tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post6078497934373264971..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: What is the Nature of Genealogy as an Activity?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-56837721968744355902012-07-08T12:59:08.270-07:002012-07-08T12:59:08.270-07:00I think having practically no family members inter...I think having practically no family members interested in one's ancestry is better than there existing myriad extended-family members who have entered published misinformation and/or their own baseless speculations into myriad trees, including new.FamilySearch. In some cases, simple chronologically impossible assertions taken from published material have been migrated from n.FS to Family Tree at FamilySearch.org.Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-2335773562249011912012-07-08T06:01:00.815-07:002012-07-08T06:01:00.815-07:00Talk about outside the demographic... I started my...Talk about outside the demographic... I started my genealogy research when I was 12. I worked on it for about a year calling relatives visiting the national archives regularly with my aunt and even took a trip to central IL and visited courthouses and cemetaries. I didn't pick it up again until last year.. now 32. <br />As far as collaboration on the family history... I have run into several genealogists in my extended family. Another aunt that I rarely talked to turned out to be deep into ancestry.com. However did we collaborate on a tree? No. We shared some info sure.. did a gedcom export and merged some data. However, her recordkeeping and style is not the way I like to keep my research. We didn't agree on certain conclusions, either. So we maintain our own separate history research. There have been other second and third cousins that I located through research who were also doing genealogical research. But, this has been the pattern.... Just a data swap and keep our own records going.Dan Gradlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-55401468481388626502012-07-08T05:25:11.409-07:002012-07-08T05:25:11.409-07:00Online databases and resources are a miracle for s...Online databases and resources are a miracle for serious amateur and professional genealogists who will pursue verifying everything, and a windfall for people who believe accumulating names and posted "facts" is genealogy. Genealogy has become big business:it is impossible to gauge how many of us who pay for subscriptions are accumulators or verifiers. Do we care when the cost adds value to our own research? Do we care how old the researcher is? Is one-time help, paid or unpaid, cooperation? Would hub individuals be doing genealogy if we didn't, by nature,love researching by ourselves? Don't we all find our own genealogy communities because of the internet? My question is where is the online community for the intermediate amateur who is reasonably happy with the quality of our Sources and Citations, aware that research will never be done but also aware that we won't be here forever and need our information in permanent form so some future ancestor will have a head start,tells the stories which make genealogy interesting to some family members who we usually bore to death, some repository will have our research-and doesn't cost the earth, and isn't the computer-generated narrative of our wonderful genealogy programs? What if we aren't writers? Do we need to go outside our area of interest and look to scrapbooking? Thank you for making me think. JanetJanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09695741466204180901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-73729301299719817422012-07-08T01:50:43.358-07:002012-07-08T01:50:43.358-07:00Interesting post, Jim.
From my point of view it a...Interesting post, Jim.<br /><br />From my point of view it all depends on A)your goals and B)the tools you utilize to achieve those goals in one's work.<br /><br />With A), I have been very successful in attracting and building interaction, support, communications, and sharing within our family, but this is because it is a twin primary goal of my genealogy work. These twin goals are 1) to create a high quality, documented, inclusive family genealogy and 1) build and then nurture family involvement worldwide by focusing on family history, not just genealogy. (I purposely use the two terms as I have learned the simple term of 'genealogy' turns off way too many people.<br /><br />Concerning B) I make great use of the MyHeritage.com genealogy and family Social Networking site. It has wonderful features to encourage and develop involvement. Our membership is now over 200 and this has become a news hub, a communications station, and a sharing platform as well as the 'keeper' of our family tree. <br /><br />I do things like a once-a-week Family Update to all members on what is new and ask for input. Response has been tremendous and positive. Additionally I constantly preach inclusiveness and each person's role in preserving the culture and values of those who have gone before us.<br /><br />I then augment this with the more public use of Facebook over and over. <br /><br />ScottScott Phillipshttp://onwardtoourpast.comnoreply@blogger.com