp**** > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > -- "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, and it starts your day differently." Johnny Cash Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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